Planetary Wonderings
Newsletter Column Written for the Sunbury Home Educators Newsletter
All columns are copyright ©2005 - 2009 by Mary-Frances Bartels. All rights reserved.
| Year | Month | Focus |
| 2005 | November |
Saturn (Voyager and Cassini) |
| December | the Sun | |
| 2006 | January | Stardust |
| February | New Horizons --- lost due to disk crash, if you have a copy, PLEASE e-mail me | |
| March | Sun-Earth Day & Solar Week | |
| April | Earth | |
| May | Astronomy Week/Day | |
| June | Night Sky Network & PlanetQuest | |
| July | STEREO | |
| August | Cassini/Huygens | |
| September | Planets, Dwarf Planets, & Small Solar System Bodies, Oh, My! | |
| October | Mars Overview | |
| November | Infrared | |
| December | Mars Global Surveyor --- RIP? | |
| 2007 | January | The Moon |
| February | Deep Space Network | |
| March |
Getting Started, Part II & Airbags in Space |
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| April |
Getting Started, Part III & Selene Project |
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| May |
International Polar Year |
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| June |
MESSENGER & Venus Fly-by |
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| July | Jupiter | |
| August |
Perseid Meteor Shower & Near Earth Objects |
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| September |
Voyager --- Interstellar Ambassador & Explorer |
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| October | Sputnik --- 50th Anniversary | |
| November |
Chandra --- The Telescope With “X-Ray Eyes” |
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| December | Winter Solstice Surprises | |
| 2008 | January |
Explorer 1 and Cosmic Rays |
| February |
The Moon |
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| March |
Sun-Earth Day & Space Weather |
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| April | Clarke and Aerobraking | |
| May | Phoenix Mars Mission | |
| June |
EPOXI |
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| July |
Ocean Topography Missions |
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| August | Happy 50th Anniversary NASA! | |
| September | GLAST/Fermi | |
| October | IBEX | |
| November |
LCROSS |
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| December | Exosolar Planets | |
| 2009 | January | International Year of Astronomy |
| February | Dawn and New Horizons | |
| March |
Astronomy Resources for the Visually Impaired |
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| April | Lunar Exploration | |
| May | GALEX | |
| June | Spitzer Space Telescope | |
| July | Did Man Really Walk on the Moon? | |
| August | Dark Skies | |
| September | Saturn and September | |
| October | Mars Encore |
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