Blog #6

3 scientific facts that i learned from the movie

• magnesium is flammable
• Muscovites are very thin rocks
• Nohting but heat and magma at the center of the earth

3 untrue facts

• There are no such things as glow in the dark birds
• There's no world within the earth.
• Venus Fly traps can't eat people

Blog #5

1. My favorite topic that we learned about this year was Astronomy.


2. This topic talked about how the solar system (planets) were formed, constellation, and the planets.


3. This topic was cool because i like learning about the stars and planets and i had a chance to learn more about them this time because in middle school the astronomy class didn't talk much about the solar system.

Favorite Planet/Moon

My favorite planet is Jupiter because it is the fastest spinning planet in the solar system even though is massive. It takes Jupiter 10 hours to complete one full rotation on its axis. It's red spot has been around for 350 years and is measured 4o,ooo km across Jupiter but is shrinking as well. Scientist don't know when it will disappear. Jupiter also had 63 moons orbiting around it right now.

Big Bang

What do you think the universe looked like before the Big Bang? What made the universe "bang?"

Before the Big Bang happened there were no stars or sun so i think that the universe was nothing but darkness.

Blog #3-Extrasolar Planets

1. What are the four ways astronomers can detect extrasolar planets? Doppler Shift, Astrometric Measurement, Transit method, Gravitational Microlensing

2. Choose one of the four ways and explain it in detail. The Transit method can help scienctist detect when the stars reduce thier apparent magnitude.

3. In your answer to #2 you chose one way that astronomers detect extrasolar planets. Search the Internet to find how many extrasolar planets have been detected using this method. none just the brightness of the stars.