Astronomy : Earth, Sky, and Planets

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Call Number: BOCD 520 Ka Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 6-week checkout	BOCD 520 Ka Oversize	6-week checkout	On Shelf

Recorded Books: UC024.
"14 lectures"--Container.
"Course guide also includes star maps"--Container.
Lecture 1. We and the Universe -- Lecture 2. Reflections of the spinning Earth -- Lecture 3. Sun and seasons -- Lecture 4. Stories in the sky: constellations -- Lecture 5. Romance of the Moon -- Lecture 6. Happy wanderers: the planets -- Lecture 7. Keeping it all together -- Lecture 8. Reaching outward -- Lecture 9. Our domain: Earth and the Moon -- Lecture 10. Iron planets: Mercury, Venus and Mars -- Lecture 11. Monsters of the midway: Jupiter and Saturn -- Lecture 12. Distant outposts: Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto -- Lecture 13. Leftovers of creation: comets, asteroids, and meteors -- Lecture 14. Creation.
Lectures delivered by Professor James B. Kaler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Looks at the broad picture of our surroundings and places Earth and our planetary system in context with the Universe. Examines the planets themselves--how they are constructed and how they differ from one another.
Compact discs.

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