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ASTR220,
Spring 2007
COLLISIONS IN
SPACE
Instructors: Prof.
Andrew Wilson and Prof. Doug Hamilton
Teaching Assistant: Yana Radeva
http://www.astro.umd.edu/~hamilton/ASTR220/

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Class
1: Introduction /link to the course syllabus/
Class 2:
The Structure and Formation of the Solar System
Class 3:
Solar System Formation and the Variety of Surface Types
Class 4:
The Physics of Collisions and Crater Formation
Class 5:
The Physics of Collisions and Cratering (cont.)
Class 6:
The Earth's Moon
Class 7:
Formation of the Moon and the Nature of Modern Impactors
Class 8:
Tunguska and SL-9
Class 9 :
Geological ages, life on Earth, and mass extinctions
Class 10:
The K-T impact (The Alvarez Theory)
Class 11:
Midterm
Class 12:
Other mass extinctions & the Nemesis theory
Class 14:
Future impacts
Class 15:
Collisions in space
Class 16:
The Sun and other stars
Class 17:
Midterm
Class 18:
Properties and evolution of stars
Class 19:
Evolution of stars and GRBs
Class 20:
The E/M spectrum and the discovery of compact objects
Class 21:
Collision rate / binary star discussion on board
Class 22:
The Milky Way and other galaxies
Class 23: Other galaxies
Class 24:
Binary star discussion in class
Class 25:
Galaxy collisions and galaxy formation
Galaxy collisions
and galaxy formation continued
Class
26
Class
27
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