14 Fun Facts About Asteroids: Educational Version
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Circling the heavens is a belt of rock and dust. Lying between Mars and Jupiter and orbiting our sun, The Main Asteroid Belt was once thought to be the remnants of an exploded planet or the beginnings of a planet that never formed.
How much do you know about asteroids? Can you answer these questions:
Where is The Main Asteroid Belt?
How many asteroids are there in The Main Asteroid Belt?
What was the first asteroid discovered?
How much mass does The Main Asteroid Belt have?
How fast do asteroids travel?
Find out the answers to these questions and more and amaze your family and friends with these fun facts.
Ages 8 and up.
All measurements in American and metric.
Educational versions have CCSS activities.
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Jeannie Meekins
Jeannie Meekins is an Australian writer who lives with her children and a couple of cats who think they own the computer. And if her dog could read, he’d be jealous, so it’s lucky that he can’t. Jeannie has also written over 10 books for children, many available through LearningIsland.com
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14 Fun Facts About Asteroids - Jeannie Meekins
14 FUN FACTS ABOUT
ASTEROIDS
By Jeannie Meekins
A LearningIsland.com
15 - Minute Book
We have used many sources to research these facts and they are accurate at time of publishing. The more we explore the wonders of space and our universe, the more information we are discovering.
Editor: Jennifer Robinson
Title page pictures by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Smashwords Edition
(c) Copyright 2012 Jeannie Meekins. All rights reserved.
Published by LearningIsland.com.
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14 Fun Facts About Asteroids / Jeannie Meekins
Summary: A brief look at some fun facts about asteroids.
1. Asteroids. Juvenile Literature. 2. Space. Juvenile Literature. 3. Dwarf Planets. Juvenile Literature.
Created in USA
Words: 1893
Reading Level: 6.9
Ages 9 and up.
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Circling the heavens is a belt of rock and dust. Lying between Mars and Jupiter and orbiting our sun, The Main Asteroid Belt was once thought to be the remnants of an exploded planet or the beginnings of a planet that never formed. Let’s find out more about this exciting, mysterious area of space.
Fact 1: The first asteroids discovered were thought to be planets.
In 1766, while translating another astronomer’s work, Johann Daniel Titius noted a pattern in the layout of the planets. He calculated