Gilroy's Space Science & Astrophysics Blog » society http://www.gilroyphysics.net/Blog_SSA A blog for Mr. Gilroy's Space Science & Astrophysics course Fri, 29 May 2009 01:56:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 ICE-02 http://www.gilroyphysics.net/Blog_SSA/2009/03/06/ice-02/ http://www.gilroyphysics.net/Blog_SSA/2009/03/06/ice-02/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:22:29 +0000 gilroy0 http://www.gilroyphysics.net/Blog_SSA/?p=223 In class on Fri Mar 6 we listened to President Kennedy and Tasmin Archer.  As an in-class exercise, I would like you to complete the following assignment.  It should only be a handful of paragraphs and is meant to engage you creatively.

Your writing will be collected on Tue Mar 24.

]]> http://www.gilroyphysics.net/Blog_SSA/2009/03/06/ice-02/feed/ 0 The great state of Illinois weighs in on the Pluto debate http://www.gilroyphysics.net/Blog_SSA/2009/03/06/the-great-state-of-illinois-weighs-in-on-the-pluto-debate/ http://www.gilroyphysics.net/Blog_SSA/2009/03/06/the-great-state-of-illinois-weighs-in-on-the-pluto-debate/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:12:19 +0000 gilroy0 http://www.gilroyphysics.net/Blog_SSA/?p=220 From Bad Astronomy:

The government of Illinois, an an obvious attempt to distract America from Blagojevich’s hair, has declared that Pluto is a planet.

RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that as Pluto passes overhead through Illinois’ night skies, that it be reestablished with full planetary status, and that March 13, 2009 be declared “Pluto Day” in the State of Illinois in honor of the date its discovery was announced in 1930.

Thank heavens — so to speak — Pluto doesn’t pass over any other states. That could propagate a Constitutional crisis.

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