ASTR688R

Planetary Science

Time: TuTh 12:30-1:45, Fall 2004
Room: CSS 0201
Prof: Doug Hamilton

Anouncements

Class Organization

• Course Description
• Lecture Schedule
• Assignments
• Course Textbooks
• Prof's Office Hours (in CSS 1245): Drop by Anytime!
• What's My Grade Right Now?
• TERPS Conference Schedule

Extra Classes

Special (Mandatory!) Make-Up Class: Luke Dones talks about Cassini observations of Saturn's Rings:
Monday December 6, at 4:30 in CSS2400.

Computer Programs

• The Astronomy Workshop, a collection of interactive online tools.
  
  Orbital Elements:
  Orbit Viewers
  Orbital Elements Converter
  Three-Body Problem:
  What if the Moon's Orbit was Inclined by 90 degrees?
  What if the Moon's Orbit were twice as large?
  Binary Star Integrator
  
  Apsidal Precession:
  Central Force Integrator
  
  Impacts:
  Solar System Collisons
  
• Xephem, an observer's view of the Solar System.
• HNBody, a downloadable state-of-the-art N-Body Integrator.

Go to Doug Hamilton's Home Page