From N V Fitton, ideas to share with my students at Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria campus.
I teach mathematics and computer science.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Look out below!

Are you worried about an asteroid hitting the Earth? NO? Good grief, why not?!

NASA is tracking asteroids and has a web page showing 943 near-Earth objects. Scroll down to choose one and wait for the Java applet to download. Then you can set the system in motion with the button that looks like this >> (fast forward), you can zoom and scroll in 3D — why, you can get lost in space.

Here's the article in the Wall Street Journal that told me about this.

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