This section provides a graphic view with simple facts about our Sun to help the child understand why researchers are studying our solar system's central body. This section provides a graphic view with simple facts about our Moon in the same way as the Sun section to help the child gain insight on our closest celestial neighbor. Basic information is provided on comets along with a beautiful photograph of the Hale-Bopp comet to show visually the gases that make up a comet's tail. This page presents how a comet travels through our solar system and provides a special map showing the location of the Hale-Bopp comet, visible for the last time during the Total Solar Eclipse. Also, information is given on Halley's Comet with a question for the children to answer on when the comet will next visit the Earth.
Basic information is provided with pictures to explain the difference between asteroids and meteors.
The teaching section ends with an activity on how to view the night sky. Glossary Throughout the teaching section, we have provided links to a glossary page for the child's benefit. Once you have taken your children through the teaching section, enter Eclipse99 and share experiences from the Millennial Eclipse in Europe, Asia and the Middle East written by kids on the Path of Totality. Then take the kids back to Aruba for the eclipse of 98 with a Caribbean party thrown in.