Mavrix Crater Ball, High Density PU Bouncy ball

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Find out in this fun science activity, as you make your own craters by dropping balls into a tray of flour. There is surely a great deal of internal energy dissipation that does not go into just lifting particles,” says Robert Behringer of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. It's not as smart as you are, and it may occasionally give humorous, ridiculous, or even annoying results! By recording the number, size and extent of erosion of craters, lunar geologists can determine the ages of different surface units on the Moon and can piece together the geologic history.

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While those distances may appear underwhelming, it is still an astonishing feat by Shepard, who in 1961 was the first American to travel into space, a decade before he became the fifth man to walk on the moon. A crater is a bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite, volcanic activity, or an explosion.To test this, you will use different sized, nearly spherical objects as your "meteorites," like the objects shown in Figure 2. After carrying out this activity, students will be able to recognise and describe how impact craters are formed on Earth and the Moon.

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The second graph also seems to show a linear relationship, but once again a single anomalous result is apparent. Manicouagan in Quebec, Canada; Sudbury in Ontario, Canada; Ries Crater in Germany, and Chicxulub on the Yucatan coast in Mexico. Meteorites move at different speeds through space, depending upon many factors, like the origin, size, or composition of the meteorite. The only way to know for sure is to plot a graph of log length against Angle for those last five points. In fact, the footprints of the astronauts who landed on the moon over 30 years ago are still there, perfectly preserved!With more time it would have been interesting to drop more balls at these lower heights to investigate the way in which the sand behaves on impact. You can investigate your own impact craters at home using balls, a bowl or tray and some sand, soil or even flour! You can do an experiment by weighing the different objects to see if the weights of the objects are correlated to the size of craters they produce. For vertical drops, the drop height, ball mass and ball diameter all have a linear relationship with the resulting crater’s diameter and depth.