Solar System Astronomy materials

Some of my own material

• Questions about the path of the Sun across the sky
• A lecture on comets
• The transit of Venus
• The supernova that wasn't
• Who's afraid of the Big, Bad Rock? (a lecture about asteroids given for summer 2003 meeting of ASRAS
• The Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn
• What if the Earth had no Moon?

Other references

• On-line version of "The Geologic History of the Moon", by D. Wilhelms thanks to the Northwestern University Center for Planetary Sciences.
• Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon thanks to the Lunar and Planetary Institute
• The Photographic Moon Book by Alan Chu is available online in PDF.
• Jan Timmermans collection of lunar information includes photographs covering the entire lunar cycle.
• USGS Moon Viewer (uses Flash)
• Graphic showing 50 years of planetary exploration

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