| Week/homework |
Date |
Content |
Reading |
What
is a Planet?
Due Sept. 15 |
Sept. 8
|
Introduction to the course
|
|
|
Here
Comes the Sun
for the visually-inclined
OR
How the Sun Works
for the mathematically-inclined
Do one, not both!
Due Sept. 22 |
Sept. 15
|
Solar system formation
Absolute
age, elements
The Sun |
Chs. 2 and 3
Hartmann
excerpt
Lissauer
Bodenheimer
Arnett
Brownlow
Papaloizou
cool images of sunspots |
Age of the Solar System
Due Sept. 29 |
Sept. 22 |
Meteorites
Meteorite Impact, pts. 1 and 2 (NOVA video)
ANSMET meteorites |
Ch. 26
Meteorite classification
Impact structures
Impact hazards
Near Earth Objects
Dinosaur extinctions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 |
Mercury conference
OR
What's Mercury Made
of?
Due: Oct. 6 |
Sept. 29
|
Mercury |
Ch. 7
MESSENGER mission site
other Mercury links |
Venus
Map
Due: Oct. 27 |
Oct. 6 |
Venus |
Ch. 8
Guide
to interpreting radar images
Venus
Geology Images |
| no class -- Oct. break |
Oct. 13 |
n/a |
n/a |
| Venus exercise |
Oct. 20 |
work on Venus homework |
n/a |
Mars craters
Due: Nov. 3
|
Oct. 27
|
Mars
Mars Exploration Rovers
Guest speaker: Jay Dickson, water on Mars |
Ch. 11
Tanaka
NASA
79730
McSween
Sheehan
Chs. 11-14 |
Moon
Map
Due: Nov. 10
|
Nov. 3
|
Moon and Earth |
Ch. 10
Pieters |
| Jupiter and Saturn
Jupiter_Saturn homework
LAST HOMEWORK!
Due: Nov. 17
|
Nov. 10 |
Jupiter, Saturn, and their rings |
Chs. 14 and 15
Bibliography
On Titan's Pictures
Images; Lunine
Kuiper
Belt, the Movie
Edgeworth-Kuiper
Belt Newsletter
Current
plotted positions
Images of Icy Moons
Outer
Planet Satellites
Galileo
Probe News
NEAR spacecraft results
Stardust spacecraft |
Extraterrestrial Life in the solar system
|
Nov. 17
closed book quiz
|
Adrian Ponce, guest speaker |
|
Neptune, Uranus, Pluto and the Kuiper
belt
|
Nov. 24
|
Guest speaker: Tim Spahr, Minor Planets Center
Asteroids and Meteorites
Comets
|
Chs. 24 and 25
Marcy
& Butler
Extra-solar
planets news
Extrasolar Planets
Encyclopedia |
Geologic time scale on Mars
|
Dec. 1
last quiz closed book |
Caleb Fassett, crater counting |
|
