ASTR 330, Spring 2022
The
Solar System
- Time: Tuesday/Thursday 2:00pm-3:15pm
- Room: IRB 1116
- Prof: Doug
Hamilton
- TA:
Lucy Wilkerson
- UMD Covid19 Help:
(301) 405-4325.
Class Information
Material to Help You Out
GENERAL
NEWS 2021
NEWS 2022
SOLAR SYSTEM
- 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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to Doug Hamilton's Home Page