Solar System Astronomy Activities Manual

1. Properties of a Transiting Extrasolar Planet

2. Temperature Scales

3. Measuring Angles

4. Motion on the Celestial Sphere

5. Motions of the Moon

6. Lunacy: Moon Phase Exercise

7. The Phases of Venus

8. Mapping the Solar System from Earth

9. Moon Phases

10. The Seasons and the Sun’s Path on the Celestial Sphere

11. Force, Acceleration, and Gravity

12. Kepler’s Laws and Elliptical Orbits

13. How Long are the Days on Mercury and Venus?

14. Electromagnetic Radiation and Thermal Spectra

15. A Scale Model of the Solar System

16. Kuiper Belt Objects

17. Age Dating Through Radioactive Decay

18. Tidal Forces and the Roche Limit

19. Stellar Masses with Newton’s Version of Kepler’s Third Law