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Speaking Volumes about Dust

Speaking Volumes about Dust

This is a lesson about density. Learners will relate the concept of density to the density of dust in space. They will use mission data from the Student Dust Counter (SDC) interface to determine the density of dust grains in a volume of space in the Solar System in order to answer questions concerning the distribution of dust in the solar system. They will discover that space is much more sparsely populated with dust than they may have thought....

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Keywords:
Planetary Science, NSDL, Earth and Space Science:Solar System, New Horizons, Space Science, Physical Sciences:Structure and Properties of Matter, Physics
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Material Type:
Assessment Tool
Date Added to MERLOT:
July 27, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:
August 30, 2017
Author:
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Submitter:
Barbra Bied Sperling
Primary Audience:
Middle School, High School, College General Ed
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Language:
English
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