Instructions:

• You may work on this assignment with others in class in groups of up to 4 people.

• You may use the classroom discussion board (feedback link on the homepage) to discuss this assignment.

• Turn your assignment in via email to the graders:
  Ted Martin (tmartin1@darkwing.uoregon.edu)

  Theresa Kelly (tkelly@darkwing.uoregon.edu)

  Here are the questions:
  

  Provide some information in response to the following questions. This is best done by using an Internet search engine and typing in a key word or phrase related to the question.

  1. What was the COBE mission of NASA and what were its main results? What is the MAP mission and how will it improve upon the COBE results?

  2. Recently a mission known as BOOMERANG has made quite a bit of press by claiming its measurements show that the Universe is flat? What was the BOOMERANG mission and what did it actually measure? How was this different than what COBE measured?

  3. What is a neutrino and why might it be cosmologically relevant? What is the Solar Neutrino Experiment and why are its results puzzling?

  4. Astronomers have recently determined the average "color" of the Universe. What is this color, what is it a measure of and how will this color evolve in the future?

  5. What is the Hubble Deep Field and why are astronomers excited about it?

  6. What is a gravitational lens? Find a URL that shows an image of a gravitational lens.

  7. Using this resource provide an overview of Aristotle's notion of an ordered Universe as well as an overview of the Ptolemaic model.