ASTRONOMY 80A: Space-Age Solar System

Winter 2005

Course Schedule

Lecture	DATE	TOPIC	Life
1	1/4	Life in the Universe	1
2	1/6	history of astronomy and motion of the planets	2
3	1/11	gravity	2
4	1/13	Nature of life	3
5	1/18	evolution of the earth	4
6	1/20	origin of life on earth	5
7	1/25	proliferation of life on earth	5
8	1/27	first flights	frontier 1-9
9	2/1	reaching the moon	10-16
9	2/3	The apollo program	17-23
Review	2/8	MIDTERM EXAM	-
11	2/10	The Soviet space program	24-30
12	2/15	skylab & space shuttle	31-39
13	2/17	formation and evolution of the moon	40-43
14	2/22	search for life in the solar system	life 6
15	2/24	Mars	7
16	3/1	Jupiter and its moons	8
17	3/3	Saturn's rings, moons, and Titan	8
18	3/8	search for other worlds	9-11
19	3/10	interstellar travel and habitable worlds	12-14
Review	3/15	FINAL EXAM	-

Into the Final Frontier, Bernard McNamara