ASTR 430, Spring 2012
T
he
S
olar
S
ystem
Time:
Tuesday/Thursday 3:30-4:45
Room:
CSS 2416
Prof:
Doug Hamilton
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
.
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. Please take a moment to help ASTR430 beat the median!
Final Exam: Fri. May 18, 10:30am-12:30pm in CSS 2416.
Computer Programs for use in ASTR430
Astronomy Workshop
Useful Links
Astronomy Picture of the Day
. Nice archive of cool astronomy images.
NASA Photo Gallery
.
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: Mercury Mission:
Messenger (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:
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (2009) and
Grail (2011)
.
Chapter 11: Mars Mission:
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: Missions to
Jupiter
:
Galileo (1989)
and
Juno (2011)
Chapter 16:
NASA's Planetary Rings Node
.
Chapter 17-19:
Moons of Jupiter
.
Chapter 20: Saturn Mission:
Cassini (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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