Measuring the Solar System: A Collaborative Global Student Program

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Oct 2011

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EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.1405

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Students regularly recreate historic observations in which the Earth's size and the relative scale of the inner solar system are determined. The transit of Venus on 5 June, 2012 provides the opportunity to replicate the entire chain of measurements from the ancient Greeks' determination of the Earth's diameter to the Sun-Earth distance in kilometers. A yearlong program of simple hands-on classroom projects, culminating with Venus transit, will be organized, disseminated and managed by Astronomers Without Borders.

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