Wegener .. That’s the new me
Well a quick rewind back to Wegener, because I’m guessing that most of you have NO idea who he is. He was a meteorologist. Well have you ever thought about all the worlds land being combined together, and then having it break apart? No one knows for sure if this is the case, but Wegener thinks all land on Earth was attached to each other millions of years ago. But this makes sense because Africa and South America look like they fit almost perfectly. Don’t they?
You may not have got that quick piece of information I threw at your right in be beginning. But I said that he was a meteorologist which means he studied weather and such things. So why was he the one to think that land was all combined and not a geologist. Well geologists are always trying to focus just on rocks and stuff, they were all to busy to notice this (that all land looked like it fit together).
Has this ever happened to me? Yeah it happens a lot actually. I’m too busy trying to do something, when someone else tells me a easier way to do it. This happened today in math class when we were going over the homework. My friend Jen saw my homework and asked why I used so much paper, and I simply said because you have to graph all these to find the answers. Well apparently this wasn’t the case. That was just how we had to do the problems in school. She said all we had to do was plug in the coordinate pairs into the equation, and then we would get our answer. This isn’t quiet the same and Wegeners case, but if you ask me, it is quiet similar.
Sometimes when you’re to busy trying to do something, you don’t notice the obvious things happening around you.
Hanky
Planet Hanky
Planet Hanky is an inner planet. Its quiet small; about ¼ the size of Earth. This hard rock planet has a beautiful shiny pink surface, but deep down it has the same characteristic that Earth has. It has a core filled with lava that very, very hot. The lava is bright neon blue, like the color you see in a fires flame. It oozes with all different shades of oranges and yellows; like the colors of macaroni and cheese, just more vibrant. Hanky does not have any rings but it has a very high density.
Hanky has one of the shortest revolutions for any discovered planet so far. It revolves around the sun in just a whopping 6 days. Its rotation is very slow. It rotates two times per every revolution. This means one day on Hanky is three days on Earth. This also means that it does not have time for seasons. This means that it experiences the same weather all time. Hanky also has no moons. Its atmosphere is mad of Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide, Oxygen, Helium and Sodium. It has a very large atmostphere that keeps out meteorites and traps in the heat. Hanky is very hot.
Solar System
Where have you learned about the solar system? Home? School? Somewhere else? What have you remembered or learned? Which of the planets besides Earth interests you the most? Why? What do you already know about this planet? What are you interested in learning more about? Answer this question on your blog as we prepare to explore the solar system!
I have a Grandmother who loves the stars, and too look up at them during the summer up at our lake house all the time. That is bassicly the only time I have ever learned about the solar system. Even during this I didn’t learn much, because all I did was lay on my back and look for shooting stars. I guess I have started to learn about it more this year though, which is a good thing I think.
One thing I remember my grandma telling me is that stars arn’t really star shaped as we have learned to draw them. Those are just symbols. Stars really are apperently fire balls up in space. I also learned what shooting stars are, but I forget what causes them.
I’m not really that interested in planets, but I would say that I like Mars the most besides Earth. I have no idea why I like it the most. I guess I just like the fact that people say alians live there. Even though I know for a fact alians don’t live there, it’s just cool to think about. I really only know one thing about this planet, and I’m not even sure that its correct. I have learned that it is bright red.
Some things that I would like to learn about the solar system is how it works, and how many other galexies there are. That sounds like something really interesting. I would like to learn more about spefic featers of planets, rather then the rotation and kind of stuff that we learned about the moon. That is too confusing.
The Man on the Moon
On Monday and Tuesday in Science we watched a movie on the moon. I learned many interesting facts about our moon, and also other moons in general.
One thing I learned was that over 150 moons populate our solar system! The planet of Neptune has 13 moons, Saturn has 48, Jupiter has 92, and Earth has just 1. Earths moon is the largest however in its relation to its hosts. To get to the moon it would take about a 3 day flight, because it is 234,000 miles away. The size of the moon is roughly about 1/4 of earths diameter. If you were to spend one day on the moon, it would be about the month of February on Earth. Moon is also very dangerous for 3 main reasons. One being that there isn’t any air. Another one being that sense there is no air, there are no air molecules to scatter light around, causing it to be dark all the time. One last reason why it’s dangerous is because it has extreme temperatures ranging from 270 degrees during the day, to -240 degrees at night. On moon, there isn’t much color except for grays. Traveling to the moon is a hazard because of the space vacuum. Meteorites hit the moon all the time causing it to create craters in the soft dust/sand. When the meteorite hits the moon, it can send sand/dust 900 miles. The sand/dust is so fine in some parts, that you can leave a footprint. The moon is like Earth in one way, but different in another. The moon does have mountains of all sizes like Earth, but one major difference is that it doesn’t have tectonic plates. Moon however isn’t just a “thing of cheese” in the sky. It has a purpose. The moon is responsible for the rise and fall of ocean tides. It pulls Earths water towards the moon. Moon also stabilizes Earth’s climate, and keeps Earths tilt which causes the seasons.
2 Seasons
The longest day of the year for Reading Ma, is June 19 with 15.1 hours of daylight. The shortest day of the year for Reading Ma is December 19 with 8.9 hours of daylight. Reading receives exactly 12 hours of daylight on September 20 and on March 21. The most amount of sunlight that Reading receives is 15.1 hours. The least amount of sunlight that Reading receives is 8.9 hours. The graph is pretty similar to the data I received in class, with a few exceptions. At latitude of 66.6 degrees people start to get 24 hours of daylight and darkness. This occurs because that part of earth either always has the sun shining on them, and then after that, they don’t have the sun shining on them at all. At 90 degrees (north and south) for half the year they experience sunlight 24/7 and for the other half of the year, the experience darkness 24/7. In summer Reading receives more heat on one area so it receives more heat. The lower the sun is, the less concentrated it is, so it becomes cooler. The higher the sun is, the more concentrated it is, so it becomes warmer. When the sun hits the tropic of cancer, everywhere to the north it is summer. The closer you are to the equator the hotter it is. The tropics receive the most heat, then the mid latitudes and then the poles which are the coldest. Winter has less than 10 hours or sunlight when summer has more than that. Some places have sun at a angle while others have it directly above them.
(Latitude 1: 65.1 degrees south:) At 65.1 degrees south on December 21 these people experience 21.2 hours of day light. This is the most amount of sunlight they get in 1 year. The least amount of sunlight the get is on July 19. On this day these people only receive 2.8 hours. As the year goes on, the days get longer, but around the end of December they days shorten. The days start getting longer on June 27. (Latitude 2: 65.1 degrees north 
This day is exactly the opposite of 65.1 degrees south. They have their longest day on June 21 at 21.2 hours, and their shortest day is December 21 with 2.8 hours f sunlight. At this day the days start to get longer than the previous, and on June 22 the days start to get shorter than the previous day.
