From: wee_j@mail.uwlax.edu (Jan Wee): News from the Ukraine!!!
From: wee_j@mail.uwlax.edu (Jan Wee): URGENT... the broadcast is on at 1pm eastern as originally scheduled
From: dianes@halcyon.com (Diane Smith): Reta's images and a gentle reminder :-)
From: wee_j@mail.uwlax.edu (Jan Wee): LATE BREAKING NEWS: NASA-TV and Note from Bill Gutsch
From: Ruth Wahl
From: Jan Wee
From: Cathy Peterson
From: Margaretha Gebhart
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From: wee_j@mail.uwlax.edu (Jan Wee): News from the Ukraine!!!
Dear discuss-hst members,
News from the Ukraine from Bill Gutsch:
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Hi everyone ! This is Bill Gutsch again. I am very excited to say that we have received our first comments on LFHST from students who will be participating from the city of Donetsk in the Ukraine. Plot that on your classroom maps !!
Donetsk is a city with a population of about 1,000,000 people but because of difficulties with the availablity of Internet terminals in Ukraine and the cost of both sending and receiving E-mail, I will be serving as the primary link back and forth for them.
The students are from middle school N 54 in Donetsk, a school that is close to the Donetsk Planetarium which is helping to coordinate this project there. The planetarium Director is my friend Ms. Irina Filippova. The students' comments will be relayed to me through Irina's husband Dr. Alexander (Sasha) Filippova who works as a senior scientist at the nearby Donetsk Physics & Technology Institute. There is only one Internet terminal for all the scientists to share at the Institute and none at the school or planetarium so that is why we are going by this route. Everyone there is very excited about being part of LFHST. They say for them, it is like a dream to be able to do something like this. So please make them welcome. I will be pleased to relay any greetings which appear on discuss-hst to them.
So now, our first couple of comments translated (literally) into English.
"In planetarium, I saw very nice photo of planet Neptune. On blue sky of this planet, the white clouds run, like they do on our earth. I love this planet most of all and would like to know more about it."
Natasha Povolotska, Class 10-b
"I think that at current moment most attention in solar system should be paid to planet Pluto. No space apparatus (spacecraft) visited before and there will not be any to end of this century. So, it is interesting to have good pictures the Pluto and its satellite Charon. We can look for changes in its surface because of changes in amount of sunlight or wind."
Dmitrii Anikeev, Class 10-a
I will try to send them a copy of LFHST Program # 1 soon. I also hope to hear from other students in Greece, Russia and Japan before long. More comments as they arrive.
Dr. Bill Gutsch
LFHST
Smoke Rise, NJ
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Jan Wee, moderator of discuss-hst
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From: wee_j@mail.uwlax.edu (Jan Wee): URGENT... the broadcast is on at 1pm eastern as originally scheduled
Dear discuss-hst,
Well, we apologize again...."The Great Planet Debate" is on right now and it is 12:15pm central!!! Please adjust if you can.... I hope that there will be re-broadcasts at 4pm, 7pm, 10pm eastern but you will need keep your eye on NASA-TV!
Jan Wee, discuss-hst moderator
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From: dianes@halcyon.com (Diane Smith): Reta's images and a gentle reminder :-)
At 07:58 PM 12/7/95 -0600, Jan Wee wrote:
>I promise to quit posting so much... I will try to quit getting so excited... >NOT.
Jan, I have had a most fabulous day watching and listening and chatting about the events at Jupiter. I posted to discuss-jup but wanted to say Don't worry about posting. I am so excited that I can't quit either. Boy howdy, I forgot the kids!!
Diane R. Smith
Seattle, WA
dianes@halcyon.com
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From: wee_j@mail.uwlax.edu (Jan Wee): LATE BREAKING NEWS: NASA-TV and Note from Bill Gutsch
Dear discuss-hst members,
I just received word that NASA-TV must adjust their schedule due to the priority demands of the Jupiter probe broadcasts....
PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE...
"The Great Planet Debate" will be re-broadcast at 1:30pm EASTERN
time, not 1:00pm as previously noted. This program is one hour
long. We do not know if the program will be re-broadcast throughout
the day as the Jupiter probe will pre-empt regularly scheduled
broadcasts.
C-Band : Spacenet 2, 69 degrees West, Transponder 5
Remember, you can order the video from NASA-Core. Call 216-774-1051 for specific details on ordering.
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Also, a note from Bill Gutsch:
If you are having trouble connecting with the main Galileo home page on the web, try:
http://newproducts.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/countdown
You also might have the students take a look at image #STScI-PRC95-35 from the STScI Home Page. It shows four of the Galilean satellites in full color! Also, you might want to look at #STScI-PRC9537 which shows the new giant volcanic outburst on Io. These images may also prove interesting in light of the Galileo story which is hot right now. Remember, the first satellite encounter is Ganymede as Galileo streaks within about 300 hundred miles of the surface on the 4th of July, 1996.
Jan Wee, moderator of discuss-hst
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From: Ruth Wahl
Hello! Our eight grade class would like the HST to take pictures of Pluto. Some of the reasons we have chosen Pluto are that we will not get another chance to look at this planet for another 240 years. Also, we know more about the other planets than we do about Pluto. We hope to see changes as it moves away from the sun.
Lisa Abraham
Tim Ault
Yasamin Alwan
Allegany Limestone Central School
Allegany, NYWestern New York
Ruth Wahl BitNet:(RWahl@Erie)
science teacher______Internet: (RWahl@Erie.WNYRIC.ORG.)
Allegany-Limestone Central School
Allegany, NY 14706_______phone (716) 373-0060
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From: Jan Wee
discuss-hst members,
We are 2 ninth grade students from Kane Area High School in Kane, PA,(41 3/4 degrees north, 78 7/8 degrees west.) Our names are Joe Farnsworth and Matt Davis. We are in the enrichment program in Kane, PA. Our teacher is Diane Miller.
We are voting for Pluto because not that much is known about the planet. We not sure if there are any good pictures of Pluto, but the ones we have seen are unclear. Jupiter seems to be the best choice but Galileo is already observing the planet. We known that the pictures of Pluto may not be very good, but they will be better than the ones we have now.
Matt and Joe from Mrs. Miller's class
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From: Cathy Peterson
Mrs. Peterson's fifth-grade class, at Mead Valley Elementary School, in Perris, CA has reached the concensus that the Hubble should observe Pluto, especially because of its proximity to the sun at this time.
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From: Margaretha Gebhart
I would like to learn more about the planet Pluto because we don't hear or read much about it. Pluto seems like one of those lonely left out planets. All we really know about Pluto is that it is the coldest and farthest planet. We do not know if there are any signs that there might have once been life there, nor do we no if it was a moon or truly a planet.
Beulah Joslin, Grade 8, Wilson Middle School, Muncie, Indiana
---------- Margaretha Gebhart
Email:gebh0400@spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov
