PDF-(BOOS)-American Eclipse: A Nation\'s Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win

In the scorching summer of 1878 with the Gilded Age in its infancy three tenacious and brilliant scientists raced to Wyoming and Colorado to observe a rare total solar eclipse One sought to discover a new planet Anotheran adventuresome female astronomerfought to prove that science was not anathema to femininity And a young megalomaniacal inventor with the tabloid press fast on his heels sought to test his scientific bona fides and light the world through his revelations David Baron brings to threedimensional life these three competitorsJames Craig Watson Maria Mitchell and Thomas Edisonand thrillingly recreates the fierce jockeying of nineteenthcentury American astronomy With spellbinding accounts of train robberies and Indian skirmishes the mythologized age of the last days of the Wild West comes alive as never before A magnificent portrayal of Americas dawn as a scientific superpower American Eclipse depicts a young nation that looked to the skies to reveal its towering ambition and expose its latent genius. Phases are different views of the Moon’s sunlit half. The Lunar phases are the lit & unlit portions of the moon you see from Earth.. Light from the sun reflected by the Moon’s surface. The Moon’s position in its monthly orbit determines how it appears from Earth.. Solar Eclipse. Occurs when the Moon is positioned between the Sun and Earth and all are in complete alignment. Occurs during a . NEW. Moon. The Moon’s shadow falls on a portion of the Earth. The Geometry of a Solar Eclipse. =. By: Rama.. SOLAR ECLIPSE. A. . solar. . eclipse. . occurs. . when. . the. . moon. . comes. . in. . between. . the. . sun and earth. .. The moon comes in straight line with the earth and sun.. Solar Eclipse. Solar Eclipse. A . solar eclipse . happens when the moon blocks the light from the Sun from reaching the Earth. People who live in the . umbra. of the moon’s shadow see a . total eclipse. lit up by the Sun?. Half the Moon is always. lit by the Sun. Except . . .. When the Earth’s shadow hits the Moon we have a …….. Lunar Eclipse. Eclipses. Solar Eclipse—the moon moves in a line directly between the Earth and sun. Sixth Grade: Unit 6. What are eclipses?. Although the Sun, our moon and the Earth itself are revolving around each other we are usually not revolving in the same . plane. (all lined up). But . occasionally . Moon Vocabulary. Lunar . maria. . Spring tide. N. eap . tide . R. ays . Sidereal . period . S. ynodic . period . W. aning . Waxing. Apogee. Perigee. Moon info in the textbook:. P39-41. p248-249. p285-287. The . Sun. Is HOT!!!. The sun is an . average . star . The heat and light are the result of . Nuclear Reactions . constantly taking place in the sun.. It is in the . center. of our solar system. . Comparison . Unit 3. : The Moon. 1. Objectives. To be able to describe the phenomenon of how a lunar eclipse occurs.. To be able to apply what they already know about the moons orbit to this “special case.”. To apply what they know about the wavelengths of light to the appearance of the moon during the eclipse. . 1. st. period. Solar Eclipse. Moon comes in between the Earth and Sun; annually (1x a year)- blocks sun. Can see the top layer of the sun (corona). Penumbra + Umbra (2 shadows). Most eclipses are partial eclipses. Tilt of the earth. What is a hemisphere- what 2 hemispheres are there?. Why do we experience seasons?. Indirect/ Direct sunlight (heat and energy)?. Diagrams of seasons- when/where/why/ which hemisphere? . August 21, 2017. High School. On August 21, 2017, we will experience a solar eclipse. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon is in the new moon phase and travels between the Earth and the Sun. As the moon moves between the Earth and the Sun, the shadow blocks all or some of the sun’s light, causing the sky to be increasingly dark.. Tilted on an axis (N-S pole) 23.5 degrees. Earth moves in space two major ways. Rotation. - spinning of Earth on its axis. West to East, 15 degrees per hour or once per day, counterclockwise. This causes day and night—half the Earth is always lit and have it always dark. and. Eclipses. Phases. Eclipses. The Moon. The moon’s appearance changes significantly over the period of a "month" (to be carefully defined later). Shines by reflected sunlight. What we see depends on geometry of the Earth-Moon-Sun system..