New Mexico State University
Department of Astronomy
PO Box 30001, MSC 4500 Las Cruces, NM 88003
wlyra - nospam - nmsu.edu
+1 575-646-1400
Lectures for the course Secrets of the Solar System - An introduction to Planetary Sciences, for the AMNH after-school program. The course is comprised by 8 lectures, downloadable below as pdf or open office format (Open Office is the open source generic of Microsoft Office). The course was offered to self-selected high-school students, the level is therefore that of a first-year college course. The scope is broad, covering many aspects of planetary sciences. The course was developed in collaboration with the astrophysics educator Brian Levine. The course continues to be taught at the Museum (click here for syllabus and course description). Although they have been mildly edited for content and style, the general outline still is this one, below, that we co-designed