It’s Only Orbits, On Any Other Planet, it Would be Different
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Pluto Flyby June 14, 2015
Planisphere - choose for your Latitude (the Equator is 0 degrees, the further North or South, the greater the number)
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Saw this solar telescope in action recently...
They don't show you the 'built in sun finder' - one of the coolest things about a telescope I've ever seen. You line up the dot in the finder and look through the scope and the sun is right there!
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Tovolo Rocket Ice Pop Molds,
Set of 6
Tovolo Star Ice Pop Mold
Pam- this is AWESOME!!!! May I use it in my classroom?
Of course you may Joanne! Share with anyone you like. We’ll be making improvements and we have some other ideas too. When that happens, I’ll let you know!
Thanks!
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Neat! This would be especially fun for kids…
We’ll be sharing on the Carnival of Space this week. Feel free to share with anyone you know who might enjoy this!
Thanks Steve!
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Hi Pam,
I live in NH, I couldn’t find any cool meetup group like yours, so I was trying to join you on meetup. Meantime I found this website. I must tell you that I loved your website. Recently I have been fascinated by astronomy. I started to thing what it could be out there? That has inspired me joining you on meetup.
This tool based on date of birth is cool. As I understand, year is orbital period of a plant moving in its orbit around the Sun. My question to you in that respect is, when you calculate year of that planet, don’t you then the days also should be shown in respect to that planet? For example “Mercury: you are nnn years and ppp.pp Earth days old.” but actually the term should be “Mercury: you are nnn years and ppp.pp Mercury days old.” This is just what I think, I am not a astronomy expert, just started thinking (not reading) about it. Could you please let me know if I am right or wrong.
Thank you
Hem
Hey Hem!
I sent your message along to our experts to learn more. Donald lives in NH and Jeff wrote the program that returns back the orbits.
If you don’t hear from them soon, let me know and I’ll ask them for help again!
Glad you are enjoying our Everyday Spacer online resources. You are welcome to join the meetup nearest you. We are working on our own events to provide a profit to keep expanding our meetups to bring one (or more) to a city near you!
One thing I know is that Mercury orbits the Sun every 88 of our days. We use our ‘day’ because a ‘day’ on Mercury is over one hundred of our days long.
“Mercury is gravitationally locked and rotates in a way that is unique in the Solar System. As seen relative to the fixed stars, it rotates on its axis exactly three times for every two revolutions it makes around the Sun.[c][13] As seen from the Sun, in a frame of reference that rotates with the orbital motion, it appears to rotate only once every two Mercurian years. An observer on Mercury would therefore see only one day every two years.” ~Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_%28planet%29
You pose an excellent question because when we get out there to live, work and play beyond the influence of the Earth, how will we count such things as days and years? That is something we must figure out at some point.
Come back any time and let other people know that they can personally and directly get involved with space and astronomy and we can show you how!
Pam Hoffman
EverydaySpacer at gmail dot com
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Nice little web app. It can give children a personal connection to the Universe.
Thanks Matthew! I think it will give anyone another way to think about things. The personal connection is certainly part of our mission!
Pam Hoffman
EverydaySpacer at gmail dot com
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Can any one explain the ‘three body problem’ for the layperson?
Great stuff, Pam! Now I don’t feel bad about my age anymore. Instead, I feel terrible!! :D
Aww, that’s not what I intended!
Here’s how this came about…
A friend mentioned that his birthday was coming and his wife loved to celebrate and he hated it. I suggested ‘tell her that if she can figure out when your next birthday on Jupiter is, you’ll celebrate it’ which he loved!
That reminded me of something I found at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, CA, USA. They have all these ‘scales’ and when you step on them, you get your ‘weight’ on the various planets. I recommend Mars. ;)
The ‘app’ Jeff created for me is the simplest thing we could do along those lines – calculate the orbits of each planet against how old you are on Earth.
I like the last few because you get an actual count of how many days you’ve lived. If you reach ‘1 year old’ on them, you are really up there!
Feel free to pick your favorite! If you like birthdays, perhaps you’d like Mercury or Venus and if you really hate birthdays, pick something out past Earth. Have fun!
Pam Hoffman
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