Week 10: Video, Ch. 11, 12, 13
- Jovian Planets
- atmospheres
- internal heat sources
- internal structure
- magnetic fields
- rings
- moons (see list on week 10 study questions)
- Cassini mission
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- red spot
- great dark spot
- Cassini division (or gap)
- roche limit
- shepherd satellites (or moons)
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Week 11: Web sites, Ch. 14, Video
- Galilean moons
- Formation of the solar system
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- nebular theory
- solar nebula
- condensation theory
- condensation nuclei
- accretion
- planetesimals
- fragmentation
- volatile
- refractory
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Week 12: Ch. 15, web sites, handout
- Exoplanets
- characteristics of exoplanets
- discover/detection of exoplanets
- systems of time
- longitude correction
- equation of time
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- exoplanets
- hot Jupiters
- brown dwarf
- local apparent time
- local mean time
- zone time
- mean sun
- equation of time
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Week 13: Ch. 16, web sites
- The Sun
- structure of the sun
- solar activity
- energy generation
- solar neutrinos
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- core
- radiative zone
- convective zone
- photosphere
- granulation
- chromosphere
- transition zone
- corona
- sunspots
- solar cycle
- solar flares
- prominences
- solar wind
- helioseismology
- proton-proton chain
- neutrino
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Week 14: Web Sites
- Aurora
- Earth-Sun interactions
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- Aurora
- magnetosphere
- coronal mass ejection
- geomagnetic storm
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