Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21521506d&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #215.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.437
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The greater Atlanta metropolitan area has been able to participate in the International Year of Astronomy in a number of ways, through local and national funding. The Hartsfield-Atlanta International airport has hosted a 7 month exhibition of over 50 images in From Earth to the Universe (FETTU), and the Atlanta Center for the Visually Impaired (CVI) has hosted a two month exhibition of tactile astronomical images at their downtown education and outreach facility. Connected to the FETTU exhibit, 9 locations in Atlanta are home to scaled images of the planets and the Sun in a project entitled the Metro Atlanta Solar System (MASS). Centered at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA, the goal of MASS is help make the sizes and distances between planets more understandable. In addition, Agnes Scott College as a whole has connected to the IYA celebration in declaring Project Galileo: Revealing Hidden Worlds as its curricular focus the 2009-2010 academic year. I will describe the various Atlanta projects and the ways in which the IYA has enriched the curricular life of the college.
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