By Ally B (10), Chloe R (8), Avery W (10), Emma W (9) & Isabel M (9)

Nick, Crispin, Eli, Ally & Avery

This week at Medomak Family Camp, we made Fliskits rockets out of paper. We made all the parts mostly with glue, tape and clay. Were using real engines with engine fuel. They will shoot up and the top of the rocket will fall off and a streamer will pop out. The reason the streamer will come out is because when the engine fuel runs out, it will make a little poof of air and it will come up through the inside of the rocket and push off the nose cone.( the nose cone is a part at the top of the rocket) Then the the steamers will come out to help slow the rocket as it heads back to Earth.

We looked at sunspots with a telescope. Sunspots are places on the sun that cooler than the area around them. But cool on the sun is very, very hot here on earth. Sunspots are a 5-7,000°F while the rest of the surface is about 10,000°F.

We looked  at Saturn and its rings along with 2 moons. We also saw a satellite called Iridium that made a big flash in the sky that lasted about 3 seconds.

Emma W & Bruce preparing for launch

We saw the Big Dipper too, it’s very obvious-if you know where to look. If you find the two stars that form the end of the dipper and follow an imaginary line going through them you’ll see the north star.

Pointers to the North Star

We made Pocket Solar Systems. You take a very long strip of thin paper( it wasn’t wide). Then we took stickers and put them in this order- Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, then Asteroids. Then Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

Editors Note: I’m calling this Part 1 because it should have been, since this article was written over 2 weeks agowhile Astronomy Week was still in session. Apologies go out to Ally, Chloe, Emma and Avery for not getting it published online sooner.

Jack, Jack, Chloe, Isabel, Emma, Jack & Bradley

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