ASTRONOMY 1010

ASTRONOMY OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Required Text: Eric Chaisson & Steve McMill

GENERAL INFORMATION: The text by Chaisson & McMillan is excellent, but some of you may benefit from seeing another book; good ones include P. Flower, Understanding the Universe, W.J. Kaufmann, Universe, and T.P. Snow, The Dynamic Universe. an, Astronomy Today, Prentice Hall, 3rd Ed., 1999

Contents:

Introduction; What is Astronomy p. xiii

1 The Night Sky

2.1, 2.2 Ancient Astronomy: The Geocentric View

2.3 Copernicus & Galileo: The Heliocentric View

2.4-2.7 Kepler & Newton: Laws of the Solar System

3.1, 3.2 What is Light?

3.3-3.5 Properties of Electromagnetic Radiation

4 Fundamentals of Spectroscopy

5 Telescopes & other Astronomical Instruments

6 Overview of the Solar System

7 The Earth: Surface and Interior

8 The Moon and Mercury

9 Venus

10 Mars

11 Jupiter and its Moons

12 Saturn and its System

13 The Outermost Planets

14 Asteroids, Comets & Meteoroids

15 Formation of the Solar System

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