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Author Archives: drgrundstrom
For my 2015 class…
If you’re in my 2015 Solar System class, please put a comment here showing that you’ve found my blog and that you’re following it :) Please include your first name and last name initial. Note that you MUST be logged in to your own WordPress blog when commenting or else you’re doing it wrong! Also […]
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The 2017 Nashville Eclipse!
In class yesterday we talked about eclipses and so here’s the post about it! The totally awesome (and very dedicated) Mr. Eclipse (i.e., The Ultimate Resource for Eclipse Photography) is a favorite of NASA so they use his diagrams on their eclipse website. The foremost resource for the 2017 eclipse is eclipse2017.org. The Interactive Google […]
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Posted in Class, Observables, SolarSystem
Tagged earth, Nashville, SolarEclipse
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For my 2014 class…
If you’re in my 2014 Solar System class, please put a comment here showing that you’ve found my blog and that you’re following it :) Please include your first name and last name initial. Note that you MUST be logged in to your own WordPress blog when commenting! Also make sure you have bookmarked the […]
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The whole asteroid thing!
There have been some pretty amazing things going on with asteroids the past couple of days, namely the passing of Asteroid 2012 DA14 and the Russian Meteor Event. But they were completely unrelated! Here is an excellent infographic for you (click to make bigger): We weren’t going to be seeing that little 50-foot asteroid […]
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Posted in Observables, Small SS Objects
Tagged asteroid, badastronomy, impact, infographic
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Moon Landing Evidence! :)
In class today (Wednesday), I showed some of the lunar landing footage available to we, denizens of the Internet, for FREE! NASA is a public entity and as such, happily will show us many awesome things and has given us the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal (ALSJ). Much of the text was written by former astronauts […]
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Posted in Science, Terrestrials
Tagged astronauts, deniers, Moon, NASA
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Hypatia – Historical Astronomers in Context
<note to students: I went farther than you need to because no one can use Hypatia as their historical figure> Hypatia was the first woman KNOWN to contribute to mathematics and science. Her father, Theon of Alexandria, was a well-known academic and taught his daughter to follow in his footsteps. Remarkably, she was the head […]
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Posted in Historical
Tagged astro201, HW6, Hypatia
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For my 2013 class…
If you’re in my Solar System class, please put a comment here showing that you’ve found my blog and that you’re following it. Please include your first name and last name initial – let’s not have last names :) Also make sure you have bookmarked the big class blog aggregator: Astro201 – The Solar System. […]
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Slime molds are smart?
During class on Wednesday, I promised that I would post this story that I read on slime molds following the interstate system. By the way, this is related to astronomy because “astrobiology” is part of astronomy :) Photographic evidence! The scholarly journal article is from the preprint server called arXiv – Are motorways rational from […]
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Posted in Science
Tagged astro201, astrobiology, infrastructure, slimemolds
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Astronomically, it IS an early spring!!
So I read this article and I had to share it with you – I think it’s very good :) Article: Spring Arrives With Equinox Tuesday, Earliest in Over a Century by Joe Rao, SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist As an introduction, here in Nashville, we’ve been experiencing a really mild spring – personally, I’m pretty happy […]
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Posted in Observables, Sun, Terrestrials
Tagged astro201, calendar, observing, spring
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Awesome Planetary Formation Videos
In class on Monday, I showed a whole bunch of videos that show planetary formation – some showed certain parts better than others but they all are pretty awesome. Just in case anyone wanted to look at them again, here they are: Short, beginning of formation (from gas cloud to disk) from ESA – here […]
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Posted in Class, Exoplanets, SolarSystem
Tagged astro201, planetaryformation, planets, simulations, videos
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