9/11 Bits and Pieces

TUNGUSKA


Asteroids:  http://www.pibburns.com/catastro/asteroid.htm 

The Oort Cloud:  http://www.solarviews.com/eng/oort.htm  and structure

Obnoxious Rhett/Link Space Junk video:   http://youtu.be/6Fy7psIuJjc

Space Debris, the NASA version: http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/

Orbital velocity is 2300 mph or greater.  What happens when a teeny particle slams into a vehicle at a speed of 2300 mph?


The problem with Pluto....scroll through this video and see what information you can get.

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Diameter of the Moon

You and your partner have a choice to make.   Should the first off-Earth settlement be built on the Moon or on Mars?  There are pros and cons to each.

To start, go to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Mars
http://marshome.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_the_Moon
http://www.nss.org/settlement/


Now look at some of the missions:

http://planetary.org/explore/topics/the_moon/missions.html
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/programmissions/

Use your Unit 2 readings to help you see if there are:

a) plate tectonics
b) a magnetosphere
c) an atmosphere
d) water
e) gravitational forces
f) minerals
g) temperature extremes
h) group sheet