HOU-WISE 1-day Workshop Outline (revised 2009 July 12)
HOU-WISE Teacher Workshops - Schedule and Registration
Asteroid WISE (Student Book - PDF - 5 Mb)
Images for Asteroid WISE (zipped, 22 Mb)
Powerpoints for workshops
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL SEARCH COLLABORATION - http://iasc.hsutx.edu/
Includes
WISE poster (pdf 2.6 Mb)
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.
Wise is scheduled to launch no earlier than 9:09 a.m. EST
on Dec. 9 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. It
will circle Earth over the poles, scanning the entire sky
one-and-a-half times in nine months. The mission will uncover
hidden cosmic objects, including the coolest stars, dark
asteroids and the most luminous galaxies....
Workshop Administrative Details
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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