Other Worlds / Other Earth...

Downloadable Resources

• Guides:
  • Teacher Guide
  • Appendix B Teachers
  • Student Guide
  • Appendix B Students
• Software:
  • MicroObservatory Image
• Star Charts:
  • TrES-1
  • TrES-2
  • TrES-3
  • WASP-1
  • WASP-2
  • WASP-10
  • WASP-25
  • WASP-37
  • WASP-39
  • HAT-P-10
  • HAT-P-12
  • HAT-P-20
  • CoRot-2
  • Qatar-1
  • Qatar-2
• Sun Image
• Plant Lfe Image
• Calendar of Transits
  • May 2013
  • June 2013
  • July 2013
  • August 2013
• Venus Transit
• Modeling Labs for Mac:
  • Oceans Lab
  • Temperature Lab
  • Atmosphere Lab
  • Portrait Lab
• Modeling Labs for PC:
  • Oceans Lab
  • Temperature Lab
  • Atmosphere Lab
  • Portrait Lab
• Notes for Modeling Labs

Supporting Resources

Supplemental Activities

• Introduction: Your place in the Universe
• Part One: Detect an alien world and find out what it's like
• Part Two: Looking for a habitable planet... and life

Core Concepts / Benchmarks / Misconceptions

• Core Concepts (PDF, 108 KB)

Target Stars Background Information

• TrES – Trans-atlantic Exoplanet Survey
• WASP – Wide Angle Search for Planets
• HATNet – Hungarian Automated Telescope Network
• CoRot – Convection Rotation and Planetary Transits
• Qatar
• MEarth

Searching for Alien Worlds Websites

• California Planet Search – exoplanets.org/—planets found by wobble method
• PlanetQuest Exoplanet Exploration - planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/—access to mission info (Kepler, Spitzer,etc). David Charbonneau featured under planet hunters. Also has a downloadable public powerpoint presentation about the search for exoplanets (planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/frequentImages.cfm)
• Planetary Society—www.planetary.org/home/
• American Association of Variable StarObservers - www.aavso.org/observing/programs/ccd/transitsearch.shtml
• Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia—exoplanet.eu/
• NASA Kepler page: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/main/index.html