Astronomy and Cosmology
week 2- Tuesday
SUN AND MOON
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Star Date
Your questions, Web-X posts, review
Sun stories and Sun workshop
Discussion and logistics
break
Moon stories, workshop, and lecture
Next time…
Review of week 1: Space & Time
1. What role did astronomy play in ancient civilizations?
2. Are the stars that make up a constellation actually
close to one other?
3. Are the same stars visible every night of the year?
What is so special about the North Star?
4. Are the same stars visible from any location on Earth?
5. What causes the seasons? Why are they opposite in the
northern and southern hemispheres?
6. Has the same star always been the North Star?
7. Can we use the rising and setting of the Sun as the
basis of our system of keeping time?
8. Why are there leap years?
Sun stories and
Sun workshop
Helios = Apollo’s chariot racing across the sky.
Phaethon took it for a joyride…
Stonehenge and Cahokia … measured solstices &
equinoxes, but did not predict eclipses.
Yucatan peninsula: solar zenith on 26 July  first
day of summer for the classical Mayan empire.
1. Edith Hamilton, Mythology, 131-132
2. Aveni and Krupp
3. Impey and Hartmann, The Universe Revealed, 36
Discussion and logistics
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Online quizzes
WebX posts & bulletin board
Your photos
Your research projects
Field trip?
Other items?
Take a break, then
Return for Moon and Eclipses
Moon stories,
workshop, lecture
Luna loves Endymion
Solar eclipse halted Greek war in 584 BC
Native American moons named for seasons
1. Edith Hamilton, Mythology, 113-114
2. Impey and Hartmann, The Universe Revealed, 36
3. Phil Konstantin, http://americanindian.net/moons.html
Next time: