Welcome to

ESC 1021

Planetary Astronomy

Welcome to the ESC 1021, Planetary Astronomy Home Page.  ESC 1021 will introduce students to the methods of astronomy and will lead all through a tour of the solar system, the collection of bodies that circles our star, the Sun.  We will learn about the peculiarities and the similarities of the members of our solar system, and become familiar with some of the speculation about its origins.  (For a nice Web tour of the solar system, check out The Nine Ten Eight Planets website at the University of Arizona.)

On this Web site, you will find the course syllabus and schedule, lab schedule, homework assignments and lab assignments as they are assigned, requirements for the term paper, as well as a long list of links that students may find valuable as we travel through our solar system together during the semester.

Students are encouraged to explore the Internet resources listed here, especially the home page of our textbook.  Links to that Web site are provided from both the Syllabus and Astronomical News pages, as well as right here.  The textbook Web site offers late-breaking news items, addenda to the book, as well as practice tests useful for studying.

 

 

Note:

You are going to need Adobe Reader software to view and download some of the forms and handouts on this website.  You can download it for free by clicking here and following the instructions.  If you have trouble downloading the software, the college's computers already have the software installed.