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Next week is the last section!
• Homework 6 is due next week in section
• Planet Walk “Extra credit” assignment is due by 12:10 next Friday (Slope Day) – but it’s optional
• We can go over the last week of lectures
OR
• You can ask me any astronomy and planetary science questions you have
Solar System formation
• Cloud of interstellar gas/dust
• Protostar + disk
• Planetary embryos, planetesimals
• “Heavy Bombardment”/ “Late Heavy Bombardment”
• Planets, asteroid belt, Kuiper Belt, Oort Cloud
Image from http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/niel/astro1/slideshows/class43/slides-43.html
The Nice (“Neese”) Model
Movie from http://www.skyandtelescope.com/skytel/beyondthepage/8594717.html (doesn’t play in PowerPoint)
Radial Velocity: elliptical orbits
Animation from http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/mzingale/software/astro/
Transiting planets
Image from http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/multimedia/images/aas_conference.html
Fomalhaut b: A directly imaged planet?
Image from http://www.princeton.edu/~willman/planetary_systems/Fomalhaut/