Re: Viewing of Station and Shuttle.
- From: Jim in Houston <nospamjamesgoodum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:50:39 -0500
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:57:42 -0500, "Jim Oberg"
<joberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Wonderful pass of ISS and Discovery about 8 PM last nightWow! I wanna come over too! I don't understand what you taught your
from my son's backyard in Houston. I showed them both (12 minutes apart) to
my
6-year-old grandson, and described how the shuttle was chasing the
station, and he noticed that the shuttle, when it appeared, was well off to
the
left (west) of the station track. So I got to explain how he had
just seen proof that Earth was rotating. Made sense to him.
Both ISS and shuttle also went into shadow near zenith, and he wondered
why. Back in his bedroom (it was past his official bedtime but his mom
gave him an official waiver), we played with models of objects passing into
the shadow of other objects, using his bed reading light as the sun.
Cool.
Grandson. Can you recommend a site which explains this? I know it
seems odd that I wouldn't understand such a seemingly simple concept,
but I just don't, and I would like to understand it and teach it to my
son.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Jim in Houston.
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Teddy Roosevelt's mother said: "Fill what is empty,
empty what is full, and scratch where it itches"
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