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Astro 3: Solar System Astronomy
*Rick Nolthenius
Call me “Rick”.
*Office: 706a 479-6506
*email: [email protected]
*visit my extremely excellent website!
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They call me…. Rick
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Textbook – “The Cosmic Perspective – The Solar System” – Bennett, Donahue, Schneider, and
Voit, 5th, 6th, or 7th Edition
• The bookstore has the 7th, but you can find older and much cheaper editions on Amazon, etc.
• We have a few copies on reserve in the library
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Grading• 6 mult. choice quizzes based on text. ~10 questions each - closed notes• 3 video quizzes, after seeing ~50min video program. Take
notes and use them for your mult. choice quiz, a dozen or two questions each
• Final Exam: 50 mult. choice questions. You may have a single 8x10 sheet of paper crammed with all the hand-written notes you can muster!
• Lowest 2 scores are dropped. • Any further no-shows, you get 35% for each. If you miss the
final and don’t make arrangements ahead of time, you get your quiz average minus 1.5 grades, recorded as your Final exam score
• No make-ups• Extra Credit possibilities• Buy 10 green narrow scantron sheets from the book
store. $3. Cheap! Keep them in your notebook along with a pencil.
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What will we Do in Astro 3?• We start with my own “Chapter 0” on the principles of clear
thinking, science, and scientific method• Then the sky, how the rotating earth and orbiting earth
make the sky show the patterns it does.• Seasons, eclipses in the planetarium, then some history.• Then to boldly go, on to the planets, comets, killer
asteroids!• And Onward, to Oort Clouds comets wayy out there, and to
other solar systems and to the question of Life in our Galaxy
• I’ll stress the observational facts and how we use scientific inference to arrive at ideas, and to test them to home in on our current theories of the solar system.
• Exams will stress getting a picture of processes and the ‘why’ behind what we see, not so much on memorized factoids.
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We’ll show how the sky
moves differently at various latitudes
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We’ll explain Eclipses, Seasons…
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The formation of planets and the Solar System
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The crazy moons around our planets.
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Asteroids, both
friendly’s and killers, and how amateur
astronomers have helped define them
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Comets: Gassy relatives of Asteroids
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Solar System Formation and Star Formation
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We’ll also have one lecture on Earth Climate. For More, Sign up for Astro 7
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The long term evolution of our Solar System
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The prospects and early results of the search for ET