Lecture 16 outline and notes

Review: Earth and moon, seasons and phases, eclipses

Review: Tides

1) General properties of stars

2) Formation of stars and planets

3) Meteorites

4) Late Heavy Bombardment and the formation of planets

5) The main sequence and the Solar System today

6) After the main sequence and deaths of stars

7) Galaxies, cosmology, and the scale of the Universe

8) Technique: Doppler shift

9) Extrasolar planets


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