Educational Resources

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Asteroids

  Asteroid orbits
  Asteroid spectral classifications and masses   (in preparation)
  Collision dynamics and outcomes
  Poynting-Robertson drag
  Tisserand criterion                                                 (in preparation) 
  Yarkovsky effect

Orbital mechanics
 
  Barycentric orbits and Kepler's 3rd law
  Copernicus's determination of solar system scale
  Earth's equinoxes and solstices & 1st point of Aries
  Fundamentals of orbits
  Synodic period

Stellar physics

  Bohr atomic model and electron shells
  Hydrostatic equilibrium
  Solar granulation
  Strӧmgren sphere
​  Thermodynamics of solar convection

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