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New frontiers modern perspectives on our solar system /

Title: New frontiers [videorecording] : modern perspectives on our solar system / taught by Professor Frank Summers.
Author: Summers, Frank (Astrophysicist)
Publication: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2008.

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4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sd., col.; 43/4 in. &

Series Statement

Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics

Uniform Title

Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.

Alternative Title

Modern perspectives on our solar system

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Contents

Part 1: -- Lecture 1: -- The 21st century solar system -- Lecture 2: -- Geometry of the heavens -- Lecture 3: -- Truth, beauty, and heliocentrism -- Lecture 4: -- Deducing the laws of motion -- Lecture 5: -- Planetary predictions an dscientific theory -- Lecture 6: -- From observational evidence to discoveries -- Lecture 7: -- The space age solar system -- Lecture 8: -- The star of our solar system -- Lecture 9: -- Planetary surfaces and natural wonders -- Lecture 10: -- Craters, impacts, and cataclysms -- Lecture 11: -- Journey to the centers of planets -- Lecture 12: -- Structure and behavior of atmospheres.
Part 2: -- Lecture13: -- Weather on other worlds -- Lecture 14: -- Solar storms and planetary consequences -- Lecture 15: -- A myriad of moons -- Lecture 16: -- Intricate ring systems of the giant planets -- Lecture 17: Comets: the interplanetary nomands -- Lecture 18: -- New outer realms: Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud.

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Course no. 1823

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library