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Title: The Jason Project and Deaf Students: Craters Named for Deaf People


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The Jason Project and Deaf StudentsCraters
Named for Deaf People
  • Harry G. Lang
  • National Technical Institute for the Deaf
  • Rochester Institute of Technology

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Note to Jason Teachers
  • I once wrote an article for deaf children in
    which I identified six craters named for deaf
    people.
  • Six Moon Craters Named for Deaf Scientists
  • may be downloaded at
  • http//clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/WorldAroundYou/sc
    ience4.html

3
Note to Jason Teachers
  • Several more craters have been found since that
    article was published
  • These slides may be modified for use in your
    classroom
  • Please remember that the photos are downloaded
    from the Web and acknowledgements of their use
    beyond the classroom may be necessary

4
Resources for Science Teachersfor more
information about the deaf people who were
honored with crater names
  • Silence of the Spheres The Deaf Experience
    in the History of Science (1994)
  • Harry Lang

5
Resources for Science Teachers for more
information about the deaf people who were
honored with crater names
  • Deaf Persons in the Arts and Sciences A
    Biographical Dictionary (1995)
  • Harry Lang
  • Bonnie Meath-Lang

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Craters Named for Deaf People
  • Start of slide show for clasroom use

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Konstantin TsiolkovskyThe Father of
Astronautics
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Tsiolkovskys rocket designs
9
Father of Astronautics
10
Crater Tsiolkovsky on the Moon
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Annie Jump CannonDean of Women Astronomers
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Annie Jump Cannon
  • Annie Jump Cannon was born in Dover, Delaware on
    December 11, 1863.
  • During her first winter at school she became deaf
    through a fever. She learned to lip-read very
    well and wore a hearing aid.

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Annie Jump Cannon
  • categorized more than 300,000 stars.
  • She discovered 300 binary stars, 5 novae, and
    many other stars.
  • Known as the Dean of Women Astronomers

14
Crater Cannon, Far Side
15
Henrietta Swan LeavittAmerican Astronomer
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Henrietta Swan LeavittAmerican Astronomer
  • investigated variable stars in the Magellanic
    Clouds and discovered 1,777 new variable stars.

17
Henrietta Swan LeavittAmerican Astronomer
  • A remarkable relation between the brightness
    of these variables and the length of their
    periods will be noticed. . . the brighter
    variables have the longer periods.

18
Henrietta Swan LeavittAmerican Astronomer
  • This period-luminosity relation made possible
    measurements of the distances of stars from the
    earth and the determination of intergalactic
    distances by determining the distances from the
    earth of stars in galaxies outside our own.

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Henrietta Swan LeavittAmerican Astronomer
  • Leavitt was considered for a Nobel Prize in 1924
  • She died of cancer and was unable to be nominated
    for the Nobel Prize.
  • George Johnson recently published a book, "Miss
    Leavitt's Stars The Untold Story of the Woman
    Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe."

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Crater Leavitt, Far Side
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Robert Grant Aitken, Deaf Astronomer
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Robert Grant Aitken,Deaf Astronomer
  • Published the book
  • The Binary Stars
  • Discovered more than 3000 double star systems
  • President of the Commission on Double Stars in
    the International Astronomical Union

23
Crater Aitken, Near Side
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Crater La Condamine, Near SideCharles de la
Condamine, a deaf French scientist, 18th century
25
Crater Amontons, Near SideGuillaume Amontons,
deaf French physicist, 17th century
26
Crater Edison, Near SideThomas Alva Edisondeaf
inventor
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Crater Heaviside, Near SideOliver Heaviside,
deaf British electrical scientist
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A Martian crater is named for Beethoven
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A Venusian Crater is named for Tilly Edinger, a
deaf German fossil scientist
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