During the summer of 1970, we became the 12th class to attend the Summer Science Program, then located at The Thacher School in Ojai, California, USA. As it did then, the "SSP" still chooses up to 36 high school students to spend part of their summers at the Program, studying astronomy, celestial mechanics, space science, higher mathematics, and computer science. Each student calculates the orbital elements of a minor planet from telescopic observations his or her team has made and analyzed. This orbit determination ("O.D."), legendary among SSP alumni, occupies much of the program's term.
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On this site: Class roster Quiz Orbiting Debris Related Web sites: Summer Science Program International Astronomical Union Minor Planet Center |
These Web pages serve as a record of our long-ago days and nights at SSP, as a way for us to exchange information with each other, and as encouragement for current high school students to consider attending the Summer Science Program. Maybe these pages serve or can serve other purposes as well. Suggestions? Class rosterThe class roster page lists the members of our 36-member class who wish to be listed here, plus their EMail addresses and links to their personal Web pages or sites if they wish to include those. QuizThe quiz page is a memory test for the members of the class of '70. How much do we remember about those six weeks? Answers submitted will (if we can figure out whether they are more likely correct than not) be added to these pages. Orbiting Debris
The orbiting debris page will serve as a repository (and possible final resting place) of any differentiated, undifferentiated, or disintegrated stuff that's still floating around (in our homes, garages, trash cans, or brains) from the summer of 1970 at SSP. |
The Class of 1970 of the Summer Science Program at The Thacher School
This site's URL is http://jrabold.net/ssp70/
Last updated: June 2002