Informative Speech On Sundogs

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The Wonders Of the Sky Ajanayah Tabb Henning School, Henning MN, United States Teacher: Mr. Hart My purpose in doing this project was so I can inform people about Sundogs. Surely someone has wondered how Sundogs are made, how they are there and why they are there. When I go outside and it’s absolutely frigid, I’m too cold to notice. Even when I’m inside I rarely have time. So I want to tell people like me “The Wonders Of the Sky”. The first thing I had to do was ask myself a question. But there were so many of them. So I sifted it down to a root question. How are Sundogs made? I did a lot of research on that one question. (A LOT OF RESEARCH!!!). I also did some observation of the sky while I was driving home. I took note of the colors, how cold it was and how the sky looked when the Sundogs appeared. I learned from Wikipedia that Sundogs are made from hexagonal crystals floating inside of cirrus clouds. They …show more content…

We call this an optical phenomena. The rainbows or halos typically form 22° away from the sun. If the crystals are randomly oriented, then it makes a complete halo around the sun. Although Sundogs mostly happen in very cold weather, it can happen anytime there are cirrus clouds around the sun. Sundogs aso have various names such as mock sun, phantom sun. When I discovered this, I also came across another fact. It is likely that the Sundogs that we see on Earth may very well be visible on other planets around us. It is possible to predict the forms of Sundogs as would be seen on other planets and moons. Mars might have Sundogs formed by both water-ice and CO2-ice. On gas planets - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and others - other crystals form clouds of periodic elements/substances that can produce halos with four or more

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