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SPOILER!!: those who opted to keep their observations to parchment <3

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Wait what....?

O_O

Tomorrow? After his classes? The Professor's Office? He...he was in trouble wasn't he? There wasn't the faintest hint of a smile on the man's face as he so obviously watched the floating quill and notepad still actively at work. But...but WHAT DID HE DO?? HE ANSWERED ALL THE QUESTIONS AND RAISED HIS HANDS AND THE MAN COULDN'T READ WHAT WAS WRITTEN FROM ALL THE WAY OVER THERE.

BREATHE.

He was in trouble, huge trouble, major trouble and without knowing why, there was no way for him to try smooth talking his way OUT of it. It was all that Captain talk, he must have thought he was working at a mutiny--or well he didn't KNOW. He didn't know anything anymore and his big brown eyes got even bigger. "I didn't mean to, Professor." Mean to what, Bellaire? Specifics! But he didn't HAVE specifics which just meant lots of scared looks and watery eyes and fast heart beats. The man was his Head of House, getting into trouble with him must have been ten times worse (cause Airey was his plan B in the event he got in trouble with OTHER Professors, NOW HE HAD NO PLAN B).

The boy was scared silent, not even the collision below could bring him back, in fact, the answers being requested? All scribbled down silently. If he didn't make any sudden sounds...maybe...maybe the Professor would forget all about him and any meeting he now had planned. It was worth a shot.

SPOILER!!: Normal Scribbled Notes
1. Dwayne Johnson made the biggest hole in the sand.
2. The only difference between all three was how big they were.
3. How heavy a rock/meteorite is determines the impact and damage once it collides into another structure so the heavier and bigger they are is the bigger the crater will be.
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...Stellar? Paulina had never heard one before. She liked it. Heh.

Smiling, she continued to update her notes as more information was shared. Pretty basic stuff so far as the terminology wasn't all that complex. Things were probably going to get more complicated, but she was going to enjoy this while it lasted.

Curiously she watched the little demonstration as it unfolded before adding the answers to his questions to her notes:

SPOILER!!: Paulina's Notes
1. Dwayne Johnson created the largest crater.
2. The only difference is the fact that the rocks vary in size.
3. The bigger/heavier a meteorite is, the bigger the crater.


Looking over her work, Paulina was pretty sure her work was correct. These were the logical answers after all. At least in her mind.
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Austin grinned at his two thumbs up. It didn't get him any points, but it still meant he did a good job. If he wanted to gain points, he really was going to have to impress the Admiral. For now he copied the blackboard, making sure to add the small foot hands. He was going to need to remember these names later.

SPOILER!!: Austin's notes
The difference all comes down to a question of location. Each are made of the same basic materials – minerals and rock – and each originated in space.

asteroid
A large rocky body in space, in orbit around the Sun. Asteroids are always found in space.
meteoroids
meterOID is in the VOID
A much smaller rocks or particles in orbit around the Sun.
meteors
meteOR above you SOARs
If a meteoroid or asteroid enters the Earth’s atmosphere and vaporizes, it becomes a meteor, which is often mislabeled a shooting star.
meteorites
meteorITE is in your SIGHT
If an asteroid or large meteoroid survives its fiery passage through the Earth’s atmosphere and lands on Earth’s surface, it is then called a meteorite.


After that, he watched as the Admiral let three different rocks fall to the ground. The more he sat in this lesson, the more he wished he could have one. It would be so cool to keep a pet rock in your pocket. I wonder what they eat? Since he wasn't up for making himself known to the world, he decided it was best to write down his answer on paper.



He looked down at the sand again. That was a lot of sand for such a small demonstration. Hopefully the Admiral wasn't going to let any of them fall to the ground like that. Sand may work against pet rocks, but not with humans.
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Commander Saenz. She liked that title. Ehem. She would be telling that to Matt on her next letter. Victoria saluted back, grinned wide because of the little detail, and listened to the rest of her classmates' answers. Amazing, thumbs up. These kids were so cute.

And so they met Rockanne, Flint, and Dwayne Johnson. Yes, like the action movie star. They were to be dropped. Flick...and down they went onto the sand little-lot. Victoria looked down at the collisions. It was cool, interesting how gravity laws deeply applied here.

Million thoughts, in her head, needed to be scribbled down...

SPOILER!!: Vicky's notes

Uno/One. Dwayne Johnson, seeming has the greater mass due to its size, created the greater crater. Also adding the fact that meteorites have a greater mass due to the increased mineral content. Just side notes.
Dos/Two. Difference lies maybe in the shape of the crater, like as if the craters looked like a donut, pancake, etc.
Tres/Three. The greater the mass, the bigger the crater will be...?


Maybe she would wait for other people to participate this time. So, she closed down her notebook and wished she had brought her camera with her to class.
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His answer was acceptable for which Benny was grateful. The response to him had certainly been far more easier to accept than the loud ones he had to the likes of a certain firstie, or clearly annoyed at the antics of Dot. Seeing what was being added to the blackboard, he copied it down onto his note. It was better then dwelling on the implication on the meanings of the various reactions.

And then there was the new pet rocks they were all introduced to, all three larger then the usual offering. That still didn't intice Benny to be interested in housing one of them in his own future menagerie. Besides, they were better used as props in class demonstrations, the craters now present in the sandy ground beneath them on the floor clear proof of that. The seventh year did as was asked, carefully leaning over in his seat to look down upon them more closely, finally straightening up and working on his answers to the posed questions.

SPOILER!!: Answers

1. The largest rock created the largest crater.
2. The size of the crater formation is the only difference.
3. The more mass an object or asteroid has, the stronger the impact and the deeper the crater.

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And more notes to take down.

Hady switched hands with her quill giving herself a few seconds to flex her fingers. All this writing was making her fingers cramp up. She'd have to deal with that later on though as more writing was required now. Once more holding her quill in her writing hand she went back to quickly taking down her notes.

When she heard something about rocks and their names her gaze swung over to where Professor Airey was. Dwayne Johnson. As in The Rock? Nice going Professor. This got a grin out of the fourth year and she couldn't help but laugh quietly to herself thinking about the name of her pet rock. Elvis. Names were important.

Anyhow she needed to pay attention and cease her writing for a second in order to watch the demonstration happening. Leaning forward a little to look downwards she watched the three rocks plummet to the floor below. Still looking downwards she began to write on her parchment once more.

SPOILER!!: Answers
The rock named Dwayne Johnson made the bigger crater. I think this is mostly do to him being the largest of the three rocks and most likely the speed with which he fell and hit the ground.


It made sense to her at least. The bigger something was the harder it usually fell right? And if something was to slam into something else at a greater speed a bigger impact was made then if it was going much slower. If she was right she'd find out. Most likely there was more to it but yeah she wasn't all that sure on it all.

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Really quite clever. "That's my middle name, professor." Sophie REALLY QUITE CLEVER Brown, didn't he know? And the rhyming thing wasn't an original thing, certainly he knew that, so she was just kidding around. Nothing wrong with a bit of harmless jesting.

Airey was super cute with the way he offered a disclaimer about the rocks and how they wouldn't be harmed. Adorable, really, his love for the rocks was. Didn't make a lot of sense to her, but it made her smile, so she couldn't really complain. She watched the pseudo!meteors go down and... CRATER IMPACT THING. Not the COOLEST simulation in the world, but entertaining all the same, and since they could answer out LOUD or silently to themselves... Sophie opted to stay silent this time, since loads of others were willing to show off to Airey, but she didn't need to do so. And she also wanted to work it out first. So... the largest rock made the largest crater, and the sizes of the craters depended upon the density of the rocks that fell, right? It was about... the physical size of the crater that made the craters wider, and the mass and density made it deeper? Maybe. Perhaps. Sophie Brown was distracted by Zander's good looks, so her train of thought in processing the information at hand was a bit less than ordinary for her.

Didn't Zander have the best hair? The best smile? The best jawline? He was distracting, too, with the way he kept looking at her.

And THANK YOU FOR THE EXTRA PIP, CHARLOTTE WOJACK-GUSEY.
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Colt was amused he got it wrong. He shrugged it off and knew he wasn't gonna be an astronomer in his near future. He didn't even really care about classes, he was just amazed he even answered in the first place. He heard the Professor ramble on till he heard him yell at Dot who was their prefect. What in the world...? He turned and it seemed she did something the Professor obviously didn't like. He could help but snicker and it would have been something he would done. It seems this girl has got guts. It was genius thought in his opinion. He nodded towards Dot to show he approved.

Now onto the second part of the lesson which was looking at the drawings on the board. He squinted and saw the rocks had names? Seriously...? Why would they need names? They were just rocks after all. At least this time he could write on parchment. Save him the energy. He began to scribble down what he thought the obvious answer was....

SPOILER!!: Parchment


1. The Largest Crater was Dwayne Johnson.
2. The only difference is their size
3. The bigger the mass the larger the whole is gonna be.


There that seemed logical enough. He thought he knew that name Dwayne Johnson from somewhere. Ah well he waited in silence while the other students thought. He was actually thinking around the lines of who else was gonna cause trouble today.
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Okay not that he wasn't normally staring at Soph 'cause this wasn't anything revolutionary, but this time Prof--Admiral Flamsteed noticed. Ahem. The Gryffindor blushed a slight red before taking his eyes off Sophie and looking to the next few who answered. He was gonna stare straight ahead and not even look at her for the entire rest of class. Mhm. That last all about two minutes.

Welp.

The demo was... nothing out of the ordinary. Honestly, Flamsteed was normally a guy of greater dramatics, so it didn't really phase the head boy. He just watched and mentally noted the fact that the bigger rock made the bigger crater. But it was again, nothing revolutionary. 'Cause obviously the bigger they are the harder they fall type thing, right? Plus it'd disperse more sand or whatever. But also, he didn't feel the need to say any of this out loud because others would do that.
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Gases and dust. Sounded like a PARTY. Norah added that to her notes, before turning back to watch the rest of the answers everybody gave. Sophie's rhymes got recorded in extra special glittery ink because those were actually something she might be able to remember. Once her notes were all updated, she leaned forward to get a better look at the falling rocks. It was a good thing he'd made sure they'd be okay, too, 'cause she'd bene wondering before he'd announced it. Was he a mind reader or WHAT?

Okay. So. The biggest rock made the biggest circle thing. That made sense, right? The only real difference was the size and it was all pretty logical, unless Flamsteed was trying to trick them which would just be mean. Then the mass of the rock was probably proportional to the the size of the crater too, 'cause mass and size were pretty much the same...right?
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Well there was at least one or two people who appreciate a horrible joke. But he was pleased it did not earn negative points. Just a laugh and on to the next answer was perfect for Dante. Well a rock named Dwayne Johnson had to be awesome and Dante was no disappointed.

From what he saw it created the biggest crater in surface area and yeah that is all that mattered.

He wrote down that Dwayne Johnson was the peoples champ of rocks so far, and he did not know the next question. So he guesses size and speed of impact. so he wrote that down. And for the third. He wrote important. He only asked what can you say and Dante says it is just important.
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This was working out quite well for Daxton. Though he was already awfully bored with the discussion of rocks and the like, the fact that this was all science was keeping his brain engaged. He could simply sit quietly and work on his notes, and Airey Flamsteed seemed quite content with leaving him be, which Daxton appreciated all the more.

It was the mention of 'three new friends' that had the Ravenclaw looking up from his parchment again, at which point he saw... more rocks. Unsurprising, given the lesson topic, but... the names. Oh, the names.

Why did Airey Flamsteed love to name rocks so much? It reminded Daxton of the people he had heard of who named their cars or other inanimate, non-sentient objects. It made little sense to him; even most animals went throughout their entire lives without names, those in the wild and such, so... why did people love to name objects so much? Baffling.

Of course, none of this was said out loud, though if he had the capacity to talk, no doubt it would have been.

Daxton watched the rocks floating in the air, unnerved by their eyes and feeling as though all three of them were watching him. He felt better when gravity took hold (though there was a brief moment of panic where Daxton suddenly thought that what if Airey Flamsteed accidentally... or on purpose... lifted the spell on the entire class, Daxton included, and they all went plummeting to the floor) and soon the rocks were down on the ground and had formed three visible craters.

Looking down at the sand, Daxton considered things for a moment as Airey Flamsteed continued talking. He eyed each crater, and the rocks that sat in the middle of each one, then went back to his notes to write down his thoughts.

SPOILER!!: Notes
Daxton Prince
First Year
Ravenclaw
Astronomy

Rocks
  • Rocks can tell us about the history of the earth, either through the fossils they might consist of or contain, or their own physical structure, or what processes occurred to create a particular rock - elements, chemicals, pressure, atmospheric influence, etc... - the deeper you go, the older the rock, most probably, and therefore deep down towards the centre of the earth, there may be answers as to the planet's creation/formation/deeper history, which links back to Astronomy
  • Float in space, and help create planets, including Earth. Rocks obtained from the Moon support this claim, due to a 'tiny excess of a heavier variant of the element zinc' - research further
  • Entire ecosystems altered due to 'space rocks', eg: the asteroid that destroyed three quarters of life on earth, and ended numerous species and the Cretaceous age (65 million years ago, not 6.5 million) - left the 'Chicxulub crater' (though some argue that the crater it left is not the Chicxulub crater, despite evidence saying otherwise). This also lead to our existence in the long-term
  • ^ Marked end of the Cretaceous period and beginning of the Paleogene period. Geologists and planetary geologists refer to this as the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (K–Pg boundary)
  • Fossils - self-explanatory
  • "We are all rocks" - ??????????????? no
  • ^ Calcium found in rocks and makes up 3.63% of Earth's crust is also found in human teach. Iron that makes up 5% of Earth's crust is also found in human (and likely other creatures') blood. These elements were created in the interiors of collapsing stars. Humans "made of stars"
  • No
  • I am not a rock
  • Or a star
  • That does not even make sense. We consist of some of the same elements, we are "made of stars" in the most rudimental sense. That statement is misleading and confusing.
  • The four inner planets of the Solar System (closest to the Sun) are made of rock
  • Some markings on some rocks may be able to determine the age of the planet it comes from
  • Panspermia - the theory that rocks brought life to Earth (and likely other planets throughout the universe) by way of early organisms, proteins, water, etc... the "building blocks of life"; research in August 2015 supports this claim, showing "evidence that early comet impacts influenced amino acids to change into peptides"
  • The Moon is a rock, obviously - perhaps possible to compare Moon rocks to Earth rocks and discover the absolute truth of how the Moon came to be
  • Rocks are classed as baryonic matter
  • Astronomers measuring the density and composition of the universe using leftover radiation from the Big Bang discovered that the baryonic matter of which rocks belongs to makes up only 4.6% of it - research further
  • Rocks made of silicates, rock-forming minerals made of oxygen and silicone, more hydrogen atoms than silicone atoms in the Solar System, so much more hydrogen found than rock. Rock makes up the majority of inner terrestrial planets due to the fact that hydrogen and methane (and ammonia) cannot condense because of the thermal energy closer to the sun. The rocks (the planets' bodies) cannot hold onto these elements, therefore it is the silicates that end up forming the rocks of the inner planets, hence why there are no gaseous planets closer to the sun
  • Outer planets also have rock at the centre, just less
  • Rocks make good pets? Better than an animal I suppose...
  • Rocks made up of all the different minerals in the universe flew together at the beginning of time(? IF the beginning of time was the beginning of the universe, which I doubt) to create the planets
  • Rocks dating back to K–Pg boundary period indicate global catastrophe, ie: layer of grayish clay found in all of the K-T boundary era rocks, which contain unusually high concentrations of iridium. As this element is extremely rare in surface rocks on Earth, leading to the conclusion that the rocks were from elsewhere (indicating a large meteorite impact... rocks from space)

Basic Terminology
- asteroid = large rocky body, always found in space, orbits the Sun, but not a planet
- meteoroids = smaller than an asteroid, but still rocky bodies (rocks) or particles which orbit the Sun ("meteroid is in the void" except it's actually just in space which isn't officially a void because the space in our solar system does contain some particles)
- meteors = occurs when a meteoroid or asteroid enters the Earth’s atmosphere and vaporizes, it becomes a meteor, which is often mislabeled a shooting star" ("meteor above you soars")
- meteorites = "If an asteroid or large meteoroid survives its fiery passage through the Earth’s atmosphere and lands on Earth’s surface, it is then called a meteorite." ("meteorite is in your sight" although I suspect any of them could be in your sight if you look hard enough and/or use a telescope)

What each of these is depends on where they are. You cannot find a meteoroid within the Earth's atmosphere, because it will either vaporise and burn up upon entry, at which point it would become a meteor, or it will hold together and thus become a meteorite, and hit earth. Asteroids generally stay in space, orbiting the Sun, but if it were to impact with the Earth (meaning it entered the Earth's atmosphere without vaporising) it would also become a meteorite, though generally when these impact with the Earth, they are still referred to as asteroids, which is confusing. Also, all four of these bodies are made up of minerals and rock, and all originated in space. Obviously. In fact, you could argue that everything originates in space, as that is exactly where we are, but that is besides the point.
  • Shiny black crust on meteorites as a result of going through the Earth's atmosphere
  • Meteorites potentially heavier than normal Earth rocks due to their contents
  • Meteors give off a glow due to burning up - down to friction and speed and obviously not magic, duh
  • Hoba meteorite - largest known, found in Nambia, 60 tonnes, discovered in the 1920s, believed to have impacted approximately 80,000 years ago
  • Asteroids can have their own moons (for example: the 19 mile wide Ida, which has a 1 mile wide moon, Dactyl)
  • Some asteroid considered to be dwarf planets - Ceres, Pluto, etc
  • None of these are to be confused with comets, which are something else entirely
  • "Meteor showers are Earth's way of getting clean" ??????????????? - research further
  • Meteorites can be as small as particles, specks of dust, grains of sand - as long as it is bigger than an atom, and smaller than an asteroid, it counts
  • Asteroids are considered 'minor planets' (essentially any astronomical object that orbits the Sun but is not one of the 'official', 'main' planets nor originally classified as a comet - includes asteroids, dwarf planets, and centaurs [obviously the celestial kind, not the mythical creature kind)
  • Pluto is a dwarf planet, technically an asteroid though some argue its status as a comet
  • Some people wish on what they think are 'falling/shooting stars', but actually they are just meteors. It makes no sense why people would make wishes on falling stars anyway, because they cannot grant them. Making wishes does not work.
  • Asteroids sometimes travel in groups
  • The largest known asteroid is as large as the state of Texas in the United States, and it is 582 miles across

Falling Rock Experiment
1. Which rock created the largest crater?
The largest rock ("Dwayne Johnson", apparently)
2. What is the only difference in the way each crater was made?
The only difference was that each rock is a different size. They were all released from the same height, at the same time, and fell at what I presume is the same velocity, it is true that the only magic used on them was that which stopped them from being suspended in the air/caused gravity to take hold. You could also argue that the rocks were all released and fell to the sand in different places, even though they were near each other. Though this may not have caused any significant difference, it should still be factored in, in case of some sort of strange gravity anomaly/pocket in the classroom, which may potentially have caused one of the rocks to slow down and lose velocity
3. What can be said about the importance of the mass of a meteorite in making a crater?
Firstly, it should be noted that the weight of an object does not affect how fast it falls to the ground; different weighted objects will fall to the ground at the same speed. Therefore we know that it was not speed or velocity that influenced the sizes of the craters. The only other (significant) variable is the size (mass) of the rocks. Given that the rocks are all different sizes, and so are the craters, if you apply this experiment to meteorites and Earth the most probable answer is that the higher the mass of the meteorite (rock), the larger the resulting crater will be. There could potentially be other factors, however, other than just mass.
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Scribble, scribble, scribble.

Milo had a feeling that Astronomy was going to use up a lot of parchment this term. This was all stuff that he didn't really think about much less know since his reading never really seemed to fall under the category of outer space. He'd have a comeback to his mum the next time she said he had his 'head in the clouds'.

The Admiral was speaking again after adding the notes to the blackboard and had used his wand to summon three more rocks like his Pebbles from before. These were different sizes though, with Dwayne being much, much bigger than the second which was larger than the first. Milo had gotten a bit excited when he put together that they would be hitting the sand below but he thought they were going to get to throw the rocks but nope, just gravity.

Still, the Ravenclaw laid down his quill and leaned forward and followed the rocks as they quickly fell. BOOM. "Woo! Goo Dwayne!" Milo said a tad louder than he had meant to. He won. Biggest crater and all.

Big craters now. AND more questions.

SPOILER!!: Answers
1.) Dwayne Johnson The Rock won created the largest crater.
2.) The only difference in which the craters were made is the size of the rock that hit the sand because they fell from the same height.
3.) The importance of mass has got to be that it makes it bigger if it is more massive.
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... Zeke sat with his hands out in front of him, his parchment forgotten for the time being and just flipping his quill between his fingers. People were talking, but he wasn't really listening, not really, he just picked up on the odd word here or there. Couldn't they just cut out the section of their text book that had the definitions and stick it to their notes? Seemed the easiest way to get around this...

...

Eventually he DID copy down the notes from the board, if only to achieve something for today's lesson.

What came next was of a little more interest, but watching rocks fall to the ground wasn't something he hadn't seen before. Nevertheless, he watched as instructed. The craters they left behind weren't of any interest to him though.

And questions... Flamsteed had questions.

SPOILER!!: notes

1. the biggest rock had the biggest crater, smallest had the smallest crater
2.
3. the bigger and heavier the rock, the bigger the crater


Zeke took a moment to scribble a rough diagram of a rock thing... with a tail thing... so he guessed it was more like a comet, but whatever.

Nodding and offering the encouraging wink every now and then as he looked around the floating semi circle of desks at students writing down their responses - forgive him for not going around and checking each of your work individually, it would take far too long given the fabricated anti gravity environment - the nervous words uttered by Ensign Bellaire did not escape the man. They also put him in a bit of an amusing situation as well. Did he let the boy off and inform him that what he wished to discuss was nothing bad but rather an opportunity? Or...let him stew a little in his anxiety and perhaps take advantage of the fact that he could put the Gryffindor on especially good behavior? Not that this one had shown any particular tendencies towards unsavory behavior as of yet.

All the professor Admiral offered in reply was another wink.

Clearly going for the latter option.

Lots of stellar penmanship, he had to say. Well...what he COULD see from where he was floating anyway.

AND HE SAW THAT! THAT SNAG OF AN EXTRA PIP, CAPTAIN BROWN!

SPOILER!!: those getting just a weeeeeee bit ahead of the game ;)
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Wheee!

So admittedly he had been a bit off with his answers but who cared? Certainly not Flamsteed. Besides, Adi liked to think of it as being different. Sticking out of the crowd, if you will. Hehe. But enough sticking out. He would be back on track with what was asked next. Yup. But excuse him while he felt about his eyebrows. Flamsteed and his lack of gravity classroom was killing his brow vibes, yo.

Oh, looky at the rocks! Dwayne Johnson? The Hufflepuff laughed to himself again. He caught that reference, Admiral Airey! Alrightey... so they were asked to use their imagination. He could do that. That was one thing he never lacked at. Yes, he could see it allllll in his head.

WAIT! Ah, never mind. Flamsteed said the rocks would not be hurt. Goody! Annnnnd to Earth the three fell, causing their impact and sending sand all around. Adi looked down, one hand fidgeting with his brows. He studied the craters in order to answer the questions OUT LOUD because he liked talking and writing was something horrible to do right about now when one's parchment and writing apparatus kept floating up. He raised a hand.

"Dwayne Johnson made the biggest impact though each crater was made based on the size of the rocks, it would seem. That last bit would be the difference in which the craters were created.'' Adi paused now, something just occurring to him. "Is that what determines the size of the craters? I would like to think it was the speed at which the rocks were going is what determines that more than the mass.'' So, no. He didn't think the mass of the rock was important. He could be wrong buuuut at least Flamsteed would correct him there, yeah?
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The Admiral said his answer was excellent. Owen grinned at the man. He was feeling excellent about this lesson now too. He didn't even mind his seat's slight chair rocking and the fact that they were still floating. And there were rocks...rocks with cool names. Rockanne, Flint, and Dwayne Johnson (this one sounds soooooooooo familiar hmm...). Maybe the Admiral would let him adopt Rockanne? She would probably fit in Sushi's fish bowl.

Dress rehearsals. Heh. Admiral sir Flamsteed was a hilarious man.

But oooooh...how awesome was that?! The drop!...and the impact!...and the formed crater! WHOA. So cool! Great job, rocks! Owen gave them the Vulcan salute.

Then there were questions, three actually, and Owen was going to share his answers out loud because he probably would still not be able to write properly with all the rocking. He raised his hand and offered, "The biggest one! I mean...Dwayne Johnson created the largest crater, Admiral sir. Then I think the difference between the rocks are their sizes..." He triiiiiiiiiiiied to look closely at the three rocks. "...and their shapes? Rockanne is not an exact smaller version of Dwayne Johnson, as we can see." Owen nodded. "As for your third question Admiral sir...Sir Isaac Newton's second law of motion can be applied. You know, force is equal to mass times acceleration. The mass of the meteorite is important because the heavier it is and the faster the speed applied to it, then the bigger and deeper the crater. I think both the mass and speed are equally important though."

"Hold on to your rocket boosters," Airey chuckled, putting his free hand up with palm facing the students while Pebbles looked on in his other. "We will get to all that in juuuuuust a moment and then you can tell me for yourselves."

Just focusing on one aspect for now, although he would be lying if he said he was not impressed those connections already being made.

SPOILER!!: OH NO DOT NO
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The professor was just all of a sudden YELLING at her. About dumb polka dots that he didn't even want her to wear, but that he also didn't offer to take back. WHY WAS STARMAN SO MEAN? And so morally opposed to polka dots?

"S-sorry, sir. I don't fancy detention at all." Her lip wibbled violently, and Dot scrambled after the dumb pips. One floating by her feet, one heading towards the professor, one... Sophie kept one. That was okay, right?

"Th-the pips wouldn't make a crater, sir. They'd burn up on re-entry." What did she know, though? This class was hard, and she was stupid.

OH NO SWEET SOLSTICE NOOOOOOOOO.

NO NO NO NOPE NO.

THERE WAS LIP MOVEMENT. WIBBLING LIP MOVEMENT. MOVEMENT THAT WAS ALMOST ALWAYS A PRECURSOR TO TEARS.

Maybe if he didn't make eye contact it would all go away....

"Yes yes...quite right," he nodded, looking at his Starfleet boots as though they were the most fascinating in the entire universe. "If the rocks represent those bits of space debris that survive to become meteorites, these pips would certainly attain nothing more than meteor status."

HAD SHE STOPPED THE WIBBLING YET? HE WAS TOO SCARED TO LOOK!
SPOILER!!: BIGGER IS BETTER AND BETTER IS BIGGER - esque people
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Noelle sunk in her seat. She wasn't doing well at this class at all. She was practically pouting as she folded her arms in her seat. She was sulking. SULKING.

The sulking took the back seat as Noelle saw the rocks. She was curious. Uncrossing her arms, she scooted up in her seat and looked over it as the rocks fell. She looked over farrrrrther to try and see what impact they had made. Hmmmm.

Heh. Dwayne Johnson rock. The Rock. Heh. Clever Professor Flamsteed clevvvvver.

Noelle didn't want to get another answer wrong. Instead of bursting out the answer, she said it at a normal tone. " It looks like Dwayne made the biggest impact. Most likely because The Rock, heh, is the biggest and baddest rock of them all. The velocity it fell at probably matters with the impact as well. The bigger the rock, the bigger they fall." Did she say that right? Was she right? She wasn't about to look up to see.
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What? Oh yeah. HAHAHAHA. Good one, Admiral. AJ actually snorted her approval. "It's magic..." Or maybe she only wanted him to THINK that she had actually locked her lips. Although, that wasn't true. AJ didn't put that much thought into it.

Was that what she meant? Honestly, that just kind of came out of her mouth. Did she really even care? The answer to that was no, but it was interesting. "No insect poop? Seems lame." Earth dust for the win.

Sooo... she kind of wanted a rock. What did they eat though and just HOW much attention did they need? No need to fear rocks, you may just become a member of the Valentine family. Lucky, lucky rocks. Look a little Flint. Cute, cute, cute.

Oh, rocks were going to go boom and if they weren't actually going to hurt their little rock selfs then AJ was all for it. We are ready, Admiral. BRING. IT. ON.

Annnnd they had crashed. AJ opted to say her observations out loud because if she didn't have to write something down, she wasn't going to. Hand cramps were legit intense. Her hand did its signature wave in the air while she waited to be called on.

It was her turn. Right. Meanwhile people were giving out super smart sounding answers, and AJ just really wasn't that technical. Nope. "Dwayne is the biggest rock and he made the biggest hole which goes to show that the fatter you are the harder you are going to fall." There. Simple. Bet the firsties fully understood her observation. "Because the only difference in the craters are the size so that means little Flint and Rockanne never stood a chance against big body Dwayne." She had covered all threes questions, yes? AJ though so, and quite well if you asked her.
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Cinna beamed as she got a stellar replying from Airey but that soon faded when she heard chamber of secrets. In all honesty she hadn't so far had to hard of a problem dealing with the events of last term. But Airey really that was a low and very unintentional blow or she hoped it was. Too soon, Admiral too soon.

Anyway she was taking notes here and there now. Mostly writing down the things that she didn't know. Demo time? Yes, demo time she knew how this was going to end. Yep she did just like watching titanic you know the boat is going to sink everytime. "Mr. Johnson there made the biggest crater. His mass was more than the other two, causing a larger impact area." Did that sound very scientific? Did it?
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Angel just looked down at her table, seriously Professor it wasn't her fault she was so distracted by all the problems she had at the minute, she then heard him ask some questions to do with Space and at the minute if she could she would have scotty beam her up... or O'Brian or who ever it was that did that.

Angel listened to the questions and then thought about the answers. She was still trying to figure out the answer to the first two to her all she was seeing was destruction which at the minute was what her life was feeling like, thanks for the reminded Admiral Flamsteed.

Angel couldn't get over the mass of destruction, it was just so painful though she could tell which one was bigger. "The third one had the biggest impact." Yeah no boys names was coming out of her mouth at the minute.

Angel then thought about the second question. "They are all either big or small? so the bigger you are the more weight you are going to carry for impact and the more devastation your going to do to someone life and the more damage you are going to do.." Angel looked at the mess that had been left behind, she looked at the Admiral with pleading eyes, could they please move onto another topic.
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SPOILER!!: Marsha’s Complete catch up <3
Having run the lint roller over her robes, even though they were CLEAN, Marsha had moved into the Astronomy classroom only to… float? SHE WAS FLYING! HOW COOOOL WAS THAT???? Haha, niiice. Though, that wasn’t really that helpful considering she needed to find a desk. Some weird arm movements and leg kicks later she finally managed to grasp a chair with enough force to be able to get to the table properly and then to sit down. Wheee. Okay. Now that she was sitting down, she applied the pip to right side of her robes and held up her hand in the … what had he called it…? The Valcan thing? Fingers apart she smiled at her Head of House. ”Uh… Live, Long and… Prosper.” It took her a minute to remember the required saying but she got there.



Having tapped and created her name plaque, which was so totally cool, she had waved to Lance when he had finished de-linting had come into the room. See! She had even written out his plaque for him too, she felt the need to make it up to him for not being able to sit with him earlier in Charms.



Listening to a portion of her classmates answers, she looped down some answers on her own parchment. After a few answers, she put her hand up into the air and answered when she was called. ”I think there is a link between rocks and trees... “ Really, she had no idea… Astronomy still wasn’t one of her best subjects but she was hoping to change that this year. ”I think that like the rings on a tree trunk, you can tell things about the rock and where it has been in its life by the rock? Don’t ask her WHAT on the rock gave it away… but she was sure something did.

We are stars. HOW COOL WAS THAT! Hehee. Next time someone argued with her, she would tell them that she was a star and that there was nothing they could do about it. Hehehe. That would soon stop any arguments they were having. Thanks Yoongi! Thanks Pro… Admiral Airey! Hehehe.

Notes. Notes were being taken. And hopefully her spelling was right - though she had a feeling that a lot of these words were being spelt super wrong and that was going to hinder her ability to look them up and correct them later… but she didn’t really have time to worry about that as Admiral Airey got all excited and sat and filled them in; lots of filling in with even bigger words. Great. She looked at Lance and mouthed that they would get through this together. Yes… they would.

She wrote down the words from the board across the top, and then filed the information that her classmates knew under each heading. She didn’t really know much about any of them - and couldn’t distinguish between them so she didn’t say anything. Knowing her luck, she would have given Professor Airey a fact for something completely different.. Hmm… maybe she needed to read more of this year’s Astro text book…. that might be a good idea.


And there was a demonstration! WOOOAAAAHHHHHHH!!! Looook at those rocks fall. Hehehe check Flints’ ability out! And Rockanne. Hehehe. They all did pretty well, Yup…. but were they safe and okay and unharmed from their fall? She looked over the edge of the table to make sure they were all in one piece… Yes, she thought. Hopefully they was no internal leaking or bleeding… ‘cause that would be bad.

Hmm… with her hand in the air Sha figured she would answer one of those questions since she had skipped the last question. ”Admiral, it seemed that the only real difference was the size of the rock as they seem to fall from the same height, at the same time, for the same distance into the same material and densisity.” She frowned - that last word didn’t sound right, but she couldn’t remember the actual word that she meant (density). ”Densii…” Nope, no idea. ”That would suggest that the bigger the rock, the bigger the crater it will create when it finally collllides!” Yup. other than that, she had no idea - so once again she took down notes from her class mates.


Blinking away the angst that was flying at him from Lieutenant commander Valentine’s direction (and in some instances literally slapping it away from the air with his hand as he would a fly), he nodded his head at each student’s answer.

Correctomundo, for the most part,” he saluted. Some needed to work on their terminology, as it would not earn them full marks on exams and homework, but everyone got the general gist of the demonstration. And while he would not say it out loud, it was a fairly obvious conclusion to come to and he was positive that he need not actually perform said demonstration to elicit these responses. But hey, small little BOOMS were FUN, right?

Giving his wand another flick towards the board to erase the definitions there - they all had that written down by this point, yes? - three numbers appeared there instead with the nutshell answers to the questions he had just asked.

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Which rock created the largest crater?
Dwayne Johnson, the most massive of the three.
What is the only difference in the way each crater was made?
The mass of the three rocks was varied.
What can you say about the importance of the mass of a meteorite in making a crater? Crater diameter increases with increasing mass.
Go Dwayne indeed,” he he chortled, giving Ensign Vogel an amused grin. “As those of you who opted to share your responses out loud pointed out, the more mass a meteorite has the greater the diameter of the crater. However, as some of you also pointed out, there is more to this equation than size.

Summoning more rocks from his desk, the astronomer introduced each of them in the same manner he had the previous three who were now resting on the ground below them in their crater beds - all of which were simple craters, for the record.

These three rock friends are the brothers and sisters of Roxanne, quadruplets if you will. All of them have the share the same mass,” he explained as he got the three into their ready positions, this time purposefully not keeping them at the exact same level but staggering them. “This is one here is Nephrite,” he said, leaving him the closest to the ground at about eye level. “This one Zoisite,” he continued, leaving the second to hover a few feet above Nephrite. “And this one Kunzite,” he concluded, leaving this one a few feet above Nephrite. “As mentioned by Captain Rehman and Ensign Montezor, velocity, distance over time, plays a role in crater formation as well. I will repeat the same process as I did with the first demonstration, remove the spell from these rocks and permit them to fall to the sand below.

Were they all ready, because heeeeeeere we go!

5...4...3..2...1…

Spell released, the three stones hurtled themselves towards the ground and made for slightly more dramatic impacts.

ooc: the circles represent the approximate circumference
of the crater created by our falling rock friends

Now, in honor of true scientific inquiry, please consider the following three questions. One, what did dropping our three rocky friends from different heights accomplish? Two, do you see any difference in the diameters of the three craters? And three, which do you think is more important in creating larger craters, more mass or more velocity?
ooc: Class will resume sometime tomorrow, approximately 12 hours from the time of this post where we will move on to the main activity
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