From a meteorite from space, we re over here with an original Sputnik.

This is an example of a real meteorite, and you can see all the melting of the iron from the speed and the heat when a meteorite hits the earth, and just how much of it survives and melts.

And then, of course, NASA also had a big announcement, and President Clinton gave a press conference, about this amazing discovery of life in a Martian meteorite.

The way you would put it to a nine year old is to say, If a meteorite was coming to hit the Earth, how would you figure out if it was going to or not?

This was no earth shattering event, but financial markets responded as if a meteorite had struck them. The negative reaction is no mystery China s devaluation was a textbook example of how not to conduct exchange rate policy.

At more than 360 meters in diameter, the asteroid, Apophis, is a dozen times larger than the Tunguska space object (presumably a meteorite or comet) that devastated a large part of eastern Siberia a century ago. As far as can be determined, that object detonated on June 30, 1908, with the power of a nuclear weapon, felling 80 million trees over a 2,000 square kilometer area.