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Lecture 1 (8/23)
Introduction to Astro 120
Music:
Woodstock, Joni
Mitchell (and performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young)
Music:
Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, Gustav Holst
Lecture 13 (10/7)
Planetary Surfaces II: Ages of surfaces, and the Moon.
Music:
Long Time Gone,
Crosby, Stills, and Nash
-- and --
The Orchard, Pat Egan with Tim Britton (Chulrua)
Lecture 14 (10/11)
The Moon, Mercury, and Venus
Music:
The Planets Suite, Op. 32, #3: Mercury and #2: Venus; Comp. Gustav
Holst, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vernon Handley
Lecture 15 (10/13)
Mars
Music:
Ramon Raquello and his orchestra, at the Meridian
Room of the Park Plaza Hotel. Excerpts from War of the Worlds. Orson Welles, Mercury Theatre on the Air, October 30, 1938.
Lecture 16 (10/18)
Planetary Atmospheres, the Greenhouse effect
Music:
Dizzy Atmosphere, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker - and - Billy
Breathes, Phish
