Fall. 3 credits. Offered alternate years. Next offered Fall 2007.
This reading seminar is designed to review seminal papers in planetary science. Required readings will be selected for their pedagogical aspects and will be discussed in-depth in class. Faculty, staff, and students will make presentations from the readings.
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Weekly meetings: Wed at 1:15 pm in SS 622
| Discussion date | Reading | Moderator | Guest |
| Sep 05 | Patterson (1956) Age of meteorites and the earth | jlm | |
| Sep 12 |
Oort (1950) The structure of the cloud of comets surrounding the solar system, and a hypothesis concerning its origin |
Shoshanna | |
| Sep 19 | Alvarez et al. (1980) Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous Tertiary Extinction | Ole | |
| Sep 26 | Ward and Rudy (1991) Resonant obliquity of Mars? | Ryan | |
| Oct 03 | Peale et al. (1979) Melting of Io by tidal dissipation | James | |
| Oct 10 | No class. Fall break. DPS meeting. | ||
| Oct 17 | Hubbert (1937) Theory of scale models as applied to the study of geologic structures | Briony | |
| Oct 24 | Tans et al. (1990) Observational Constraints on the Global Atmospheric CO2 Budget | Mark | |
| Oct 31 | Pollack et al. (1987) The case for a wet, warm climate on early Mars | Melissa | |
| Nov 07 | Birch (1952) Elasticity and Constitution of the Earth's Interior | Seth | |
| Nov 14 | Lissauer (1987) Timescales for planetary accretion and the structure of the protoplanetary disk | Catherine | |
| Nov 21 | No class. Thanksgiving Recess. | ||
| Nov 28 | Mayor and Queloz (1995) A Jupiter-Mass Companion to a Solar-Type Star | Rebecca |
Thanks to Joe Veverka, Phil Nicholson, Doug Hamilton, Eugene Chiang, and Christine Goodale for help with selecting the papers.