Frequently Asked Questions
Practice Exams, Exams This Semester Fall 2009 Important Dates
Current Quizzes:
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Frequently Asked Questions
Practice Exams, Exams This Semester Fall 2009 Important Dates
Current Quizzes:
Troubleshoot cps
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Incoming Asteroids Check NASA's latest "objects of concern."
Arabic Star Names The modern names are usually modifications of the originals
Eclipses 2004-2007+: NASA descriptions of past and future solar and lunar eclipses.
Richmond Astronomical Society Newsletter When and where are the skywatches?
US Naval Observatory Sunrise/Sunset and Moon Phases Anywhere on Any Day
Sky Map Generator As many details as you want but a bit hard to use.
Online Planetarium Looks like the sky. Very easy to use.
Plate Tectonics Animations Shows 600 million years of drifting continents plus other things.
Hubble Deep Field Video The Numa-numa Guy is awesome! (Video needs sound.)
Binary Star Simulator Build your own and watch it go.
New Horizons Mission to Pluto and Beyond Successfully Launched on January 17, 2006
Where is New Horizons Now? Check its progress.
Sedna: Oort Cloud Object 2/3 the size of Pluto, 3 times as far away.
Quaoar New member of the solar system.
Tenth Planet? Larger than Pluto. Either this is a planet or Pluto is not.
What is a Planet? Not everyone is happy with the new definition.
Wikipedia article on the tenth planet, UB313 A very thorough discussion.
Buffy the Kuiper Belt Object or, if you prefer, "Buffy the Theory Slayer."
Weird Objects Galore! A nice summary of our growing planetary zoo.
PlanetQuest: NASA overview of extrasolar planets
Extrasolar Planet Encyclopedia: Planets Detected Orbiting Other Stars
Cosmos 1: Solar Sail Vehicle Flopped.
Astronomy Magazine Lots of free things to look at.
Asteroid Discovery Statistics Have they found them all yet?
Apophis A predicted near-miss in 2029
Apophis Returns A possible impact in 2036
Coming Near Misses Don't forget to duck!
Crowded Sky Animation Showing Inner Solar System objects as of 2002
Planetary Defense Summary of a conference on defending the planet.
SOHO Images of the Sun: Today's solar weather.
The Brightest Stars Here are the stars listed in order of their brightness as seen from Earth.
The 30 Closest Stars: Our nearest neighbors.
The 150 Closest Stars: The Hipparcos Catalog with everything you could want to know.
The MACHO Project A website for current research on MAssive Compact Halo Objects
Stars Jim Kaler's "Portraits of Stars and their Constellations".
J-Track 3D Animated 3D picture of Earth with currently tracked satellites.
These links were last checked on January 14, 2009. Watch for additional links as the class web site develops.