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Title: Astronomy


1
Astronomy Our Lives
  • or
  • What could learning about the planets and stars
    possibly have in common with my life now??

2
Astronomy Our Lives
  • There are more connections between astronomy than
    you realize
  • Days of the Week?
  • Months of the Year?
  • Time itself!
  • Words, words, words,
  • Products, products, and more products
  • A sense of who we are.

3
Seven Days of the Week
  • Sunday - the Suns day, of course
  • Monday - the Moons day
  • Tuesday - ?
  • Wednesday - ??
  • Thursday - ???
  • Friday - ??
  • Saturday - ????

4
Seven Days of the Week
  • Sunday Domingo Dimanche Sun
  • Monday Lunes Lundi Moon
  • Tuesday Martes Mardi Mars
  • Wed Miercoles Mercredi Mercury
  • Thurs Jueves Jeudi Jupiter
  • Friday Viernes Vendredi Venus
  • Saturday Sabado Samedi Saturn
  • Seven objects are easily seen to move in regular
    patters in front of the stars across the skies
    during the year

5
Moonths of the year
  • A month of time is around the same time as it
    takes the moon to repeat its phases from full to
    full.
  • Many cultures still use lunar calendars for
    religious festivals
  • Easter
  • Ramadan Islamic New Year
  • Chinese New Year
  • T?t

6
Time itself
  • Clockwise from the motion of the suns shadow
    over a sundial!

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9
Early morning sun casts a shadow towards the 9
side of a clock face
7
Time itself
By noon, the overhead sun casts a (smaller)
shadow towards the 12 side of a clock face
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8
Time itself
By afternoon, the setting sun casts a (longer)
shadow towards the 3 side of a clock face
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3
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9
Words, words, words
  • aster star (from Latin)
  • Astronomy, Astrology
  • Disaster! dis-aster going against the stars
    can be bad!
  • cosmos order
  • Cosmology the study of the order of the
    universe
  • Cosmetics putting your face in order
  • Meteorology the study of weather?

10
Products, products, products!
  • Cars
  • Ford Taurus, Galaxy, Mercury Comet
  • Chevy Astrovan, Nova, Vega
  • Plymouth Satellite, Pontiac Sunfire, Oldsmobile
    Starfire
  • Subaru, Saturn
  • Food
  • Sunchips, Sunny Delite, Mars bars, Moon cakes,
    Starkist
  • Products Companies
  • Comet cleanser, SUN mirosystems, Visa STAR
    network
  • TV Movies galore

11
A sense of who we are
  • Astronomy allowed us to develop agriculture,
    create calendars, maintain our history, navigate,
    explore
  • Trying to understand nature led us to develop
    technologies absorbed into our culture
  • Lasers, GPS, Cell Phones, Computers
  • Weather Satellites, Velcro, Tang

12
Key Questions for YOU
  • How does science work?
  • What do we gain, as humans, by asking questions
    of Nature?
  • Is the quest for knowledge worth the costs?
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