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REANIMATING THE 1882 VENUS TRANSIT

THE END IS NEAR VIDEO

CLEAR SKY FORCAST FOR SALINA

ASTRONOMICAL INFORMATION CENTER

HERSCHEL'S 1781 ACCOUNT OF A COMET, REALLY URANUS

VENUS TRANSIT 2012

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NASA JPL Free video on Saturn

‘The Ringed Planet’ presented by Dorothy Hanna, Ph.D.

 

Links and recommended readings, Pre- and/or Post-talk, for 11-Mar-2011 Skywatch Program at 7:30 pm in Room 229, Peters Science Hall, KWU

 

NASA JPL Free video on Saturn

 

Index page on Saturn Videos - http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?search=saturn&submit.x=43&submit.y=12#

 

Saturn – Observed through History

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=821

 

Cold case – Possible Ice Volcanoes on Titan

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=951

 

Cassini - 4 years of Discovery      

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=766 

 

NASA JPL Cassini Solstice Mission Website

 

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm

 

Fact Sheet (1 page)

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/products/pdfs/cassini_msn.pdf

 

Excellent Lecture by David Jewitt, Astronomy Professor at UCLA (Jewitt home website http://www2.ess.ucla.edu/~jewitt/David_Jewitt.html)

 

Lecture titled ‘The New Solar System’ given 18-Mar-2009 (This steaming video is 51 minutes long, but worth it)

 

http://www2.ess.ucla.edu/~jewitt/kb/videos.html

 

Also see Scientific American article, Aug 2006 on Irregular Satellites including Phoebe by Jewitt, D.; Sheppard, S.S.; Kleyna, J.  David Jewitt provides link to this popular-level overview at http://www2.ess.ucla.edu/~jewitt/irregulars.html

 

 

Other Scientific American articles

 

Burns, J.A., Hamilton, D.P., Showalter, M.R. ‘Bejeweled Worlds’ Feb 2002

 

Lorenz, R & Sotin, C ‘Titan, the Moon that would be a Planet’, Mar 2010

 

Lin, D.N.C. ‘The Genesis of Planets’, May 2008

 

Malhotra, Renu  ‘Migrating Planets’, Sep 1999

 

 

Books

 

Harland, David M. ‘Mission to Saturn: Cassini and the Huygens Probe’ 2002 (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)

 

Lovett,  Laura;  Horvath, Joan;  Cuzzi, Jeff  Saturn: A New View’  2006 (Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc)

 

Peterson, Ivars, ‘Newton’s Clock – Chaos in the Solar System’ 1993 (W.H. Freeman and Company, NY) Visit Amazon's Laura Lovett PageFind all the books, read about the author, and more.See search results for this authorAre you an author? Learn about Author Central


 
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