Meteorites, Meteors, and Asteroids - November 30

Saturday, November 30, 2024

Today is Computer Security Day, Meth Awareness Day, Mousse Day, Mason Jar Day, Personal Space Day, and Stay Home Because You're Well Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Meteorites, Meteors, and Asteroids

ON THIS DATE

• 1954 - In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the grapefruit-sized Hodges meteorite crashed through a roof and hit Ann Elizabeth Fowler Hodges, who was taking a nap. She was badly bruised but survived.
• 1979 - Pink Floyd released "The Wall" album.
• 1982 - Michael Jackson's album "Thriller" is released.
• 1993 - President Clinton signs the Brady bill.
• 1995 - President Clinton visits Northern Ireland.
• 2004 - Ken Jennings' winning streak on "Jeopardy!"  ends with 74 wins.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1485 - Italian poet Veronica Gambara
• 1667 - Irish satirist Jonathan Swift
• 1835 - Writer Mark Twain
• 1874 - U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill
• 1874 - Canadian author of Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery
• 1924 - Shirley Chisholm, politician, activist, and the first woman and first Black to run for the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
• 1929 - TV host and producer Dick Clark
• 1929 - Co-creator of Sesame Street Joan Ganz Cooney
• 1947 - Playwright David Mamet
• 1952 - Actor Mandy Patinkin
• 1965 - Actor and director Ben Stiller

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall - LISTEN
  
• Michael Jackson - Thriller - LISTEN

THEME: Meteorites, Meteors, and Asteroids

• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go! - Asteroids, Meteors, and Meteorites (3:07) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet GO! - Meteorite Test (1:57) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet GO! - What is a Meteor Shower? (0:57) - VIEW
• Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Asteroids and Comets Media Gallery - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-8 - STEM in 30 - Asteroid Redirect Mission (28:39) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - A Visit to Asteroid Vesta Interactive - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Smithsonian Science How - Astrogeology: Meteorites and Spacecraft Missions (29:16) - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Smithsonian Science How - Exploring the Solar System with Antarctic Meteorites (29:16) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Incoming! (24:42) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NOVA: Asteroid; Doomsday or Payday? - Mining Asteroids (4:59) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NOVA: Asteroid; Doomsday or Payday? - Protecting Earth from Asteroids (5:58)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - Asteroid Closely Passes Earth (Available in Spanish) (2:00) - VIEW, READ, DO

• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - Swift and Hubble Probe an Asteroid Crash (Available in Spanish) (1:46) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  Occupation STEM -Tiffany Lockett, Lead System Engineer for the Solar Sail Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) Scout (5:54)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Space Time - How Asteroid Mining Will Save Earth (10:37) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Space Time - 5 Ways to Stop a Killer Asteroid (8:35) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Crash Course Astronomy - Asteroids (11:32) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Crash Course Astronomy - Meteors (11:21) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - How to Sample an Asteroid's Rocks, Without Landing On It (6:48) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - Asteroid Mining: Our Ticket To Living Off Earth? (5:16) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - Asteroids, Meteors, and Comets… OH MY!!! (7:08) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339