Astronomy 171 - Winter Quarter 2007
Solar System Astronomy

Prof. Paul Martini - MTWRF 9:30-10:18pm - 0050 Scott Laboratory

Unit 6: The Solar System

Lecture 30: Overview of the Solar System [Feb 20]

Lecture 31: Origin of the Solar System [Feb 21]

Lecture 32: Sunny Mercury [Feb 22]

Lecture 33: Veiled Venus [Feb 23]

Lecture 34: Red Mars [Feb 26]

Lecture 35: Massive Jupiter [Feb 27]

Lecture 36: Ringed Saturn [Feb 28]

Lecture 37: Giant Moons [Mar 1]

Lecture 38: Uranus and Neptune [Mar 5]

Lecture 39: The Outer Solar System [Mar 6]

Related Readings in Universe

Lecture 30: 7-1, 7-3, 7-4, 7-7

Lecture 31: 8-1 through 8-5

Lecture 32: 11-1, 11-2, 11-3

Lecture 33: 12-1, 12-2, 12-3

Lecture 34: 13-1 through 13-4

Lectures 35 and 36: 14-1 through 14-4, 14-9, 14-10

Lecture 37: 15-1 through 15-4, 15-6 through 15-8

Lecture 38: 16-1, 16-2, 16-3, 16-6, 16-8

Lecture 39: 16-9, 17-7, 17-8

Web links for Further Exploration in Unit 6

Views of the Solar System by Calvin J. Hamilton

Mercury Messenger Spacecraft

NASA's Mars Rovers (Spirit and Opportunity)

NASA's Galileo Mission to Jupiter

NASA's Cassini-Huyygens Mission to Saturn and Titan

NASA New Horizons Mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt

NASA Stardust Comet Sample Return Mission

The links to the lectures reproduce the electronic overheads shown in class for each of the lectures. In some cases they have additional text and links covering supplemental material or graphics. Online lecture notes are made available starting the week in which the lectures occur, but some notes may not be accessible until later in the week if I am having problems translating them into a web-accessible form.

Please feel free to print out copies of these lecture outlines in advance of class, so you can follow along with the lecture. Many students find this helps them listen without the pressure of taking down detailed notes of their own, but while still making additional notes in the margins to highlight particularly emphasized points.

See A Note about Graphics to learn why some of the graphics shown in the lectures are not reproduced with these notes.

Students looking to explore these topics further using the Internet might want to look at Prof. Richard Pogge's Selected Astronomical Internet Links for this unit.

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Updated: 2007 February 19
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