Announcements
20 Nov 2018: Not going to JPL for the field trip? See below for link for alternate trip to the Griffith Observatory!
ASTR 7 - Boryta
Geology of the Solar System
Welcome to the Fall 2018 Semester at Mt. SAC. Watch here for new information and updates.
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- Insight into INSIGHT! Mars lander will make EDL (Entry, Descent, and Landing) at about noon on Nov 26 (2018). Here are some resources (opening in new windows):
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NASA’s ‘Cyber Monday’ Mars Landing to Deliver Science Firsts
- NASA TV coverage starts at 11a.m. and covers the landing and aftermath until about 1:30pm
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- Here is the Fall 2018 Astronomy 7 Syllabus
- The Resource Room (11-2310) IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS!! Hours: Mon 12:30-3pm; Tue 9am-6pm; Wed 1-6pm; Thu 9am-6pm; Fri 11am-3pm
- Take a look at this STUDY GUIDE - use the proper portions for ALL EXAMS
- Follow this link to the official Student Learning Objectives for the course - another excellent study tool!
- Extra Credit Lectures - Come (or Go) and listen to a talk or Planetarium show - and then earn extra points!! This page may be updated.
- Here's the "what to bring" handout for our Field Trip to JPL. If you CAN'T ATTEND then download this file for your Field Trip to the Griffith Observatory!
- Here's a link to the ppt file (25Mb!) for chapters 7-9; SOON I'll put up a link to some of my (relatively) current ppts used in class - warning, files are large
- GUIDELINES and options for Group Projects will also soon become active...Here are the Rubrics that I showed in class: presentations and intragroup evaluation
- Here is the Observation Project Guidelines for Fall 2018
- Moon Project Handouts : ObsSheet - ObsGadget
- Google Earth can give you your lat/lon coordinates!
- Visit the Lunar Photo of the Day!
- See what's new at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory!
- Get the electronic version of the text at substantial savings. Click here
- Here's a link to an appropriate textbook Companion from the Publisher's website. Practice quizzes, animations etc.! It's actually for the "full-blown" edition...
- To help you envision the powers of 10 and the enormous range of scales that need to be addressed in Astronomy, see this website (Molecular Expressions - requires java, won't work on iPads or Macs): http://tinyurl.com/hck
Check out this site - every day! Astronomy Picture of the Day- If your computer won't handle java applets, you can see a movie version, Powers of Ten, by clicking here
- And since I LOVE Morgan Freeman's voice, here he narrates the same concept of Powers of Ten for Cosmic Voyage. BEWARE the closed captioning!! (Thanks, Tim!)
- OR you can visit the website that has still pictures from that movie here! This site has a tool for manipulation...
- They have also constructed an entire online course in Astronomy!
- AND they have also constructed an entire online course in Physics (as pertinent to Astronomy)!
- Other important late-breaking news about the solar system and beyond can be found at the JPL website
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This page was originally posted on 24 August 2011.
It has been updated as recently as 5 September 2017 by Mark Boryta
who would greatly appreciate comments...
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