Students explore orbit transfers and, specifically, Hohmann transfers. They investigate the orbits of Earth and Mars by using cardboard and string. Students learn about the planets' orbits around the sun, and about a transfer orbit from one planet to the other. After the activity, students will know exactly what is meant by a delta-v maneuver!
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Ken Hess, founder and president of Science Buddies, talks about the role Science Buddies plays in K-12 science education and the ways in which Science Buddies helps researchers put cutting-edge research into the hands of students doing K-12 science projects.
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Duke clinicians share knowledge regarding their profession and answer questions about their profession as a possible opportunity for career opportunities.
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Ardipithecus Ramidus
October 1st, 2009
WASHINGTON - Anthropologists took the wraps off the oldest known human ancestor Thursday - a 4.4-million-year-old Ethiopian skeleton named Ardi, which challenges many long-held assumptions about how humans and apes evolved.
Its not a chimp. Its not a human. It shows us what we used to be, said paleoanthropologist Tim White of the University of California-Berkeley, co-director of the research group that discovered and analysed more than 110…
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