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Rendezvous with a Comet
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Astronomy
6th Grade
02/07/2008

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Milliliter (mL)
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 -noun

a unit of capacity equal to one thousandth of a liter, and equivalent to 0.033815 fluid ounce, or 0.061025 cubic inch.

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Hazardous Materials
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-noun 

 

perilthe substance or substances of which a dangerous thing is made or composed

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Debris
Definition

-noun

the remains of anything broken down or destroyed; ruins; rubble

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Meteoriod
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-noun 

any of the small bodies, often remnants of comets, traveling through space: when such a body enters the earth's atmosphere it is heated to luminosity and becomes a meteor.

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Meteor Shower
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-noun

A large number of meteors that appear together and seem to come from the same area in the sky.

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Calculating Estimates

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verb-

to find a reasanable guess using calculations and scientific facts

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Volume
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-noun

the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object

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Meteorite
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-noun 

a mass of stone or metal that has reached the earth from outer space; a fallen meteoroid.

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Meteor
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-noun 

A bright trail or streak that appears in the sky when a meteoroid is heated to incandescence by friction with the earth's atmosphere

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