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Astronomy Activity for Kids: “How Big is the Solar System?”

August 7, 2016 by Luke Gilkerson 8 Comments

Astronomy Activity for Kids

Here’s an odd fact: nearly every model of the solar system you’ve ever seen—every image, every 3D model, every coat-hanger-with-styrofoam-balls project—is wrong. Just wrong. This is because you need an enormous amount of space to create an accurate model. But this activity will give your son or daughter a sense of how big different objects in […]

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How a Lunar Eclipse Saved Christopher Columbus

February 29, 2016 by Luke Gilkerson 1 Comment

How a Lunar Eclipse Saved Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus is famous for “discovering” America in 1492 (and sailing the ocean blue). He really didn’t discover America, per se. The Russians, Chinese, and Vikings already knew about it—and, of course, the first people to the Americas were the native populations that had already been living there for thousands of years. (In many ways you […]

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Why isn’t Pluto a planet anymore?

February 17, 2016 by Luke Gilkerson 2 Comments

Every year I offer to teach a course in our homeschool co-op, and I’ve taught astronomy many of those years. One year I was given a class of 3rd and 4th graders, and the focus of the class was planetary astronomy. Every week I grilled them on the names of the 8 planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, […]

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What is a Meteor Shower and Why Do They Happen?

October 25, 2015 by Luke Gilkerson Leave a Comment

A meteor is sometimes called a shooting star or falling star, but a meteor is not a star at all. Meteoroid vs. Meteor vs. Meteorite Space is full of things called meteoroids. These are small bits of rocky or metallic space junk. Most are pebble-sized. When one of these meteoroids gets too close to the […]

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What is the Taurid Meteor Shower and When Can I See It?

October 25, 2015 by Luke Gilkerson Leave a Comment

Popular Science Monthly Volume 18 Meteor Shower

The peak of the Taurid meteor shower is coming up in mid-November. Before you can understand what the Taurid meteor shower is, first it is important to understand… What is a meteor? What is a meteor shower? Why do we have meteor showers? Read more about meteor showers in general. The Taurids Once a year, Earth […]

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