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Astronomy 161: The Solar System
written by Christian Cardall
This website, created for Astronomy students at the University of Tennesse, contains lecture notes for an introductory astronomy course.  Topics covered include the history of Astronomy and the the origins of a heliocentric model of the universe, scales in Astronomy, the Earth, moon, and sun system, the solar system and its components, charactheristics of all the planets, and properties of other extraterrestial objects like meteors, asteroids, and comets.
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/index.html
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Astronomy
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- Solar System
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Earth, class notes, history of astronomy, jupiter, mars, mercury, moon, neptune, pluto, saturn, solar system, uranus, venus
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Metadata instance created December 2, 2003 by Patricia Monahan
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C. Cardall, , WWW Document, (http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/index.html).
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C. Cardall, Astronomy 161: The Solar System, <http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/index.html>.
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Cardall, C. (n.d.). Astronomy 161: The Solar System. Retrieved June 9, 2026, from http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/index.html
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Cardall, Christian. Astronomy 161: The Solar System. http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/index.html (accessed 9 June 2026).
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Cardall, Christian. Astronomy 161: The Solar System. 9 June 2026 <http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/index.html>.
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