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June 5, 2017
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| Our Application Period for Free Eclipse
Glasses & Education Kit is Officially Closed
Congratulations to the 2240 successful applicants, who represent over 4,800 unique locations including public library branches, bookmobiles, tribal libraries, library consortia, and state libraries in all 50 states! If your library had successfully completed an application but has not received a confirmation email notifying you of your library's selection, please contact Anne Holland to check your status.
Note: For those libraries that are still interested in purchasing affordable eclipse glasses, American Paper Optics is providing discounted eclipse glasses for educators (such as libraries, schools, museums, etc.).
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| Virtual Family-friendly Presentation:
Meet a Sun Scientist!
June 21 at 6 pm EDT / 5 pm CDT / 4 pm MDT / 3 pm PDT
Get ready for the August 21st Solar Eclipse with an online presentation by NASA Astronomer, Lou Mayo. Hear where and why eclipses happen, eclipse science, and how NASA will view the eclipse from the ground, balloons, aircraft, and spacecraft. Which is hotter, the surface of the Sun, or the Earth’s core? Come find out through a family-friendly hands-on activity!
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| Online Eclipse Programming Share-a-Thon
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| NASA Eclipse Press Conference
June 21 from 1-3:30 pm EDT
Learn about: - How to experience the August 2017 eclipse through the eyes of NASA
- Views from different areas of the country and how to prepare
- Safe eclipse viewing practices
- What causes an eclipse and why you should care
- How to participate in events around the country
- The unique research opportunities to study our Earth, moon and the sun
Join NASA, other federal agencies, and science organizations for a two-hour nationally-televised live event! See it on NASA TV and www.nasa.gov.
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| Has Your Library Received Their Eclipse Kit?
We will be using this special hashtage to proudly promote the impact public libraries are making in their communities towards the education of the upcoming solar eclipse. We are asking libraries to post pictures (using the hashtag above) of any eclipse events/activities on their social media pages - leading up to and on the day of the eclipse. Thank you!
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| Eclipse Resource Center Reminder
Funded by the NASA@ My Library program, STAR_Net has developed this resource center to assist your library in creating promotion and program materials for your eclipse event that include images, videos, guides, articles, posters, webinars and a variety of outside resources such as FAQs and science activities related to Sun-Earth connections.
Below are some highlights of important links to our resource center:
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Hands-on STEM: Scale Model of Sun and Earth
We all know that the Sun is very big and very far away, but its actual size and distance from Earth can be a hard concept to grasp. Many Solar System models that we see are inaccurate in scale - an accurate model with a one-inch diameter Earth would require a nine-foot wide Sun and 5.6 miles to accommodate Neptune’s orbit!
This Scale Model of Sun and Earth activity will give participants a much better understanding of the relative size of the Sun and Earth and the distance between them…and you only need sixty five feet of space to do it!
Leave a review and let us know what you think!
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| Total Eclipse of the Sun to be
commemorated on a Forever Stamp
The U.S. Postal Service will soon release a first-of-its-kind stamp that changes when you touch it. The Total Solar Eclipse Forever stamp, which commemorates the August 21 eclipse, transforms into an image of the Moon from the heat of a finger. The public is asked to share the news on social media using the hashtag #EclipseStamps.
The stamp image is a photograph taken by astrophysicist Fred Espenak, aka Mr. Eclipse, of Portal, AZ, that shows a total solar eclipse seen from Jalu, Libya, on March 29, 2006.
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| Engaging Children in the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse
This unique opportunity can be used to engage children in science, the arts, engineering, and more. Libraries can hold special events, or conduct activities in advance, to prepare their audiences to experience the eclipse, such as making their own eclipse viewers.
While it is not safe to look directly at the Sun (except during the brief total phase of a solar eclipse), there are several ways to help children safely enjoy the eclipse. One way is by assembling their own pinhole projectors.
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