http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnRiGfVvqqQ
This is a video on Comets and Meteors by Bill Nye the Science Guy. I've always loved his shows and how he explains everything. It was really cool to listen to how he described. Especially hearing facts from the "Tickle Me Meteorite". It was very amusing. As a class we actually did one of the projects, drawing an ellipse.
The Night Sky
This is a blog for my Astronomy class. I will have lots of wonderful things posted.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Average Stars in my Backyard
So I did a night time observation right in my own backyard. I took a toilet paper roll and counted the numbers I saw through it 20 times. So the total number of stars I saw at 9:30 p.m. on June 24th was 19. Divide that by 20 and I got 0.95. It was pretty low, but that was expected for my area because I live right behind an elementary school. The new lights on the building aren't as bright as the old lights, but it still gives off a lot of light. When I multiply 1.9 by 99.3, I can see a total of 189 stars in the sky (rounded). It's not a whole lot so it shows that there is a lot of light pollution around my home.
Monday, June 24, 2013
Mars - Zooniverse
So the Zooniverse project I choose to work on was categorizing different features on Mar's surface. For this I specifically looked for fans or blotches on the surface of Mars. Here is some examples of what I did.
In these pictures you can see both fans (the cone shaped outlines) and the blobs (the oval shaped outlines. According to Zooniverse's web page, the fans are created by sublimation of dry ice. As the dry ice sublimates some of the gas is trapped underneath other ice till it explodes and particles go downwind. The blobs are created when there is no wind. This is fairly interesting because even though there is little atmosphere it means that there is still wind. That is something I wouldn't have expected on Mars. I classified 25 different images for this project.
Solar System Quiz
Here is a quiz on our Solar System.
1. How many planets are in our Solar System?
a. 1
b. 8
c. 4
d. 9
2. Which Planets are Jovian?
a. Jupiter, Earth, Neptune
b. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
c. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
d. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
3. How old is our Solar System?
a. 1 billion years
b. 2 billion years
c. 3.5 billion years
d. 4.5 billion years
4. The prime zone for life that Earth sits in is called....
a. the Temperate zone
b. the Utopia zone
c. the Goldilocks zone
d. the Life zone
5. Pluto is now a....
a. Dwarf Star
b. Planet
c. Asteroid
d. Dwarf Planet
6. We categorized our sun as a ____ star.
a. B star
b. G star
c. O star
d. M star
7. Halley's comet was discovered to be a comet by....
a. Galileo Galilei
b. Edmund Halley
c. Harvey Dent
d. Ben Franklin
8.Which planet does the moon Titan revolve around?
a. Earth
b. Jupiter
c. Mars
d. Venus
9. Which planets' year is almost 84 Earth years long?
a. Uranus
b. Neptune
c. Mars
d. Mercury
10. Which planet is the largest in the Solar System?
a. Earth
b. Titan
c. Pluto
d. Jupiter
Answers: 1.b; 2.c; 3.d; 4.c;5.a;6.b;7.b;8.b;9.a;10.d
1. How many planets are in our Solar System?
a. 1
b. 8
c. 4
d. 9
2. Which Planets are Jovian?
a. Jupiter, Earth, Neptune
b. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
c. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
d. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
3. How old is our Solar System?
a. 1 billion years
b. 2 billion years
c. 3.5 billion years
d. 4.5 billion years
4. The prime zone for life that Earth sits in is called....
a. the Temperate zone
b. the Utopia zone
c. the Goldilocks zone
d. the Life zone
5. Pluto is now a....
a. Dwarf Star
b. Planet
c. Asteroid
d. Dwarf Planet
6. We categorized our sun as a ____ star.
a. B star
b. G star
c. O star
d. M star
7. Halley's comet was discovered to be a comet by....
a. Galileo Galilei
b. Edmund Halley
c. Harvey Dent
d. Ben Franklin
8.Which planet does the moon Titan revolve around?
a. Earth
b. Jupiter
c. Mars
d. Venus
9. Which planets' year is almost 84 Earth years long?
a. Uranus
b. Neptune
c. Mars
d. Mercury
10. Which planet is the largest in the Solar System?
a. Earth
b. Titan
c. Pluto
d. Jupiter
Answers: 1.b; 2.c; 3.d; 4.c;5.a;6.b;7.b;8.b;9.a;10.d
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Pluto?
Pluto, a basically unknown dwarf planet. There has not been a decent picture taken yet of the surface of Pluto. To me, that's highly surprising. BUT according to NASA, at least online, that's the case. So this means that the surface of Pluto is completely up in the air. If I was to create what the surface of Pluto would look like, I would make it look like this:
Actually, I didn't draw this and I don't think Pluto's surface looks like this. My friend drew this while I tried and failed at drawing the real surface of Pluto. So I know what I think Pluto looks like. I threw together something pretty basic on Paint to try to get my "surface of Pluto" to work. I think that the surface of Pluto is covered in craters, like our own Moon. I also think that there is ice in the craters. Here's a basic "replication" of the surface. Lovely, isn't it?
Actually, I didn't draw this and I don't think Pluto's surface looks like this. My friend drew this while I tried and failed at drawing the real surface of Pluto. So I know what I think Pluto looks like. I threw together something pretty basic on Paint to try to get my "surface of Pluto" to work. I think that the surface of Pluto is covered in craters, like our own Moon. I also think that there is ice in the craters. Here's a basic "replication" of the surface. Lovely, isn't it?
Sunday, June 16, 2013
The Sun - Observation
This picture may be hard to see, but this is a drawing of my observation of the sun. I had the chance to observe the sun through a telescope with a solar filter. It was really cool. It was a bright glowing disk of orange which looked slightly frayed at the edges where there were prominence's. There were also slightly darker lines in the middle where there were sun spots. It was a really neat experience to be able to see the sun like that.
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