Earth Sciences 1086F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 12-13: Near-Earth Object, Ernst Chladni, Kirkwood Gap
13 Aug 2016
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Originally called betyls by ancient greek and romans. People (egyptians, africans) worshiped meteorites for centuries. Kaaba stone said to be a large meteorite which muslims worship. Philosophers thought it they were heavenly bodies. The father of meteoritics (i. e. the study of meteorites) is ernst chladni. 1795, meteoroid fell, was found, analysed, and people started to believe it was from outer space. Ceres: discovered in 1801, it was first classified as an asteroid, but now as a dwarf planet. The asteroid belt a band of small objects found between mars and. Jupiter: its stuff that was never assembled into a planet, force from neighbouring planet jupiter prevented it from becoming a planet, definitions. Asteroid a natural rocky object in space measuring 100m to several hundred km in diameter. Meteoroid a natural rocky object in space measuring from a few millimetres to. Fireball the light associated with a large meteoroid or asteroid as it interacts with the atmosphere.
