ASTR 342 Interesting Links

Following are some interesting links to sites of interest to ASTR 342. Let me know of bad addresses or other interesting sites.

Some Astronomical Organizations

• STScI Space Telescope Science Institute Home Page

• NRAO Home Page

• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Home Page. Information on planets, planetary missions.

• ASP Astronomical Society of the Pacific Home Page. This is one of the main organizations in the US whose principle business is astronomy education. They are a good source for hard copy pictures, slides, posters, etc. They have a Catalog

• Planetary Society Home Page. The Planetary Society was founded by Carl Sagan and Bruce Murray (former head of JPL) to raise public awareness (and money) for space programs. They support a small SETI project. Like ASP they sell stuff and have a Catalog

• AstroWeb Astronomy/astrophysics on the Internet: NRAO Information on astronomy web sites

• Astronomical Internet Resources STScI information on astronomy web sites

SETI

• SETI Institute Home Page. Home of Project Phoenix, Frank Drake, Jill Tarter, et al. Basic info on SETI, references, ...

• Project Phoenix Searches Check the play-by-play by Seth Shostak

• SETI@HOME

• Optical SETI This is the Princeton Optical SETI (OSETI) description. This page provides a nice overview and will direct you nicely to other key sources.

• Planetary Society Optical SETI An all-sky OSETI project being done by Paul Horowitz at Harvard

Pretty Pictures

• HST Images

• Planetary Photojournal: NASA's Image Access Home Page

• USGS Flagstaff Field Center Home Page

Planets

• California/Carnegie Planet Search Project Marcy & Butler Extrasolar Planet Page

• Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia Jean Schneider's extrasolar planets US Mirror Site

• Working Group on Extrasolar Planets IAU (International Astronomical Union) list of planets, definition of planet, etc

• OGLE gravitational lens and planet search

• Mars Info on the internet

• Mars Global Surveyor

• Mars Express Home Page

• Mars Express water

• Liquid Water on Mars Mars Global Surveyor June 2000

• Galileo Home Page (JPL) Results from the Galieo spacecraft now orbitting Jupiter. Galileo is now doing a detailed study of Europa.

Meteorites, Asteroids, etc

• Mars Meteorite Home Page

Space Colonization

• Space Studies Institute Gerard O'Neill's Institute

• Space Island A group promoting a space colony built from Space Shuttle External Fuel Tanks

• Space Settlement NASA Human Exploration & Development of Space

• PERMANENT: Asteroids, Space Development This appears to have much detailed information of the sort of space development we will discuss in ASTR 342

• The Mars Society A group promoting Robert Zubrin's The Case for Mars , which advocates a cheap rapid, human mission to Mars.

• William B. Cole -- ASTR395 Space Development/colonization etc project of former -- ASTR342 student

• The First Millennial Foundation An organization which grew from Marshall Savage's book The Millennial Project, a stepwise plan for space colonization.

Miscellaneous

• A Cool Illusion

• Tom Lehrer's Elements Song

• Darwin Awards

• See the International Space Station, MIR, & HST. IRIDIUM flares are neat too. Get times and where in the sky by clicking the appropriate item from the link. Note if you're not in Charlottesville edit your location.

  When I first heard of IRIDIUM flares I though that they were due to one of the 66 IRIDIUM satellites burning up upon reentering the atmosphere. Unfortunately not--the IRIDIUM system is a significant source of interference for radio astronomy. The flares are specular reflections of sunlight off of the satellites' antennae. WoW but the bonus has expired.

• What do people look like in the infrared?

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