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Kick off Questions

Kick off Questions. Discuss at your table and be ready to defend your answer --which is larger the Solar System or an Oort Cloud? Homework reminder from last week: Investigate the size of your object in metric measurements. 9/9/13

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Kick off Questions

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  1. Kick off Questions • Discuss at your table and be ready to defend your answer --which is larger the Solar System or an Oort Cloud? Homework reminder from last week: Investigate the size of your object in metric measurements.

  2. 9/9/13 Learning Target: To Understand Scientific Notation and be able to apply to understand astronomical sizes and distances. Astronomy day 3

  3. Agenda • Kick off Question and learning target • Four best reasons to take Astronomy for college credit and note to parents. Astronomy for credit information letter • Submit your sizes of your object • Scientific Notation Notes • Scientific notation worksheet • Stellarium and Astronomy 101 website

  4. 4 best Reasons to take Astronomy 101 for college credit: • You love Astronomy and want to pursue Astronomy as your field of study • You love science and would love to start out your college career at a higher level of science • You are a non-science major who needs to get a science credit out of the way so you can concentrate on your area of interest. • You want to save money on college tuition by getting some of your college credits early

  5. Proton • Oxygen nucleus 10 -15 m (fm) • Oxygen atom 180 pm • Red blood cell 7microm • Eyelash 7mm • Pupil of your eye 10 mm • Arm’s reach 1.4m • Ferris wheel 40 m • Meteor crater in AZ 1200 m • Hudson bay 1370 km • Port Orchard • Pluto • USA • Our moon 4000 km. • Mercury • Titan • Ganymede • Mars 6779 km • Earth 149x10 6 km • Jupiter 80,000 km • Moon’s orbit • ProximaCentauri 201,695 km • Sun • Earth’s orbit 940 x10 6 km • Solar system 4.5 billion km • VY CanisMajoris • Kuiper belt 55 AU • Cat’s Eye Nebula 4 LY • Oortcloud • Pillar’s of Creation • Eagle nebula • Milky way galaxy110,00 LY • Our stellar neighborhood 250 LY • Our local group of galaxies 10 MILL LY • Virgo Super cluster 33 MPC • Observable universe 28 BILL pc

  6. Some fields of study that needs or can use an Astronomy course: Astronomer Geophysics Science Education Elementary School teacher Physicist Engineering Rocketry Mechanical Engineering Computers Technology Mathematics

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