Astronomy 301 Spring Quarter 2006


Schedule
Mar 28 Current Solar System Problems
Mar 30 Other Planetary Systems
Apr 4 The Moon
Apr 6 Earth as a Target
Apr 11 Mars I
Apr 13 Mars II
Apr 18 7Asteroids, KBOs and Comets
Apr 20 Interplanetary Dust: the Stardust Mission
Apr 25 The K-T Event
Apr 27 Saturn
May 2 Titan and other interesting satellites of Saturn
May 2 Io and Europa
May 4 Planetarium visit
May 9 Giant Telescopes in Space and on the Ground
May 11 The Universe of Galaxies
May 16 The Cosmic Distance Scale
May 18 Dynamics and Dark Matter
May 23 Stellar Populations and Evolution
May 25 Origin of the Elements
May 30 Black Holes in Astronomy
June 1 Cosmic Acceleration