Russianspluck chunkof meteorite

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You may have seen videos last February when a fi ery meteorite streaked across Russian skies with a sonic boom that shattered win-dows in the Chelyabinsk region.

About 950 people were treated in hospitals, mostly for cuts from fl ying glass. The meteorite plunged into a lake, and Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was grateful it hadn’t hit a village.

Divers have been pulling chunks of it from the lake for several months. This past week, they found the largest piece yet, which broke while they were trying to haul it out of the water. Even so, the main piece was over half a ton, large enough that it broke the scale they tried to weigh it on.

Imagine what it might have broken if it hadn’t landed in the lake! AP photo/Alexander Firsov

2013

ColoradoKids CK ReporterSierra Zizzo,

Highlands Ranch

TIME TO BUST A FEW MYTHSDoes running in the rain

really help you stay dry? Can you save your house

from the Big Bad Wolf? Can you change as fast as a superhero?

Find this out and more at “Mythbusters: The Explosive Ex-hibition!” which is at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science through January.

Mythbusters is a very popular TV show where hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman test popular myths. It’s been on since 2003, and is still going strong.

The purpose of the exhibit is to let regular people try ex-periments and use the scientifi c method, not just see it on TV.

The producers of this exhibit want you to get your hands dirty, and there are many fun experi-ments for everyone to try.

For instance, “Cliffhanger” en-courages people to hang from a ledge and test how long they can hold on without falling off.

This comes from the Hol-lywood myth that cliffhanger scenes are staged.

In another, “Killer Card Toss,” you throw cards to see if you could really kill someone with a strategically placed card toss.

All this has to do with science, though it may not seem like it.

Even “Tablecloth Chaos,” where you try to whip a table-cloth from under a set table, is scientifi c.

It has to do with the forces of mass (the items on the tablecloth that make it heavier and harder to pull off), friction (the type of tablecloth that is more or less sticky) and inertia (how fast and how hard the tablecloth is pulled).

I recommend this exhibit for everybody, because it really does have something for everyone.

Even though the kids might not be tall enough to do “Dodg-ing a Bullet,” where taller people see if they are fast enough to actually do that, they will defi -nitely love the “Airplane on a Conveyer Belt,” where folks can see if a plane on a conveyer belt will take off.

I have been a Mythbusters fan for years, and this exhibit did not disappoint me in the least.

I would positively rate it 5 out of 5 stars, and I am defi nitely going back.

And don’t be afraid to fail at the experiments: As they say on Mythbusters, “Failure Is Always An Option!”

Photo by Christine Pero

The trend towards milder winters is ap-parently behind the

troubling decline of moose.Only Maine seems to have

more of the huge animals now than it did 20 years ago. In Montana, one area has seen the moose population fall from 4,000 to about 100.

Losses in other states are not that dramatic, but numbers like 25 and 30 percent are not good news.

Researchers are trying to figure out the specifics, but it seems clear that warm winters are sheltering parasites that used to die off in the cold so that there weren’t enough of them to harm a lot of moose.

Moose are hosts to a tick that builds into the thousands on a single moose. In such huge numbers, they rob the moose of so much energy that the animal dies. Other types of parasites are also now more common and so more deadly.

Scientists are hoping they can find a solution to save the giant beasts. Photo/Donna Dewhurst

WARM WINTERS POSETHREAT TO MOOSE

By Tripp Ceyssens,11, a CK Reporter from Arvada

Imagine what it might have broken if it hadn’t landed in the lake! AP photo/Alexander Firsov

October 22, 2013

When something dear to Olive suddenly goes missing, how far will

she go to get it back and will she ever know who to trust again?

Find out in “The Books of Elsewhere: The Strangers” by Jacqueline West.

This is the fourth book in the series about Olive, a girl who lives in a strange house where the people in the paintings come to life.

It is nearing Halloween, and Olive’s plan for her painted friend, Morton, is very special.

Dressed up as a ghost, Morton

will go trick-or-treating and to the Halloween carnival at Olive’s school.

No one will even know Mor-ton is a painting.

Everything seems to be going fine until Olive arrives home and discovers her parents have disappeared.

Thinking it may be Annabelle, the evil painted woman who wants Olive out of her house, she goes to her friend, Ruth-erford and his grandmother, where she finds a meeting for a small society of people who are against dark magic.

Or so they say. This group promises to keep

Olive safe, but she discovers traitors and her parents where she least expected them.

I thought this was a good

book, and I would give it a 4 out of 5 star rating because the char-acters were described well and they fit well into the plot.

However, there were some parts of the story that did not connect well to the plot.

I think it would be interesting for someone who has not read the other three books in the series, but it may be better to have read the other books in the series first.

This was a good Hallows Eve book, as Rutherford might say, and good for anyone over the age of 9 if you can handle a little bit of scariness; otherwise, I suggest you read it at a time other than before bed.

Over all, this is a good book with a twisted plot and a sur-prise ending.

There are lots of Halloween events listed on Page Four today. Can you do better? Look through today’s paper for news, ads and photos about Halloween events and make up an imaginary schedule of fun for you and your friends.

Due to an editor’s error, the location of the Eastman School of Music was incorrect in last week’s CK. It is in Rochester, N.Y. We regret the error.

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Halloween story, but not for bedtime

By Kristen White11, a CK Reporter from Louisville

Film of play will make you applaud

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Shrek the Musical is a unique movie that is actually a recorded Broadway

show.

In it, an ogre named Shrek lives in a swamp and minds his own business. But one day, a ton of fairy tale creatures show up in his swamp.

The ruler of a town called Duloc, Lord Farquaad, has sent them there. Shrek wants to them to leave, so he sets off to give Lord Farquaad a piece of his mind.

On the way he meets a crazy talking donkey. Shrek is aggravated with Donkey, but lets him go to Duloc with him.

In town, Lord Farquaad wants someone to save Princess Fiona from her tower so he can marry her and become king.

He decides to have a competition to see who would go and save her, and holds it right as Shrek and Donkey arrive.

So he makes deal with the ogre that, if Shrek rescues Princess Fiona, Farquaad will have the fairy tale creatures leave his swamp.

This was a crazy fun musical. The costumes were great. They did a terrific job making Lord

Farquaad look like he did in the movie (really short).

Their effects had a fun and very realistic ele-ment to them, though it is helpful to have seen some other musicals to understand some of those effects.

If you’ve been to a lot of live musicals, though, you may forget it is a movie and want to clap after a particularly good song.

Shrek the Musical is very long and gets off to a slow start, but the funny and adventurous parts in the middle made up for it.

It is kind of hard to follow unless you know the original movie, so this may not be a great choice for younger kids.

I really liked this movie. It was super funny and I highly recommend it.

By Megan Lindsey,10, a CK Reporter from Fort Collins

There are many programs to modernize life in the Third World, but a pro-

gram in the African nation of Mozambique is going Old School to help family farms.

The United Nations Food Program, with a donation of $54,000 from the United States Agency for Interna-tional Devel-opment, has provided farm-ers there with 22 oxen, 12 oxcarts, 12 plows and 12 simple weeding machines.

The goal is to help small farmers remain independent

and be able to make a living from their family farms.

In addition to the farming equipment, women in the area

are being given a chance to buy special bicycles made for use in rural areas at a very low price.

That will allow them to take farm products to markets in nearby towns and increase their families’ incomes.

Money from the sale of these bicycles will then be used to pay for other programs that will help area farmers.

New movie brings shine to classic tale

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1. This African-based name for the wildebeest doesn’t sound like it starts with “G,” but it does.

2. Colorado county named for an assassinated president.

3. Famous feature of Yellowstone found also in Iceland, Chile, Russia and New Zealand.

4. Songwriter who gave us “This Land is Your Land.”

5. Grimm’s Fairy Tales came from this country.

6. Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie and Ontario.

7. Famous military conqueror and founder of Mongolia

8. Math that studies points, lines, angles, shapes and solids.

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A classic story of love and betrayal, re-told countless times over the years, the ancient story of feuding house-

holds, the Montagues and the Capulets, and two star-crossed lovers is now rekindled with a new fire.

The newest rendition of “Romeo and Ju-liet,” starring Douglas Booth (Romeo) and Hailee Steinfeld (Juliet), has arrived with a flourish.

In the classic tale, the rival households come to a cease fire by order of the Prince.

Later though, when the Capulets hold a grand party, Romeo and his kinsmen, Mer-cutio (Christian Cooke) and Benvolio (Kodi Smit-McGee), sneak in.

Romeo is entranced by Juliet, despite an ongoing battle between the families that for-bids Montagues and Capulets from loving one another.

Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt (Ed Westwick), de-

cides to deal with Romeo. He and his gang of fellow Capulets attack the Montagues, and the result is deadly.

Though always recognizable, the story gets

a makeover in the new movie version, with great cinematography, ornate costumes, and a moving musical score.

The instrumental score draws attention to the characters, while the cinematography is sweeping and dramatic.

The set designers paid detailed attention to the architecture of the time, with stony walls and lush greenery.

The costumes are incredible, with fancy, flowing dresses on the women, and dark, brooding jackets and weaponry on the men, sweeping the viewer straight into the 16th century.

While the Shakespearian language is con-fusing at first, your ear quickly grows accus-tomed to it.

The actors demonstrate a real compre-hension of the language, which eases under-standing of the classic wording.

Appreciating the time period makes it eas-ier to grasp the language, as do the actions of the actors, which reinforce and clarify the story’s arc.

This newest version of one of the greatest tragedies ever written is captivating. Thou shouldst make haste to the theatre!

By Hayes MacGregor13, a CK Reporter from Morrison

ck Kids and adults can find live links to information about stories in Colorado Kids at www.ColoradoNIE.com

Low-tech aid helps farms

Halloween at the Colo-rado Railroad Museum in Golden is happening

Saturday and Sunday.

The Trick or Treat Train at the Colorado Railroad Museum is a great way to get into the Halloween mood.

Admission for this event is $5 for children, $15 for adults, and $10 for seniors. Family admis-sions are $30.

During this Halloween-themed special event, you can trick or treat and ride on a train.

The railroad museum will be decorated for Halloween, the decorations will be just the perfect amount of scary so it’s

fun for everyone. This a special year because

this is the fi rst year they are going to be running Train 346 , the oldest operating train in the Rocky Mountains.

At the Colorado Railroad Museum there are trains every-where, and downstairs there is a train track with a wonderful tiny working model train, not to mention the video on railroad-ing in Colorado, the displays on what is was like to travel on the trains, and what the train opera-tors did on the train.

The museum also has a library with records and books about Colorado’s railroading history.

If you go you will probably meet a man named Steve Lee. His job is Educational Pro-gramming, and he does guest services.

He is a retired teacher so the

educational programming is a perfect fi t.

Also if you’re lucky you might see a rabbit; I did.

The museum is a fun place to go no matter the time of year, but in my opinion it is really fun at Halloween.

Even if you don’t like trains this would be a fun place to go,

because the scenery is enough to make anyone happy. Plus those trains are really cool, and really old.

Your parents will probably have a lot of fun, too. My dad was so happy he was about to explode with excitement.

For details, visit http://www.coloradorailroadmuseum.org/

(Editor’s Note: Most of these events require that you pay for tickets. For live links to get more information, visit ColoradoNIE.com)

Wings Over The Rockies Air & Space Museum will host “Hauntings at the Hanger” Sunday, with spooky creatures from outer space, photos with Star Wars and other sci-fi characters, an “Ooey Gooey Room,” and a space and alien costume contest, plus more. http://www.wingsmuseum.org

Boo At The Zoo After Dark is Friday, 6:30 to 9 pm, with more than 25 trick-or-treat stations, creepy crawly animal demonstrations and exciting family-friendly entertain-ment under the canopy of the beautiful fall foliage of Denver Zoo. Purchase tickets in advance. The daylight version of Boo at the Zoo is Saturday and Sunday, 9 to 5, also with trick-or-treat stations, demonstrations and entertainment. http://www.denverzoo.org

Trick or Treat Street will be Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 9 to

7:30 at the Children’s Museum of Denver. Don your favorite costume for a trick-or-treating adventure, craft classic Halloween creatures, brave your chances at the Monster Carnival and stroll through Pumpkin Hill. http://www.cmdenver.org

This is the last weekend for the Corn Maze at Denver Botanic Gardens at Chat-fi eld. Includes activities for the whole family and a mini-maze for young kids. http://www.botanicgardens.org

Then, next weekend, the Denver Botanic Gardens on York Street celebrates Día de los Muertos, a festival of “welcome” for the souls of the dead, Friday, Nov. 1, starting at 4 p.m. There will be live entertainment, artists and dancers, a “Sugar Skull” making area and an area where you can create “Papel Picado,” plus free face painting and photos. http://www.botanicgardens.org

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By Eva DiUbaldo,11, a CK Reporter from Aurora

Photo by Matt Isaacks/Colorado Railroad Museum