Husband Homeschooling too - Astronomy

I think that I have failed to mention that DH is an astronomy buff. Not a big crazy buff that spends hours behind the telescope, but a mini-buff with a passion to know what is going on in the sky. He was thrilled when DS earned a telescope for selling Cub Scout popcorn and then he found a couple websites that he follows to give him little tidbits about our sky. I think it is funny because he always says that he isn’t smart and that he doesn’t teach the kids, but you should hear him when he talks about these astronomic facts. He is positively giddy. You can't help but be interested too.

Currently he is following the decent of Jules Verne spacecraft as it hurdles toward earth to crash “harmlessly” into the south Pacific Ocean.

The other day he was particularly smitten with PHA’s. He came home asking us if we knew what PHA’s were. Even after our game of coming up with acronyms for STC, we couldn’t think of one reasonable answer to his question. We then heard all about Potentially Hazardous Asteroids and LD's (Lunar Distances).

It is funny because this is his first foray into the homeschooling mindset: learning for the sake of knowing instead of learning to pass a test. He has found it as contagious as we have.

If you have been inspired by his interest too, check out SpaceWeather.com & Satellite Tracker.