RaySociety - Drake University
          VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY: IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
                http://edu-observatory.org/cfs/
                        by Sam Wormley  
                     swormley1@mchsi.com
           Thursdays 10:30 a.m. - Noon  Medbury 221
                    April 5 -- May 3, 2007          
           
                      Week 2 (Apr. 12)


  SOLAR SYSTEM DEBRIS, COMETS AND ASTEROIDS

    Origins: Earth is Born 47:20
      http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3111_origins.html   

    

    Comets
      http://edu-observatory.org/eo/comets.html
      http://stardate.org/resources/ssguide/comets.html
      http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search?comet
      http://www.eso.org/outreach/info-events/hale-bopp/comet-history-1.html
      http://www.eso.org/outreach/info-events/hale-bopp/comet-history-2.html

    Stardust - capture a sample from a well-preserved comet called Wild-2 
      http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html

    Planetoid on the Fringe
      http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060114/bob10.asp
      http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040320/fob1.asp

    Pluto
      http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap051103.html
      http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search?Pluto

    Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission
      http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/mission/mission_timeline.html
      http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search?Kuiper+Belt

    Deep Impact
    Ice Exists on Surface of Comet, But Most Lies Deeper
      http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/scitech/release.cfm?ArticleID=1213
      http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html
      http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search?Deep+Impact
    

    Comet Odyssey by Peter Ceravolo  45 min
      http://www.ceravolo.com/extreme/index.htm

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    Asteroids (tend to be rocky bodies found in the inner solar system)
      http://edu-observatory.org/eo/asteroids.html
      http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search?asteroid

    NEAR Shoemaker - touched down on asteroid Eros
      http://near.jhuapl.edu/
      http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search?Eros
      http://near.jhuapl.edu/media/010214_pc/

    Meteors 3:45
      http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2212doom.html
      http://edu-observatory.org/eo/meteors.html
      http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search?meteor

    Earth Crossing Asteroids
      http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/PHACloseApp.html
      http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/Dangerous.html
      http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2212doom.html

    Meteors from Mars
      http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1263.html
      http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2212doom.html



    
     
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