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To: thecodont

He can’t pronounce “Orion”.


114 posted on 03/28/2009 7:53:06 PM PDT by BonRad (As Rome goes so goes the world)
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To: BonRad
He can’t pronounce “Orion”.

According to the California Department of Education, kids by third grade should know what the constellations are.
Science Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten through Grade Twelve, adopted by the California State Board of Education, 1998, reprinted 2003, p. 9

Earth Sciences

4. Objects in the sky move in regular and predictable patterns. As a basis for understanding this concept:
a. Students know the patterns of stars stay the same, although they appear to move across the sky nightly, and different stars can be seen in different seasons.
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OF COURSE, having spent his grade school days in Indonesia, he'd be unfamiliar with the constellation Orion, including proper pronunciation of its name.

Orion is a constellation of Northern skies.

Starpeace: Welcome to Indonesian and Pakistani astronomers

Langitselatan is an astronomy communication and educator media in Indonesia....
Langitselatan in Indonesian language means southern sky and has been chosen as their name because they live in Bandung about 6 degree under the equator and sharing the southern sky. You know the constellations and stars in southern sky are unique and different from the constellation in northern sky.

115 posted on 03/28/2009 8:41:45 PM PDT by thecodont
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