ASTR 1010: Honors Astronomy of the Solar System

Supplemental Activities

Fall 2008 *** MWF 9:00 - 9:50 am *** 201 General Classroom Building

Instructor: Dr. Douglas R. Gies

719 One Park Place South

Telephone: (404) 413-6021

E-mail: gies@chara.gsu.edu

WWW Site: http://astro.gsu.edu/~gies/ASTR1010/

Office Hours: TR 11:00am - noon or by appointment

Grades: Laboratory 25% A:94-100%, A-:90-93%,

Best 3 of 4 tests 30% B+:87-89%, B:84-86%, B-:80-83%,

Assignments 20% C+:77-79%, C:74-76%, C-:70-73%,

Notebook 5% D:60-69%, F:0-59%

Paper/participation 10%

Final exam 10%

The grades are based upon the same work as in the regular Astr 1010 section, except that the exam counts for only 10% and the remaining 10% will accrue from the following additional activities.

Date	Time	Place	Activity
Friday, Sept. 19	8:00-8:45 am	732 1PP	Breakfast and book chat on What We Know About Climate Change by Kerry Emanuel (2007, MIT Press). Copies of the book will be provided soon, and bagels will be provided that morning.
Monday, Sep. 29	9:00 am	201 GCB	Due date for a two page book report on What We Know About Climate Change.
Saturday Oct. 4	7:30-9:30 pm	HLCO	Observing session at the GSU Hard Labor Creek Observatory near Rutledge, Georgia For directions, see http://astro.gsu.edu/HLCO/directions.html
Friday, Nov. 7	4:00-6:00 pm	732 1PP	Viewing and discussion of Al Gore’s Nobel Prize lecture and/or his lecture on ted.com about climate change.