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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Talked with DL and SG about the future of our project again. Discussed a project we can begin working on- to research a popularly known asteroid that has pictures and information on it and figure out sizes, speeds, read through calculations and perhaps find out the same information about another asteroid that is less popular, that perhaps SG and I can research. Found [|this] website.

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Today SG and myself talked with the head honchos about our project and how to proceed forward since research just isn't cutting it anymore. We talked about how to figure out the sizes, speeds, and distances from Earth to the actual asteroid. We concluded that the apparent speed and the real speed are separate entities; the further away the moving object is, the slower it is going and vice versa. We also concluded that the distance of the star is indeterminable, and that with the speed (v=d/t) and the transverse axis of the asteroid, we can determine the size and distance of the asteroid from Earth. We will first utilize this information by working with an already popularly studied asteroid such as Ceres, work with their calculations to figure out how we can calculate this ourselves when observing at Jordan Hall, and perhaps, found our own, ostracized asteroid. MM will be copying this verbatim since we both wrote this out together, so no plagiarism! After getting together to write this, SG and I will diverge into two separate websites about Ceres, gather our separate information, and learn what we can in the last 15 minutes of class.

Wednesday, November 20th, 2007
Half day, so I found those forms that we need to have signed and brought them home to get them signed after reading through them

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