| Week |
Reading
(Chapter) |
Lecture Notes |
Lab or Homework |
| 1 | Ch. 1 & 3 (2 optional) |
Introduction to Solar System
Fundamentals for Planetary
Studies |
Planetarium, Introductions |
| 2 | Ch. 1 & 3
Spacecraft Classification
[optional reading]
Interplanetary Trajectories
[optional reading] |
GOEF (Gravity, Orbits, Energy,
Forces)
Basics of Spacecraft |
The Physics
of the Universe in a Toy
Kepler's Laws: Introduction
(worked on in lecture)
On Kepler's Laws and Getting to
Mars (worked on in lecture)
|
| 3 | Sec. 4.1, Ch. 17
BSF*: Ch. 6.1 - 6.6 |
Reflectance
Spectroscopy
Birth of the Planets |
Reflectance Spectroscopy |
| 4 | 6 |
Comets
|
Characterizing the Nucleus of a Comet (done in lecture)
|
| Exam 1 |
| 5 | 4, 5, 6 |
Pluto
Asteroids , and
Meteorites
Link to the Meteorite
Images
Cratering
|
Cratering and Crater Density
|
| 6 | 7, 8 |
Formation and Evolution of the Moon
Earth and Moon
To The Moon Video Part II
and discussion
|
Geologic Mapping: the Moon
(done in lecture)
"To the Moon," Part I in sections |
| 7 | 9 [1] |
Mercury
Comparative Planetology: Earth
|
Atmospheric Escape (done in
lecture)
Phases of the Moon |
| Exam 2 |
| 8 | 11, 10, 12 |
Mars
Venus (May 27)
|
Martian Topography LINKS
MEET in OUGL collab 2 for sections |
| 9 | 13, 14, 15 |
The Giant Planets (June 3)
Moons of the Giant
Planets (May 29)
Rings around the giant planets (May 29)
|
No sections this week. |
| 10 | 16, 18 |
Extra-Solar Planets (June 5)
Astrobiology; SESP's and
SETI's (excluded this quarter -- but interesting reading nonetheless)
|
Moons of the Giant Planets
LINKS! (Sections meet in OUGL collab 2)
51 Pegasi: Discovery of a
New Planet (done in lecture)
|
| Exam 2 |
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