Thursday, March 12, 2009

March 11, 2009 Paper Luna Collapses








Stellar Nursery Jr. astronomers present: Ian, Justin, Rodney and newcomer Devin. In spite of the wonderful aroma of approximately 450 pound of Corned Beef cooking in the kitchen of the Valley CC in preparation for the Valley's 16th Annual "Old Neighborhood" St. Patrick's Day Parade on Saturday, March 14th in the 1st Ward of Buffalo we did however find the intestinal fortitude to continue to work on our paper mache moon globes for the first hour. Unfortunately 1 or 2 moon globes experienced some rather significant plate tectonics due to the weight of a layer of fresh paper mache pulp. They may resemble asteroids instead.
The second hour we resumed our discussion of our exoplanet mission and continued to disassemble more parts for our spacecraft from our electronic device "graveyard". It looks like we'll be ready next week to begin some construction. To date I believe there are to be infrared, X-ray, visible light imaging devices, lasers, power supplies(ion emitters?), communication devices, etc... Miss Malena did again try to help me with my "astronomy in Spanish" lesson.

This Italian may just forgo the Spanish lesson and may just be Irish for a day or 2 this weekend-- Éirinn go brách!

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for posting all the pics - nice to see you all, the various activities and those telescopes being enjoyed!

    Please post the finale outcomes of the Moon project - I want to see how plate tectonics effects things!

    Hey Doc I think my neck is out again!

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  2. Stretch, observe while avoiding objects near the zenith, and stretch again. Repeat for the next 2-3 days. I'll wave the co-pay.

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