Meteorites


 * Konichiwa** fellow WIKI readers! My name is **October** and I’m currently attending the [|Amigos school] as an eighth grader. I’m doing this WIKI because I wanted to share my knowledge on meteorites with you. Our class’ field trip to the Harvard Museum of Natural History helped me better understand the concept of meteorites. This is mostly because we spent some of our time at the **“Meteorite”** exhibit.



On October 3rd 2007 was when our class had this wonderful opportunity. Our class walked through Harvard Square to get to the museum, which is located on 24 Oxford Street. [|The Harvard Museum of Natural History] was established in 1998 as the public face for three research museums. We specifically took time to see the “Meteorite” exhibit. As our class was looking at the exhibit we extended our knowledge tremensly.



As you know I’m doing my WIKI on what I learned about meteorites on our class’ field trip to the Harvard Museum of Natural History. On our field trip I learned four extremely important things to understanding the concept of meteorites. I learned that (1) a meteorite is a natural object that is created in outer space and has survived an impact with Earth’s surface. (2) While it is in space it’s called a meteoroid. (3) When the meteoroid enters Earth’s atmosphere thing called air resistance makes the object produce heat and light. (4) I also learned that as the object gets hotter and starts to produce light it turns into a fireball, which is most commonly known as a meteor or shooting star. These are the four most important things that I learned on our class’ field trip to the Harvard museum of natural history.

I took a bit of extra time to do some research and I learned that there are five types of meteorites; iron meteorites, stony iron meteorites, Chondrite meteorites, Carbonaceous Chondrite meteorites, and Achondrite meteorites. I found all of this information on "Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia."

Thank you very much for taking your time to read my WIKI. I would strongly recommend visiting the Harvard Museum of Natural History.


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