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Planetary Astronomy
Planetary Astronomy
Historical Astronomy
8A05.05 - Historical Astronomy
8A05.10 - Calendar Wheels
8A05.15 - Stonehenge - Megaliths
8A05.20 - Constellations
8A05.25 - Sky Atlas - Sky Charts
8A05.30 - Eratosthenes' Measurement of Earth's Radius
8A05.35 - Ptolemaic and Copernican Models of the Solar System
8A05.40 - Kepler's Laws
8A05.50 - Circular Sundial
8A05.60 - Cross-Staff
8A05.65 - Meridian Transit - Theodolite
8A05.70 - Celestial Navigation Instruments - Sextants - Astro-compass
8A05.75 - Quadrant / Astrolabe
8A05.80 - Artificial Horizon
8A05.85 - Chronometer
8A05.90 - Heliostat
Solar System Mechanics
8A10.05 - Origin of the Solar System
8A10.10 - Orrery Model
8A10.15 - Scale Model Demos of the Solar System
8A10.20 - Locating Stars
8A10.22 - Tracking Stars, Sun, and Moon
8A10.25 - Diurnal Astronomy
8A10.30 - Planispheric Planetarium
8A10.40 - Sidereal Time
8A10.50 - Procession of the Equinox
8A10.70 - Sunrise - Sunset/Refracted Sun
8A10.75 - Distortion Due to Refraction by Earth's Atmosphere
8A10.80 - Analemma
8A10.90 - Apparent Motion of the Sun
Earth-Moon Mechanics
8A20.05 - Earth's Seasons
8A20.15 - Lunar Phases - Terminator Line Demo
8A20.19 - Phases of the Planets
8A20.20 - Albedo
8A20.22 - Eccentricity of the Moon's Orbit
8A20.25 - Eclipse - Eclipse Model
8A20.30 - Eclipse - Solar Eclipse
8A20.35 - Eclipse - Lunar
8A20.37 - Eclipse Models and Umbra/Penumbra Demos
8A20.40 - Transit - Mercury & Venus
8A20.45 - Occultation
8A20.50 - Earth/Moon System - Center of Mass
8A20.55 - Earth/Moon System - Communications
8A20.60 - Earth/Moon Distance - Lunar Retro-reflector
8A20.65 - Earth/Moon/Sun Demo - Tellurium
8A20.70 - Scale of the Earth/Sun/Moon System
8A20.80 - Tides - Moon or Spacecraft
8A20.90 - Tidal Heating
Views From Earth - 1
8A30.10 - The Horizon - Estimating the Distance to the Horizon
8A30.30 - Retrograde Motion of Inner Planets Demo
8A30.32 - Retrograde Motion
8A30.40 - Zodiacal Light
8A30.45 - Distortion due to Refraction
8A30.50 - Synodic Period
8A30.70 - Parallax
8A30.80 - Auto-resonance
8A30.90 - Roche Limit
Views From Earth - 2
8A35.10 - Celestial Sphere
8A35.20 - Armillary Sphere
8A35.30 - Satellite Orbits
Planetary Properties 1: Subheading - Globes, Hemispheres, & Maps
8A40.05 - Maps
8A40.10 - Globes, Planets, and Satellites
Planetary Properties 2: Subheading - The Planets
8A50.10 - Mercury
8A50.12 - Mercury's Orbit
8A50.15 - Perihelion of Mercury
8A50.20 - Venus
8A50.30 - Earth
8A50.34 - Geological Timeline and Fossils - Earth
8A50.35 - The Moon
8A50.36 - The Moon's Orbit
8A50.37 - Lunar Missions
8A50.38 - Moonquakes
8A50.39 - The Moon's Offset Center-of-Mass
8A50.40 - Mars
8A50.41 - Mars Missions, Orbital Timing
8A50.42 - Aerobraking at Mars
8A50.45 - Mars' Moons
8A50.50 - Jupiter
8A50.55 - Jupiter's Moons/Galilean Satellites
8A50.60 - Saturn
8A50.65 - Saturn's Moons
8A50.70 - Uranus
8A50.75 - Uranus' Moons
8A50.80 - Neptune
8A50.85 - Neptune's Moons & Triton's Liq. N2 Geysers
Planetary Properties 3: Subheading - Planetoids, Minor Objects
8A60.10 - Minor Planets and Pluto/Charon
8A60.25 - Asteroids
8A60.30 - Meteorites
8A60.33 - Tektites
8A60.35 - Meteors
8A60.40 - Outer Solar System Objects
8A60.50 - The Kuiper Belt
8A60.60 - Extrasolar Planets
8A60.65 - Habitable Zone
8A60.70 - Matter from Outside Our Solar System
Planetary Properties 4: Subheading - Planetary Characteristics
4B70.23 - Cloud Formation by Cooling
4B70.25 - Cloud in a Bottle
6A40.47 - Refraction - Twinkling Planets and Stars
6F40.10 - Distortion due to Atmospheric Scattering - Reddening Due to Atmospheric Scattering or Interstellar Dust
8A70.05 - Geological Samples
8A70.06 - Refractory Minerals
8A70.10 - Planetary Magnetism
8A70.20 - Earth's Atmosphere
8A70.22 - Sounding Balloon Experiment
8A70.25 - Earth - Climate Change
8A70.30 - Transient Luminous Emissions - Sprites, Jets, and Elves
8A70.35 - Lightening Whistlers
8A70.40 - The Greenhouse Effect
8A70.45 - Cloud Formation - Smog
8A70.52 - Planetary Atmosphere Models
8A70.55 - Rotational Banding/Planetary Atmospheres
8A70.60 - Precipitation in the Solar System
8A70.65 - Aurora
8A70.75 - Gaseous Planets - Atmospheres
8A70.77 - Planetary Cores
8A70.78 - Planetary Gravities
8A70.80 - Red Hot Ball - Planetary Temperatures
8A70.82 - Protoplanets and Planetshine
8A70.85 - Earthquake Model
8A70.87 - Tectonic Plates
8A70.90 - Crater Formation
Planetary Properties 5: Subheading - Comets and the Search for Life
8A80.10 - Make a Comet
8A80.15 - Comets
8A80.30 - Halley's Comet
8A80.40 - Comet Hale-Bopp
8A80.90 - The Creating of Life in the Classroom
8A80.92 - Pond Scum
8A80.95 - Life On Other Planets