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Astronomy Links
Events:
http://www.pa.msu.edu/abrams/diary.html
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/ Science news
http://sciencenow.org Science NOW Daily news
http://www.scienceonline.org Science Online (AAAS)
http://www.nextwave.org Science’s Next Wave
http://stardate.utexas.edu/resources/ssguide/planet_form.html StarDate online
http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/ Solar System simulator
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://www.nasa.gov/hotopics/index.html Hot topics in NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/today/index.html Today in NASA
Eclipses:
http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/sdac.html 1998 Feb 26 (980226) NASA RP 1383
Tutorials and Other Sites to Learn More:
Astronomy Animations, see astronomical processes in action! (VSU site)
http://www.calvin.edu/`lmolnar/moon/ lunar phases, tutorials
Dance of Math and Physics how math and physics work together (VSU site)
Math Demonstrations demonstrations in advanced mathematics (VSU site)
Out With a BANG! Black Holes black holes explained (VSU site)
Color in Astronomy Images what color images mean in astronomy (VSU site)
http://fossils.valdosta.edu terrific fossil site that shows locations of the continents at different times! (VSU site)
NASA and Space Centers:
http://www.ksc.nasa.gov Kennedy Space Center, FL
http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/mars/default.html Mars missions
http://www.nasa.gov/ NASA
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
http://origins.stsci.edu/ NASA’s Origins Program
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/ Cassini mission to Saturn and Titan
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/ Galileo mission to Jupiter and moons
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mars/ Mars Exploration Program (old?)
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/ Mars exploration
http://www.osf.hq.nasa.gov/mir/ Shuttle/MIR
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/index.html International Space Station
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/index.html Space Shuttle
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/countdown 10 days before countdown
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/interactive/ K-12 Internet initiative
http://spsosun.gsfc.nasa.gov/EOSDIS_main.html Goddard Space Flight Center
http://nic.nasa.gov NASA Network Information Center
http://www.mfsc.nasa.gov/nisn/ (more online information) from Marshall SFC
http://nic.nasa.gov/Eureka/ About NASA
http://jsc.nasa.gov/ Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
http://stsci.edu/public.html Space Telescope Science Institute
http://oposite.stsci.edu Hubble space telescope
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov K-12 interactive NASA questions
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov Earth observations; Mission to Earth
http://spacecom.grc.nasa.gov Space Communications
http://stp.msfc.nasa.gov Space Transportation
http://near.jhuapl.edu/NEAR/ NEAR space mission to asteroid 433 Eros
http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/links.html#ASTEROIDS Asteroids links at JPL
http://impact.arc.nasa.gov Impact list, hazardous asteroids
http://www.lpl.Arizona.edu/spacewatch/ Telescopes looking for hazardous asteroids
Books and Journals:
lu-books@lu.com Teacher Ideas Press/Libraries Unlimited
"The SETI Academy Planet Project"
http://www.skypub.com/ Sky Publishing
http://www.astronomy.com Astronomy magazine home page
http://www.sciam.com/ Scientific American
http://www.prenhall.com/chaisson Companion website to our textbook
http://www.aspsky.org/html/mercury/mercury.html Mercury Magazine (ASP)
http://www.aspsky.org/ Astronomical Society of Pacific
http://www.sciencemag.org Science Magazine (AAAS) – fee likely
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJ/home.html Astronomical Journal
http://www.journal.uchicago.edu/ApJ Astrophysical Journal
http://planetary.org Planetary Society and Report
http://www.aaas.org American Association of Advancement of Science
http://nature.com Nature Magazine
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/ Astronomy Abstract service
Resources:
http://cdswweb.u-strasbg.fr/astroweb.html Astronomy on the Internet
http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Skyview-wavelength, RA,Dec, catalog db
http://inspire.ospi.wednet.edu:8001/curric/space/index.html Astro lesson plans, activities
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu SETI at home; help download and process SETI data
http://wwwdiscovery.com/area/specials/hubble/hubble1.html Hitchhiker’s Guide to Hubble
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/ Fact sheets for each planet, satellites, rings
http://planetary.org Planetary Society, Planetary Report
http://project2061.aaas.org/ Science Literacy: Benchmarks, Resources, Reforms
http://www.bisque.com/thesky Software Bisque Home page
tie@mtwilson.com Telescopes in Education Project
http://tie.mtwilson.edu TIE home page
http://nic.nasa.gov/ NASA Integrated Services Network
jrichte@sloc.net Project ASTRO information (Astro. Soc. Pacific)
http://www2.ari.net/home/odenwald/qadir/qanda.html Ask an Astronomer
http://earth.ast.smith.edu/ED/ed.html Education Initiative in Astronomy
http://www2.ari.net/home/odenwald/café.html Astronomy Cafe
http://www.physics.sfsu.edu/asp/planetarium.html Planetariums on the Net
http://www.hg.nasa.gov/office/oss/edu/educov.htm NASA’s Partners in Education
http://www.nasa.gov/nasa_online_education.html Online information
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ Exploratorium
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/ Amazing Space
http://www.aas.org/~aastra/links.html AASTRA—teacher resource agent
http://crux.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/4000WS.html Women in Astronomy - 4000 years
http://www.rahul.net/resource/Astronomy-Mall/ Astronomical supplies & equipment
http://adswww.harvard.edu astronomy and physics references to 1800s
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine Customized maps
http://planetary.org/learn/nanexp.html 2001 Mars Odyssey: Student Nanoexp’t
http://astro.washington.edu/labs/ U. Washington labs archive
http://www.dustbunny.com/afk/ Astro. labs for kids
http://ww2.ari.net/home/odenwald/café.html Ask an Astronomer
http://ww2.stx.com/café/qadir/qanda.html Ask an Astronomer, Astronomy Café
http://www.as.utexas.edu/mcdonald/ McDonald Observatory near Ft. Davis, TX
http://www.sciam.com/explorations/010697sagan/010697sagan1.html Carl Sagan
http://www.seasky.org/sky.html Exploration site dedicated to Sagan
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov Educational site from Marshall SFC
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov Astronomy information for children
http:www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/nses/html/6a.html Content standards
http://www.coreknowledge.org/CKproto2/about/index.htm K-6 Content standards
http://www.state.ga.us State of Georgia
http://www.doe.K12.ga.us Department of Education
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook Storm Prediction Center of NOAA
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ National Weather Service
Reporting new discoveries of comets and asteroids:
BMarsden@cfa.Harvard.eduUseful links:
http://www.badastronomy.com/ Correcting misconceptions about astronomy
http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/skyview.html Viewing charts--Skyview
http://gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery.html Hubble photos
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/trip/nineplanets.html
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/saturn.html Saturn information
http://photojournal.dlr.de/ NASA planetary photo journal
http://www.aip.org/careersvc Jobs with degrees in Physics
http://saraobservatory.edu/ SARA observatory at KPNO
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/ Astrophysics abstracts
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/InnerPlot.html Plot of inner planets and asteroids
http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/ Science made Simple
http://wwwflag.wr.usgs.gov/USGSFlag/Space/ USGS Astrogeology, Flagstaff, AZ
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/apollo_landings.html Apollo Moon landings from LPI
Organizations:
http://www.GaAcademy.org Georgia Academy of Science
http://www.aas.org American Astronomical Society
http://aps.org/ American Physical Society
http://aapt.org American Society of Physics Teachers
http://www.teachforamerica.org Teach for America
http://www.aip.org/pt/ American Institute Physics, Physics Today
http://www.valdosta.edu/phy/ Dept. of Physics, Astrn, Geosc, VSU
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/astronomy.html Information on Astronomy
http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html Planets
http://www.seds.org/billa/tnp/ Author of Nineplanets’ web page