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    ASTRONOMY 103: Moons and Planets  

  Week 13  Spring  2009

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Class Topic

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Monday,   

April 27

Extra Solar Planets

Bring laptops to class if possible to use with the Interactive Extrasolar Planet Encyclopedia

1. Ch. 15.6 and 15.7

2. Sky and Telescope article ...find it on Moodle

3. http://kepler.nasa.gov/sci/capabilities.html

4. The first page of http://kepler.nasa.gov/about/   Read it up to the point where they get into the system and mission characteristics.

*In TheNews: the lightest explanet yet: http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2009/pr-15-09.html

For reference: http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/atlas/atlas_index.cfm

Wednesday, 

April 29

Discussion of extra-solar planets  

Friday,   

May 1

Systems of Time

Time PPT

Handout;

Time and Seasons from Strobel's astronomy notes. Study all five sections under Time and Seasons. You might also want to try to answer his review questions.

 

Solutions to "More Time Problems" are on moodle

 

* marks optional (but useful!) readings  

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