Exploring Meteorite Mysteries: Lesson 4 The Meteorite-Asteroid Connection: Orbits in the Inner Solar System
This lesson allows students to understand how meteorites get from the asteroid belt to Earth and how rare it is for the Earth to be hit by a large asteroid. The students will build an exact scale model of the inner solar system.

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