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    ASTRONOMY 103: Moons and Planets  

  Week 6  Spring  2009

Lab Update

Date

Class Topic

Readings/Assignments

Monday,   

March 2

Comets, Asteroids and Meteors

Comets, Asteroids and Meteors PPT 

 

Ch. 14.1, 14.2, 14.3 and 14.4

Chapter 14 Reading Quiz

*Meteorites from the Natural History Museum

Wednesday, 

March 4

Comets and Asteroids Video: The Doomsday Asteroid A 'smoking gun' for dinosaur extinction

What Killed the Dinosaurs and Extinction Theories  (both from DinoBuzz)

*Impact theory of mass extinction

Friday,   

March 6

 Discussion of video; Energy of impacts

Near Earth Objects

Solutions: Energy of Impacts

* 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

 

Full Schedule

 


Announcements:

1) Looking Ahead: Apollo mission assignment due next Wednesday!!

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