Planet Impact
Teacher Page: Grab Bag
Index:
Downloadable Documents for the Lesson
Other Resources Related to the Lesson
Other Resources Available at the Institute
Other Resources Available Outside the Institute
Books and Other Printed Material
Downloadable Documents for Lesson
Customize your lesson! Below you will find the images and icons used in the lesson. Use them to create your own interactive lessons and overhead transparencies.
Other resources related to the lesson:
One of the unique features of using the World Wide Web is the ability to move quickly and easily to other links of related topics. If you find an appropriate related link, don't forget to bookmark it for later use. These related links can play an important role in enhancing your lesson. You can use them to gather research information, learn the latest current events information, and introduce or follow up a specific lesson module. Here are some Web pages that relate to the topic.
Other resources available at the Space Telescope Science Institute:
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9:
- Home Page for Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 images and captions: http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/Comet.html
- Hubble Observations Shed New Light on Jupiter Collision – press release September 29, 1994 http://hubble.stsci.edu/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1994/48/text/
- Hubble Investigates Comet on a Collision Course With Jupiter http://hubble.stsci.edu/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1993/22/text/
Space Science-Related Sites:
- NASA's Space Science Education Resource Directory – This Directory is a convenient way to find NASA space science products (including websites and PDF files) for use in classrooms: http://teachspacescience.stsci.edu/
- Explore the myths and legends of Comets, make a comet, and catch a comet by its tail, or collect Solar System Trading Cards as you learn more about the objects in the solar system: http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/
- Read about the science instruments and mission operations of the Hubble Space Telescope: http://www.stsci.edu/hst/
- Find the current orbital position of the Hubble telescope: http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/RealTime/Jtrack/welcome.html
- Find out how and where to get materials for classroom use: http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/edugroup/resources.html
- Find more Hubble photographs and captions: http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/subject.html
Other resources available outside the Space Telescope Science Institute:
Below you will find a vast amount of information regarding comets, space science, and the crash of Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter. The information comes from sources other than STScI.
Some of the resources are quite in-depth, and it is easy to get lost. We suggest that you bookmark this page before you examine each source. That way, should you get lost, you can simply use the bookmark to get back to this list of resources.
Since other parties run these sites, there is no way of guaranteeing their stability. You may occasionally find a site "under construction," or you may find that a site is completely gone. There is no way to control such occurrences because the sites are not controlled by the Space Telescope Science Institute.
This page is only a fraction of the information available throughout the Web. If you do not find what you are looking for here, GO FIND IT!! (http://www.yahoo.com/ )
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9:
- Home Pages for Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 images and captions, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/
- Goddard Space Flight Center: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/comet.html
- National Optical Astronomy Observatories: http://www.noao.edu/sl9/sl-9.html
- University of Arizona: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/sl9/sl9.html
- European Southern Observatory: http://www.eso.org/outreach/info-events/sl9/
- Frequently Asked Questions about the collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter:
- Galileo spacecraft collision observations: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/galileo2.html
- Shoemaker-Levy Teacher's Guide – A guide from JPL on the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter for science teachers, including good introductory material on comets: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/sl9/Educator/toc.html
- Analysis and interpretation six months after the crash of SL-9 on Jupiter: http://www.amara.com/sl9/sl9.html
- Hubble Observations Shed New Light on Jupiter Collision – a press release containing details of the impact: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/hst_obs.html
- Interview with David Levy: http://www.cnn.com/books/dialogue/9805/levy.chat/index.html
- Gene Shoemaker's Obituary from the USGS: http://wwwflag.wr.usgs.gov/USGSFlag/Space/Shoemaker/GeneObit.html
Other Websites related to COMETS and ASTEROIDS:
- STARDUST mission – first US mission dedicated to a comet. This is the home page with links to the education section: http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/
- Deep Impact Home Page – The first look inside a comet! - NASA Mission to expose fresh material from inside a comet: http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/
- Exploratorium Magazine online article on Comet Hale-Bopp: http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/space/index.html
- Comets and Meteor Showers – news and information, professional and amateur observations, and historical research on comets and meteors sponsored by the American Meteor Society: http://comets.amsmeteors.org/
- Comets into the Sun – movies from SOHO (SOlar And Heliospheric Observatory): http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/comets/SOHO_sungrazers.html
- Department of Astronomy from the University of Florida and the Florida Space Grant Consortium Multimedia Presentation on comets (can be found in solar system section): http://www.astro.ufl.edu/public/multimedia/
- Theories on the formation of the earth and moon due to impacts by other bodies: http://zebu.uoregon.edu/1996/ph123/l11.html
- Near-Earth Object Program: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/neo/
- Asteroids and Comets from the National Space Science Data Center: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/asteroidpage.html
- Planetary Science Research Discoveries – density of asteroids: http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/PSRdiscoveries/Aug99/asteroidDensity.html
- The Nine Planets: Information on Jupiter, comets, and Shoemaker-Levy 9: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html#toc
- Incredible Edible Comet – Students will learn about what a comet is made of by making a comet out of ice cream and other edible items: http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/classroom/educators.html
- Comet Cratering – Using flour, cocoa, and balls of different sizes, students will discover what happens when "impactors" hit the surface of a planet: http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/classroom/educators.html
- Windows to the Universe, Satellites and Space Weather: Facts About Satellites: "What does falling have to do with orbits?" and "The heart of satellite orbits explain the mechanics of orbits": http://www.windows.ucar.edu/spaceweather/effects1.html
- Microgravity teachers' guide, a PDF file: http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/Curriculum.Support/Physical.Science/Microgravity/Microgravity/
- NASA news brief: "Microgravity – Fall into Mathematics," a PDF file that contains three challenges for students to "try this": http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/NASA.Educational.Products/Microgravity-Fall.Into.Mathematics/
- Teachers' guide to the Mathematics of Microgravity: http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/NASA.Educational.Products/Mathematics.of.Microgravity/
- 1908 Siberian Explosion- Reconstructing an Asteroid Impact from Eyewitness Accounts: http://www.psi.edu/projects/siberia/siberia.html
- TUNGUSKA: The Cosmic Mystery of the Century: http://www.usm.maine.edu/~planet/tung.html
Space Science-Related Sites
- NASA Educator Resource Centers by State is a list of who to contact for NASA materials: http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Educational.Services/How.to.Access.Information/erc_state.html
- Answers to almost any science question: http://www.madsci.org
- Spacelink: An Aeronautics and Space Resource for Education: http://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov/.index.html
- NASA Home Page: http://www.nasa.gov/
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific: http://www.aspsky.org/education.html
- The Planetary Society: http://planetary.org/
- StarChild – A Learning Center for Young Astronomers: http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html
- Laugh and Learn: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/kids/
Books and Other Printed Material
Books
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Project ASTRO Resource Notebook – Background: Comets and Meteors. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, CA. http://www.astrosociety.org/education/astro/project_astro.html
- Brandt, J. and R. Chapman. Rendezvous in Space: The Science of Comets. W. H. Freeman, 1992.
- Fraknoi, Andrew (Editor). The Universe at Your Fingertips. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1995. Contains several comet activities such as "Make a Model Comet" or a comet flip book. http://www.aspsky.org/astro/universe.html
- Gehrels, T. Hazards Due to Comets and Asteroids. University of Arizona Press, 1994.
- Hall, Louis B. Searching for Comets: Deciphering the Secrets of Our Cosmic Past. McGraw-Hill, 1989
- Hawkins, Gerald S. The Physics and Astronomy of Meteors, Comets and Meteorites. McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1990
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Stardust Outreach Team, Challenger Center for Space Science Education, The Jason Foundation for Education, and The Kirkpatrick Science and Air and Space Museum at Omniplex. Think Small in a Big Way. NASA. 1999. The STARDUST Educator's Guide is provided in PDF-file format, and you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 or later installed on your computer to read the files. http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/classroom/educators.html
- Krupp, E. Beyond the Blue Horizon. Harper Collins, 1991.
- Levy, David H. Comets: Creators and Destroyers. Simon & Schuster.1998
- Levy, David H. IMPACT JUPITER The Crash of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Plenum Press, 1995.
- Levy, David H. The Quest for Comets. Plenum Press, 1994.
- Noll, Keith S., H. Weaver, and P. Feldman. The Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
- Sagan, Carl & A. Druyan. Comet. Random House, 1985.
- Sipiera, Paul P, Sipiera, Paul B.. Comets and Meteor Showers. Children's Press, 1997
- Schaaf, Fred. Comet of the Century. Copernicus Books, 1997
- Spencer, John R. and J. Mitton. The Great Comet Crash: The Impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter. The Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge,1995
- Shu, Frank H. The Physical Universe: an Introduction to Astronomy. University Science Books, 1982.
- Yeomans, D. Comets: A Chronological History. J. Wiley, 1991.
Books for Children Grades 5 to 8
- Asimov, Isaac. Comets and Meteors. Gareth Stevens, 1990.
- Bendick, J. Comets and Meteors: Visitors from Space. Millbrook Press, 1991.
- Darling, D. Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids. Dillon Press, 1984.
- Davis, D. & D Yeomans. Distant Planets. Fact on File, 1989.
- Dexter, Planet (Editor), This Book Really Sucks: The Science behind Gravity, Flight Leeches, Black Holes, Tornadoes, Our Friend the Vacuum Cleaner, and Most Everything, Putnam Publishing Group, 1999
- Harry Gilbert and Diana Gilbert Smith, Gravity: The Glue of the Universe, Teacher Ideas Press, 1997
- Kerrod, Robin. Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors, Lerner Publishing Group, 2000
- Simon, Seymour. Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids. Morrow Junior Books, 1998.
- Sipiera, Paul P, Sipiera, Paul B.. Comets and Meteor Showers. Children's Press, 1997
- Wiese, Jim. Cosmic Science: Over 40 Gravity-Defying, Earth-Orbiting, Space-Cruising Activities for Kids, Wiley, John & Sons, 1997
Booklets
- Weaver, Hal (editor). Abstracts for IAU Colloquium 156: The Collision of Comet D/Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter. International Astronomical Union and hosted by Space Telescope Science Institute and the Johns Hopkins University.
Magazine Articles
Astronomy Magazine
- June 1987 – "Search for the Primitive"
- December 1987 – "How to Discover a Comet"
- September 1990 – "Where Do Comets Come From?"
- August 1992 – Near-Earth Objects: Interplanetary Fugitives"
- November 1992 – "The Cosmic Origins of Life on Earth"
- October 1994 – "Death of a Comet"
- November 1994 – "Jupiter's Smash Hit"
- October 1995 – "Target: Earth"
- May 1995 – "Making Sense of Shoemaker-Levy 9"
- April 1996 – "The Day the Dinosaurs Died"
Sky and Telescope Magazine
- October 1987 –"What to Do if You Discover a Comet"
- March 1990 –"Target Earth: It Will Happen"
- January 1993 –"Comets at the Solar System's Edge"
- July 1993 –"Pearls on a String"
- July 1993 – "Comet Swift-Tuttle: Worth the Wait"
- March 1994 –"Life From the Stars?"
- January 1994 –"Awaiting the Crash"
- October 1994 –"The Great Crash of 1994: A First Report"
- November 1994 –"The Great Dark Spots of Jupiter"
Nature Magazine
- Issue 365, 1993. "Estimate of the size of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 from a tidal break-up model"
Science Magazine
- Volume 267, March 3, 1995. "Comet Shoemaker-Levy"
- Volume 275, January 17, 1992. "Blast from the Past"
The Universe in the Classroom Magazine
- Issue No. 36, Fall 1996. "Monster Comet Promises Big Show"
Scientific American
- Volume 281, Number 1, July 1999. "Life's Far-Flung Raw Materials"
NASA Fact Sheets
- "Project Galileo: Mission to Jupiter" from JPL, Pasadena, CA 99109
Contact your local NASA Educator Resource Center at: http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/NASA.Educational.Products/Accessing.NASA.Education.Brochure/erc_state.html
Press Kit
- Landis, Rob. "Comet D/Shoemaker-Levy 9's Collision with Jupiter: Planned Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope": http://www.seds.org/ftp/astro/SL9/info/landis_sl9v2.txt
Audiovisual Materials
- "Cosmic Catastrophes" – poster from Hansen Planetarium available through The Image Exchange at http://imageexchange.com/posters/hansen/2895.shtml
- "The Impact Catastrophe that Ended the Mesozoic Era" – software for the Mac from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
- "Meteorites" – two videotapes from European television and distributed by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
- "Terrestrial Impact Craters" – set of 40 enlarged images and captions based on slides from Science Graphics available at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/slidesets/craters.html
- "The Third Planet" – an episode in the Miracle Planet TV series from Ambrose Video or the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Slides
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, CA
415-337-2624- Finley-Holiday Film Corp., Whitter, CA
1-800-345-6707- NASA Core, Oberlin, OH
216-774-1051 (ext. 293/294)- Newel Colour Lab, Los Angeles, CA
213-380-2980- Space Images – images available for a cost from http://www.spaceimages.com
1-800-877-8915