You Gotta' See This!

   You're bound to get a kick out of this perfectly wonderful website whether you're a kid in calendar years or a kid-at-heart. Although the bulk of it deals with all things astronomical, accessing home page will have you being greeted by the roar of a T-Rex. Follow the roar to "A Dinosaur Website for Kids", or stay with the home page and begin your exploration of the solar system. There are lots of fascinating facts and pictures, an astronomy dictionary, and other cool stuff, including the most absotively, posolutely wonderful-est - "Make-A-Solar-System" which starts you off with the Sun and allows you to add the planets one at a time, as well as a comet and the asteroid belt. If you're like me, you'll try dragging the planets out of their orbits and wreaking cosmic havoc, for the fun of it all. You can even add in multiples of any of the planets and have a really "out of this world" system by the time you're finished. If you have a son or daughter who has to do a project on space travel or the solar system, or if you just want to be a kid again for a little while, follow the link above. BTW, that includes you educators out there, too. You'll like the "Teachers' Corner" and you don't have to admit anything to your students about playing around with the Solar System before you made up their worksheet!