Environmental Science/Physics 141: Astronomy Notes

Steven Dutch, Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay
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Topic	Notes	Power Points
Some Basic Stuff You Have to Know The Universe: Table of Contents	A Few Things You Really Need to Know First	Introduction The Universe: Table of Contents
Finding Your Way In The Sky	Finding Your Way Around The Sky Taking Pictures of the Sky	Finding Your Way In The Sky Stuff in the Sky
How The Solar System Works	How the Solar System Works How Planets Work Rings and Resonances	More About Orbits How Planets Work Tides and Tidal Forces
The Earth and Moon	Earth Earth Images - Surface Features Earth Images - Distant Views Crater Forms Craters and Planetary History The Moon Artificial Satellites	Planet Earth Impacts Earth-Moon System The Moon
Venus and Mercury	Mercury Mercury Images Venus Venus Global Topography Venus Global Images Venus Surface Features The (Almost) Venus-Earth Pentagram	Venus and Mercury
Mars	Mars The Martian Landscape	Mars
The Gas Giants	Jupiter Jupiter Images Jupiter Images - Satellites Saturn Saturn Images Saturn Images - Satellites Uranus Uranus Images Neptune Neptune Images	Asteroids, Comets and Meteors Jupiter Saturn Planetary Rings The Outer Planets
Minor Planets, Comets, and other Small Objects	Asteroids (Minor Planets) Comets The Kuiper Belt Pluto Pluto Images
Our Star: The Sun	The Sun	The Sun Recipe For a Small Planet
Other Stars	The Stars as Seen from Earth Distances to the Sun and Stars Starlight And What It Tells Us Life Cycles of Stars	The Stars Life Cycles of Stars Starlight and What it Tells Us Special Stars
The Deep Sky		The Deep Sky
Galaxies	Galaxies: Their Structure and Distances	Galaxies
The Universe	Cosmology: Structure, Origin and Fate of the Universe	Galaxies and the Universe
Life in the Universe		Life in the Universe

Texts: Seeds and Backman, Perspectives on Astronomy

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