Slide 1 -5 large asteroids. Note that these asteroids have craters from the impacts of even smaller asteroids! Slide 2 - Ida and Dactyl. Asteroid with a Moon! Asteroid belt - cutoff between terrestrial and Jovian planets. Slide 3 - Front and back of the moon. See how banged up it gets. Remember the moon has no atmosphere Slide 4 - What do you see here? Clouds..water? An atmosphere and water helps erode impact craters and destroy smaller ones as the fall in i.e. shooting stars. Slide 5 - Two impact craters on Earth located in southern US. Notice the road in the lower one for an idea of scale. Slide 6 - MOVIE watch as a meteor breaks up in the atmosphere. Lands on someone’s car. Don't worry though, the rock is probably worth more that the car! Slide 7 - Comet.... point out the components of the comet. Interesting fact: Stardust (in the lower left hand corner) pick up a bit of a comets tail so hopefully in the near future we will have a better idea of their composition. Slide 8 - Another comet. Talk about the Kuiper belt which is in the plane of the solar system and where short period comets are from. The Oort cloud is further and is hypothesized to be a halo around the solar system and where long peroid comets come from Slide 9 -MOVIE watch a comet go around the Sun. See how the ion tail changes direction rapidly. Slide 10 -MOVIE two comets crash into the Sun. Sun erupts in Anger ;) (unrelated events)