Slide 1Could ET really have ridden a bike? An intro to exoanatomy. © ss jothiratnam Slide 2 Exoanatomy The speculative study of the biology and anatomy – of (intelligent)…

1.Saturn: The ringed planet2. Saturn was the Roman counterpart of the greek titan Kronos, father of gods like Jupiter (Zeus). He was also the god of agriculture. The ancient…

1. OUTER SPACE A large group of stars is called aGALAXY A cloud made from space dust is called a NEBULA A rock floating in space is called an ASTEROID 2. OUTER SPACE A person…

CLASSICAL MECHANICS Gregory’s Classical Mechanics is a major new textbook for undergraduates in mathe- matics and physics. It is a thorough, self-contained and highly readable…

1. 12How do I know this? It was in the newspaper.Sir John Herschel was one of the most prominent and influential scientists andastronomers of his day.He is credited with…

Slide 1W ATER Slide 2 C HEMICAL P ROPERTIES OF W ATER H 2 O bond angle = 104.5  high heat capacity = 4.184 J/g  K high delectric constant polar remarkable properties!…

Slide 1Astronomy time line Lesson 2  Technology advances.  Better observations are made.  New hypotheses are proposed.  Old beliefs continue to be replaced by…

Slide 1THE OUTER PLANETS Slide 2 The first four outer planets- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune- are much larger and more massive than Earth, and they do not have solid…

Slide 1 Life on Jovian Moons ASTR 1420 Lecture 14 Sections 9.1 & 9.2 Slide 2 Background… Jovian planets themselves are unlikely habitable (Do you remember why?) Jovian…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Slide 3 Sun Our Brightest Star Approximately one million Earths can fit inside the Sun. The center of the Sun, is made of helium. There are dark blotches…