| Week/homework |
Date |
Content |
Reading |
What
is a Planet? (BE)
(due Sept. 16) |
Sept. 9
|
Introduction to the course
|
|
|
Here
Comes the Sun (IF)
for the visually-inclined
O R
How the Sun Works (BF)
for the mathematically-inclined
Do one, not both!
(due Sept. 28) |
Sept. 14
Sept. 16
|
Solar system formation
Absolute
age, elements
The Sun |
Chs. 2 and 14
Hartmann
excerpt
Lissauer
Bodenheimer
Arnett
Brownlow
Papaloizou
cool images of sunspots |
Orbits
& Motions (NS)
OR
Age of the Solar System
(BE)
(due Sept. 30) |
Self-study:
Sept. 21 and 23 |
Orbits
and motions |
Orbits
and Motions handout
Ch. 8 |
Mercury conference (BF)
OR
What's Mercury Made
of? (IF)
Due Oct. 7 |
Sept. 28
Sept. 30 (class meets in Merrill 2 this
day only)
|
Mercury |
Ch. 4
Mercury
Lecture Notes (imperfectly formatted -- sorry!) |
| Venus
Map (BF)
Everyone does same homework!
Due Oct. 19 |
Oct. 5
Oct. 7
(no class Oct. 12)
Oct. 14 |
Venus
|
Ch. 5
Guide
to interpreting radar images
Venus
Geology Images |
| Earth homework
DO NOT DO
(no homework because of exam)
|
Oct. 19
Oct. 21
|
Earth |
Ch. 6 |
| Midterm
review sheet |
Oct. 28 |
EXAM |
|
Moon
Map (NS)
Due Nov. 9 |
Oct. 26
Nov. 2
|
Moon
|
Ch. 3
Pieters |
Mars craters
(IF)
Due Nov. 30
|
Nov. 4
Nov. 9
Nov. 11 (no class)
|
Mars
Mars Exploration Rovers |
Ch. 7
Tanaka
NASA
79730
McSween
Sheehan
Chs. 11-14 |
Jupiter and Saturn
Missions
to Icy Bodies (NS)
Due. Dec. 9 |
Nov. 16
Nov. 18
no class Nov. 23 or 25 (Amherst College is closed)
Nov. 30
|
Jupiter, Saturn, and their rings |
Ch. 10
On Titan's Pictures |
| Comets, Asteroids, and Meteorites |
Dec. 2
Dec. 7
|
Asteroids
and Meteorites
Comets (guest lecture
by Martha Hanner)
|
Ch. 13, 9
Bibliography
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 |
|
Final review sheet |
Dec. 9 |
Neptune, Uranus, Pluto and the Kuiper
belt
|
Ch. 11
ANSMET meteorites
Marcy
& Butler
Extra-solar
planets news
Extrasolar Planets
Encyclopedia |
| |
Dec. 14 |
Final Exam |
|
