0) Review: Late Heavy Bombardment

1) Review: General properties of stars

2) Review: The main sequence and the Solar System today

3) Review: After the main sequence and deaths of stars

4) Technique: Doppler shift

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

6) Extrasolar planets

7) Characterization of stars

8) Brown dwarfs

9) What is the Solar neighborhood?

10) The Solar neighborhood

The midterm is on Friday, October 10, 2008. Make sure you are on time! Bring a calculator! Here are some guidelines for the midterm.

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