March 31, 2006
Spectral classification is used to identify the different types of stars (O, B, A, F, G, K, M). Students use a mnemonic to help remember the type and order.
Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me! There are many subsets of these general types, and also peculiar stars. Buy yourself a telescope, and go explore.
Very good stuff.
Nobody's going to remember those mnemonics. None of them are dirty. When I teach kids to remember the cranial nerves, I teach them the old-school Greek mythology mnemonic. Then I quietly let them know that there's a dirty version, which they won't hear from me, but it goes something like...
Anyway, they don't forget the dirty version. I never was able to keep the damn things straight until I learned the dirty version.
I mean, come on - there's an F right in the middle of that, just waiting to be turned into a cuss word!
There is much to what frogs says.
Oh, I say! Rahtha - one remembers learning the resistor colour code that way.
Crap Goes Down An Elephant's Butt Fast.
(Circle of Keys. You're welcome)
Nice FPP Kro-Bar!
Roy G. Biv.
Every Good Boy Deserves A F ... udgsicle.
does fine!
Freak!
awwww yeah baby you know it!
Matilda Visits Every Monday, Jiggles Salaciously Until Neville 'Plodes.
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Back on topic, almost, although a little bit closer to home.
got it.
There is a part of me that insists that spectral classification refers to ghosts and phantoms. The language pertaining to stars and spectres got fearfully muddled for me after I read (at an impressionable age) various scathing descriptions of astral projection and unhappy mediums with ectoplasmic challenges.
Nifty. Thanks!
Am surprised that our scientific community hasn't chimed in yet with:
King Patrick Cuts Onions For Granny's Soup.
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