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ASTRONOMY 103     Week 7  Spring  2002 Links Tutorials Syllabus Date Class Topic Readings/Assignments Monday,    March 11  Geology of the Moon Ch. 8: Sections about the Moon The Moon from the Nine Planets Wednesday,  March 13 Apollo Missions Due: Apollo Missions Internet assignment Friday,    March 15 Lunar Prospector Mission "NASA's New Moon", Sky and Telescope, Sept. 1998  "Lunar Prospector: Overview", Science, 4 Sept 1998, Online version "Ice Found at Lunar Poles" *Overview of the instruments on Lunar Prospector; Animation of the Neutron Spectrometer; Animation of the Gamma Ray Spectrometer * marks optional (but useful!) readings   week 1 week2 week 3 week 4 week 5   week 6   week 7 week 8 week 9 week 10 week 11   week 12 week 13 week 14 Final weekly schedules will be posted by 5:00 p.m. on the previous Friday!   Full Schedule

Announcements:

1)Remember to work on your independent observations!!!!!!!!!!!!

2) The animations of the neutron spectrometer and the gamma ray spectrometer that are listed as optional for Friday are really pretty neat. You should check them out!

Assignments:

1) Internet assignment:  the Apollo missions. Research one of the Apollo missions according to the following table. Write a one half to one page summary of the mission. Include whatever you find interesting. I encourage you to read about the mission, and report anything that strikes you as interesting, important, weird, etc. Due in class on Wednesday.    Good sources to start with include:

The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal

Project Apollo from NASA's Historical Archives

Apollo Expeditions to the Moon