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\nAsteroid: Doomsday or Payday?
\nURL: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DrsjHpVF128
\nWatch the video above and answer the following questions:
\nla. What are asteroids?
\n1.b How old are asteroids?
\n2. Describe at least three facts about the impact that happened 65 million years ago.
\n2a
\n2b.
\n2c.
\n3a. Where is our Solar System’s asteroid belt located?
\n3b. Why is them an asteroid belt?
\n4a. What space probe visited an asteroid?
\n4b. Name the two asteroids that were visited by this space probe.
\n5a. What is a NEO?
\n5b. How many NEOs have been discovered in recent years?
\n6a. How many 1,000 km asteroids are left to discover near the Earth?
\n6b. What is the diameter of asteroids that astronomers are now looking for?
\n7. What type of technology does the Goldstone Radio Telescope use to detect and to track asteroids? Explain how this technology works.
\n8. Why was the Chelyabinsk meteor undetected?
\n9. The 8612 organization wants to build a satellite to detect small asteroids and to detect asteroids on the Sun side of Earth. What is the name of that satellite? What type of technology will be used to detect these small, dark objects?
\n10. What are the four factors that determine the behavior of an asteroid when it enters Earth’s atmosphere?
\n10a.
\n10b.
\n10c.
\n10d.
\n11. Give two reasons why the Chelyabinsk Meteor over Siberia, Russia did not leave a crater on the Earth.
\n11a.
\n11.b
\n12. List the three main types of asteroids.
\n12a.
\n12b.
\n12c.
\n13a. What type of meteor hit Arizona?
\n13b. When was Meteor Crater in Arizona made?
\n14. Why was the Tungusta Meteor that hit Siberia in 1908 more destructive than the Chelyabinsk Meteor in 2013? Give two reasons.
\n14a.
\n14b.
\n15. Scientists are studying two possible ways to prevent an asteroid impact on Earth. What are the methods?
\n15a.
\n15b.
\nSecond Part of Video \u2014 From Threat to Opportunity: Payday?
\n16. What kind of resources are contained inside asteroids that are useful to humans? Name three resources:
\n16a
\n16b.
\n16c.
\n17. Scientists estimate that asteroids could contain large amounts of water. Explain why water could be a major help in future space exploration.
\n18. What plans does the 8612 organization have about asteroids in our Solar System?
\n19. Describe two problems that humans would have in mining asteroids.
\n19a.
\n19b.
\n20. Give three reasons why it is important to locate NEO asteroids.
\n20a.
\n20b.
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