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What’s new in the Universe?

What’s new in the Universe?. Lawrence Rudnick Anoka-Hennepin : Aug. 29, 2007. A quick look back Short looks: New Science & New Toys A few special stories Extrasolar planets Whither Pluto? The biggest nothing in the Universe. The PLAN. Resources & the Planetarium.

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What’s new in the Universe?

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  1. What’s new in the Universe? Lawrence Rudnick Anoka-Hennepin : Aug. 29, 2007

  2. A quick look back Short looks: New Science & New Toys A few special stories Extrasolar planets Whither Pluto? The biggest nothing in the Universe The PLAN • Resources & the Planetarium

  3. A quick look back:VOYAGER

  4. QUICK LOOKS : SCIENCE A hexagon in Saturn’s atmosphere

  5. DRY MARS and the Sun?

  6. and then, a little surprise

  7. Earth from space

  8. Deep Impact 4 July, 2006

  9. Bullet cluster – dark matter

  10. Birth of a new solar cycle

  11. Supernova element factories, but where’s the dust?

  12. Here! Cassiopeia A supernova remnant www.spitzer.caltech.edu/about/now.shtml movie

  13. QUICK LOOKS : a few NEW TOYS Large Binocular Telescope – UM partner Pan-STARRS OPTICAL

  14. ALMA RADIO

  15. AUGER COSMIC RAY

  16. ICE CUBE NEUTRINOS

  17. Constellations – Orion DAWN

  18. WHITHER PLUTO? Clyde Tombaugh – discovery 1930

  19. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft carries a small aluminum canister containing some of Tombaugh's cremated remains. Launched Jan 19, 2006 towards Pluto. P.I. Alan Stern. Will arrive at Pluto in 2015.

  20. long an oddity

  21. THE OLD STORY: Has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape. Pluto, and many others yet to be discovered are true planets.

  22. THE NEW DEAL: A full fledged planet must control its local orbit and sweep it clean of smaller objects. A ‘Dwarf Planet” (new category) is ‘round’, but is part of a swarm or does not dominate its orbit. Pluto is now a Dwarf Planet and the prototype of a subclass of Dwarf Planets yet to be given a name.

  23. Minnesota IR Group

  24. Characterize the time for an object to clear its neighborhood. Stern & Levison, 2002 Λ = T/ = kM2/P • T = Hubble Time • = ‘clearing time’ M = Object Mass P = Orbital Period Steven Soter, ApJ

  25. The Biggest Nothingin the Universe

  26. WILKINSONMicrowave Anisotropy Probe

  27. NVSS Survey –radio galaxies

  28. http://haydenplanetarium.org/universe/download http://www.sssim.com/en/product/studio/download.html http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html http://www.space.com http://www.spaceweather.com/ http://www.ipy.org http://www.mplanetarium.org Some resources...

  29. Minnesota PLANETARIUM& Space Discovery Center

  30. Planetarium Facility ☼Star Theater ☼North Star Observatory ☼ Live Earth Globe ☼Earth & Space Exposition Hall

  31. Star Theater –a sneak preview ...

  32. ExploraDome

  33. ExploraDome programs – middle school Interactive Explorations (using Uniview – 3D interactive atlas of universe) – sample topics Earth Science – using near real time NASA satellite data, explore ongoing changes in weather, climate, land and ocean surfaces, atmospheric chemistry Moon phases, Seasons on Earth, and Eclipses Life in the Universe (special nature of Earth, possibilities of life on moons, extrasolar planets, etc) Journey from Earth to the Edge of the Universe – student-guided tour The Night Sky – planets, constellations, Moon Programs based on Minnesota Academic standards and tailored to group’s level and interests, based on pre-visit consultations with teacher.

  34. ExploraDome programs – middle school Full Dome Video Shows Passport to the Universe, produced by the American Museum of Natural History and narrated by Tom Hanks. An incredible journey from our home planet and the Milky Way galaxy to the edge of the Universe. Audiences (20 min) The Search for Life: Are We Alone?, produced by AMNH and narrated by Harrison Ford. (20min) Listening to the Northern Lights. Experience the sights and sounds (chirps, pops, etc) of the Aurora Borealis that play out when the Earth's Magnetic Field interacts with the Sun. (10 minutes) Exploring the Arctic (several programs based on research voyages exploring changes due to global climate change). Field Trip to the Moon, developed by the AMNH and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, being piloted by Minnesota Planetarium Society. Guided by a presenter, students will launch on a NASA rocket, orbit the Earth, and experience a journey through the hazards of space to orbit and land on the Moon.

  35. MAKE CONTACT In 2015?- New Horizons arrives at Pluto In 2061? – Comet Haley returns

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