Blog for week of Dec. 7th

http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=820
Date:Dec 13th
author: none


The United Nations Framework on Climate Change Confrence or COP 15's goal for this week is to was to establish a global climate agreement for the period 2012 when the first commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol expires. It's different because it is linked to the UNFCC. The feature of the Kyoto Protocol is that it sets targets for 37 industrialial countries and the European areas for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The 3 ways we can prevent climate we can be smarter about choosing our seafood, change are that we can change light bulbs and reduce your carbon footprint.

The thing I can change is the light bulbs in my house.

Atmosphere blog for week of nov 16th

www.epa.gov/aircompare
date-nov 19th
author none

This article talks about the atmosphere. It explains the 3 comparisons.

1.I compared Queens, New York to Detroit, Michigan and Las Vegas, Nevada. The best air was Detroit. The worst air was Las vegas Nevada in Clark County from all the hustle and bustle down by the strip.
2. Next i picked 3 states. I picked Florida, Michigan, and Oregon. The worst air was Florida. The best air was Orgegon probably from all the nature!
3. I chose Chicago Illionois, the best time to visit is during the winter. The air is clean and fresh. The worst time to visit is the summer months like June, July, and ,August. This is because the air is dirty from all the comotion down in the city in the summer.

The best city in michigan that has the best AQI reading would be Benton Harbor and Kalamazoo they both had 17's. The worst would be Saginaw. It has a 36 AQI number.

I thought that this weeks blog was very interesting and i enjoyed it.

blog for week of dec.1

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/extinction/dinosaurs/asteroid.html
dec.6th
i got this off the blog sheet.
no author

This article explains how the it could or couldnt be a theory that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs. It talks about why it could be true and why it couldnt be true.

In class we learned about the 5 spheres. The 5 spheres are biosphere,geosphere,hydrosphere,atomsphere, and exosphere. About 65 million years ago the great comet struck the Yukatan peninsula. Now because of that black dust has clouded the earths atmosphere and now sun rays is blocked out. The dust settled to the trophoshere but the greenhouse gase caused a change in the tempature.

But there are other theorys about dinosaurs.
They say that volcanoes could have had a huge part into the extinction of dinosaurs. When the volcanoe erupts the lava can spread towards where the dinosaurs are and that can hurt the dinosaurs.

I think that this blog was very interesting becasue i got to learn alot about the dinosaurs.

Black Holes

http://www.space.com/blackholes/
All About Black Holes
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/blackholes/teacher/sciencebackground.html#7
author:no name
date:nov. 15th

This article is all about information about black holes. They tell you in detail what black holes are and what they do. It tells you all you would need to know about black holes.

There are three kinds of black holes. The three types are stellar, supermassive, and miniature black holes. My favorite black hole is the supermassive black hole because it is the largest black hole. A supermassive black hole is a black hole with the largest of its type in the galaxy, on the order of hundreds of thousands to billions of solar masses. Most, if not all galaxies, including the Milky Way, are believed to contain supermassive black holes at their centers. Facts about black holes:Black holes emit x-ray radiation and get smaller and smaller until they disappear, or "evaporate",The gravity around the "hole" of a black hole is so strong that NOTHING can make its way back out after a critical distance, and Most black holes are formed from the death of large stars (larger than the sun) that run out of fuel and cannot sustain its nuclear reaction. Fictional facts: that they suck things in, and they dont have a mass.

I think that this blog topic was very interesting because black hole are very cool to learn about. There is so much information on them. Black holes are fun to learn about. I wish black holes were real in life becasue they suck things in and dont get big. But im glad I learned about black holes!


Some fiction facts about black holes are Astronomers think that at least one black hole is born every day, and

7th blog... Big Sunspot

http://spaceweather.com/
no author
got off the blog sheet.

This article talks about information about what sunspots are, talks about what is happeneing to it. Also talks about sunspot 1029 size and information about it.

People are interested in this sunspot group becasue the solar flares it is giving off is really cool and people like that.

6th post International Year of Astronomy

http://www.astronomy2009.org/general/
author: none
aricle title: IYA2009 General
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/skytel/beyondthepage/34745114.html
author: Editors of Sky & Telescope
aricle title: International Year of Astronomy 2009
date: oct 20th 2009

This atricle is about what the international year of astronomy is. It also talks about information you need to know about it. It tells you what people do durning the International Year of Astronomy.

Its called the International Year of Astronomy because it is to commemorate the
400th anniversary of Galileo's first celestial observations using a telescope. United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the U.N. General Assembly are all sponsoring it. Over 100 countries are participating in it. People will be In this event, people will take there telescopes and point them at the same celestial wonders galilo pointed to 400 years ago durning the Galilean nights.


I believe the International Year Of Astronomy is really interesting. Space has a great impact on our earth and Galileo showed us that. Im not really that into space and telescopes. But this is really interesting.

5th blog. oct 12th Great Worldwide Star Count

http://www.darkskiesawareness.org/gwwsc.php
also
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/citizen_science/starcount/constellations_nh.html
Oct 12th
no author named.

"The Great World Wide Star Count is an engaging project for teaching about the impact of artificial lighting on local environments and in raising awareness about the ongoing loss of people’s ability to study or simply enjoy the night sky in many parts of the world." The Great World Wide Star Count is designed to raise awareness about light pollution as well as encourage learning in astronomy. People all over the world are going outside to count star because it bring family together and its imporant and interesting to many people. We would observe cygnus and the Swan, which includes the Northern Cross asterism.

3rd Blog, Sep.26th about 2012

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2007-03-27-maya-2012_n.htm
by: G. Jefferey MacDonald

In this article it says that the Mayan calendar it says that it ended in 2012 which causes people to think this was the end of our world. This article says that it not sure. People have always told me the world is going to end in 2012, i got really scared so im interesting in seeing if this is true. In this article reassures say that the 2012 predictions are a media host, that 2012 is a business. It describes how Mayans considered the "end of a cycle" to be a huge celebratio like a new year. They say that the only prediction astronomically is that the sun will align with the milky way for the first time in 26,000 years, but the mayans would have no way of knowing this meaning they would be in no position to make a prediction.

moon blog

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/10/08/probe.moon.crash/index.html
no author
oct. 8th 2009
I got this website from the cnn website I went to Google to get it.


This article talks about how we are sending rockets to hit the moon. The LCROSS will take pictures to see if the plume of the dust that comes from the impact of us hitting the moon contains any water.

I think that this is really interesting becasue no one has ever done anything like this so its going to be cool to see what happens. I think the sun is very important. Everyone always studys the moon its time for the sun.

Balancing an Egg on Equinox

http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/errata/a/equinox_eggs.htm
by: David Embrys

Chinese believe,that you can stand a raw egg on end during the equinox. This happens from the notion that due to the sun's position between the poles of the earth on the first day of spring or fall, special gravity forces apply.

This isnt true beacause while it's true that on both equinoxes the earth's axis is perpendicular to the sun so day and night are are they same length. Theres no evidence that theres gravity or alignment changes during an equinox that would affect us on earth. Also, the hoax states that only eggs can stand on its edd.

Mercury

http://blog.taragana.com/n/revealing-origin-and-evolution-of-planet-mercury-47209/

Published author unknown
May 1st, 2009

This website is a blog I found through the google search engine.This article informs you about the launch of the Messenger which is trying to find information about Mercury. It says what we know about Mercury and what we would like to know.
Scientists care about studying Mercury because it holds a similar interior to Earth and Mars (Mars is the most similar to Earth out of the planets) even if the core of Mercury is much larger than ours. It especially holds a similar appearance to our moon, along with similar qualities, providing information that our moon and Mercury might have evolved the same way. Its very important to know how planets formed and how similar they are to ours. Scientists are hoping to find out exactly how similar the Mercury is to our familiar planets with the recent launch of the MESSENGER which will take pictures of mercury

I think that the US should look more into space launches. The government is more concerned as to global warming on the earth, when we should consider studying the effects other planets could have on us as well. For instance, it might make a greater impact to know that if we keep using hairspray a black whole would such up the earth or something like that. We are just one small planet in a whole universe! Theres so much we need to know, and theres plenty we already know on earth.

Hubble Space telescope

I chose this picture becasue i thought it was the most detailed one. You can tell how big it is and what it looks like from a good angle. It was a well taken and very clear picture.

STS-125 The Final Visit date: 6.6.08 Author: doesnt say

The article talks about what the problems were on the hubble space telescope. Also it talks about how they are going to repair it and how they did repair it. It shows pictures of what it looks like.

I thought the article was interesting becasue it talked about something i never knew about before. Im not really into that stuff, but after reading that article it was really good. The hubble space telescope is something really interesting to read about. It has a lot of problems but it explains how they are going to fix it so thats good. I enjoy reading that article. I wonder if they are going to totally be able to repair it.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts125/main/overview.html

The hubble space telescope has been repaired. What was repaired on it was the failed and faulty components and added new and improved cameras and scientific equipment. The new camera and spectrograph are designed to complement the scientific instruments already on the telescope. The Advanced Camera is for when they do Surveys. The people who replaced them were predecessors.