Deep Impact!

Web Resources

http://craters.gsfc.nasa.gov/summary.html

A NASA classroom activity

http://deepimpact.umd.edu/designing_craters/
2-3 week student inquiry
includes: thinking about cratering, what factors influence crater size, predicticing crater size, compare cratering in the classroom, the lab, and the solar system, model and report cratering on the comet, and support materials

www.solarviews.com/eng/tercrate.htm
Terrestrial crater photo gallary
includes: location, age, summary of origin and features

www.lpl.arizona.edu/SIC/impact_catering/Chicxulub/Chicx_title.html
includes: discovery, drilling project, regional effects, global effects

www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/activities/2212_spacewat.html
The Doomsday Asteroid: to investigate crater force, size, and mass of objects that strike a surface through a simulation of crater impacts

www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu/class_acts/CratersTe.html
Impact Craters, Teacher Page
Purpose is to determine the factors affecting the appearance of impact craters and ejecta

deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/Comet_Poster.html
front: poster of educational product designed to provide an artistic and factual description of Deep Impact
back: contains material about comets and the mission

deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/disczone/indez.html
discovery zone: brain twisters, fun facts, mission challenge

www.lpl.arizona.edu/SIC/impact_cratering/World_Craters_Web/intromap.html
interactive map showing dotted locations of terrestrial impact craters