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This tab contains the majority of the content on the site (posts and events) about the efforts of the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) Community to share the story, the science, and the adventure of NASA’s scientific explorations of our home planet, the solar system, and the universe beyond. The content can be filtered in several ways to narrow down what you see using the filters on the left sidebar, allowing you to navigate to specific content quickly and easily!

Whitney Cobb

  Dawn Mission: i C Ceres Event

October 1, 2014 – 4:05 PM CDT

The Dawn Mission E/PO is planning to commemorate the arrival of the spacecraft at dwarf planet Ceres with a festival called i C Ceres. As we did with Vesta Fiesta heralding the mission’s arrival at the giant asteroid in 2011, i C Ceres will provide a forum and resources for events to be held across the country and around the world. Vesta Fiesta recorded over 100 festivals at museums, observatories, and backyards; from the flagship event at the Pasadena Convention Center that highighted…

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  Comet 2P/Encke Peak Brightness

October 1, 2014 – 3:12 PM CDT

Magnitude 6 at peak brightness

Magnitude 6 at peak brightness

Magnitude 6 at peak brightness.

Magnitude 5 at peak brightness

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  Perseids meteor shower

October 1, 2014 – 2:00 PM CDT

For the general public, teachers and students.

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  Geminids meteor shower

October 1, 2014 – 1:54 PM CDT

For the general public, teachers and students.

Heather Dalton Heather Dalton

  Orionids meteor shower

October 1, 2014 – 1:23 PM CDT

For the general public, teachers and students.

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  Lyrids Meteor Shower

October 1, 2014 – 12:25 PM CDT

For the general public, teachers and students.

Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI)’s MY NASA DATA team is seeking elementary, middle, and high school teachers to serve as Master Teachers on our new MY NASA DATA Advisory Board. The SSAI/MY NASA DATA team is interested in gathering feedback from teachers so that we can better meet the needs of the K-12 educational community. Selected teachers will use their classroom experience and expertise to help improve the MY NASA DATA project, which provides real NASA data, lesson…

Heather Dalton Heather Dalton

  Total solar eclipse

October 1, 2014 – 10:06 AM CDT

This will be a spectacular event with all states in the U.S. experiencing at least a partial eclipse. The path of totality crosses a number of large cities (including Salem OR, Casper WY, Kansas City MO, St Louis MO, Nashville, TN, Columbia SC, and Charleston SC), several national parks (Craters of the Moon, Grand Teton, Great Smokey Mountains, Conagree), and numerous state parks.

Maps from http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov