Exploration of the Universe
Lecture Notes
Spring 2008
#1: 23 Jan: Getting Oriented in the Solar System
#2: 25 Jan: Stepping Outside and Looking Up
#3: 28 Jan: Patterns in the Sky, I
#4: 01 Feb: Motion of the Sun in the Sky
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#5: 04 Feb: The Sun and Time
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#7: 08 Feb: The Year and Patterns of the Moon
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#8: 11 Feb: The Path of the Moon and Planets Across the Sky
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#9: 13 Feb: Precession and the Motion of Planets in Space
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#10: 15 Feb: Eclipses
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#11: 18 Feb: The Astronomy of Eclipses
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#12: 20 Feb: Gravity and Orbits
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#13: 22 Feb: Gravity and Orbits II
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#14: 25 Feb: The Moon, Part 1
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#15: 27 Feb: Craters of the Moon and Apollo Landings
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#16: 29 Feb: What the Moon rocks tell us about the early solar system
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#17: 03 Mar: Craters on the Moon and elsewhere in the solar system
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#18: 07 Mar: Mercury and Venus
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#19: 10 Mar: The Planet Venus: Earth's Twin
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#20: 12 Mar: Radio and Radar Studies of the Surface of Venus
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#21: 14 Mar: Exploring Venus
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#22: 24 Mar: The Planet Mars
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#23: 26 Mar: Robot Exploration of Mars
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#24: 28 Mar: Robot Exploration of Mars II
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#25: 31 Mar: On the Surface of Mars
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#26: 02 Apr: Mars Exploration Rovers
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#27: 04 Apr: Planets and their Atmospheres
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#28: 07 Apr: Jupiter and Saturn
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#29: 09 Apr: Exploring Jupiter
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#30: 11 Apr: The magnetospheres of Jupiter and Saturn
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#31: 14 Apr: Saturn and its Ring
...See PowerPoint for notes on Lecture
#32: 16 Apr: Way Out...the outer solar system
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#33: 18 Apr: The extreme limits of the Solar System
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#34: 28 Apr: Solar System Satellites: Jupiter
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#35: 30 Apr: Europa: world of ice
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#36: 02 May: Titan: a Moon with Atmosphere
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#37: 05 May: Asteroids: between the planets
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#38: 07 May: Meteors and Meteorites
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