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	Graduate Courses
	- Course schedules - 622: Interstellar medium - 623: Interiors & evolution - 626: Galaxies - 627: Cosmology - 630: Solar system - 631: Radiative transfer - 633: Techniques - 635: Astrophysics - 640: General relativity - 641: Active galaxies - 657: Astrochemistry - 699: Directed research - 700: MS thesis - 73x: Seminars - 740: Astrobiology - 777: Star formation - 800: PhD dissertation

Modified by JEB on May 30, 2007

Astronomy 630: The Solar System

Introduction: scope of the class
Cloud collapse: disk formation
Planet formation: physics of accretion, observational evidence relating to planet formation
Comets as planetesimals: radioactivity, compositions
The gas giants: interiors, compositions, degeneracy, heat transport, magnetic fields
Terrestrial planets: interiors, equations of state, differentiation, heat transport, surface interactions

Planetary surfaces: impact mechanics
Global tectonics
Atmospheres - structure: thermodynamics, oceans, polar caps
Atmospheres - dynamics: weather
Atmospheres - formation and evolution: compositions, sources, relation to origins
Asteroid science: meteoritical constraints, radioactive decay dating

This outline is representative only, and is likely to change from instructor to instructor and from year to year.

Recent instructors

David Jewitt — 2007, 2005, 2003, 2001