Students Record Spellbinding Video of Disintegrating Spacecraft

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Mon Jun-28-10 11:09 PM
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Students Record Spellbinding Video of Disintegrating Spacecraft

Very nice story.

Last year, high school science teacher Ron Dantowitz of Brookline, Mass., played a clever trick on three of his best students. He asked them to plan a hypothetical mission to fly onboard a NASA DC-8 aircraft and observe a spacecraft disintegrate as it came screaming into Earth's atmosphere. How would they record the event? What could they learn?

For 6 months, they worked hard on their assignment, never suspecting the surprise Dantowitz had in store.

On March 12th, he stunned them with the news: "The mission is real, and you're going along for the ride."

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/25jun_hayabusa/

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midnight

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Mon Jun-28-10 11:15 PM
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1. Amazing. Now that is what I call teaching and learning.

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Tue Jun-29-10 09:26 AM
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3. Now how do we get that kind of lab to all the schools?

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Tue Jun-29-10 01:16 AM
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2. K&R (n/t)

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