From: Jan Wee <jwee@mail.arc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Clyde Tombaugh, list activity, list problems
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 11:19:50 -0600
Dear discuss-lfm members, Many of you are past Passport to Knowledge electronic field trip participants and may even have participated in the 90th Birthday Celebration event which was a part of the Live From the Hubble Space Telescope project. We had a great time celebrating with Clyde (see the LFHST web site for pictures of the kids presenting their special cards last February). I thought you might appreciate seeing this posting below from PTK Advocate Teacher from Georgia, Charlotte Stevens. On another note, this list has been fairly quiet as we are in the interim period between our live telecasts (Countdown aired November 19, 1996; next program "Cruising Between the Planets" airs April 24th, 1997). The Planet Explorer Toolkit debate is ongoing now through March via the debate-lfm mail list, but if you are not subscribed to that list you will not see the online activity. You are welcome to monitor that list! You are encouraged to continue to use this forum to discuss Live From Mars concerns, issues, bounce ideas around and tap each other's experiences and skills. You may not be aware that another PTK project, Live From Antarctica 2, is now currently active with three live telecasts from Antarctica set for 13:00-14:00 EST (carried on NASA-TV and PBS's main satellite, Telstar 402 R and many PBS stations around the country) on January 23, January 30, and February 6th. Our newly designed web site is expanding daily: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica2 Please visit! We think you will find that LFA 2 provides students with an exciting "over-the-shoulder" view of life as a research scientist aboard the Research Vessel, Polar Duke and at Palmer Station. The focus is marine biology with a close up look at penguin and seal colonies and rookeries and ecology issues of Antarctica. Complete program overviews are available at our web site as well as our online Teacher's Guide. We have had some *glitchy* list problems with folks being dropped off the discuss-lfm unintentionally. If you suspect that you have been dropped from the list (because you are receiving virtually zero messages) please be sure to re-subscribe to discuss-lfm by sending a message to: listmanager@quest.arc.nasa.gov Leave the subject blank. In the message body, write: subscribe discuss-lfm Send your message. You should receive a confirmation message that you have been added (or that you are already subscribed). You can always check the archive of the discuss-lfm postings by visiting the LFM web site at http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars and selecting the Teacher's Lounge icon on the home page. >From there select the discussion forum archives. Sincerely, Jan Wee, moderator of discuss-lfm Sincerely, Jan Wee, moderator of discuss-lfm >>>>>CHARLOTTE'S MESSAGE ABOUT CLYDE TOMBAUGH >From owner-share-nasa@quest.arc.nasa.gov Tue Jan 21 05:28:56 1997 >Return-Path: <owner-share-nasa@quest.arc.nasa.gov> >Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 08:30:25 -30000 >From: Charlotte Stevens <cstevens@trms.k12.fulton.ga.net> >Subject: Clyde Tombaugh >To: ptk-advocate@quest.arc.nasa.gov >Sender: owner-share-nasa@quest.arc.nasa.gov >Reply-To: Charlotte Stevens <cstevens@trms.k12.fulton.ga.net> > >I know many of you were saddened to hear that Clyde Tombaugh, the person >who discovered Pluto, passed away over the holiday. He became "real" to me >through my experiences last year with Passport to Knowledge, when >students sent him birthday cards. He was ninety when he died and was only >24 when he made his discovery! > >Charlotte Stevens >8th grade teacher >Taylor Road Middle School >Alpharetta, Georgia USA > >URL:http://trms.k12.ga.net/~cstevens/ > >