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Re: (meteorobs) Project: Shooting Stars
It's really nice to know about this activity and the web page is also nice.
Where will those children make observations in Nov.?
Is there any 'official' estimate for the 1998 Leonids? I remember that someone
said about 500 to 2,000 per hour?? I think that one important thing is that
how to tell children about how much meteors they could expect. If you expect
too high numbers, and finally they only see few, then they may have bad
feeling about astronomy...
Anyway, I myself do hope that it will be over 10,000 and I'll prepare myself
based on this estimate.
Good luck, Jin
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Beijing Astronomical Observatory | +86-10-68392030 (H)
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P. R. China | Fax : +86-10-62759888
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>
> Dear List Members,
>
> In just over three months we shall all be getting excited about the Leonids.
>
> This year, it is said, the shower will be spectacular - possibly up to
> 100,000 hits per hour. This will peak while it is over north east Asia and
> people in Japan and China will have front row seats.
>
> The British Council is an organisation that promotes cultural exchange
> between the UK and other countries. This year the Council is organising a
> series of joint activities between the UK and China associated with the
> Leonid shower.
>
> There will be:
> - a competition for UK students to win a trip to observe the shower,
>
> - school partnerships, linking UK and Chinese schools via the internet for
> joint observation and study (other UK observing organisations are welcome
> to form partnerships too - contact me),
>
> - exhibitions of (temporarily) exchanged meteorites will go on public
> dispay in the UK and China,
>
> - a competition for Chinese students to win a trip to observe next year's
> eclipse.
>
> Our organisation are consultants to the project, and we have prepared
> educational materials to help children of all ages (over nine or so) to
> observe and understand the shower.
>
> Initial details of the Project have been posted to our web site. This will
> develop over the next few weeks.
>
> You can find us at: -- http://homepages.primex.codot uk/~omen
>
> We are space education providers and consultants in general, rather than
> being specifically interested in meteors, so we are on a bit of a learning
> curve ourselves, when it comes to serious meteor observation. Please take
> a look at our site and comment. Any ideas we have missed or any blunders
> we have made, please point them out!
>
> We shall be doing the usual visual and photographic recording, and we shall
> try some radio and sound observation as suggested in recent emails.
> Results will be posted to the web-site. The only thing that concerns me
> is this: is the event -- assuming it goes as predicted -- going to be just
> to overwealming to get any good data by conventional techniques and does
> anyone have any alternatives?
>
> Perhaps nearly all of us are virgins in this respect!
>
> Also, we have a unique opportunity in mass meteor observation, here. We
> expect upwards of 30,000 children in China to turn out to watch and record
> the shower!
>
> Bearing in mind that the children may be as young as nine, and resources
> and equipment are limited, is there anything simple that is worthwhile
> doing with this size of observing population, spread out across China?
> Ideas, please.
>
> John Hodges
>
>
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> The Orbital Mechanics Educational Network
> email: omen@primex.codot uk
> homepages: http://homepages.primex.codot uk/~omen
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