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The crisp September evening air may be just the ticket to helping you stay awake this time of evening on your first day of lessons. Or just make you want to bundle up under the covers back in your dormitory. We won’t tell you how to feel.
Stepping into the Astronomy classroom, you may be a little perplexed to find any desks or chairs in the classroom and instead are greeted with what looks like a giant sandbox with glistening white sand. After another moment or two, you are swept off your feet by some unseen force that causing you to float up into the air - although you will need to do a little bit of air swimming to reach your seat. The initial feeling is similar to that of going down the first big dip in a roller coaster, but certainly not enough to make anyone nauseous enough for a little dinner show-and tell. Looking up, you see that the large semicircle of desks and chairs are all suspended in midair some 15 feet or so above the ground, rocking ever so slightly up and down thanks to the enchantments placed upon them. The blackboard, positioned across from the semicircle of desks, has the following instructions written upon it:
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Take out a quill and write your FULL name and year on the piece of parchment provided.
Once you have done so, give it a tap with your wand.
The parchment, enchanted by the professor himself, will turn into a sturdy wood name plaque when you do so. Don’t worry, it won’t go floating away from you but rather stick firmly to your desk.
Did you remember to use the lint roller on the small table outside of the classroom? It was there next to the sign that reads, "Not to be used as a brush for your hair" and has the signature of a former student in the bottom right corner. Also next to the sign is a small box containing an assortment of pips that you are meant to take and wear proudly on your robes for the duration of the lesson
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Professor Flamsteed is floating somewhere near the blackboard looking especially pleased with himself this evening. Surely that cannot be a good thing?
⌦Lesson Progression
▸ question 1 :: what significance do rocks have in astronomy?
▸ question 2 :: define asteroid meteoroids, meteors, or meteorites
▸ question 3 :: crater demonstration #1; what can you say about the importance of the mass of a meteorite in making a crater?
▸ question 4 :: crater demonstration #2; what can you say about the importance of the velocity of a meteorite in making a crater?
▸ main activity :: COSMIC HOUSE COLLISION!
▸ main activity update :: Planet #1 goes to GRYFFINDOR
▸ CLASS DISMISSED!
OOC: This is IC your character's FIRST Astronomy lesson of the term.
Class will officially begin in approximately 14 hours from the time of this post.
This lesson has officially started! Please do not announce your character arriving late and just pretend like they have been in class all along. You are free to jump in any time and should use the lesson progression links to keep up.
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Benny was listening intently, yes he was, even taking a few notes along the way, jotting stuff onto his parchment half pinned down by his opposite arm. Plants? Um...was angel a little off with her answer? But for the most part he was letting other students answer, mainly because anything that came to mind seemed to be snatched up by the minds of others or too similar for him to think it worthy of repeating. Not that it was odd that he wasn't talking all that much, more than six years of it would get others used to his behavior.
At the latest question, he thought about the four words written on the board and what he knew about any of them. Paulina had mentioned meteorites and he absently nodded in agreement as it seemed right. So finally he opted for another raising his hand. "Asteroids are large rocky bodies in space that are not quite planets."
She listened to the others answers, she wasn't taking notes right now, nor did she plan on it. REBEL. Unless something stood out to her. So far nothing. Then the lesson continued own to the next questions.
asteroid, meteoroids, meteors, meteorites. Oh my!
Pick one. Which one? Just pick one Bayless, geez. "Some asteroids have their own moons." She nodded that was a fact!
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At least she didn't seem to be the ONLY student that was clueless about the dot badge that she was wearing or the whole strangeness of the references she failed to get.
Was 'Admiral' Flamesteed laughing at her? Well, at least he picked up on her train of thought.....He was awarding her a point? Well that wasn't too shabby then. "Thank you , Admiral." She nodded and listened to the rest of the class and their answers.
Alrighty now, some of her classmates threw her for a loop.....Some were odd but could be made sense of , like Yoongi's whole, we are all rocks statement. Some were very vastly descriptive like Sophie's , which she enjoyed. But then, after the whole eight legged freak ordeal and rescue she had been paying the girl extra mind anyways. The one that really made her head spin however.....one of the claw boys (Kyroh) had a theory about orbital corpses that made her look at him with mild disgust as she listened to his theory. At that moment, she made a mental note to avoid him as much as she possibly could. That made two since her transfer to Hogwarts....all in all she supposed that wasn't too bad.
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Alright what facts and definitions did she know for one of the items on the board. She raised her hand, not normally, but in his odd greeting sort of way. Here it goes...." Asteroids are heavenly bodies that orbit the Sun and are smaller than a planet, though some such as Ceres are debated as being 'Dwarf Planets'. They are comprised primarily of rock, though some also contain metals and occasionally organic compounds. They differ from Comets because they do not have a visible 'tail' and from Meteors and Meteoroids they differ by their larger size." Okay, now she could take a breath. There was most of what the 5th year snakette knew about the subject, bluntly shoved into one paragraph. Hopefully that was what the 'Admiral' was looking for.....
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Since Admiral Airey was just floating around, it was perfectly acceptable for Oliver to do the same. Right? Right. Plus, it could be helpful in answering a question. In fact, his answer to the second question could be pretty much as exactly the same as his answer to the first. So he raised his hand to basically repeat himself. "Meteors are bits of rock in space. They float around, and sometimes crash into planets." And this was where simply floating around came in handy. Olly curled himself into a ball as tightly as he could and crashed floated right into Ellery. She was the planet and he was the meteor, see?
NO AIREY. That was the example Dante was going to use. The whole dinosaur thing and you had to go all Professor and explain it all scientifically and even say where it probably hit the earth. Sigh, now what was he going to say. Well all that was left was puns and that was a last ditch effort....So why not. He had nothing else. Plus he could leave the definitions to everyone else.
"Well i know meteor showers are earth's way of getting clean"
Get it, because shower. Maybe not but it was all he had on meteors after the whole dinosaur extinction thing. That was a factoid right. It was to Dante. Plus he was still trying to absorb all the Airey was saying before.
His hand was cramping from writing to much. You know how hard it is to write in basically zero gravity.
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THIS was what Caleb needed to take notes on. He knew meteors, meteoroids, and meteorites were all different, as were asteroids, and he had to keep them straight. Watch that be the first question on his NEWTs!
He quickly flicked through his notes and then raised his hand. "Meteors are any asteroids that enter Earth's atmosphere and start heading towards the surface," he explained. That was a pretty simple explanation but if he tried to elaborate he was afraid he'd confuse himself and get it wrong...
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She was just shushed. It made her feel like a kid again, and brought back some memories of her mom's lame comebacks. Awww... Admiral Flamsteed! The entire situation was funny, and she had to bite her bottom lip to keep from full out laughing at the covering of the rocks' ears. Pebbles got a wink from her, and Airey got a knowing look. She even went as far as to zip her lips with a fake key... said key got tossed over her shoulder.
There. That was settled.
Now, on to the words that sounded an awful lot like the same thing. Tricky. Fun facts were kind of her thing though, so she tried to think of anything useful about the words in question. She storked her chin thoughtfully. OH! Got it!
AJ flailed her hand a bit in the air. "Meteorites can be super small like dust... practically non existent." Which only made her think of another question. "Does space get normal dust?" Or was star dust and meteorites dust THE dust of space? Her mom was always nagging about dust around the house. She especially hated it when AJ wrote messages in it.
It wasn't taking a lot for Dalton to force himself to like Astronomy, because it was basically Physics, and - although he didn't like to admit it - it was more interesting. Space was pretty blimin' awesome. And he knew some stuff about it, so he lifted his head slightly, and dropped his hands from playing with the magically made wooden name plate to raise one into the air.
"Er - Asteroids are minor planets of the Inner Solar System, yeah? Which is the Terrestrial planets an' the asteroid belt, right? And the first was called Ceros - or something... an' it was found by some Italian guy in the early 1800s... Right?"
He was totally right... right? Ugh maybe he should have just kept quiet. He lowered his hand towards the end of his answer and began playing with the nameplate again, eyes fixed firmly on the desk.
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Angel raised her hand. "Admiral Flamsteed, I think that a meteorites can create some sort of creator if it impacts on the ground because it is travelling at like a million miles an hour or something silly like that." Angel thought it would be cool to see one flying in the sky. Just as long as it didn't come near her.
Austin wrote down a few key topics in his notes. He wasn't going to copy word for word what the professor was saying... This wasn't potions class. But the boy did want to keep some points handy in case he needed to study them later. Knowing that a lot of this planet's rock came from outer space, he really did want a pet rock now. Wouldn't it be cool to have a pet rock that was made out of space rock?? How cool would that be. Now if there were pet rocks that came from the moon.... that would be... ehem... out of this world.
Austin chuckled to himself at his pun, and raised his hand, ready to answer the question. "Meteors are when a piece of rock has made it into Earth's atmosphere. One can usually see it at night, if their lucky enough. It usually has a tail of 'light' and is often referred to as a shooting star." Sadly, Austin had never seen one, but that would be the highlight of his fourth year if he got to see one. Maybe if it landed close enough to the school, he could get a pet rock out of it.... yea?
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Three points. Davie had just gotten THREE MORE POINTS for Ravenclaw! YUSSSSSSSS! He couldn't resist fist-pumping up into the air... er, further up into the air... with victory. LOOK AT HIM, being smart and stuff. JUST LOOK AT HIM. The professor was smart too, though, because to his credit he didn't even stumble over pronouncing panspermia.
Beaming proudly, Davie again raised his hand because the second question was EASY. He knew loads of factoids about those four words. "Pluto, which is the furthest out planet-sized thing in our solar system, actually isn't a planet at all. It should be classified as a big asteroid, since it's part of the Kuiper Belt of icy, rocky objects just outside Neptune."
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Marisol giggled. She would never be a Ravenclaw, nor would she want to study inside all day. Ew.
Since she didn't know exactly what any of the others were, Mari went with defining asteroids. Except she didn't know what those were either. And she was pretty sure that "asterisks on steroids" wasn't going to cut it. So she said, "A rock that goes around orbits the sun!" Orbiting sounded smarter.
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Davie mentioned the words P-L-U-T-O and 'not really a planet' in the same sentence, causing Kate to wince ever so slightly. He was CORRECT, that couldn't be denied, but Kate knew from previous lessons that the professor was big...REALLY BIG...on maintaining the fact that scientists were wrong and that poor Pluto was still a planet...
Never mind that. Kate needed to come up with a response. As Ravenclaw as she was, she never could quite manage to come up with something so great she earned extra class points for it. She could still try, though! Meteors! What did she know about those? Thinking...thinking...
... She raised her hand into the air. "Sometimes people look up into the sky and see a shooting star, and they make a wish upon it. People think they're literally looking at a star falling from the sky, but that's not really what it is. It's bits of things like dust or pebbles shooting into the atmosphere, or meteors," she explained. "So when people make wishes on falling stars, they're really making wishes on meteors."
Norah didn't have much time to wonder what she'd said wrong so that the Professor had done only plain old smiling at her answer instead of jumping on her desk or yelling something excited. He did a lot of yelling. Usually. But her wondering was cut off on account of Sophie Brown saying more words than the Hufflepuff planned to say during the whole entire lesson. How did she fit all that knowledge in her HEAD? She had a very nice head that looked pretty properly head-sized, which made it hard to believe that her brains could all fit without wanting to squish out of her ears. She probably knew more about space rocks than the entire rest of the school put together, and space rocks were a pretty random thing to know about (but don't tell Pebbles she'd said that). The fifth year fell behind in her notes as she tried to scribble down all the stuff Sophie had said, but caught up when Flamsteed began speaking again. Lots of stuff about rocks. Okay cool. AND he said rocks showed things about dinosaurs so her answer hadn't even been completely wrong, so THERE.
She paused to copy the terms down on her parchment before putting a hand in the air. "The things people call shooting stars aren't even stars at all, they're meteors." Right? Or were there meteoroids? Or meteorites? WHY did they make all those words so similar? "Meteors are rocks too, and those don't seem like they'd look like stars but sometimes when they're coming into the atmosphere they move so so so fast and hitting all these space particles so then they give off a trail of glowing light, or at least it looks like glowing light. I'm not really sure what the glowing bits are made of. So then we see them just for a second and think they look like stars except like I said, they're not. Sometimes they come all the way to Earth but then they're called something else." Something that started with 'meteor' except she wasn't sure which ending was the right one. Shooting stars were one of the best parts of space, if y'asked her, because they meant wishes and wishes were always fun. Well, except when they weren't. But usually fun.
And there was a Ravenclaw firstie saying Pluto wasn't a planet. Excuse HIM, it wasn't fair to be mean just 'cause Pluto was small. HE was small too, shouldn't he know that?
Colt heard Captain Airey's answer to his question and he didn't mind he didn't know. He was just curious is all. He decided to let it go because he wasn't that interested. He shrugged it off and now onto the topic of the lesson which was craters. He remembered seeing them when he went to an Astronomy museum with his family. Anyways he learned a lot of information and he tried to copy it down but his wrist was cramping so he was just gonna try and memorize it. He heard Airey ask them to try and define the word. He glanced at the board and was gonna pick Meteor.
He tried to think of the definition and then he raised his hand, "Professor I think and tell me if I am wrong, a meteor when the rock debris falls to the earth at like a high speed and then lands on earth. One little fact I know is meteors is the tail can have a different color." He knew some meteors can have red tails or yellow ones.
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Noelle blushed hardcore when the Professor talked to her. Directly to HER. APROFESSORWASTALKINGTOHER. Hyperventilate. Heee. Heeee.
Okay. OKay. She had this. She nodded to the Professor. Wow. She didnt know the Earth was made of so little rock. She stomped her foot on the floor. Her there only 4.6% rock down there.
Listneing to Professor Flamsteed drawn on about rocks, Noelle was getting antsy. How was she supposed to be excited about rocks? She looked aorund the classroom. She grinned when she saw some of her friends like Sabbath and Owen.
Did the Professor just ask a question? Oh the board... what was on the board? Deciding to give it a shot, Noelle raised her hand and blurted out, 'Meteoroids are the smaller rocks right? They fall from space?" Way to sound sure of yourself there Noelle.
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Now Dot had this extra pile of pips, and StarMan had just wandered away without telling her what to do with them. Like... release into the wild? That was a thing, right? She dropped a pip, and it floated away from her desk. Bye. Bye, Pip.
You know what wasn't awesome? Like, other than losing polka dots and having StarMan look at her like she was a baby troll? Other than that, the other not awesome thing was that StarMan wasn't even using real words anymore. Plastocide? Creaturesaurus? Chickylub? THOSE WEREN'T EVEN REAL WORDS. What was he even asking?
Another pip floated away. Pip-pip-hooray!
"I mean... they're all made of rock, right?" She flicked a pip at Sophie-Daisy, who probably knew what a creaturesaurus was. And she knew everything about everything and this class was hard today. Polka dot awaaaaaaay.
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"Er...just talking to my quill, Professor. It scribbles even when it shouldn't and never gets it right." Which wasn't usually a problem until it caught him in the act of lying and made it sound even worse than it REALLY was.
Also, was that a no....?
A...legit shooting down of any hope he had to be Captain? Well that seemed kinda mean didn't it? Especially if all he said was he wasn't up to that level yet without telling him HOW he could get to that level. The boy was a hard worker--maybe not like your average Hufflepuff but his tenacity was something to be noted and he'd have been happy to complete whatever task the man shot at him.
"I understand--I mean I really don't but to be polite I'll say I do." NODNODNOD. Kid just wanted to be Captain. Understanding anything outside of that was not at all possible right now.
Okay maybe that was a stretch. He WAS understanding everything the Professor was saying.....sorta...kinda....not really. One thing for sure was he couldn't let the quill take THESE notes which meant pulling out a normal quill and trying his hardest to keep up with his scribbles. Rocks...something something, rocks, crustaceans, rocks...something, rocks...something something. Yup. All written down. "Some people use all three interchangeably because they think they're all the same no matter what but mum says we shouldn't make fun of those people because they never learned better and it's...unfortunate." Was that the word she used? He couldn't really remember....
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A lot of the things the Admiral was talking about were super long words but they all sounded really interesting and if they had to do with dinosaurs then they had to be cool--even if it was related to their demise.
But right things falling from the sky. He had heard all of the terms posted on the board but wasn't a hundred percent sure what made each of them a different type of rock. Milo had always heard them being used in conversation interchangeably. He decided that it was probably best to just listen and take good notes on the other students' definitions for this question. No need to add to it if it wasn't going to be right.
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To be honest, he had NO clue what Flamsteed was laughing but....if he made the man happy that was GREAT! Why not? Making people happy was a good thing! Grinning at the point that he got for.....something...? Kyroh did his best to focus back in on the long winded lesson, taking down a few notes every once in a while. Looking around the classroom, he raised his hand and wiggled his fingers at Dot who seemed to be throwing stuff down below. And look- Noel too! Noel got a wave. He was just about to look back down at his notes when someone else's stare caught his eye. The girl (Freya), didn't look too happy with him? Or his answer? Even though Flamsteed had seemed to like it. Maybe he had just confused her? Offering her a large smile he turned back to the Professor.
Look, she had spoken about Asteroids! He'd let her and the class in on something.
The Claw's hand went up. "Asteroids are kind of like fish." Hear him out, seriously. "Fish swim is schools so they don't have to be alone and they aways have their friends by their sides. Asteroids are kind of like the same thing. Sometimes they travel in fields, hanging out with other asteroids, maybe gossiping, maybe talking about girls, maybe discussing how cool the Earth looks? Who knows. Maybe they don't say anything at all because they are just cool with hanging out and being in each others company. But yeah they travel in groups with their friends!" He beamed.
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ELLERY WON A POINT. This was the BEST DAY OF HER LIFE. Okay, forget EVERYTHING she just said about her Head of House and this class - she LOVED IT. Especially once the professor started talking about geology and fossils and stuff - this was TRUE science and she adored it.
She had a brief spasm of joy, excitement lighting up her face and wriggling in excitement. She made eye contact with Olly and GRIIIINNED. Eeeeeee!
Okay. She didn't really know anything about those, but she DID know a reeaaally old muggle song.
"I know that dying by great white shark and meteorites probably wouldn't be fun. Also, apparently it's more likely to fall in love within, like, three minutes than to be hit by one. That's from a song, by the way, speaking of rock." It was more like pop, though.
Daxton was getting bored. Admittedly, it never took much for that to happen, but it had begun much sooner than he expected it to. A lot of the stuff Airey Flamsteed was telling them was stuff he could - and, in some cases, had - read from a book. That, added to the fact that the lecture was punctuated by sudden unexpected increases in volume, had Daxton half-wishing he had not attended. He wanted to look at a space rock. To hold one in his hands and crush it down and look at its components and see what it was made of and maybe even find out if it had magical properties of its own, like for potions. Just talking, in this context, was boring. Especially when you were an individual that didn't talk.
Upon hearing the words 'brush up on some basic terminology', Daxton huffed to himself and leaned his elbow on the desk, causing said desk, along with his chair and, by extension, Daxton himself, to bob precariously for a moment. Basic terminology. Sigh.
With a glance up at what was written on the board, Daxton copied the words down, preparing to write down his own definitions. But that would take barely a few seconds and Daxton wanted something stimulating to do, so because of that rather than any real need, he started a new page of notes and wrote down all the things he had heard Airey Flamsteed confirm. Writing notes was awfully pointless, but it was better than just sitting there, bored, while lecturing happened. At least this way, he could test his memory and what he knew already.
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Daxton Prince
First Year
Ravenclaw
Astronomy
Rocks
Rocks can tell us about the history of the earth, either through the fossils they might consist of or contain, or their own physical structure, or what processes occurred to create a particular rock - elements, chemicals, pressure, atmospheric influence, etc... - the deeper you go, the older the rock, most probably, and therefore deep down towards the centre of the earth, there may be answers as to the planet's creation/formation/deeper history, which links back to Astronomy
Float in space, and help create planets, including Earth. Rocks obtained from the Moon support this claim, due to a 'tiny excess of a heavier variant of the element zinc' - research further
Entire ecosystems altered due to 'space rocks', eg: the asteroid that destroyed three quarters of life on earth, and ended numerous species and the Cretaceous age (65 million years ago, not 6.5 million) - left the 'Chicxulub crater' (though some argue that the crater it left is not the Chicxulub crater, despite evidence saying otherwise). This also lead to our existence in the long-term
^ Marked end of the Cretaceous period and beginning of the Paleogene period. Geologists and planetary geologists refer to this as the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (K–Pg boundary)
Fossils - self-explanatory
"We are all rocks" - ??????????????? no
^ Calcium found in rocks and makes up 3.63% of Earth's crust is also found in human teach. Iron that makes up 5% of Earth's crust is also found in human (and likely other creatures') blood. These elements were created in the interiors of collapsing stars. Humans "made of stars"
No
I am not a rock
Or a star
That does not even make sense. We consist of some of the same elements, we are "made of stars" in the most rudimental sense. That statement is misleading and confusing.
The four inner planets of the Solar System (closest to the Sun) are made of rock
Some markings on some rocks may be able to determine the age of the planet it comes from
Panspermia - the theory that rocks brought life to Earth (and likely other planets throughout the universe) by way of early organisms, proteins, water, etc... the "building blocks of life"; research in August 2015 supports this claim, showing "evidence that early comet impacts influenced amino acids to change into peptides"
The Moon is a rock, obviously - perhaps possible to compare Moon rocks to Earth rocks and discover the absolute truth of how the Moon came to be
Rocks are classed as baryonic matter
Astronomers measuring the density and composition of the universe using leftover radiation from the Big Bang discovered that the baryonic matter of which rocks belongs to makes up only 4.6% of it - research further
Rocks made of silicates, rock-forming minerals made of oxygen and silicone, more hydrogen atoms than silicone atoms in the Solar System, so much more hydrogen found than rock. Rock makes up the majority of inner terrestrial planets due to the fact that hydrogen and methane (and ammonia) cannot condense because of the thermal energy closer to the sun. The rocks (the planets' bodies) cannot hold onto these elements, therefore it is the silicates that end up forming the rocks of the inner planets, hence why there are no gaseous planets closer to the sun
Outer planets also have rock at the centre, just less
Rocks make good pets? Better than an animal I suppose...
Rocks made up of all the different minerals in the universe flew together at the beginning of time(? IF the beginning of time was the beginning of the universe, which I doubt) to create the planets
Rocks dating back to K–Pg boundary period indicate global catastrophe, ie: layer of grayish clay found in all of the K-T boundary era rocks, which contain unusually high concentrations of iridium. As this element is extremely rare in surface rocks on Earth, leading to the conclusion that the rocks were from elsewhere (indicating a large meteorite impact... rocks from space)
Basic Terminology
- asteroid
- meteoroids
- meteors
- meteorites
Daxton leaned back again and looked at his notes. Actually, that hadn't been so dull after all. He looked up at Airey Flamsteed again, and some of his classmates, before putting pen to parchments once again, ready to add more.
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Grateful that her mouthful got points instead of judgmental looks from the professor, Sophie gave the man a thumbs-up and finally returned the pleased smile to Zander. This class was going juuuust fine. So good. The best class ever, probably even, and... all those super good feelings went out the window when Airey started talking about... a whole lot of stuff. A lot she knew, but even with her background knowledge on any part of this topic, it still felt like a lot to take in, so she couldn't even imagine how the younger ones were feeling. Overwhelmed for sure, probably, and she felt for them.
But FOSSILS and CRATERS and ROCKS THAT COLLIDED WITH THE EARTH, man. Cool stuff. Aside from all the nitty-gritty details she was missing, Sophie Brown dug it.
Asteroid, meteoroid, meteors, and meteorites. Basic, simple-to-understand terms, and most people had the gist of it. Good on them. Still, Sophie raised a hand to offer her piece, "The ones with the meteor prefix are all related, as one would expect, but a meteorOID is a technical sorta name for the tiny solid bodies moving through our Solar System, s'before it reaches our atmosphere. An easy way to remember THAT one is... a meterOID is in the VOID, and..." Could she say the rest since other people had already elaborated on what a meteor and a meteorite were? SHE WAS GOING TO. "Whereas a meteOR above you SOARs and a meteorITE is in your SIGHT." So she didn't TECHNICALLY give the definition of the last two. Just alluded to them. Ahem.
To be honest Candice was not that interest with what Airey was tlking. Its SUPER long and it bored. This guy seriously need a pause button.
The Gryffindor attention went to the board. Definitions of one of those? She tried to remember what she knew about them. "Meteoroid is a rock in the space that is too small to be called an asteroid." Poor thing for being too small to be in a big league.
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An asteroid could have killed the dinosaurs? That was what Admiral sir Flamsteed was saying, right? With the crater and discovering the element Iridium and all. Owen listened intently. He also wanted to take notes but found it was rather difficult because the tables were still rocking so he tried to just take it all in. He'll write down whatever he could remember later.
They will be talking about craters today. But before that, some terminology. Asteroid, meteoroids, meteors and meteorites? Space rocks. Oh! Owen wanted to share what he knew! Hand up. "Asteroids are everywhere in space. They are very large space rocks. Kind of like smaller versions of them are meteoroids, or also known as small particles that orbit around the sun. Meteors are space rocks that enter the earth's blanket...or the atmosphere." Meteor showers! "And when a space rock hits the earth's surface, it's called a meteorite." Owen beamed. He knew his rocks quite well.
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