home education > activities . ... This activity is mostly just calculations, but students will enjoy figuring out the angle by which an asteroid headed for Earth needs to be deflected to miss our planet.[h] . ... Students are encouraged to play out the motion and positions of a comet and the Earth, relative to the Sun. ... Cute little activity in which younger students "interview" the Sun as a way of encouraging them to research various topics on the Stanford Solar Center web site. [e] . ...