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- 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), dynamics (weather), 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 — 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007
- Staff — 2009
- Miriam Riner et al. — 2011
- Andrew Howard et al. — 2013