ASTR 430, Fall 2009
T
he
S
olar
S
ystem
Time:
Tuesday/Thursday 3:30-4:45
Room:
CSS 2428
Prof:
Doug Hamilton
TAs:
Jee Hye Han
and
Mia Bovill
Class Information
Course Description
Lecture Schedule
Course Textbook: The New Solar System
Prof's Office Hours (in CSS 1245): after class or by appointment
Assignments
and
Handouts
What's Happening in Astronomy? The
ASTR430 Blog
.
What's my Grade Right Now?
Final Exam: Saturday Dec. 19, 10:30am-12:30pm in CSS 2428.
CourseEvalUM
is closed - we got 88%! :)
Ice the Prof!!
Computer Programs for use in ASTR430
Astronomy Workshop
Useful Links
Moons & Planets
.
NASA Photo Gallery
.
Astronomy Picture of the Day
. Nice archive of cool astronomy images.
Chapter 1:
Planets
and
Space Missions
.
Chapter 2:
The Origin of the Solar System
.
Chapter 28:
The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia
.
Chapter 5:
The Kuiper Belt
.
Chapter 6:
Near Earth Asteroids
.
Chapter 7:
Messenger Mission to Mercury (2004)
.
Chapter 8: Missions to Venus:
Magellan (1989)
and
Venus Express (2005)
.
Chapter 9:
Animation of Plate Tectonics
.
Chapter 10:
The Origin of the Moon
. Missions:
Chandrayaan-1 (2008)
and
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (2009)
.
Chapter 11:
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2005)
and
Mars Science Laboratory (2011)
.
Chapter 12:
Planetary Surfaces
.
Chapter 13:
Planetary Atmospheres
.
Chapter 3:
Solar Neutrinos
.
Chapter 4:
The Earth's Magnetosphere
.
Chapter 14-15:
Jupiter
and the
Galileo Mission (1989)
.
Chapter 16:
NASA's Planetary Rings Node
.
Chapter 17-19:
Moons of Jupiter
.
Chapter 20:
The Cassini Spacecraft (1997)
.
Chapter 21: Pluto Mission:
New Horizons (2006)
.
Chapter 22:
Phase Diagram of Water
.
Chapter 23:
New Satellite Discoveries
.
Chapter 24: Comet Mission:
Deep Impact (2005)
.
Chapter 25:
Binary Asteroids
and
Asteroid Orbits
.
Chapter 26:
Lunar Meteorites.
Chapter 27:
NASA Astrobiology Institute.
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