Astronomy day 2

Astronomy day 2September 4 and 5AgendaSyllabusHouse keepingFoldersNotebook checks and turn in proceduresLearning logsRules and proceduresScale of the Universe-engage activityScientific Notation reviewHomework Scientific notation

Science is Awesome!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=akek6cFRZfY

Symphony of Sciencehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnWm6UsX-OM

Mrs. PainterMy degrees are a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Arts in Zoology and a Masters Degree in Education. I am a National Board Certified teacher.Astronomy is a great interest for me and I am very excited about it!!!!I am married with two children who are 13 years old and 11 years old. A cat, dog, two chickens and two fish.I am a musician (singer, flute and piccolo)My Philosophy on Education: There is always more to learn.I love Teaching and I love science!!! Something that might not come up: I taught at the Washington Aerospace Scholars and I encourage all Juniors to apply. I was a candidate for the teacher in space program and for the Einstein fellowship in Washington DC.

Tonights Sky8:30 pmSummer Triangle overhead -try to identify Vega, Altair and Deneb in the South eastFind Mars and Saturn on the horizon in the South westFind Andromeda in the East risingArcturus bright star about 1/3 up in the sky in constellation Bootes (looks like a kite5:30 AM (tomorrow morning)Jupiter is due East about a fist above the horizonVenus is on the horizon just north of eastSouth east is Orions belt find Betelgeuse and Rigel

September 6International Observe the moon day. So take a look at the moon, learn something new about the moon or just howl at the moon tomorrow night.

Scale of the UniverseHow big is big? How small is small?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U

http://scaleofuniverse.com/

Instructions for Scale of the Universe activity:

You will be given a tab for an object in our universe. Think about the size of your object and align yourself with your classmates in the back of the roomSmallest object should be closest to the Astronomy bulletin board. Largest objects should be closest to the sinks.Answers to the correct orderProton radiusRadius of Nucleus of gold atomRadius of Hydrogen atomDNA HelixVirus lengthBacterium lengthWidth of a Human hairRadius of a pin headOne inchOne footHuman heightBasketball courtFootball fieldDistance of sound travel in one secondOne mileHeight of Mount EverestAltitude of GLAST orbitRadius of the Moon

Radius of EarthRadius of JupiterMoons orbitEarths orbitPlutos orbitOort CloudDistance to Sirus Distance to HD70642Distance to Crab PulsarDistance to Galactic CenterRadius of Milky Way GalaxyDistance to LMCDistance to AndromedaRadius of Virgo Super clusterDistance to AGN 3C 273Distance to GRB 990123Observable universe10Some explanationAltitude of GLAST--GLAST is an Earth orbiting space telescopeAn atom has a small, dense nucleus composed of neutrons and protons.The radius of a circle is its diameterOur Suns diameter (1,380,000 km) is roughly 1.8 times longer than our moons orbit diameterAll Solar system objects, from planets in our solar system to far-out comets, are bound by gravity to our massive sun/star. Radius of the Oort cloud is determined to be the far reaches of our suns gravitational pull On a clear dark night, we can see a few thousand star/suns in our immediate neighborhood with the naked eye. Our star neighborhood spirals with billions of other stars in our home Milky Way galaxy. Sirius, HD70642 , the crab pulsar (a collapsed star core) and our sun all orbit the center of the Milky way Our Milky Way circles with numerous neighboring galaxies ( like the Large Magellanic Cloud and Andromeda )to form a Local Group.Our Local Group rotates near the outer edge of many other groups of galaxies with the Virgo Group near its center. This huge, gravitationally bound group of galaxy groups is called the Virgo Supercluster.The Virgo Supercluster floats like a piece of dust among 100 billion other galaxies that comprise the observable universe. GRB 990123 is an event rather than an object. GRB is Gamma Ray Burst and occurred Jan. 23, 1999. The flash was the energy of a billion billion suns (10^18).AGN 3C273 is an active Galactic Nucleus and has the energy of a trillion suns (10^e12) and the energy lasts billions of years

Scale of the Universehttp://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120312.html

Large scale structure of the universehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJpC_oQQxPIThis is a five minute large-scale structure of the Universe shown in 3 different scientific observation projects Sloan (Digital Sky Survey), Millenium (3D model of the universe) and Filaments grown process simulation.A detailed look at the universe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IVqMXPFYwI&list=RDVJpC_oQQxPI&index=2

Exit noteWhich is larger, Mars or the Moon?Which is larger, a galaxy or a super cluster?Which is larger the Solar System or an Oort Cloud?Homework: Finish using a log scale activity, research and add at least three interesting distances to your log scale. Work on Scientific notation worksheet.