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Great Balls of Fire! Opens As Dawn Approaches Vesta

Large Exhibit (3000 sq. ft) Ever wonder about the origins of comets, asteroids, and May 28 - December 31, 2011 meteors? Or what they tell us Science Museum of Virginia about Earth? As NASA's Richmond, Virginia Dawn spacecraft approaches the asteroid Vesta to begin a February 1 - April 30, 2012 The interactive "Asteroid Encounter" game lets year-long orbit, these OPEN kids (and adults!) climb into an asteroid shaped questions will be in the news. pod and blast off to the Asteroid Belt, and catch a Visitors to the Great Balls of Small Exhibit (750 sq. ft) glimpse of a comet before it smashes into Jupiter. Fire! exhibition, which opened (Photo Credit: National Center for Interactive at the Science Museum of Sept. 1, 2011 - May 31, 2012 Learning at the Space Science Institute) Virginia on May 28th, are Tyler Community College Planetarium already exploring these Tyler, Texas mysterious space rocks through hands-on activities, Contact Lisa Curtis computer-based interactives, [email protected] meteorite specimens, scale or visit models, and an immersive www.greatballsoffireexhibit.org audio-visual experience. to learn more!

Technology Centers (ASTC), Catawba Science Center, New Mexico Museum of Giant Worlds Tour Schedule Natural History and Science, Only One Date Left!! and the NASA Dawn and WISE Missions. Funding for February 2011 - August 2011 this project is provided by the Lafayette Natural History Museum and National Science Foundation.

Planetarium These students gathered around the "Impacts For information on hosting this Lafayette, Louisiana Test Videos" interactive are able to use a Spin exhibit, please contact Lisa Browser to slow down and speed up high speed Curtis, Exhibits Manager, October 1 - December 31, 2011 projectiles to better understand what happens [email protected] and OPEN when these objects hit their targets. (Photo be sure to visit Credit: National Center for Interactive Learning) www.greatballsoffireexhibit.org Contact Lisa Curtis and www.killerasteroids.org [email protected] or visit Teacher and Educator www.giantworlds.org Workshops a Big Success! to learn more NCIL provided two workshops for the (Below) Students interacting with the Science Museum of Virginia, to coincide "Gravity Lab" in the Giant Worlds with the opening of the Great Balls of Fire exhibit (Photo Credit: National Center exhibit. NCIL Director Paul Dusenbery, for Interactive Learning) along with Erin Graves of the Catawba Science Center and Suzy Gurton of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, provided a workshop for museum educators. This workshop focused on interpreting the science content of the exhibit, and highlighted the traveling cart (Above) Teachers participating in that can be used anywhere in the the Educator Workshop at the museum to get people interested in the Science Museum of Virginia make exhibit. This cart contains materials "comets" (dirty snowballs) using developed by the Catawba Science Center dry ice. This activity was education staff and middle school aged presented by Erin Graves of the volunteers. Catawba Science Center, along Dusenbery and Graves (with the help of with two members of Catawba's two of her museum volunteers) also SAT (Student Advisor Team) group. provided a workshop for teachers and (Photo Credit: National Center for local astronomy club members. This Interactive Learning) focused on activities that can be done in the classroom to promote state learning standards related to the exhibit. Elizabeth Warner of the EPOXI outreach time also gave a presentation about comets to the teachers, and provided them with materials for their classrooms.

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