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   Issue 10 - Winter 2011-12 Full Table of Contents

Articles	Materials	URLs
Discovering Astronomy Through Poetry		Programs to use to determine the skies during a poem's time period: http://www.starrynight.com/ http://www.stellarium.org http://www.nightskyatlas.com/ Ted Kooser's "After Hours" poem The Art of Poetry Mannone's slideshow, �Longfellow�s Mars�  Two good sources you can use for a timeline:  http://www.windows2universe.org/the_universe/uts/timeline.html and http://www.mhhe.com/physsci/astronomy/fix/student/timelineindex.mhtml
Sketching The Moon and Galaxies		Astronomy Sketch of the Day
Taking Spreadsheets from Dull to Dynamic With Animation	Kepler's Third Law.xls Escape Velocity.xls Blackbody Radiation and Wien's Law.xls Doppler Shift.xls	Developer's Guide to Excelets
Simulations on your Online Course Pages With HTML5	The Code for the Retrograde Motion Demonstrator	The Accessible Universe.  The Retrograde Motion demonstrator
Which Toy Universe Would a Teacher Want for the Holidays?		Manufacturers of Toy Universes: Toysmith.com Unclemilton.com Sciencetech (Elenco)  Discovery Store    www.ioptron.com
This Issue's Most Puzzling Terms - Planetary Configuration and Light Terms	The Puzzle, the Clues, and the Answer Key