Read the Space.com article here.
See a photo gallery of the "12 Planets" here.
And, the fun website of the week is Brain Bashers:
BrainBashers: Brain Teasers and Games
Have fun with puzzles, brain teasers, and Sudoku!
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Current Events in Science & Fun Website of the Week
The biggest news in science this week is the possible new definition for the term "planet" - this new definition would make our science books wrong by redefining our solar system as having 12 planets instead of 9. The additional planets include the asteroid Ceres, Pluto's moon Charon, and a recently discovered planet, 2003 UB313.
Read the Space.com article here.
See a photo gallery of the "12 Planets" here.
And, the fun website of the week is Brain Bashers:
BrainBashers: Brain Teasers and Games
Have fun with puzzles, brain teasers, and Sudoku!
Read the Space.com article here.
See a photo gallery of the "12 Planets" here.
And, the fun website of the week is Brain Bashers:
BrainBashers: Brain Teasers and Games
Have fun with puzzles, brain teasers, and Sudoku!
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5 comments:
Isn't this great? Yet another revision which will not be fixed in science books, leaving dozens of kids uneducated when they suddenly have to answer all 12 planets on the CRCT or something.
I just read the article, and it is even worse than I originally thought. The new definition would make asteroids planets!
Whats next, if it swims, it is a fish? If it flies, it is a bird? If it talks, it is a human?
*starts muttering*
Hey "Masked" -
There are some astronomers who argue that Pluto shouldn't even be considered a planet - in that case, we'd have 8, and then a bunch of "TNOs" or trans-neptunian objects - basically, all the stuff out orbiting past Neptune.
The curator at a museum in New York did a display showing just that a couple years ago - it was pretty controversial. I will try to find an article about that, and link it.
Having more planets?? I don't think it's neccesarily because there are some of us who don't want to be a scientist. If there is, I don't think they should put it in tests. They should just put it for fun.
WOW! really? too bad for the 5-6th graders more planets for them to remeber...boohoo...and i whanna be a scientist so whaa
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