| Monday | Wednesday | Friday | ||
| 1 | 25 Aug 08 | 27 Aug 08 | 29 Aug 08 | C L A S S I C |
| Earth is round | Eratosthenes measures Earth | Aristarchus measures Sol & Luna | ||
| 2 | 1 Sep 08 | 3 Sep 08 | 5 Sep 08 | |
| Earth rotates & Foucault pendulum | Earth revolves | season reason | ||
| 3 | 8 Sep 08 | 10 Sep 08 | 12 Sep 08 | |
| Earth precesses & zodiac | solar & sidereal day | analemma | ||
| 4 | 15 Sep 08 | 17 Sep 08 | 19 Sep 08 | |
| eclipses | lunar phases | helio vs. geo solar system | ||
| 5 | 22 Sep 08 | 24 Sep 08 | 26 Sep 08 | |
| Kepler: orbits | Galileo: falling bodies | Newton: apple & Luna | ||
| 6 | 29 Sep 08 | 1 Oct 08 | 3 Oct 08 | M O D E R N |
| EXAM 1 | solar system overview: terrestrials, jovians, dwarfs | planets to scale | ||
| 7 | 6 Oct 08 | 8 Oct 08 | 10 Oct 08 | |
| solar system formation | Earth's interior | evolution of Earth's atmosphere | ||
| 8 | 13 Oct 08 | 15 Oct 08 | 17 Oct 08 | |
| Fall break |
ozone depletion & global warming |
epic voyages of Apollo | ||
| 9 | 20 Oct 08 | 22 Oct 08 | 24 Oct 08 | |
| Apollo science & origin of Luna | Mercury: rotating weirdly | Venus: greenhouse planet | ||
| 10 | 27 Oct 08 | 29 Oct 08 | 31 Oct 08 | |
| Mars: once & future life? | robots to Mars | humans to Mars | ||
| 11 | 3 Nov 08 | 5 Nov 08 | 7 Nov 08 | |
| EXAM 2 | Voyager grand tour & interstellar record | Voyager at Jupiter | ||
| 12 | 10 Nov 08 | 12 Nov 08 | 14 Nov 08 | |
| Jupiter's Galilean satellites | Saturn's rings & Titan's seas |
Cassini-Huygens to Saturn & Titan | ||
| 13 | 17 Nov 08 | 19 Nov 08 | 21 Nov 08 | |
| Uranus & its discovery |
Neptune & its discovery |
Pluto-Charon & New Horizons |
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| 14 | 24 Nov 08 | 26 Nov 08 | 28 Nov 08 | |
| Conclusion of the Modern Planets | Thanks giving |
Thanks giving |
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| 15 | 1 Dec 08 | 3 Dec 08 | 5 Dec 08 | |
| Exoplanets and the Kepler Mission | asteroids & NEAR to Eros |
comet tails & Stardust to Wild 2 |
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