Our meteorite experiment

The Pupils of Junior and Senior Infants carried out the following Experiment:

• We carried out an experiment to discover how craters were formed on the moon by meteorites.
• First we made our meteorites out of playdoh
• Next, in groups, we arranged our meteorites according to size from smallest to biggest.
• Then we used a baking tray with flour on the bottom and coloured sand on top to test our meteorites.
• We dropped the biggest meteorites in each group from a certain height to see the impact made by the meteorite.
• After we tested the smallest asteroids in the same way.
• We recorded our results.
• Each person then got a chance to drop their meteorite to make a crater.
• We discovered that the bigger the asteroid the bigger the crater.
• The closer and the force behind the asteroid also made a difference to the size of the crater.