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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Meeting Minutes

  • No extra solar planet project meeting this weekend due to Homecoming
  • Conference call with the Ouida Springer Elementary Astronomy Club on Friday
    • Meet at 1:40 pm in the lobby of Steward Observatory
  • Sabino Canyon public star party event this Saturday, contact Kevin if you are interested
  • Our next star party will be November 20th, location TBD
  • Astronomy Club officers will hold office hours for club members, hours TBD
  • Local Group project meeting Thanksgiving weekend
  • Don McCarthy presented another question of the week and explained the Sabino Canyon project
Problems of the week:

1. Say that cucumbers are on sale, so you buy 100 pounds of them at
your market. The cucumbers are 99% water. Some days later, they dry
out to 98% water.  How much do they weigh now?

2. Nellie Knowital says that the gasoline in a automobile's gas tank
is only about one-fourth of the amount of fuel that runs the engine.
Is she correct? [HINT: Internal combustion engines normally run on one
part gasoline to 14 parts air by mass.]