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Revision as of 17:49, 27 January 2007

File:Los planetas terrestres.jpg
The terrestrial planets - Mercury Venus, Earth and Mars


Background Knowledge Needed

None (except general knowledge and a wish to know more)

Mathematical Knowledge Needed

Aimed at people with no background in mathematics - simply knowledge of arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division). Anything else will be provided within the course.

The Giant Planets

Introduction

  1. Introduction
  2. The Solar System
The Solar System's Planets

The Solar System

  1. The Inner Solar System
    1. Mercury (1)
    2. Venus (2)
    3. Earth (3)
    4. The Moon
    5. Mars (4)
    6. The asteroids
  2. The Outer Solar System
    1. Jupiter (5)
    2. Jupiter's Moons
    3. Saturn (6)
    4. Saturn's Moons
    5. Uranus and its moons (7)
    6. Neptune and its moons(8)
    7. The Kuiper belt (Pluto, Charon, Eris, Quaoar and the rest)
Sunset over a planet in a triple star system

Beyond the Solar System

  1. Planets around other stars