[meteorite-list] SPACE EXPO - OFF TOPIC (TANGENTIALLY)

From: lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu <lebofsky_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:37:53 -0700
Message-ID: <326776ae00e1705f439f82c4b35e0a20.squirrel_at_webmail.lpl.arizona.edu>

Hi Darryl:

Yes, a little more information would be good.

How much space (no pun) do you have (floor or table)? How interactive do
you want it to be and how many people are there to support what you do?
Some activities can be done without a person involved others need a real
person to "run" it.

Building (and commenting) on what Peter suggested with respect to
activities we have done in large venues:

Solar System scale model: takes some space and better if you use one that
is not just stringing them out in a line. You can do size comparison
separate from distance and there are ways to actually have them "make" the
planet with clay, but this takes time.

Comet making can be fun, but for a large venue, probably best to do as a
demo. Takes supplies and can get messy.

I just did a variation of our Earth/Moon size and distance where you have
50 balls of clay and put them into two piles (totaling 50) to represent
the size of the Moon relative to the Earth (40 and 10, 35 and 15, etc.)
and then do the relative distance. Works well with hundreds going by over
time.

What you can do depends on the venue and the age group and whether or not
they just wander by or you have them in a group.

I could continue this conversation off line, if you want.

Larry





> Hi Darryl,
>
> Just a few quick thoughts:
>
> Scale model of the solar system
> Meteorite hunting in a "salted" strewn field with magnet canes
> digital polarizing microscope with a cool thin section
> spectroscope
> Mars rover race
> Make a comet
> telescope observing
>
> Many of these ideas may not work for you. Could you tell us more about the
> event?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
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