Welcome back!!! This week's problem used data from the new STEREO satellite to investigate an unusual phenomenon: Problem 116...
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Sten Odenwald
odenwald@...
Jan 15, 2008 4:34 pm
Hi Again! This weeks problem 'CME Kinetic Energy and Mass' has students fill-in the missing entries in a table that presents some of the masses, speeds and ...
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Lou Mayo
aikiastronomer
Jan 19, 2008 3:45 pm
ASAC'ers, Dorian Janney (Science Educator - Parkland Middle School Astronomy Club) and I will be attending the Barrow Alaska Polar Gateway / Polar Sunrise...
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Lou Mayo
aikiastronomer
Jan 20, 2008 3:49 am
Live From Barrow Alaska - Polar Sunrise January 24th from 2:30-3:30 pm (ET) http://dln.nasa.gov Our team is headed to the Artic Circle for the sunrise....
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Sten Odenwald
odenwald@...
Jan 24, 2008 2:22 pm
Hi Everyone! Sorry for the long delay...I have been sick with a bad flue the last week or so and could not make it into the lab to post this weeks problem on...
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Lou Mayo
aikiastronomer
Jan 25, 2008 8:24 am
Greetings ASAC'ers We are in Barrow Alaska, Lat 71.30 and saw the sun rise Tuesday for the first time since November. Tonight we went out away from the city...
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Lou Mayo
aikiastronomer
Jan 28, 2008 2:35 am
Greetings ASAC'ers The auroras just outside of Barrow continue to be spectacular. I can't imagine what they would look like during solar max. The native ...
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Sten Odenwald
odenwald@...
Jan 28, 2008 2:12 pm
Hello Everyone! This week's problem has to do with the interesting tail of gas and dust shed by the star Mira. The tail was discovered by NASA's GALEX...
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Carol Dickerson
GreatStamps
Jan 29, 2008 2:51 am
I really appreciate receiving these updates. Guess I never really thought about the different sky up there other than the Auroras. How cold is it? Carol D.,...
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Lou Mayo
aikiastronomer
Jan 30, 2008 1:37 am
ASAC'ers Yesterday and today, we went into local schools in Barrow and Waynright (90 miles away by plane) to teach the students about space weather. We made...
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Dorian Janney
dorianjanney
Jan 30, 2008 1:46 am
Greetings! I also kept a photo diary, from a teacher's perspective for my student, while I was there-[ although I only got three days worth up and ready now.. ...
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Lou Mayo
aikiastronomer
Jan 31, 2008 4:34 pm
ASAC'ers, We're back from Barrow but there is a lot still to be done and told. Today, I would like to address Inupiat skylore. Most of the stories about the...
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Sten Odenwald
odenwald@...
Feb 5, 2008 1:57 pm
Hi Everyone! This weeks problem is...unusual. http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov Problem 120 - Benford's Law. We all assume that, say, on your income tax form,...
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Lou Mayo
aikiastronomer
Feb 7, 2008 2:22 pm
ASAC'ers, We are having some problems with our web server. Just want you to know we are aware of the problem(s) and may have to take the site down for a day or...
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Sten Odenwald
odenwald@...
Feb 12, 2008 2:17 pm
Hi! This weeks problem looks at the exciting issue of ice on Mercury! We all know that Mercury gets very hot in the daytime...837 F. But because of the tilt of...
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Sten Odenwald
odenwald@...
Feb 19, 2008 2:39 pm
Hello Everyone! This weeks problem, Number 212, is about the 'coronal mass ejection' that the Hubble Space Telescope spotted between 1995-2000. This doesnt...
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Sten Odenwald
odenwald@...
Feb 19, 2008 6:20 pm
Hi! Oops... apparently SurveyMonkey only lets me conduct one free survey at a time. Please use this one first: ...
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Sten Odenwald
odenwald@...
Feb 26, 2008 1:11 pm
Hi! This weeks problem at http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov is about the number one trillion. Its a large number, often very hard to fathom and work with. This...
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Sten Odenwald
odenwald@...
Mar 4, 2008 1:26 pm
Hi Everyone! Oops...I forgot to update the link for the 'Trillions' problem last week to connect with the PDF file. I corrected it today, and added a new...
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Sten Odenwald
odenwald@...
Mar 11, 2008 3:06 pm
Hi! Here is this weeks problem/s Problem 126 <http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/weekly/4Page51.pdf>Mars Reconnaissance ...
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Sten Odenwald
odenwald@...
Mar 12, 2008 2:29 pm
Hi! Sten Odenwald's NASA address will be changed from odenwald@... to Sten.F.Odenwald@... so if you would like to update your address...
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Odenwald, Sten F. (GS...
stenodenwald
Mar 19, 2008 12:19 pm
Hello Everyone! I hope that you will be receiving these announcements on my new NASA mail server! Again, my new address is Sten.F.Odenwald@... so please...
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Odenwald, Sten F. (GS...
stenodenwald
Mar 19, 2008 12:21 pm
Hello Everyone! I hope that you will be receiving these announcements on my new NASA mail server! Again, my new address is Sten.F.Odenwald@... so please...
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Lou Mayo
aikiastronomer
Mar 19, 2008 2:35 pm
ASAC'ers, Our http://afterschoolastronomy.org web site is temporarily down. We are working on the problem and should have it up hopefully in a day or two. You...
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Odenwald, Sten F. (GS...
stenodenwald
Mar 24, 2008 12:37 pm
Hello Everyone! I hope that you will be receiving these announcements on my new NASA mail server! Again, my new address is Sten.F.Odenwald@......
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Odenwald, Sten F. (GS...
stenodenwald
Apr 1, 2008 5:21 pm
Hello Everyone! This weeks pair of problems, Problem 131 and 132, continues a series of studies of image scaling, by having students compute the scale of an...
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Odenwald, Sten F. (GS...
stenodenwald
Apr 8, 2008 12:22 pm
Hello Everyone! I hope that you will be receiving these announcements on my new NASA mail server! Again, my new address is Sten.F.Odenwald@......
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Odenwald, Sten F. (GS...
stenodenwald
Apr 15, 2008 3:14 pm
Hi Everyone! I had a wonderful time at the NCTM convention last week, and the Space MAth workshop I gave on Friday had about 120 participants. We did a Venn...
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Odenwald, Sten F. (GS...
stenodenwald
Apr 22, 2008 2:44 pm
Hello Everyone! This weeks pair of problems again deal with black holes. The first one whows how Kepler'sThird Law can be used to determine the mass of a black...
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Odenwald, Sten F. (GS...
stenodenwald
Apr 29, 2008 1:17 pm
Hi! Here are two more problems for this week http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov which have to do with water on mars and how fast you travel as you fall into a...
