Course curriculum

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About this course

  • £6.00
  • Tutor: Martin Lunn M.B.E. 3 sessions
  • Age: approx 8-13
  • Description: 27th January - The Pluto Story Discovered as a planet in 1930 then relegated to a dwarf planet in 2006, Pluto has set astronomers many problems about its size and what kind of planet it really is. It was only in 2015, when the New Horizons space craft flew past Pluto, that we began better to understand this small world at the edge of the solar system. Join Martin to find out all about this small body with a big story. 3rd February - Moons of the Solar System The Earth has one moon, but there are more than two hundred moons in our solar system. Only the planets Mercury and Venus have no moons. The moons come in all shapes and sizes and though most are small, some are large enough to have have atmospheres and even hidden oceans beneath the surface. One moon even has liquid; not liquid water, but liquid methane. 10th February - Asteroids, Comets and the Death of the Dinosaurs We are near missed virtually every day by asteroids, or lumps or rock, and some small ones actually hit the Earth, appearing as spectacular fireballs burning up in the atmosphere. A fifty metre wide comet hit the Earth in 1908 over Siberia, destroying over 80 million trees. Sixty six million years ago a six mile wide asteroid crashed into the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. When will the next one arrive?