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A place to share questions and comments about Science at ATA. In our monthly SINS (Science In the News) Students review a piece of media (newspaper, magazine, radio, T.V., Internet). Then share and discuss. Brief Synopses of our Labs will also be posted here. Feel free to comment! :-)
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There’s something fishy going on with the Pacific sardines. These are the sardines that sustain most of California’s are large fishing and canning industry. The Sardines all but disappeared in the 1950’s and it’s feared that this will happen again. Even with the recent fishing regulations for sardines in the Pacific Ocean, many are worried that the sardine population will face another crash like the one during the 1950’s. One George Sugihara, a theoretical biologist believes he can hopefully negate the bust of the fish population with a new type of environmental simulation he created. Gabriel Popkin wrote this article “Tomorrow’s Catch” online at (Sciencenews.org).
George’s theory uses the knowledge of past catches from the previous fifty years and what affected those population numbers and he believe that he can accurately predict the future. Sugihara’s simulation theory is better than the current simulations that are used because it factors in more than just a few variables. It factors in everything and essentially creates a whole environment. This could help save certain species from extinction even if they're not endangered.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tomorrow%E2%80%99s-catch
Take a Look Outside
In the article Take a look outside and watch Jupiter and moon meet up, Joa Rao (author), was telling everyone about how the moon and Jupiter were going to meet last night around 8pm. If you had looked outside last night around 6pm, you would have seen the moon and off to the left hand side you will see a silvery-white, non-twinkling "star".
This for sure wasn't a star as it shined too bright. It was the largest planet in our solar system: Jupiter. Jupiter currently shines at negative 2.7 magnitude, which means that it is three times brighter than the brightest star in the sky: Sirius. Last night you could see Jupiter, the moon, and this star Sirius. Sirius was down and to the left of the moon and it shined bluish-white, compared to the whitish color that Jupiter shined.
I care about this because I actually looked into the sky last night, and couldn't figure out what I was seeing. Then I read this article this morning and decided to put my other sin on hold, and right about this one since it happened last night.
Authors Note:
"Jupiter will come to opposition on the evening of Jan. 5, when it will also be nearest to the Earth at 391.4 million miles away. In fact, Jupiter will be exactly opposite to the sin in our sky."
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