New frontiers
Subtitle: modern perspectives on our solar system
By: taught by Professor Frank Summers
Contributors: Teaching Company
Series: The great courses
Publisher: The Teaching Company
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chantilly, VA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781598034370
Subjects: Origin; Study and teaching; Planets
Other titles: Modern perspectives on our solar system
Notes: "Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Front cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Lecture 1: The 21st century solar system; title: Lecture 2: Geometry of the heavens; title: Lecture 3: Truth, beauty, and heliocentrism; title: Lecture 4: Deducing the laws of motion; title: Lecture 5: Planetary predictions and scientific theory; title: Lecture 6: From observational evidence to discoveries; title: Lecture 7: The space age solar system; title: Lecture 8: The star of our solar system; title: Lecture 9: Planetary surfaces and natural wonders; title: Lecture 10: Craters, impacts, and cataclysms; title: Lecture 11: Journey to the centers of planets; title: Lecture 12: Structure and behavior of atmospheres.; title: Part 2. Lecture13: Weather on other worlds; title: Lecture 14: Solar storms and planetary consequences; title: Lecture 15: A myriad of moons; title: Lecture 16: Intricate ring systems of the giant planets; title: Lecture 17: Comets, the interplanetary nomands; title: Lecture 18: New outer realms:  Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud.