Astronomy 104 |
ANNOUNCEMENTS | |
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TEST 1 is coming up on Friday, Feb.
21. |
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Quiz and lab grades have been posted on
Feb. 15. |
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Students must
have a scantron (#16485)
and a pencil (no pen) for each class. (This adds up to ~25 scantrons for the whole semester.) |
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Venus is
up for a short time after at sunset.
Mars rises
at sunset,
Jupiter
is up all night.
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News
1. An asteroid has a
~1% chance to hit
Earth in 2032.
2. Red Novae are merging
stars!
3. New models of the NASA's DART
impact reshaping the asteroid moon
Dimorphos show that this object is 'rubble
all the way down'.
4. One of the stars we
observe in the labs (during the winter),
eta Geminorum, is orbited by two
companion stars, one of which is
surrounded by a recently
discovered disk of dust .
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Unusual events and objects
(Students might want to ask help in how to use the coordinates, ephemerids and finder charts.)
The presentations
used in class, the class syllabus.
The department's home page. Look at these fancy magazines, the Sky and Telescope and Astronomy.