Announcements:

• The exam schedule is here.
  
• All turn-ins should be submitted to the box at rm. 256A
  
• Student grades are on-line here. Students are responsible for making sure the grades recorded for them match their own records.
  
• Public nights are not held if there is cloud cover or if the wind chill is less than -15. Call 612-626-0034 after 7pm CDT, 6pm CST to find out if it is being held or not.
• You are encouraged to attend office hours. You can come to the office hours of any TA, it doesn't have to be mine.
  

Schedule:

• January 30 - SETI public lecture 7pm Tate rm. 150
  
• February 15 - First three moon observations are due at 5pm; public night for extra credit, 8-9:30pm, Tate rm. 450
• March 14 - Six more moon observations are due at 5pm
• Week of March 17 - SPRING BREAK
• March 28 - Public night for extra credit, 8-9:30pm, Tate rm. 450
• Week of April 7 - NO LABS
  
• May 2 - Public night for extra credit, 9-10:30pm, Tate rm. 450
• May 2 - Final moonproject due with 15 total observations
  
• Section 103 meets Mondays 11:15am-1:10pm, in Tate rm B49
  
• Exam schedules for all lecturers: http://www.astro.umn.edu/courses/1001/examsched.html
  

Class Links

• Course web page.
• Moon Project.
• Grades.
• Exam Schedule.
  
• Old Exams & Study Materials.
  

Handouts/Syllabi

Astronomy Links

• NASA ADS- where to go to look up scientific papers.
• The Nine Planets- a multimedia tour of the Solar System.
• NASA Photo Gallery.
• Welcome to the Planets-NASA JPL page about the planets and exploratory missions concering them.
• The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia- Methods for finding planets outside the solar system, catalogues of known extrasolar planets, illustrations, and discussions about life.
• Near Earth Object Program- the search for near Earth asteroids.
• Messenger- a recently-launched mission to Mercury, scheduled to arrive in 2008.
• Plate Tectonic Reconstruction Service- With a really cool animation of the history of Earth's plates.
• The Origin of the Moon- Did you know the Moon is just a big blob of Earth thrown off from an impact? Read all about it here.
• Mars Express- European Mars orbital mission.
• Mars Exploration Rover Mission- What are Spirit and Opportunity up to?
• NASA Planetary Rings Page- Saturn is not the only planet boasting rings. Go here to learn about the rings of Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune.
• Cassini-Huygens- The Cassini spacecraft is currently at Saturn, and recently dropped Huygens into Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Keep your eye on this page for exciting developments!
• New Horizons- Plans to send the first ever spacecraft to take a look at Pluto, Charon, and the Kuiper Belt.
• Deep Impact- What's inside a comet? Maryland researchers plan on finding out.
• Lunar Meteorites- Pieces of the Moon found on Earth.
• Astrobiology as NASA.
• Astronomy Picture of the Day- No astronomy links page is complete without it.

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