New Horizons spacecraft just flew by a really distant asteroid

2023-11-20 09:44:38

New Horizons spacecraft just flew by a really distant asteroid


Brian May, the lead guitarist of the rock band, Queen, is also an astrophysicist and one of the science team collaborators of the New Horizons space program. The video below is the song that he wrote to celebrate the New Horizons' latest achievement ... flying by Ultima Thule.

You and your class might begin this activity with a viewing of Brian May's just-released song and a class discussion about the New Year's day fly-by. On January 1st, 2019, the New Horizons spacecraft passed close to Ultima Thule, a Kuiper Belt object that's a billion miles beyond Pluto. That milestone marked the most distant celestial object that we have ever been able to see close-up.  In this activity student do some rate conversions to try to understand the delay in knowing that the mission was a success.


more



Activity Solutions & Supporting Materials
Share this:
Comments (0)
    Display 1 - 10 Of total 0
    Giant beach towel
    Beaches are starting to open again. Bring summ...
    How many Americans (and their pets) participate in Halloween?
    Surveys show that more and more people are invol...
    Geometry of Flooding
    In 2010, March was so rainy th...
    DST ends November 5th, 2023 - strange happenings
    In this activity students try to figure out how ti...
    The tallest structure made of Legos
    Act One: The world record for the tal...
    Spider-Man continues
    Spider-Man: No Way Home opened on December ...
    Huge Alaskan Vegetables
    The annual Alaskan State Fair has just been comp...
    Patterns in the binomial expansion, Pascal
    Realizing that (X+Y)n can be expanded with the h...
    S'mores
    August 10 is National ...
    Growth of Facebook update
    Facebook is so accepted in our world today that ...