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Sr.Dianne's Earth and Space Science

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Skyline Caverns Field Trip

RARE Club Website

coming from: Bishop Denis J. O'Connell High School, Arlington, VA, USA

HEAT ExperimentDJO'sStarshine I, II, III Heat Island Webpage


Weather Activities	WEATHER.COM	Meteorology Tutorial	USA Today Weath.Basics	Hurricanes

TopoMap Activities Eric's Hurricane Tracking Map Tropical Storm Updates


Some Helpful Links: - Glencoe Homework:Schoolnotes Schoolnotes: Part 2 NASA science articles - Fire Events -InternationalSp.Station - View ISS in Sky - Current Earth Events - Earth Alert - AstronomySights -"PerfectStorm"Movie - Hurricane Images (IR,VIS,WV)- Earthwatch	1. [El Nino]] 1. Are WE changing our climate? 2. What's the most powerful event on earth? ...more 3. ...a satellite tethered to the Shuttle? 4. Solar Storm warning 5. Are the Arctic, Greenland, and Antartica all MELTING? 6. What does the Sky in the Northern Hemisphere look like tonight?

"The energy expended, when Mt.St. Helens blew on May 18, 1980,
was equivalent to 27.000 atomic bombs."

The ash clouds reached 16 miles into the atmosphere, and the North and South Forks were covered in 600 feet of volcanic ash.

The volume of blast was enough to bury the downtown area of Seattle to the height of the Space Needle.

Spirit Lake was buried in 200 ft. of ash and debris, including the hundreds of trees that were blown out of the ground by the blasts. (No fish have yet returned to Spirit Lake in 20 years.) The ancient Indians called Mt.St.Helens "Fire Mountain" [Source: Mt.St.Helens Imax film]

"The combined nuclear arsenals of the US and the former Soviet Union do NOT contain enough ENERGY to keep a [mature] HURRICANE going for ONE day. " [Exerpt from the book, "The Perfect Storm" by by Sebastian Junger]

Why not visit O'Connell's RARE (Rocketry, Aviation, and Robotics Exploration) Club?

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