Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Houston Museum of Science


Monday we visited the Houston museum of science. We learnt about how the earth’s centrifugal force can make a pendulum swing back and forth constantly. We also learnt about the different type of gems and rocks. We saw how they turned some gems into jewelry in the gem vault. We also got to see how an astronaut prepares for space. But the best part of the science museum was the planetarium that they had. The person who directed it showed us all the star formations – Scorpio, Taurus, Cancer, Orion and others.  


We also visited the theatre inside the museum to see a video about the ice age. The video showed a dead wooly mammoth baby that was found almost perfectly intact, under some snow and ice, in 2007. That was pretty amazing, as there have not been wooly mammoths around for at least 40, 000 years. They named her baby Lyuba. 


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