HOU-WISE 1-day Workshop Outline (revised 2009 July 12) HOU-WISE Teacher Workshops - Schedule and Registration Asteroid WISE Images for Asteroid WISE (zipped, 22 Mb) |
Powerpoints for workshops
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL SEARCH COLLABORATION: http://iasc.hsutx.edu/ Includes
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WISE poster (pdf 2.6 Mb) |
2010 Jan 23. WISE First Near Earth Object (NEO) ...Near-Earth objects are asteroids and comets with orbits that come close to Earth's path around the sun. This particular asteroid, called 2010 AB78, is roughly one kilometer (0.6 miles) in diameter, and is currently about 158 million kilometers (98 million miles) away from Earth. Its elliptical-shaped orbit takes it out beyond Mars and back in about as close to the sun as Earth. Because the asteroid's orbit is tilted relative to the plane of our solar system, astronomers do not think it poses a hazard to our planet. [See images on website.] 2010 Jan 16. The first HOU-WISE follow-up telecon/online workshop/presentation by Patrick Miller on the topic of IASC (International Astronomical Search Collaboration) was recorded and synchronized with presentation slides that are available at https://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=fsx6ov (after you register to view it, by entering your name). The first 12 minutes are roll call and taking care of startup issues---actual presentation starts after 12 minutes. 2010 Jan 6. RELEASE 10-005: NASA's
Wise Eye Spies First Glimpse of the Starry Sky; Infrared
All-Sky Surveying Telescope Sends Back First Images
from Space. Excerpt: WASHINGTON -- NASA's Wide-field
Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has captured its
first look at the starry sky that it will soon begin
surveying in infrared light. 2009 Dec 7. New NASA Craft, With Infrared Power, Will Map the Unseen Sky. NY Times article about WISE. 2009 Nov 17. RELEASE : 09-269: NASA's
Wise Gets Ready to Survey the Whole Sky. WASHINGTON
-- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or
Wise, is chilled out, sporting a sunshade and getting
ready to roll. NASA's newest spacecraft is scheduled
to roll to the pad on Friday, Nov. 20, its last stop
before launching into space to survey the entire
sky in infrared light. |
The Classic HOU Asteroid Research page (Tim Spuck and Hughes Pack)
To... HOU-WISE workgroup area
Rich Lohman's Work
Carl Pennypacker's Work
Date:
Thu, 31 Jul 2008
From: Carl Pennypacker
To: Alan Gould, Steve Carpenter Subject:
Re: Tom Morin's work
This experiment, which went amazingly well, was done on the
morning of the last day [of the 2008 HOU conference]. I think
Steve as a movie of the event and set up, will come to you
soon. Here are some details:
1) Sun substitute: a fluorescent lamp
2) Asteroid: a potato, stuck on a styrofoam cup with maybe
a toothpick.
3) Rotation system: me rotating it as regularly as possible
-- each tick mark is approximately one second.
4) Purpose: show asteroid light curves, and also show the characteristic
double peak light curve, deriving from the potato being oblate.
Vivian Hoette's work
Resources:
http://analyzer.depaul.edu/see_project/orbits/default.htm
http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/outreach/activities/Explorations/images/Asteroids/
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