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sweetpinkpixie · 06-26-2016, 02:13 AM

It was a bit unusual to have lesson so early in the day, but there was a method to the astronomer's madness - convoluted as they may be. The late February sun takes some of the chill off the breeze coming through the windows to the the Astronomy classroom. The desks in their usual semi-circle formation, this time with no prop placed upon them despite the temptation to do so based on the topic of today's discussion. Professor Flamsteed is leaning against his desk with Pebbles sitting on the desk to his right.

Did you remember to use the lint roller on the small table outside of the classroom? It was there next to the sign that reads, "Not to be used as a brush for your hair" and has the signature of a former student in the bottom right corner.

So come on in and find a seat, class will begin shortly.
⌦Lesson Progression
▸ question one :: why shouldn't you wish on shooting stars?
▸ question two :: can you define one of these terms?
▸ activity :: meteorite hunt!

OOC: Please be sure you are familiar with Professor Flamsteed's rules BEFORE you post in this lesson. We will know if you haven't read them! All SnitchSeeker site rules apply.

Daydreamer11 · 06-28-2016, 12:23 AM

Janelle was all set up with quill and parchment, ready for class to begin. And then the gnomes happened. Valentine's Day madness. Janelle didn't really mind the disruption, but apparently Professor Flamsteed did. She thought the bulging vein would make it's appearance at any moment......but it didn't. After the gnomes were banished and the professor got the ball rolling, she listened for the question that she knew would be coming. And then it did. So what was the answer? Janelle had to think about it for a minute.

Janelle raised her hand and took a shoot at answering the question. "It's naive to wish on a shooting star because doing so will not make your dreams come true. But just like the Tooth Fairy and Easter Bunny, it makes you feel good.....even if it's not real." As for illogical........well......."Anyway, shooting stars aren't stars at all. They're meteors, right?"

PhoenixWizard · 06-28-2016, 01:46 AM

Shooting stars? Niomi was told a lot about them when she was younger. As a little girl she was told to wish upon them so her wishes would be granted. "Well... shooting stars are known for people to wish on so they can get what they want. This usually never happens though. As a child we are told these tales, in hopes that just because we were told this, our dreams... or wishes will come true," Niomi said, after raising her hand. This is what she grew up knowing and learning. "Also, logically, shooting stars aren't actually stars," she added. Niomi knew lots about the sky above her, but she didn't want to go into too much detail about what everyone sees in the sky.

Cassirin · 06-28-2016, 03:00 AM

Wishing on stars. It was a little like Divination... mostly bunk, but it made people feel things, hope for things, and strive for things. There really wasn't any harm, as long as it didn't make anyone complacent. The things you wish for won't come to you without some work.

"Wishes are just plans without the details figured out yet, sir, and there's no harm in them. It's just that wishing on space dust doesn't make them any more likely than wishing on a pretty rock or a lucky sickle. It's the work after that makes the wish come true."

WhittyBitty · 06-28-2016, 03:41 AM

Wow, clearly Professor Flamsteed wasn't big on Valentines Day. Nothing wrong with that because Esme wasn't exactly in love with the holiday either. Maybe one day when she was in love, but... that hadn't happened yet. Obviously.

Were they going to talk about stars today? That didn't make sense since the sun was out but she was going to go along for the ride. She raised her hand. "Well, first of all it's supposed to be wishing on a star, not on a SHOOTING star. I've watched a lot of Disney, so I know." Yep, that was another awesome thing that she had been exposed to because of her parents. "And also, as has already been said they might be meteoroids. AND stars die and even if they LOOK bright still they could be dead for like a millon gazillion years but we wouldn't know it because they are so FAR AWAY." Oh, and another thing... "It's also pointless to put your hopes on a ball of gas. Better to actually... I don't know... try to achieve your dreams yourself." So much information.

Look at her talking about science like a pro!

pundantic · 06-28-2016, 02:33 PM

What kind of-

It was a man kind of question as he was a man and it was a question. Feminist!logic.

Chloe raised her hand lamely and said, "Because they're not even stars." Stars stayed stationary until they exploded. And then they just ceased to exist.

MadMadamMalfoy · 06-28-2016, 03:08 PM

Fiyero jumped slightly when Professor Flamsteed ordered the gnomes out of the room. He thought it was an odd time to be giving out valentines... and he wasn't too keen on the holiday himself. It was too icky and girly with waaaay too much pink! Boy, Professor Flamsteed was having horrible luck with creatures crashing his class. First that ghost last term, and now these guys! Sitll, Fiyero was a little disappointed to see the gnomes go...

He snickered a little at the Disney references some of his classmates brought up as he tried to think of an answer to Flamsteed's star question, preferably one that hadn't already been said. He raised his hand. "Well, as some people have said, they're not really stars at all," he said. "They're just bits of dust and rock that get burned up in Earth's atmosphere." He hoped that wasn't a bad answer!

Goblinfrog · 06-28-2016, 04:03 PM

Kitty suppressed a giggle when the gnomes came in. How cute! Taking out her camera, she snapped a few pictures of them before turning back to answer Professor Flamsteed's question. She raised her hand. "Once I wished upon a star many years ago, but it wasn't because I thought it would work. I was just doing it for fun. I think that's probably true for most people but I don't know."

Expecto-Penguin · 06-28-2016, 04:27 PM

Astronomy Lesson.

He wasn't so against this subject. This slytherin happened to enjoy learning about another atmosphere and see if there are living life forms on it. He was sitting in the back as usual and he heard Professor Flamsteed starting the lesson. He brought up an interesting question though. Why was it illogical to wish on a shooting star? He obviously knew the myth people who wish on a shooting star that their wishes come true. *snort* As if.

"Well Professor shooting stars are technically meteors so you aren't really wishing on a star. It's kind of dumb because people wishes don't even come true. I mean seriously how can a star make wishes come true?" He never really made an attempt to do it. He never understood it either.

ginnilie · 06-28-2016, 10:02 PM

Astronomy had always fascinated Arielle. Growing up she spent numerous nights looking at the stars from the airy field next to her home. She'd seen numerous shooting stars that always made her heart jump with their beauty. Because of her fascination, Arielle had done some research on the twinkling beauties. Raising her hand, she said "Well Professor, the stars happen to come up with their own stories, right? I don't know the technical term for it... But as others have said, a shooting star isn't really a star, it's a meteor. And even if a shooting star was actually a star, the stars have a mind of their own, don't they? So they would never grant a wish that contradicts their predictions."

She hated how timid she sounded. It showed in her answer that she wasn't confident with herself. Being a first year she felt inferior to the older kids in the room, and hated sounding stupid. But in her heart she knew if she was attentive in this class, going home to her grassy field this summer would be all the more spectacular.

AlwaysSnapesGirl · 06-28-2016, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie

"Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another Astronomy lesson," the professor announced, clapping his hands prior to draw attention his way and hopefully put an end to idly chit chatter. "Today's lesson present a rather unique opportunity for you, but before we dive into all that...why is it not only naïve, but also illogical to wish on shooting stars?"

"Because stars can't actually grant wishes?" Rula answered, raising her hand. "It's not like they have a wand or magic power to make something that you wish come true. But I doubt anyone actually believes that wishing on a star or shooting star will make something come true. It's kinda more...symbolic or something, I guess?" Not sure if that was the exact word she was looking for, but close enough.

She'd never wished on a star herself, of course, but she'd read about it in some stories, and she'd always thought it was a lovely idea, even if it wasn't practical or logical or whatever.

griffin · 06-29-2016, 03:56 AM

Shooting stars? Were they going to be talking about meteors? "Shooting stars are meteors, light from meteorites that have entered Earth's atmosphere. They don't grant wishes. There's no evidence to support wishing on shooting stars." Wishing on shooting stars was just as bunk as astrology. Penelope kept an open mind to the things that were taught in divination and found it fascinating, but there wasn't any scientific evidence to back it up. At least for this class, it could be assumed that astrology was bunk. Penelope picked up her quill and started to take notes on the discussion about shooting stars. Where was Flamsteed going with this?

sweetpinkpixie · 06-29-2016, 04:09 AM

SPOILER!!: Vivian!

No further questions on lint rollers? Stellar. He really did not want to answer them anyway. There was a proper and respectful manner in which to use them. Something that a certain Slytherin prefect seemed to also not understand given how she used to roll up spiders in them.

Shudder.

"You're mother was likely referring to actual stars," the astronomer noted. Which was also a bit of a hint into the answer he was looking for. "But true nonetheless. From our point of view here on earth, it takes years for the light from the stars to reach us - varying depending on distance, of course - so what we see in the night sky is not the present but the past. And that star you are seeing may, in fact, already be gone. Even our Sun, the closest star to us, takes approximately 8.3 minutes to reach us."

SPOILER!!: Echo!

Which was what Miss Duchannes was alluding to.

"Indeed a possibility. IF we were discussing actual stars."

Ahem ahem....AHEM!

SPOILER!!: Azura!

"None, actually," he grinned, tapping his nose with his index finger before moving on to the next raised hand.

SPOILER!!: Tenacius!

...........Gryffindor say what now?

"Jiminy?"

..........oh, wait a moment. The astronomer followed. It just took him a moment to get there. Although not familiar with the muggle film as much as he was the book.

"Never mind, Mr. Salander. I follow your train of thought."

But that was all he would say on the matter.

SPOILER!!: Hattie!

"IF shooting stars were indeed actual stars," he winked.

See? So many had fallen for the romanticized language of the cosmos. ALAS!

SPOILER!!: Jaemin!

A wide grin spread across the astronomer’s face. “Stellar, Mr. Song.”

And another buzz word of the day brought up. Two of the M’s were now out there in the open.

SPOILER!!: Daxton!

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Originally Posted by Felixir

So far, nobody had mentioned or apparently noticed the lack of lint roller outside the room, which made Daxton wonder if perhaps everyone had the tendency to ignore it entirely. He was not irked that his crime had not been brought to light, however, because he still had the lint roller right inside his school bag. If he still felt the desire to provoke a reaction from Airey Flamsteed later in the lesson, it would likely take little more than to very openy retrieve and display it.

In any case, his attention was focused, albeit very briefly, on the ugly little gnomes that had taken it upon themselves to enter the classroom and start warbling and blowing harmonicas at other students. For a brief moment, Daxton's expression was one of distaste, and he drew his bare feet closer to his own chair under the desk, not exactly finding the idea of one touching him to be very appealing. Then again, if one got too close, he would have the perfect opportunity to give it a good kick. That idea did appeal to his violent nature, and it seemed as though Airey Flamsteed might have the same feelings about the gnomes, considering the way he instantly dismissed them in a none too gentle manner.

Soon, however, the focus was on the actual lesson. Shooting stars, wishing on them, and why they were illogical.

Well, that was easy, and not even worth being written in his notebook. Daxton had always been of the opinion that wishing was stupid, and a huge waste of time. Wishing for something did nothing to make it happen; that time would be better spent on trying to make the desired outcome happen. Events occurred through actions, and not willpower alone. If such an outcome was impossible, that made wishing for it - or even thinking about it - all the more illogical. Wishing for something was like having hope, which Daxton knew to be just as unwise. He had spent plenty of time wishing and hoping for things as a small child, and been let down often enough to know that it was all a complete waste of time. At least he had learned that lesson very early on.

As for the context of shooting stars... that was just as simple. It had nothing to do with the fact that shooting stars were not stars, as real stars could do nothing for wishes anyway. No astronomical event had any bearing on the success of wishes, hopes, or dreams, just as it had nothing to do with personality traits or compatibility. Ultimately, wishing on a shooting star was as illogical as the entire subject of Astrology.

All these thoughts remained unshared by Daxton, given that he was not one to make his opinions known very often. In this case, however, it seemed to him that the answer was obvious enough, and Airey Flamsteed was bound to know that Daxton understood that wishing on anything, let alone a shooting star, was absurd.

Airey didn’t even need to take a glance at Mr. Prince’s paper as he passed - although he may have been disappointed to find that the young man had written nothing - and could already assume the Ravenclaw’s response. The Astronomy professor did not like assuming too much about his students, as the teenage species were unpredictable by definition, but he full felt that in this case...he was perfectly within his right to do so.

And he would have been right. 500 points to Airey Flamsteed.

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Originally Posted by Saz Hale

Abby raised her hand and said "Well sometimes wishing on shooting stars is pointless and some of them might not even be a proper star that can be wished on" Abby thought it would be best to add stuff that her fellow classmates hadnt said

“None are, in fact,” he noted, echoing his words from a bit earlier and giving his nose a tap.

SPOILER!!: Janelle!

The first half of her answer was...not exactly what the man was looking for, but she continued on a bit more and that brought another grin to the professor’s face. “They are indeed,” he nodded, offering the Ravenclaw a quick wink. They would go over some terminology in just a moment. Once he had finished with all the raised hands.

SPOILER!!: Niomi!

Oh. That struck a bit of a chord with the man. But he would not allow himself to go down that particular path in the middle of the classroom. Thoughts, consider yourself locked away.

“Thank you for that, Miss Kelly.”

SPOILER!!: Dot!

“No harm indeed, Miss Wojack-Gusey.” Said mostly so the class did not think he was a heartless scientist or anything. Not entirely at least. He nodded her head, subconsciously, at her mention of work. Although not on topic with astronomy, the professor decided to cut the seventh year some slack and not bring attention to it.

Teenage girl glares were quite terrifying, you know?

SPOILER!!: Esme!

“Actually, Miss Darcy, shooting star is still accurate,” he corrected. The Disney fellow was not law, after all. “Multiple cultures, both ancient and modern, have beliefs based on ‘shooting stars’. The Greeks, for example, held the belief that when curious gods would look down upon the earth the act turned them into a shooting star. Therefore, when one was spotted, it was considered the opportune time to have your wishes heard by the gods.”

Just as some additional food for thought.

But her explanation regarding actual starts DID receive two thumbs up. Yes. Stellar.

SPOILER!!: Chloe!

"True story," the Astronomy professor saluted the Ravenclaw.

SPOILER!!: Fiyero!

“Very good, Mr. Jones,” he nodded. “Although not all these bits of dust and rock will entirely burn up.”

As they all would find out soon first hand.

SPOILER!!: Kitty!

And...he was not entirely sure how to respond to that. So...rather than say anything at all, the professor nodded his head and quickly moved on to the next raised hand.
[spoiler-Colt!]

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Originally Posted by Expecto-Penguin

Astronomy Lesson.

He wasn't so against this subject. This slytherin happened to enjoy learning about another atmosphere and see if there are living life forms on it. He was sitting in the back as usual and he heard Professor Flamsteed starting the lesson. He brought up an interesting question though. Why was it illogical to wish on a shooting star? He obviously knew the myth people who wish on a shooting star that their wishes come true. *snort* As if.

"Well Professor shooting stars are technically meteors so you aren't really wishing on a star. It's kind of dumb because people wishes don't even come true. I mean seriously how can a star make wishes come true?" He never really made an attempt to do it. He never understood it either.

[/spoiler]
Until recently Airey had been of the same pessimistic mind set, but recent events had given the man a slightly renewed belief in wishes. Not enough that he would go wishing on meteors or anything, however.

“Meteors, yes indeedy,” he grinned.

SPOILER!!: Arielle!

“Come up with...their own stories? Are you thinking of constellations, Miss Criswell?” the Astronomy professor inquired further. He wasn’t entirely sure what to make of the ‘mind of their own’ comment. Burning balls of gas did not have the equipment to have minds, after all.

SPOILER!!: Rula!

“Quite true, Miss Botros,” Airey chuckled.

SPOILER!!: Penelope!

"Thank you, Miss Wright," he nodded.

Giving the semi circle of desks another scan to ensure he had not missed anyone's hand, Airey took a small step away from his desk - and Pebbles - to continue with the brief lecture.

"Now, before I go on let me just make one thing clear," he began. "I am by no means discouraging any of you not to have dreams or wishes. The purpose of this is to simply point out the romanticized language involving the cosmos and its inaccurate label." Although he would still say wishing on a meteor was absurd, but 6-year-old Airey Leighton Flamsteed would protest otherwise. "As has been pointed out by several of you, the term 'shooting star' is the common name for the visible path of a small rocky or metallic body as it enters the atmosphere. Nothing in this equation is 'shooting' either, but rather falling." So really, the whole term was a bit of a bloody mess and incredibly inaccurate. "Now, there were a few terms thrown about in some answers," he paused to turn to the blackboard and write them up on the board.

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METEOROID -

METEOR -

METEORITE -

Comet -

Asteroid -

Star -

"This will be a bit of review for some of you and definitions have already been alluded to with your answers," he acknowledged. "But would anyone like to take a stab at defining one of these terms?"

OOC: thank you all so very much for your patience <3

Class will hopefully resume in approximately 24 hours from the time of this post.

Please limit your answer to speaking of just ONE of the above terms, please.

Anna Banana · 06-29-2016, 04:40 AM

So the dramatics in class were already getting underway, which was not only expected and typical, but it was just how Ariadne liked it! She literally never got bored in this class. EVER. She just listened to the first part of the discussion, because everything she could think of had already been said. She just nodded along to show understanding.

...and then there was a second question. She could probably answer this one.

STAR. She'd talked about a STAR.

No, no, no! A COMET! She was settling for comet, and to seal that deal, she raised her hand. "Hmm...a comet, professor! Let's see...picture a snowball. Only, picture it being all dirty and nasty and icky instead of pretty and white. This is basically what a comet is," she explained. "It's got ice in the center, which sounds kind of cool, but then it's also mixed with carbon dioxide and a few other things--like dust! The Sun ends up warming the ice, and it pretty much goes POOF! Then as the comet gets closer and closer to the Sun, the gas starts to get hotter and hotter and hotter until one day, it just separates and forms this tail! So what you end up with is a dirty snowball with vaporized ice and a tail of wandering gas. Pretty cool, huh?"

BREATHHEEEE. *GASP*

ginnilie · 06-29-2016, 05:06 AM

Constellations. That's what she was thinking of. But of course she had been wrong, and Professor Flamsteed had to even take a pause when answering her because she was so wrong. Arielle's face burned bright red and she slumped in her seat. Apparently she was only good at looking at stars, definitely not knowing anything about them. At this moment she really missed home. The hillside stargazing she got to do at home didn't require her to know the difference between a constellation and a shooting star. Not that she didn't know the difference, of course. Stars shouldn't have to have thought, just beauty. Not wanting to embarrass herself further, Arielle sat quietly in her seat and listened to the answers given for the terms Professor Flamsteed had written on the board. She wouldn't get the right answer anyway.

littledhampir · 06-29-2016, 06:26 AM

Olly was having an off day. It was pretty difficult for him to focus, even more so today than on any regular day. He was really trying because he liked Professor Flamsteed and Astronomy wasn't the worst subject and he wanted to be a good student but it was hard sometimes. His mind was wandering. He didn't even hear the first question asked but he tried to catch some of the responses. Shooting stars aren't actually shooting, they're falling. Interesting. Then they shouldn't be called shooting stars they should be called falling stars. Who had named them that anyway? Who had been the first person to see a shooting - er, falling -star? Had they made a wish? Why was that a thing? Who was the first one to do that? If it didn't even work then why did people start doing it in the first place?

Right, focus. He stared really hard at Flamsteed as he asked the next question. Oh, he just had to define one of those things. He could do that. Star. That was easy. Olly raised his hand. "A star is a ball of gas. When you draw one on a paper it has five sides but that's not what they really look like. You also usually color them yellow but their color depends on what stage of life they're in." That was all the information he knew about stars. He couldn't name any of the stages or anything like that. He just knew that at one point they were red giants. So obviously at that point they were red.

Ameh · 06-29-2016, 09:20 AM

He liked getting a 'Stellar'. It meant he'd said the right thing, and he oh so enjoyed being right. Jaemin gave a slight nod as the other students finished answering that question, then raised his hand again for the next. He'd take his own suggested term, please.

"Meteoroids are small bits of rock that fly about in space... like, mostly pebble-sized bits-" He held up his hand, fingers indicating their smallness. "-but sometimes they can get pretty big. Like 'as long as your arm is' big. But not as big as asteroids are. And they stop being meteoroids when they get into the atmosphere, I think."

Then they turned into both shooting stars and something else. SPACE DUST. Bits of rock in the sky weren't constellations, but they were equally as interesting.

Kimothy · 06-29-2016, 12:11 PM

Stars? Yeah, Vivian knew that they died too. But she was sure her mum knew that as well, or maybe she just wasn't paying that much attention during her mum's tutoring. Either way, she sort of got the answer right so she didn't mind. The blonde nodded as Professor Flamsteed filled up more of the gaps about her solar system knowledge. Now really, what WAS the topic for today?

However, now they were defining some celestial objects. Vivian tried to keep her pace and basically her handwriting while taking down notes didn't look that pleasing to the eye anymore. She made a mental note to rewrite them once she had the spare time to do so.

After scribbling the last bit about meteoriods, Vivian raised her hand for her turn. "I'll go with asteroids, Professor," she said. She didn't want to repeat one that was mentioned before. Oh yeah, she was competitive. Came from Edmund's Gryffindor nature, obviously. "They're composed of basically rocks and they orbit around the Sun too. They also... uh, gather together in some sort of belt. Asteroid belt, I guess. Name says it all. Oh, and they also tend to come SWOOSHING near the Earth! Like this..." The Slytherin raised her hand and made a downward movement with it, like an asteroid when it entered the Earth's sphere. "WHOOOOOOOSH! Like that!"

The girl bounced on her seat and nodded along and BEAMED. She was right, right?

Felixir · 06-29-2016, 02:05 PM

The more Daxton listened to the other students in the class, the clearer it became that - though most everyone seemed to understand that shooting stars were not real stars - the majority of people in this room apparently thought that actual stars had some kind bearing on making wishes come true. That revelation was not so surprising, he supposed. Really, he expected nothing less from these... classmates, who all seemed incredibly determined to deny logic and fact.

While he waited for class to move on, Daxton turned his attention to his hands. Or, more specifically, drawing on them. Taking his pen, he worked on adorning his knuckles, fingers, and hands with skulls and crowns and tiny little birds, as a means to pass the time while he listened to Airey Flamsteed assure everyone that he was not discouraging wishes or dreams. Really, none of that was of any consequence to Daxton.

The next time he looked up, there were words on the board, and at once Daxton flipped open his notebook. Abandoning the artwork on his own hands for the time being, he got to work instead writing down a definition for each of the terms from memory.

SPOILER!!: Notebook

Once he was done, Daxton stopped, leaned back from his notebook to look things over, before quickly leaning over it and resting his arms over his writing to prevent any other students from snooping.

MunchyBubbles · 06-29-2016, 06:36 PM

Azura was all ready to go with her answer for Star.. but someone got to it first.. and then comet.. and finally she was left with meteorite..

Azura raised her hand as she gave her answer.

"A Meteorite Professor, is a a piece of rock from an asteroid that manages to survive it's trip through the atmosphere and hits the earth surface.. So it doesn't get burned up, but actually manages to get through and hit the ground." She said with a nod as she looked down at her notes again and started to write down the other answers that she heard.

RachieRu · 06-29-2016, 07:56 PM

Ooh. They got to define things. She liked that! Harriet had done some reading on Astronomy. She really liked Astronomy. So she had done some background reading on it. She wanted to have a head start on things, and wanted to impress. So it might have been a bit of a nerdy thing, but she had done reading. It would help in the future, so she knew that it would be worth it.

Hattie smiled, listening to some of her classmates answers. She wasn't sure of some of the words, but she knew a few. Smiling, she raised her hand. "Sir. A star is a big ball of gas, and I believe it is held together by it's own form of gravity. There are lots in the sky, but the closest one to us is the sun, which I think is why it appears bigger than most of the stars we see at night"

Suziella · 06-30-2016, 01:13 AM

Juno raised her hand and waited to be called on. There were a lot of good answers so far but she was pretty sure no one had answered what she was going to. When she was finally called on she replied, "Meteoroids are rocky or metallic spheres that travel through space. They are much smaller than Asteroids...they would basically be a Meteor if they fell through our atmosphere before becoming a Meteorite if it falls to the ground."

Yep. That was right....wasn't it?

griffin · 06-30-2016, 01:35 AM

Penelope listened as Professor Flamsteed introduced the next topic, which included meteors. Looked like they would be discussing different celestial bodies and the differences between meteoroids, meteors, and meteorites. Maybe this would lead in to a more in depth discussion or some sort of life threatening activity. After all of these years she had learned how to deal with activities in Professor Flamsteed's class, including when to wear protective safety gear, when to hide in the corner, and when to run from the room and hope that nobody would die. She had been through some seriously scary things in this class.

Define one of the terms? She could do that. This was really basic stuff. "A meteor is the light that we can see from a meteoroid that has entered Earth's atmosphere and is burning. Any pieces of the meteoroid that don't burn up and reach Earth's surface are meteorites." Was that more than one? All of the terms were connected, so it was necessary to explain all three to understand each of the terms. It was important to know the differences between meteoroids, meteors, and meteorites. All three were distinctly different, but connected. Penelope wrote down definitions for each of the terms in her notes.

SPOILER!!: notes

Daydreamer11 · 06-30-2016, 02:13 AM

Was that a wink from Professor Flamsteed? Janelle guessed that her answer must have bee kinda right. Well okay then. Notes were taken, information was processed and then........it was time for the next question. Since Janelle had brought up meteors in her first answer, she decided that she would she would go with that for answer number two.

Janelle raised her hand and jumped into her answer, trying not to be too repetitive. "When a meteoroid or asteroid comes into the earth's atmosphere, it gets super hot. All of the little pieces that break off and leave a trail of light........those would be meteors. Yep, that was her answer and she was sticking to it.

WhittyBitty · 06-30-2016, 03:04 AM

Really? Huh. You learn something new every day. Esme made a mental note of the fact that people thought that you could make wishes on shooting stars. Of course that didn't change the fact that it was better to go out there and make things happen. Annnnd she was getting TWO thumbs up. Go her.

A lot of people were choosing the same words and she wanted to go a little differently. She chose to talk about asteroids instead. Raising her hand, she said, "asteroids are rocks that revolve around the sun and are too small to be called planets. They can form belts where you have a bunch of them all together and they have hit earth and will continue to do so." Soooo yep. That was a little bit of information and there wasn't much else that she could say about them.

MadMadamMalfoy · 06-30-2016, 03:33 AM

Fiyero smiled when Professor Flamsteed praise his last answer. He was glad, though somewhat surprised, he got it right; science had never been his strong suit! He watched as the professor wrote a series of words on the blackboard. So all they had to do was give the meaning of one of them... sounded simple enough.

He thought back to the chapter on stars in his astronomy book as he listened to some of his classmates' answers. Most of the good ones were taken now, but he had to say something or Professor Flamsteed might think he wasn't paying attention. He raised his hand. "A comet is basically a big ball of ice, dust, and rock that orbits around the sun," he said. "The long tail that we see here on Earth is made of jets of gas."

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