ASTR 330, Spring 2020

The Solar System

• Time: Tuesday/Thursday 9:30-10:45am
  
• Room: Synchronous Online Only Course
  
• Prof: Doug Hamilton
  
• TA: Rachel Scrandis
  
• UMD Covid19 Help: (301) 405-4325.

Class Information

• Course Description
• Lecture Schedule
• Assignments. Check here for up to date information on Homeworks and Exams!
• Prof's Office Hours: TuTh 10:45am-11:45pm or by appointment
• Full Syllabus
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• ASTR330 Blog. Talk to other students about astronomy! Help each other on homework problems!
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• Final Exam: Thursday December 17, 8:00-10:00am online.

Material to Help You Out

• Computer Programs for use in ASTR330. Practice scientific notation and working with equations. Learn about astronomical distances and giant impacts!
• More Computer Programs for use in ASTR330. Watch the planets move around the Sun on their actual orbits! Follow this link to the Inner Solar System and Outer Solar System animations.
• Even More Computer Programs for use in ASTR330. Check out the orbits of all the known moons of the planets in our Solar System!
• Astronomy Picture of the Day This site is updated daily and has a nice archive of pretty astronomy images.

• Welcome to the Planets Information about planets and spaceprobes from JPL.
• A Tour of the Solar System This page contains information about the planets, satellites, asteroids, comets, and Solar System related topics.
• Spacewatch This page contains information about this program which searches for near Earth objects.
• The Kuiper Belt In 1993, the first small asteroid-like body was discovered beyond the orbit of Pluto. Now there are hundreds of known Kuiper Belt Objects, one of which is larger than Pluto itself!
• Mars! NASA has a very strong dedicated Mars program. Read about the latest results from multiple missions.
• The Galileo Spacecraft Galileo completed its historic mission to Jupiter and crashed into the giant planet on September 21, 2003 - find out more about the mission and its discoveries!
• The Cassini Spacecraft Cassini returned many exciting discoveries about Saturn, its rings, and its satellites before burning up in the planet's atmosphere on September 15, 2017.
• The New Horizons mission.
• The Mars Express and Rosetta missions.
• The Mercury Messenger mission.

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