Current event # 2

Mystery Of Missing Satellite Debris Finally Solved

Last week People all over the world had feared that NASA's 6.5 ton Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) has come hurdling back to earth and is expected to crash land on earth. The space agency has no clue or control where it is going to crash land and when it is going to crash land. 

The satellite finally hit the earth. No one was injured. Nobody knew where it had crashed landed, but after four days the mystery had finally been solved. NASA was expecting for it to go to the southern pasific ocean and that was what the satellite did. It was a region far from population. It is also expected that at least until late October or early November a German satellite will frefall back to earth. the good news is that it is only 2.5 tons, it is smaller than the UARS. Hopefully this one will stay of populated areas too. 

Current event # 1

Astronomers Make A Discovery A Diamond Planet

A few weeks ago NASA's kepler spacecraft revealed a dark alien planet. They have been researching this planet, and quite a few scientists from all over the world have announced something even more exciting, a diamond planet!!! This planet is 4,000 light year away or about an eighth of the way toward the center of the Milky way from earth. The only reason the astronomers where able to spot it, was because of the pulsar star it rotates around. Pulsars are small spinning stars that measure about 20 km in a diameter. The astronomers believe that the "diamond" planet was once a massive star. 

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Scientific Summer

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1/9/2011

By: Monica Nagy

Scientific summer

Think about something you did this summer that was scientific. Write a paragraph to describe what you did. Be sure to give some detail of your activity.

This summer I went to Kennedy space center. I know this is part of science because of all the materials they used to make NASA work, the rockets, the moon, and earth everything to do with science. In NASA we got tours around 3 places, one of the places you could see the place where the rockets take off, I also saw the main engine of a rocket, I saw the rocket that landed there in 2011, I saw the lading lane. I saw the BIG HUGE rocket. I saw the poles that fall back to earth after the rocket is about to touch space. I also did touch part of the moon. We also where in the control center.

Write a second paragraph to explain what is scientific about what you did. Give an example and put some detail into your explanation. Refer to science concepts (Newton’s 2^nd Law, gravity, electricity, blood flow, etc.) and give a short lesson if you want.

I think that this was very scientific. We learned about how the people feel and how hard it is to go to space. This had a lot to do with gravity, electricity and much more scientific stuff.

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