Supplementary links for AY101
- Ray White
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Study Guides:
1st exam
2nd exam
3rd exam
4th exam
Great Commencement addresses:
Steve Jobs at Stanford -
transcript
-
video
David Foster Wallace at Kenyon -
transcript
-
audio
Astronomy news & links
Solar System News
comet or asteroid strikes Jupiter - 17 March 2016
meteor hits Russia
- biggest strike in 100 years - Feb 2013
Moon evolution video from NASA
...
more
nomad planets abound in Milky Way
bright spot found on Uranus, 28-Oct-2011
aurora over Alabama, 24-Oct-2011
Earth ocean-like water found on comet Hartley 2
life from meteorites?
asteroid hits Jupiter - 20 August 2010
asteroid hits Jupiter - 3 June 2010
-
movie
asteroid hits Jupiter - 19 July 2009
- leaves dark spot
Jupiter's Great Red Spot is shrinking
Police video of meteor fall in Canada
Earthquakes
last 7
&
last 8-30
days
avalanches on Mars
new radar elevation info at Moon's south pole
sizes of solar system objects
Comet McNaught - brightest comet in 40 years - movie
molecules detected in exoplanet atmosphere
dead core of evaporated gas giant detected?
exoplanet atmosphere detected
huge polar hurricane on Saturn
Antarctic meteor crater & mass extinction 250 million yrs ago
comet orbit evolution anim
comet breakup movie
Liquid water geysers on Enceladus?
Amateur discovers two craters in Africa using Google Earth
check out Google Mars!
&
Google Moon
&
Navy Moon
Enceladus in foreground of another moon
Tethys, up close & personal
Infrared movie of Titan
Pluto has 3 moons!
Cassini pics of Saturn's Dione & Rhea
Cassini pics of three moons & rings of Saturn
Titan images from Cassini -
1
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2
Earth Impact Database
Moon photos by Damian Peach
Global Warming
Fusion in our future?
Robert Bussard's
fusion breakthrough?
&
pitch to Google
more
&
more
background
$1 billion over 10 years for ITER
($100 million/yr)
is apparently
too expensive
How about ...
Concentrated Solar Power
?
sugar cane 8x better than corn for ethanol
- (
see wiki
)
Movies
fly to & around Orion
Astronomy Java Applets
weight calculator for other planets
inner solar system model
by Karen Strom
Newton's cannon
by Michael Fowler
several
by Rob Scharein
several
by Chris Dolan
several
by Leslie Tomley
several
by Chris Mihos
Sky View Cafe
Physics Java Applets
Physics 2000
- Univ of Colorado
Debunking the "Moon Hoax"
Clavius
RedZero
Wikipedia