Thursday's Classroom for March 30, 2000
This week's episode of Thursday's Classroom explores planetary alignments.
The Moon, Jupiter, Saturn and Mars will put on a beautiful sky show
April 6 when the quartet converge in the western sky after sunset.
The grouping is just the prelude to a grander alignment on May 5.
Is catastrophe at hand, as many doomsayers predict? "No way!"
say scientists.
Educational lessons and activities include "Sky Orienteering" (how to
view the April 6 alignment), "Doomsday Desserts" (skywatching snacks
for the big event), "Alignment of the Decimals" (a math exercise
involving interplanetary gravity) and more.
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