1. 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

2. 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

3. The Nice (“Neese”) Model Movie from http://www.skyandtelescope.com/skytel/beyondthepage/8594717.html (doesn’t play in PowerPoint)http://www.skyandtelescope.com/skytel/beyondthepage/8594717.html

4. Hunting planets Radial velocity (Doppler shifts)

5. Radial Velocity Animation from http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/mzingale/software/astro/

6. Radial Velocity: elliptical orbits Animation from http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/mzingale/software/astro/

7. Hunting planets Radial velocity (Doppler shifts) Astrometry Transits

8. Transiting planets Image from http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/multimedia/images/aas_conference.html

9. Hunting planets Radial velocity (Doppler shifts) Astrometry Transits Direct detection

10. Fomalhaut b: A directly imaged planet? Image from http://www.princeton.edu/~willman/planetary_systems/Fomalhaut/

11. The Sun Images from http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/C/convective_envelope.html