Teach students about the possibilities of an asteroid collision with Earth. This is an enlightening discussion for Near Miss Day (March 23) commemorating the 1989 close call of an asteroid-earth collision.
Subjects:
Asteroids
Excerpted from
Astronomy Thematic Unit
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