Note that all links are PDFs (4 slides per page) of the slides used in class. If you have problems reading a file or need more, please email me
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| Lect 1, Aug 24: Astro-Disasters | Lect 2, Aug 26: Poor Pluto | Lect 3, Aug 28: Meteors
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| Lect 4, Aug 31: Asteroids | Lect 5, Sept 2: Star Formation: Molecular Clouds | Lect 6, Sept 4: Star Formation: Rise of Rocks
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| Labor Day, Sept 7 | Lect 7, Sept 9: The Atmosphere and Meteors | Lect 8, Sept 11: Dino Killer
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| Lect 9, Sept 15: Jupiter Peril | Lect 10, Sept 16: Asteroid Mitigation | Lect 11, Sept 18: Why does the Sun Shine?
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| Lect 12, Sept 21: Why is the Sun Yellow? | Lect 13, Sept 23: Classifying Stars | Exam 1,Sept 25
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| Computer Lab, Sept 28 | Lect 14, Sept 30: The Aging Sun | Lect 15, Oct 2: The Dying Sun
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| Computer Lab, Oct 5 | Lect 16, Oct 7: Solar Weather | Lect 17, Oct 9: Supernova: The End of Massive Stars
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| Computer Lab, Oct 12 | Lect 18, Oct 14: Boom, Supernova | Lect 19, Oct 16: Killer Supernova
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| Lect 20, Oct 19: Neutron stars and black holes | Lect 21, Oct 21: Gamma Ray Bursts | Lect 22, Oct 23: Gamma Ray Killers
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| Lect 23, Oct 26: Past Gamma Ray Bursts | Lect 24, Oct 28: Special Relativity | Exam 2, Oct 30
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| Lect 25, Nov 9: Spaghettification | Lect 26, Nov 11: Black Hole vs. Earth | Lect 27, Nov 13: Milky Way
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| Lect 28, Nov 16: More Milky Way | Lect 29, Nov 18: More Galaxies | Lect 30, Nov 20: How Galaxies move
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