Learning Exercise

Create different impacts

Have students create different impacts by changing the data (such as impact velocity, projectile diameter, density and so on) and then compare the enviornmental consequences.

Course: Earth Science, Astronomy

Material:: Create an Asteroid Impact
Date last modified:: June 28, 2005
Created by:: Marty Anderson
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Create an Asteroid Impact

Create an asteroid impact by entering parameters and then allow it to calculate the environmental consequences. see more

Material Type:: Simulation
Author:: Robert Marcus, lpl arizona; Gareth Collins, lpl arizona; H. Jay Melosh, lpl arizona

Exercise

Disciplines

Science and Technology / Astronomy
Science and Technology / Physics

Audience

College General Ed

Requirements

Basic computer skills, basic science understanding

Topics

Asteroids, meteors, impact craters, extinction

Type of Task

Group
Student-centered
Unsupervised
Individual

Learning Objectives

Students should be able to create different asteriods and eventually predict what would happen if such an object collided with the Earth.