The Scientist Is In: Meteorites

Thursday, January 14, 2021

2 pm–2:45 pm ET

Meteor is visible as a small streak of light in the night sky.
A meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower.
Courtesy of B. Ingalls/NASA
What happens when space stuff hits the Earth?

Join Steven Jaret, Kathryn W. Davis Postdoctoral Fellow in the Museum’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, for an exciting family-friendly course on crashing objects. From space dust to meteor showers and extinction-level meteorites, explore how the 30 tons of material that lands on Earth every day impact our planet and those who inhabit it.