Re: Friday Afternoon Fun - Astronomy!

Subject: Re: Friday Afternoon Fun - Astronomy!
From: "diotima" <diotima -at- myway -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 11:15:32 -0400 (EDT)



>What's the next sentence?



>Bonnie Granat





2-2 the sky and its motion



the sky above us seems to be a great blue dome in the daytime and a sparkling ceiling at night. learning to look at the sky requires that we begin thousands of years ago.



the celestial sphere



ancient astronomers believed the sky was a great sphere surrounding earth with the stars stuck on the inside like thumbtacks in a ceiling. modern astronomers know that the stars are scattered through space at different distances, but it is still convenient to think of the sky as a great starry sphere enclosing earth.

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--michael seeds, horizons: exploring the universe. 8th edition. 2004.







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