Meteor Showers and Giant Impacts: the Solar System at our Front Door
Main Library at Morrison (CCPL) · Charleston ✓ verified
Sat, Nov 21 · 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM |Free
Join Sarah Sonnett, Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist and College of Charleston visiting professor, for a fascinating talk on the marvels and mysteries of our Universe. Small pieces of the solar system are flying around us all the time. A few times a year, Earth passes through a trail of dust left behind a comet or asteroid, making one of nature's best fireworks shows: a meteor shower. Some of these rocks are big enough to survive the trip through Earth's atmosphere, landing as a meteorite. These were some of the first things made in our solar system. And sometimes, the visitor is much larger... Sarah will talk about impacts of every size -- from harmless, beautiful showers to the rare, dangerous impactors -- and what astronomers are doing to watch the sky and keep Earth safe. For: *All Ages.
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