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A Case of the Wobbles: Finding Extra-Solar Planets
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A Case of the Wobbles: Finding Extra-Solar Planets

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Topic: Planets Beyond our Solar System

Grade Level: 9-12

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Mission:

Science Education Standards: Science as Inquiry

  • Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
  • Understanding about scientific inquiry

Physical Science:

  • Motions and forces
  • Interactions of energy and matter

Short Description: Students plot and analyze NASA data to determine the period of an invisible planet orbiting a wobbling star.

Source: Montana State University


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