...Ever since I was 8 years old, I have loved learning about the reason behind stars and the night sky. My dad took me to a sky show at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center and I was immediately smitten with it. I would gaze at projected speckles of light on the dome’s screen in awe and fascination as the professor would spit out information like poetry to the audience. I drank it all in with a ferocious desire to learn. Maybe it was the inviting darkness that beheld all its secrets to us that made me eager to learn, or maybe it was the way the presenter would speak passionately about the sky with such devotion and fondness. Either way, those shows sparked a newfound love within me, and the next time I went I was prepared. Like the tech-savvy 8-year...
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...AST 201 – Term Project Plan Due: On Portal on February 8, 2016 Final Due Date: March 25, 2016 Late submissions will be penalized 20% per calendar day. Learning Goals 1. To explore an issue in astronomy which is of interest to you personally. 2. To explore a significant discovery or controversy in the history of astronomy. 3. To develop your confidence in your ability to communicate scientific concepts clearly, in non-technical language. Project Description There are two possible project topics and three possible formats. The possible topics are: 1. Important Observation: Identify and explain a candidate for the most important astronomical observation made prior to the year 2000. 2. Controversy: Identify a significant scientific controversy from either the past or the present of astronomy, explain why it was a controversy, and how it was resolved (if it has been). The possible formats for the project are: 1. Podcast-style audio clip 2. Poster 3. Video You will need to choose one topic to research and one format in which to present your results. Project Topics Your project topic must be directly related to AST 201. There are many topics in astronomy that are not directly related to this course. AST 201 focuses on stars, galaxies, black holes, and the universe as a whole. Thus, topics related mainly to planets, exoplanets, and solar system objects (such as moons, asteroids, and comets) would...
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...their origins in Western-traditional asterisms from which the constellations take their names. When astronomers say something is “in” a given constellation they mean it is within those official boundaries. There are 88 officially recognized constellations, covering the entire sky[1] which have grown from the 48 classical Greek constellations laid down by Ptolemy in the Almagest. Out of these 88 constellations, 12 compose the zodiac signs. Thus, any given point in a celestial coordinate system can unambiguously be assigned to a constellation. It is usual in astronomy to give the constellation in which a given object is found along with its coordinates in order to convey a rough idea in which part of the sky it is located. Contents [hide] * 1Terminology * 2History * 2.1Ancient near East * 2.2Chinese astronomy * 2.3Indian astronomy * 2.4Classical antiquity * 2.5Islamic astronomy * 2.6Early Modern era * 3IAU constellations * 4Asterisms * 5Ecliptic coordinate systems * 6Dark cloud...
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...SWOT Analysis: Buena Vista Museum Strength (Internal) * Buena Vista museum has Anatomy, Astronomy, Archeology, Anthropology, Biology, and Geology and different types of since that makes the museum distinguish from other museum in the city. * The museum is offering camping trips during the summer for kids, so these trips help children to learn and explore the world of science. * The museum provides many different activities for children such as tour inside the museum, workshops, and classroom presentation. * The museum has unique specimens of Shark Tooth Hill. * The Buena Vista Museum considers one of the important keys of educational institutions. * Local store. * Enthusiastic and helpful employees. * Wide range of national and international animal mounts. These collections from Australia, Africa, Asia, and North America. SWOT Analysis: Buena Vista Museum Weakness (Internal) * As a result of the survey, many people who live in Bakersfield don’t know much about this museum. * Lack of parking spaces, people who visit the museum, they parked their car far a way from the museum. * Lacks of sustainability, people drop memberships when their children grow up. * Lack of funding, the museum doesn’t receive any fund from city, state or federal sources. * Lack of staffs and volunteers that make it difficult for the museum to improve their marketing strategy. * Insufficient of school participation. * Tagline doesn’t...
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...Channel and Pricing Strategies Majesty Anderson, Yvonne Davis, Benjamin Holbert & Shawn Hicks Marketing 571 Judy Allen December 17, 2011 Kathy Kudler recently had a business meeting with a top distribution company in Italy that is well known for leading grocery value in sales. Selex a well known grocery distribution company would like to get into the franchising business. Selex is impressed with Kudler’s dominant positioning in Brazil and would like to market and franchise a café known for gourmet cuisines. Selex believes that an upscale café would cater to the market looking for more than just great coffee. According to Country Report on Grocery Retailers in Italy, consumers are likely to remain value-focused and will look to channels and retailers which can provide them with high quality and low-cost products in grocery and household essentials that can be easily obtained. Consumers are faced with shopping in more than one store to provide all items and services needed. Selex feels that with the Café and all the accommodations that Kudler will provide for customers that the Italian market will embrace a one stop grocery store. Pricing Pricing is vital to a company’s growth because it is the only element in the marketing mix that produces revenue. Determining the correct price of a product or service is a complex and difficult task, especially when conducting business in foreign countries. Kudler Foods has decided to accept Selex...
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...Technology’s Impact on Astronomy The earliest accounts of religious beliefs and cultures were formed from the sky, ancient explorers studied the stars to discover new lands, and scientific philosophers observed the universe to develop theories and laws of science. Astronomy, the oldest of the natural sciences, has inspired many since the beginning of human existence. Today, technology has advanced humanity to the point that it is part of daily life. The modern advancements in technology have impacted astronomers by increasing the accessibility of exploration, aiding the ability share and study research with agencies all across the world, and helps provide a stronger understanding of the universe for the public’s knowledge. Since space exploration...
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.... . . . . . I.1 What is technology? Think for a moment what it might be like to live in the 14th century. Image that you could travel back in time and found yourself in a small European village in 1392. What do you think you would find? How would you cook your food? Would you use an oven, a fire, or a microwave? How would you eat your food? Do you think you could use a plastic cup to drink your milk? How would you go from one city to the next? Could you get on a train or would you have to walk or ride a horse? How would you send a her or call her on your cell phone? message to your mom telling her you’ll be late for dinner? Can you email How would you get your clothes? Can you shop at a 14th century mall, or on the internet? And what would your clothes be made of? Technology Level I Introduction 3 Do you think you could find pink spandex shorts or would they have to be made of brown cotton? Think for a moment how different everything would be if you were to live in the 14th century. Many of the items you use today are a result of technology. Your cell phone, microwave oven, washing machine, and plastic cup are all the result of scientific discoveries combined with engineering that have allow people to invent products that have improved the way people live. Technological advances have improved our health, the food we eat, the clothes we wear, how we travel, and how we communicate with one another. There are a few drawbacks to some aspects...
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...Introduction. TECHNOLOGY ! I.1 What is technology? I.2 First Inventors I.3 How science affects technology I.4 Discussion questions I.1 What is technology? Think for a moment what it might be like to live in the 14th century. Image that you could travel back in time and found yourself in a small European village in 1392. What do you think you would find? How would you cook your food? Would you use an oven, a fire, or a microwave? How would you eat your food? Do you think you could use a plastic cup to drink your milk? How would you go from one city to the next? Could you get on a train or would you have to walk or ride a horse? How would you send a message to your mom telling her you’ll be late for dinner? Can you email her or call her on your cell phone? Do you think you could find pink spandex shorts or would they have to be made of brown cotton? Think for a moment how different everything would be if you were to live in the 14th century.Many of the items you use today are a result of technology. Your cell phone, microwave oven, washing machine, and plastic cup are all the result of scientific discoveries combined with engineering that have allow people to invent products that have improved the way people live. Technological advances have improved our health, the food we eat, the clothes we wear, how we travel, and how we communicate with one another. There are a few drawbacks to some aspects of technology but overall technology has greatly improved many...
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...Astronomy Web Quest Task #1: 1) - You will begin your web quest by learning how to identify stars by their magnitude, color, and temperature, and spectral class. Go to Stars: Lights in The Sky (http://www.seasky.org/celestial-objects/stars.html) and write out the answers to the following questions. --Name the brightest star in the known universe. --What is its magnitude? --Are the brightest stars low magnitude or high magnitude? --How much does the brightness of a star change with each change in magnitude of one? 2) - Do a search on the Internet for "brightest stars" and make a top 10 list of the names of the 10 brightest stars in the known universe and their magnitude. [List on back of paper] 3) - Finally, design a colored diagram that displays the colors of the hottest stars on the left to the coolest stars on the right. Stars are grouped into spectral classes based on a range of temperatures they fall into. Label the spectral classes (O, B, A, F, G, K, M) appropriately under each star color in your diagram. To complete Task #1, Come up with a clever sentence or phrase (the first letter of each word in your phrase is one spectral class letter) to help you remember the order of the spectral classes and write it under your diagram on your paper. Answer the following few more questions. - What color is the brightest star? - What color is the coolest star? -What color is our sun? -What spectral class of stars is the hottest? -What spectral...
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...different ways. Greece influenced, science, democracy, art, and philosophy. A lot of what the ancient Greeks have discovered and learned is still used today in the western world. The sciences in ancient Greece have influenced the western world. Beginning with Thales of Miletus who lived approximately from 640-610 to 548-545 BC. Thales of Miletus brought Phoenician navigational techniques into Miletus. Thales also had revised the calendar. Using Babylonian mathematical knowledge he used geometry to solve problems like calculating the height of pyramids and distances from a ship to the shore. He also studied astronomy in Babylonia, and predicted an eclipse of the sun. He is also credited with the discovery of the electrical properties of amber also known as “electron”. Pythagoras, who lived from 569 to 475 BC, he was a Greek philosopher and mathematician. He studied astronomy, logistics and geometry. He founded the Mystic Pythagorean Cult, devoted to the study of numbers. They found that numbers were the principle of all proportion, order, and harmony in the universe. Pythagoras also investigated the ratios of lengths corresponding to musical harmonies, and developed methods of geometric proof. The Pythagorean theorem was his great discovery in geometry. Pythagoreans were the first to consider the earth as a globe that revolved around other planets. He put a mathematical equation to make sense of the universe. Democritus lived from 460 BC to 370 BC he was a pre-Socratic Greek materialist...
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...newer advances are happening by the day. Technological change is in large part responsible for many of the secular trends in such basic parameters of the human condition as the size of the world population, life expectancy, education levels, material standards of living, and the nature of work, communication, health care, war, and the effects of human activities on the natural environment. Technological development has provided human history with a kind of directionality. 1) Without the needed technology a lot of people would struggle with their health. In addition it saves many innocent lives; 2) Technological advancements have shown a substantial growth concerned with each and every field whether it be the communication systems, astronomy, semiconductor devices, automobiles, electronic devices of daily usage, bio-electronic devices, building and architectural design techniques or the computers; 3) The advancements are also...
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...The E uropean S pace A gency Europe has ‚ever since’ been actively involved in spaceflight and it still launches satellites for observation, navigation, telecommunications and astronomy. Furthermore, the European Space Agency sends probes to space and cooperates in the human exploration of space. Space is very important for Europe, it provides essential information to decisionmakers to respond to global challenges. Outer space helps us to understand our planet as well as the universe and provides us with indispensable information. According to scientists our solar system emerged more than 4600 million years ago. Since then we could observe a different evolution of its planets and moons. Space companies from all over the world have set scientific goals to find out how our earth works, and whether life on Mars ever existed or maybe is still active. Nowadays this is one of the most important questions, not only because mankind is preparing human exploration of the Red Planet. After the Big Bang, 15 billion years ago, the universe was extremely hot. As we know today, matter did not exist at that time. The process that led protons and electrons to form into stars, galaxies and eventually living creatures, still remains largely unknown. Space telescopes such as Hubble and ESA’s XMM-Newton and Integral are constantly studying the universe behind the visible light, observing and monitoring objects with extreme density, gravity and temperature. As we know, satellites...
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...ASTR 105 Astrobiology Online Professor Annette Lee St. Cloud State University Dept. of Physics, Astronomy and Engineering Science 314 Wick Science Building 720 Fourth Avenue Saint Cloud, MN 56031-4498 Contact Information: Email: aslee@stcloudstate.edu Contacting the instructor: Please post questions related to this course (grades, assignments, drop deadlines, specific homework questions, exams, deadlines, etc.) at the D2L Discussion Board. If you have details you wish to keep private in your question, you may email the instructor at aslee@stcloudstate.edu, but the D2L Discussion Board is the preferred method for asking questions about the course. Office Hours by email as needed daily. Pre-requisites: None, but you will need to do basic arithmetic and algebra in this course. Required Textbooks: 1) Life in the Universe, Bennett, 3rd edition, ISBN-9780321687678. This book is your main instructional resource - be sure to read all of the assigned chapters. ***You do NOT need the access code. You do NOT need the latest edition. Other required materials: Regular and reliable Internet access to complete assignments. Grades: Grades will be determined from scores achieved on TESTS, QUIZZES & ACTIVITIES. The lowest 25 % of Quizzes & Activities will be dropped. Work Percent of Final Grade Best 3 out of 4 Test scores 50% Reading Quizzes (Best 75%) 25% Activity scores (Best 75%) 25% Total 100% The basic grading scale is: 100 –90 A 89 – 80 B 79...
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...Alfred wegener's ideas came from his father Richard Wegener. His father, Richard Wegener, was a classical languages teacher and pastor, but talked about science all the time with Alfred. Even tho his dad taught language arts he still talked about other subjects which influenced Alfred. His mom on the other hand was a classic housewife. She listened to her husband talk to Alfred about all subjects. We know what we know today from the science books, the internet, and secondary sources. Instead of using tools Alfred went to Alexander DuToit. Alexander Logie du Toit FRS was a geologist from South Africa, and an early supporter of Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift. He studied geology at Royal Technical College in Glasgow, Scotland. When Alfred Wegener wasn't so sure about his work he went to Alexander for more help. If it came down to it and they both needed more research they would go out and research together. Alfred could have changed many things today, like having a little more background information. He encountered many difficulties with people not believing...
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...Tristan Waters Tuesday 9:35-12:35 30 August 2015 Astronomy on the Internet In this lab report I have three objectives. The first will be to find and record information on a specific telescope/observatory. Next will be to describe an astronomical image and explain its interest. Lastly is to find and describe the events of a space mission. Though there are thousands of observatories/telescopes all around the world and after several minutes of researching I have chosen but one, the NAOJ Hawaii Observatory. It is located in Mauna Kea, Hawaii. This particular observatory is home to the Subaru Telescope and is operated by the National Institutes of Natural Sciences. The Subaru Telescope is one of the world’s largest and most advanced telescopes. It is 22.2 meters tall, 27.2 meters wide and weighs 555 metric tons. The Subaru Telescope’s main focus is in optical and infrared imaging. The telescope has been used to find many galaxies and has captured images all across the universe. One such image captured was the moment when a probe from the NASA spacecraft Deep Impact crashed into Comet Tempel 1 in July 2005. The Subaru Telescope has made several great discoveries and because of its open use program, which allows astronomer from throughout the world have access to it. Using telescopes scientist are able to capture images from across the universe. One such images is of an asteroid that was slowly breaking down into several pieces as it neared the sun. In the image an asteroid...
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