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Welcome to the Spring of 2009!
Grades are now as complete as I can make them, any make up that I know about has been included,
projects posted, and online assignments are current and updated. I took make up work through Friday of exam week.
This is the result of a semester of work by each student in each class. Any questions will have to wait until the Fall
Semester. I think it would be good to think about finding ways to be organized for the Fall of 2009 and work to be the
best you can be. Be safe, healthy, get rested, and make some new summer time memories.
....Mr. Kay, Science
In the fall I will be teaching Physics, Physical Science, and Astronomy and in the spring
a class in Meteorology. I hope to see you in one of those classes soon.
This photo of Comet 17P/Holmes was taken with a SLR Nikon digital camera mounted on a tripod and exposed for 8 seconds.
OUR LATEST ASTRONOMICAL PHOTO Taken as part of our Astronomy Class outing. We took this latest deep space picture taken
with the Heritage High School, 10 inch Meade Schmidt-Newtonian telescope with a Meade Sky Imager CCD camera. The image is
of M 57, (NGC 6720, a planetary nebula, in the Constellation Lyre, during the Chamberlain Observatory Open House held on Saturday,
September 22, 2007, in Denver. The nebula lies 2,300 light years from Earth and is 2.4 light years across. The magnitude 14.7
central star is visible in the center, surface temperature 120,000 degrees Kelvins. The ring is of rapidly expanding gas layers
from a star that exploded its outer layers of gas about 1,610 +-240 yrs ago. The gas is expanding at a rate of 12,400 to 18,600
miles per second (44.6 to 66.9 million miles per hour) and is composed of oxygen and nitrogen inside and hydrogen on the outside.
The expanding gas is shaped like a torus or bi-cylinder.
This photo was taken Wednesday 10.24.07 just before the full Hunter's Moon from Writer's Vista Park in Littleton. This photo
shows specifically the impact crater Tycho. It's actual diameter is 85 kilometers (52.7 miles), and it is clearly visible
on our Moon's surface without a telescope. It is the central feature on our photo. The radiating rays that converge at the
crater are composed of material ejected during the impact that created Tycho crater. They are interpreted as evidence that
this is a young crater because they haven't been obliterated and erased by later impacts. Tycho Crater is close to the southern
polar region of the Moon. The dark flat areas are referred to as Mare meaning seas a name given by Galileo when he viewed
the moon's surface in 1610 with his telescope. Rocks brought back from the moon have shown these dark areas to be layers of
basalt erupted onto the surface, filling in a low spot created by a previous or causative impact.
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All Heritage Science students and families: Please check the course titles for information relevant to your students success
this year. Most information will be posted here or hot linked from here to other sites where you will have access.
I will provide daily information about each course, such as homework, collected work, classwork and lab work and handouts.
Please feel free to use any information available on this site, such as parent information, the tutorials, multimedia chapter
powerpoints, video linds chapter study guide, and parent-student guidelines. Grades are posted on the school site. Please
feel free to communicate via my email. Please remember, it does take time to grade papers and make-up work for absent students
so don't expect an instantaneous turn around, that isn't realistic. There is some sort of homework every night that each student
can be working on and everyone can keep up with those assignments on the assignments page. I hope each of my students learns
something new every day and enjoys the experience.
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Who is the scientist? CLICK HERE.
Science Factoid, CLICK HERE!
weekly brain teaser: (to be added)
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The World of Science
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