ASTRONOMY 103  

  Week 12  

Spring  2002

Date

Class Topic

Readings/Assignments

Monday,   

April 22 

channel 38 at 2:45 (class time) and again at 8:00 p.m.

Wednesday, 

April 24

• "Hunting Planets Beyond", Astronomy, March 2000
• Table of Planet Candidates
• Capabilities of various planet detection methods
• Browse around: The Search for Extrasolar Planets (especially the sites under "general information")
• *Upsilon Andromedea System
• *Giant Planets orbiting Faraway Stars, Scientific American;

Friday,   

April 26

Time and Seasons from Strobel's astronomy notes.