So we all agree that other stars are farther away than the Sun, and as a result, they appear smaller. The models students developed are pretty interesting, and we'll be talking about how these models may not take into consideration the Earth's orbit around the Sun. Because of this, it'll be necessary to come back to the physical model (maybe in a different way) since it seems that if the Earth were to orbit the Sun (which we know it does), then based on these models the following two things would happen:
1. The Earth would collide with some of these stars in its orbit around the Sun.
2. We'd see some of these stars at a different point in the Earth's orbit, and we never see more than one star during the daytime, even if one is smaller.
We also decided that our models showed a lot of qualitative data to support the Sun's proximity as compared to size, but we also agreed that quantitative data really helps us figure something out, as numbers don't lie.
We pulled out some plates to represent stars, and are measuring the distance of the star's diameters as from the Earth's perspective. We're also measuring their distance from Earth, too, and will build a mathematical model to represent this phenomenon.
1. The Earth would collide with some of these stars in its orbit around the Sun.
2. We'd see some of these stars at a different point in the Earth's orbit, and we never see more than one star during the daytime, even if one is smaller.
We also decided that our models showed a lot of qualitative data to support the Sun's proximity as compared to size, but we also agreed that quantitative data really helps us figure something out, as numbers don't lie.
We pulled out some plates to represent stars, and are measuring the distance of the star's diameters as from the Earth's perspective. We're also measuring their distance from Earth, too, and will build a mathematical model to represent this phenomenon.