EXTRA READINGS FOR QUIZ #2:

• NASA web page: An Introduction to Stars
• NASA web page on Stellar Evolution and Death
• NASA web page with Newton's Three Laws of Motion

OTHER INFORMATION:

• Directions and Map to ETSU Observatory
• Map showing the ETSU planetarium (top floor of Hutcheson Hall, in room 207).
• Clues to finding the constellations
• Chris Dolan's constellation web page
• Dr. Don Luttermoser's web page on UFOs and Life in the Universe
• Planet Finder web page: shows the locations of the planets and the moon on the sky
• Current positions of the planets in the solar system
• The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's list of the moons in the solar system.
• The Jet Propulation Laboratory's solar system web page
• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• U.S. Census Bureau web page
• The U.S. Census Bureau World Population Clock
• The U.S. Census Bureau U.S. Population Clock
• Doomsday Clock of the Federation of American Scientists
• Astronomical Calendar (with Moon phases and rising/setting times)
• Neal Evan's Extraterrestrial Life course web page at the University of Texas, containing links to various relevant web sites.
• Terry Herter's binary star software at Cornell
• The Periodic Table

PLANNED AND ON-GOING EXTRASOLAR PLANET SEARCHES:

• Extrasolar Planet web page
• 2006: COROT
• 2009: Kepler
• The Kepler Home Page
• 2012: SIM
• 2012: GAIA (primary goal is to make 3-dimensional map of Milky Way; will also find extrasolar planets).
• 2013: JWST (general-purpose telescope; will also find extrasolar planets).
• 2015: Darwin
• 2011: New Worlds Observer
• More on New Worlds Observer

PAST AND PRESENT SEARCHES FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE

• ORGANIZATIONS:
  • The SETI Institute
  • SETI League
  • The Planetary Society
• SETI TELESCOPES AND SEARCHES:
  • The Allen Telescope Array: SETI web site
  • The Allen Telescope Array: Berkeley web site
  • Optical SETI
  • Optical SETI at Berkeley
  • Optical SETI at Harvard
  • Optical SETI at Princeton
  • Planetary Society Optical SETI Telescope
  • Project Argus
  • Project Beta
  • Project SERENDIP
  • seti@home

VARIOUS SPACECRAFT