Sci8 Q2 M6 Meteor Showers V3
Sci8 Q2 M6 Meteor Showers V3
Sci8 Q2 M6 Meteor Showers V3
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Quarter 2 - Module 6
Meteor Showers
Science – Grade 8
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Quarter 2 – Module 6: Meteor Showers
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Meteor Showers
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Table of Contents
Lesson: 1
Occurrence of Meteor Showers …………………………………..1
What’s In: Activity 1- Define Me! ...................…………………………………….…...1
What I Need to Know …………………………………………………………………. 1
What’s New: Activity 2 – What’s on Me? …………………………………………….2
Activity 3 –Locate Me! …….……………………………………………3
Activity 4 – What Am I? ………………………………………………...4
What Is It …………………………………………………………………………………..5
What’s More : Activity 5 – Read and Answer ………………………………………….8
Activity 6 – Draw and Explain ………………………………………….9
What I Have Learned……………………………………………………………………..10
What I can Do: Activity 7 – The Meteor Shower ………………………………………10
Summary ............................................................................................................................. 11
Assessment: (Post-Test) .................................................................................................... 12
Key to Answers ................................................................................................................... 13
References…. ..................................................................................................................... 14
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What This Module is About
Meteor showers occur when dust or particles from asteroids or comets enter Earth's
atmosphere at very high speed. When they hit the atmosphere, meteors rub against air
particles and create friction, heating the meteors. The heat vaporizes most meteors, creating
what we call shooting stars.
Meteor showers occur annually or at regular intervals as the Earth passes through
the trail of dusty debris left by a comet. Meteor showers are usually named after a star or
constellation that is close to where the meteors appear in the sky. Perhaps the most famous
are the Perseids, which peak in August every year. Every Perseid meteor is a tiny piece of
the comet Swift-Tuttle, which swings by the Sun every 135 years.
Approximately 30 meteor showers occur each year that are visible to observers on
Earth. Some of these showers have been around longer than 100 years.
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How to Learn from this Module
To achieve the objectives cited above, you are to do the following:
• Take your time reading the lessons carefully.
• Follow the directions and/or instructions in the activities and exercises diligently.
• Answer all the given tests and exercises.
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What I Know
Direction: For each item, encircle the letter of the correct answer.
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Lesson
1 Occurrence of Meteor Shower
What’s In
1. Meteor
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Objective:
1. Students must be able to explain the regular occurrence of meteor showers.
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What’s New?
Meteor
Showers
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Activity 3. Locate Me!
Direction: Draw a diagram representing the Earth, the atmosphere, and the space.
Then show where meteor showers are mostly occur /found in the diagram. Use the
symbol for Meteor Shower and answer the guide questions.
Guide Question:
1. How often do Meteor showers occur?
2. What is the most likely cause of a meteor shower?
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Activity 4 –What Am I?
Direction: Write down below at least 4 characteristics of Meteor / Meteor Showers. You may
do additional research to complete the task.
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What is it?
Meteor Shower
A meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to
radiate from one point in the night sky. A meteor shower occurs when the Earth intersects a
comet's path and moves through the stream of debris and dust emitted by the comet. The
meteors in a shower appear to originate from one area of the sky called the radiant. The
meteor shower is usually named after the constellation in which the radiant lies. Meteor
shower occurs at the same time each year. Common meteor shower results in ten to fifty
meteors per hour. Typically the best time to observe is in the early morning.
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Meteor showers occur when dust or particles from asteroids or comets enter Earth's
atmosphere at very high speed. When they hit the atmosphere, meteors rub against air
particles and create friction, heating the meteors. The heat vaporizes most meteors, creating
what we call shooting stars.
While there are stray bits of stuff hitting Earth from all directions, there also are
regularly timed "meteor showers" when astronomers can make better predictions about how
many meteors will hit the Earth, and from what direction. The key difference is that meteor
showers occur when the Earth plows into the trail of particles left behind by a comet or
asteroid. Depending on where the trail of particles falls in a particular year, meteor showers
can be more or less intense.
Astronomers sometimes even find new meteor showers, such as the case of the
Camelopardalids in 2014. Initial predictions put the shower at up to 200 meteors per hour,
but in reality, it ended up being a quiet shower for amateur astronomers. The shower
became active after the debris trail of Comet 209P/LINEAR intersected with Earth. (The
debris trail of comets can shift because of the influence of Jupiter, or other reasons.)
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Most meteors become visible at around 60 miles (96.5 kilometers) up. Some large
meteors splatter, causing a brighter flash called a fireball, which can often be seen during
the day and heard up to 30 miles (48 km) away. On average, meteors can speed through the
atmosphere at about 30,000 mph (48,280 kph) and reach temperatures of about 3,000
degrees Fahrenheit (1,648 degrees Celsius).
Most meteors are very small, some as tiny as a grain of sand, so they disintegrate in
the air. Larger ones that reach the Earth's surface are called meteorites and are rare.
Whether an object breaks apart depends on its composition, speed and angle of entry. A
faster meteor at an oblique angle (slanting rather than straight-on) suffers greater stress.
Meteors made of iron withstand the stress better than those of stone. Even an iron meteor
will usually break up as the atmosphere becomes denser, around 5 to 7 miles up.
Source: Space.com Staff
Meteor showers occur when the earth in its orbit around the Sun passes through
debris left over from the disintegration of comets. Although the earth's orbit around the Sun
is almost circular, most comets travel in orbits that are highly elongated ellipses. As a result,
some comets have orbits that intersect or partially overlap the earth's path.
Meteor showers associated with particular comet orbits occur at about the same time
each year, because it is at those points in the earth's orbit that the collisions occur. However,
because some parts of the comet's path are richer in debris than others, the strength of a
meteor shower may vary from one year to the next. Typically a meteor shower will be
strongest when the earth crosses the comet's path shortly after the parent comet has
passed.
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Why do meteor showers occur about the same time every year?
Meteor showers occur only when the Earth’s orbit intersects that of a specific comet,
and those intersections occur at fixed intervals.
The Leonid meteors take place when the Earth intersects the orbit of Comet
55P/Tempel-Tuttle, and the Perseid meteors happen when the Earth intersects the orbit of
Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. It may be helpful to imagine all those diagrams we saw in science
class of the solar system from above the plane of the planets. The Earth's orbit was drawn in
as an almost complete circle. A comet orbit was often drawn in as a long, elegant ellipse. If
we imagine the meteor shower occurs when the orbit of the Earth intersects the comet’s
orbit, we can see that these showers would not only occur at the same time each year, but
also that their duration would be very short. Keep in mind that it is very rare for the orbit of
any body in space to intersect the orbit of the Earth. There are hundreds of known short-
period comets, and only a handful of meteor showers.
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What’s More
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What’s more?
Activity 6: In a short bond paper, you are going to draw meteor showers and explain how it
occur.
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What I Have Learned
Self-Test:
Answer briefly in your own idea what you have learned from this topic “Occurrence of Meteor
Shower”.
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Summary
Brief periods of heightened meteor activity often occur regularly in a particular part of
the sky at a particular time of year. Meteor showers are generally named after the
constellation in which they appear to originate; thus the Perseids appear to originate in the
constellation Perseus and the Leonids in the constellation Leo. The showers occur when the
Earth passes through a region having a greater than usual concentration of interplanetary
debris, such as particles left by a disintegrating comet, at certain points in its orbit. Although
the meteors enter the Earth’s atmosphere on parallel trajectories, perspective makes it
appear as if they originate from the same point in the sky, known as the radiant.
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Assessment (Post-Test)
Direction: For each item, encircle the letter of the correct answer.
2. During a meteor shower, meteors appear move outward from a point in the sky.
What is this called?
A. The Zenith B. The Radiant C. The Origin D. The Star
5. What is the meteor shower seen in November that produces a 'meteor storm' every 33
years?
A. Perseids meteor shower C. Orionids meteor shower
B. Leonids meteor shower D. Lyrids meteor shower
8. What is a 'fireball”?
A. A meteor brighter than any planet or star
B. A meteor that explodes in the atmosphere
C. A meteor that reaches the earth
D. None of the above
10. The 'zenith hourly rate' (ZHR) is the number of meteors observed during an hour, _____.
A. Crossing the zenith C. When the observer is looking at the zenith
B. When the shower is at the zenith D. None of the above
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Key to Answers
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References
Adapted from Science – Grade 8 Learner’s Material. Unit 2 Module 3, Activity 1:
What Happens when a comet or an asteroid hits Earth. First Edition 2013.Department of
Education-Instructional Materials Council Secretariat (DedEd-IMCHS) Pasay City. Page154-
155
Adapted from Project EASE – First year Science Learner’s Module 17, Other Minor
Members of the Solar System.2010 Edition.Department of Education.Deped Complex,
Meralco Avenue, Pasig Avenue
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