Department of Geology & Geophysics and the Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
GG 105: Voyage Through the Solar System
Fall, 2007
Professor: Klaus Keil
General Information
Time: 1:30 p. m. to 2:45 p. m. Tuesday / Thursday
Location: POST 723
Dates: August 21 to December 13, 2007
Class schedule (Word .doc file)
Lectures - PowerPoint slides:
Lecture 1: Introduction
Lecture 2: Course Overview
Lecture 3: Facts and definitions
Lecture 4: The Sun, our star
Lecture 5: Thermonuclear energy; other stars
Lecture 6: Mercury, the dead planet
Lecture 7: Venus, the shrouded planet
Lecture 8: Earth, climate; earthquakes
Lecture 9: Earth, plate tectonics; volcanism
Lecture 10: Earth, impacts here, elsewhere
Lecture 11: Earth's Moon, its conquest
Lecture 12: Moon rocks, dust and lunar meteorites
Lecture 13: Moon, origin and evolution
Lecture 14: Mars, exploration by spacecraft
Lecture 15: Mars and its landscape
Lecture 16: Martian rocks and meteorites
Lecture 17: Is there life on Mars?
Lecture 18: Meteorites, poor man's space probe
Lecture 19: Meteorites, composition and asteroid connection
Lecture 20: Meteorites, fossils of the early solar system
Lecture 21: Jupiter, the giant planet
Lecture 22: Jupiter and its moons
Lecture 23: Saturn, the ringed planet, and its strange moons
Lecture 24: Uranus, the first new world
Lecture 25: Neptune and its moons
Lecture 26: Pluto, the mystery planet
Lecture 27: Comets
Lecture 28: Origin of the Solar System
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