From: Geoff Haines-Stiles
From: K12MAHHR@vaxc.hofstra.edu: Study this one for Clyde!
From: Jan Wee
From PHaddon@aol.com:GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS, PLEASE?
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From: Geoff Haines-Stiles
Dear Discussants,
Bill Gutsch, who's hard at work on astronomical activities for the LFHST Teacher's Guide (due Jan 96!), has these additional suggestions, in case you need more background on the planets we're discussing.
We hope this is of use. Remember, 2 weeks to D-Day!
Good luck. Stay Cool and Connected.
GEOFF HAINES-STILES
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JUPITER
Weatherwise, "Jupiter: Where the Weather Runs Wild", Oct/Nov 1991, pg 23-26
Astronomy, "Galileo at Jupiter", Jan 1996, pg 36-45
There are also lots of articles about the collision of Jupiter with Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 which talk about how the impacts affected Jupiter's atmosphere. These include:
Time, July 25, 1994, pg 57; Aug 1, 1994, pg 50-51
Newsweek, Aug 1, 1994, pg 60-62
US News & World Report, Aug 1, 1994, pg54-59
Odyssey, Oct 1994, pg 26-31
Astronomy, "Death of a Comet: Shoemaker-Levy 9", Oct 1994, pg 40-46
Sky & Telescope, "The Great Comet Crash of 1994: A First Report", Oct
1994, pg18-23; "The Great Dark Spots of Jupiter", Nov 1994, pg 30-34
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URANUS Weatherwise, "Uranus and Neptune: Weather at the Outer Limits", June/July 1992, pg 27-30
Odyssey, July/Aug 1993, pg 12-13; Oct 1994, pg 40-42
Astronomy, "Big Blue: The Twin Worlds of Uranus and Neptune", Oct 1990, pg 42-53
Sky & Telescope, "A Place Called Uranus", Apr 1986, pg 333-337
Science News, "Repaired Hubble Views Two Outer Planets", Nov 12, 1994, pg 312
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NEPTUNE
See articles that include Neptune above plus:
Astronomy, "Neptune Revealed", Dec 1989, pg22-34
Sky & Telescope, "Voyager's Last Picture Show", Nov 1989, pg 463-470; "Neptune and Triton: Worlds Apart", Feb 1990, pg 136-145
Scientific American, "Neptune", Nov 1989, pg 82-91
Science, "Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of Neptune's Cloud Structure in 1994", June 23, 1995, pg 1740-1742
Aviation Week & Space Technology, "Space Telescope Spies Storms on Neptune", Apr 24, 1995, pg 59
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PLUTO
Odyssey, Oct 1994, pg 2-5, 17, 18, 20-25, 32-33
Sky & Telescope, "Hunting the Last Planet", Apr 1990, pg 58-60: "Pluto's Icy Surface", Dec 1993, pg 10-11
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Plus, for a look at lots of neat HST images of the planets, see
Sky & Telescope, "Hubble's Worlds", Feb 1995, pg 20-25
Sky & Telescope, "A Cloudy Night in the Solar System", Mar 1995, pg 12-13
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EDWIN HUBBLE
Check out the new biography, "Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae" by Gale E. Christianson. Published by Farrar, Strause & Giroux, 1995. ISBN 0-374-14660-8 $25.00
You can also review the first chapter and the table of contents at
http://dab.pri.net/chapterone/astronomy
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And finally, if you're interested in how astronomers take and manipulate images of objects in space with the HST and other telescopes, check out
"Introduction to Astronomical Image Processing" by Richard Berry Kalmback Publishing Company 1-800-533-6644 $29.95 =+ $4.50 (s & h)
With this book and enclosed computer disk, you can turn your PC into an electronic darkroom and manipulate and enhance actual astronomical images like the HST scientists do.
GHS ADDS: WE PLAN TO HAVE IMAGE PROCESSING BE A MAJOR PART OF THE HST ACTIIVITIES, SUPPORTED BY PRINT AND ONLINE MATERIALS!
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From: K12MAHHR@vaxc.hofstra.edu: Study this one for Clyde!
Hi! It is the overwhelming opinion of the students in each of my 2 Astronomy classes here at Massapequa High School, Massapequa, Long Island, New York, that PLUTO be the planet to be observed by the HST. As we have noticed others have been writing, Pluto is the planet we know the least about and should get to know more about. Since it looks like a spacecraft may not be visiting the planet any time soon, it seems logical that HST turn its attention toward Pluto. It has the most eccentric orbit of any of the planets, why? It is the smallest planet, even smaller than our own Moon, yet it has its own natural satellite Charon. Strange! Some theories suggest it might have been a satellite of Neptune but broke away. Let's find out! It is classified as neither Jovian nor Terrestrial. Could it be related to comets? It is said to be "unimaginably cold." Just how cold is that? We're hoping an HST observation can clear up some of these questions. Besides, we'd like to "Observe this one for Clyde (Tombaugh)"
Raymond H. Hahn, Science Teacher
Massapequa High School
Massapequa, New York
email: K12MAHHR@VAXC.HOFSTRA.EDU
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From: Jan Wee
Dear discuss-hst members,
Just returned home within the last hour and found an amazing 161 e-mail messages awaiting. What a warm "welcome" back! My bags are stilled unpacked, but I must share with you the news that the Tel-Ed Conference was great. The Passport to Knowledge: Live From the Hubble session that Marc Siegel and I did was very well attended .... the room was FULL and our audience even clapped at the end. That is rare, belive me! We met many very excited educators who plan to join the LFHST project as soon as they return home. Expect our membership to continue to grow!
Thanks to Geoff Haines-Stiles, Executive Producer of Passport to Knowledge, for keeping the home fires burning and serving as interim moderator I was at Tel-Ed. We did have e-mail access, but the lines were deep and constant. UGH! You know how those technology conferences are... everyone wants access!
I plan to keep a running tally of input posted to discuss-hst and let our membership know where we stand on a regular basis (1-2 times per week). Sounds like we have heavy support for observing Pluto.... but we have 12 days to go!
I would like to extend a special welcome to our international member, Thomas Kraupe. It is very exciting to have global interaction in our forum. I know there are more international members on the list! Hope you will all share your introductions and thoughts in the very near future!
A special "Congrats!" to Roger Stryker! Very talented educators like Roger and the other teacher members of this list often gravitate to innovative, leading-edge projects like this one. It is not surprising to me to hear that "one of our own" was selected to receive this award. These are the folks who are the *movers and shakers* in their districts. We are ALL in VERY GOOD company. :-)
I have many personal messages from members of this list that I will process and respond to within the next day. Please feel free to contact me by phone if you have an urgent need. I promise to respond by Monday evening to each question/comment sent to my personal email account.
Time for more input from YOU....
Jan Wee, discuss-hst moderator
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From: "Thomas W. Kraupe" <100626.1077@compuserve.com>: "European" Intro and Info for Plutocrates
Dear LFHSTees,
with great excitement I am participating in LFHST. My name is Thomas Kraupe and I am living near Munich, Germany very close to the beautiful and now snowcovered mountains of the alpes. Managing Munich's rather new planetarium (opened in 1993), I am busy creating all kinds of multimedia-planetarium shows focussing on high-end current day astronomy and also arts&stars (poetry, live music, laser etc.). The cooperation and friendship with planetarians and scientists at other facilities in the US has always been an inspiring source for new concepts. My friend Dr. Jim Sweitzer, at CARA in Chicago, who had been working for LFA, put me into contact with Geoff Haines-Stiles. At LFS I had the opportunity to be at NASA Ames along with Dr.Gutsch during the broadcast. This experience really was an eye-opener and now I am working on LFHST and promote this project among astronomy educators in Europe (Wouldn't it be great if even school kids from Bosnia could reach out for the outer planets, joining us in the feeling that we live in one world, on one planet where children want to live in peace and cooperation across borders...).
LFHST was presented during last weeks inauguration of the "European Association of Astronomy Education (EAAE)" in Athens (Greece) and teachers from 17 European countries received an info sheet explaining how to participate and could see excerpts from "The Great Planet Debate" Although only a few schools have Internet access yet (less than 10% I guess in Germany...) and the curriculum is not very flexible, I do hope there will be some participation in the Planet Debate till Dec 15.. more will happen in the second phase - but we will be unable to receive NTV im Mid/Southern Europe. But chances are very good that we will have a European feed for the live-broadcast and a european-wide broadcast of the events and we are working on that (You know that HST is a joint NASA-ESA project - more info about European LFHST broadcast will be announced soon) I would like to find out if there are already some Europeans listening/participating in our discussion group - please speak up: AM I NOT ALONE?
How to get a vote from school kids at a planetarium? Well - since Munich planetarium is rather big, we are not in a typical classroom situation - but we can use our interactive system's responder boxes integrated into the amrests of our 275 seats. Since we have the show "Through the Eyes of Hubble" still playing, we will ask the kids after this show which planet LFHST should choose - it is exciting to see the voting being projected on the planetarium dome with our Video/dataprojectors. We store them on our harddisk and can combine them into a final vote from school kids coming from all over Bavaria. The same we will do after our weekly "what's up?" liveshow, which will feature LFHST in the next few weeks - we will project older HST-images of the planets of choice to explain what HST could look for. In addition we show the latest deep sky images of their choice from the internet (connected to the same projectors). I know from Bill Gutsch that Pittsburgh's Buhl planetarium is doing a similar kind of voting and I am very interested what results will come out and how this worked in any other planetarium.
Which planet finally will be chosen - well, I am very stimulated by the discussions and I may add some rather personal remarks. Thinking about striking images I would personally go for Jupiter which offers a universe of splendid things to look at in itself ...and Galileo joins HST.. on the other hand - it would be exciting to know how the rings of Uranus may have evolved meanwhile...or how many new storms are on Neptune... the issue might be what you look for in detail so that it makes sense scientifically to spend precious HST-time there. It will just be a snapshot, frozen in time which can be interpreted by combining it with images taken earlier or by other observatories/spacecrafts. Well, I am convinced this discussion group will do a great job and continue argueing about these "Rolling Rocks and Gases".
I did not forget Pluto - Just got an interesting info from Rob Landis about an article which I think should be of interest to the Plutocrates (about the planned space mission to Pluto) which I include below. Hope you enjoyed my rather lenghty intro -
looking forward to our mission
Regards from across the ocean of Planet 3
Thomas W. Kraupe
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Thomas W. Kraupe, Director
Forum der Technik Planetarium, Munich
Museumsinsel 1
D-80538 Muenchen
Fax: +49-89-21125 255
Phone: +49-89-21125 250
e-mail: 100626.1077@compuserve.com
or tkraupe@eso.org
Homepage at fdt@trans.net
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From: PHaddon@aol.com: GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS, PLEASE?
Hi Fellow DISCUSS-HSTers-
How about identifying your geographic location when you send in your class' PLANET CHOICE. I'd like to have my kids be able to really visualize and experience the global nature of this project by placing markers on a wall map (I was going to use a U.S. map but the WELCOME ADDITION of Germany and, hopefully, others from the national community to LfHST, requires a WORLD MAP. Wow - I am in awe...) as the votes come in.
MANY THANKS!
Pat Haddon
Summit Middle School
Summit, NJ
