‘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)

 

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