Interesting Stuff - Geo-Astronomy Lectures from UMich

Astronuc

Don't know how long these will be active, but they are interesting:

Lecture 16 - Down To Earth III: Earth Structure
http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/users/cowley/lecture16/

Lecture 17 - Earth and Its Nearest Cosmic Neighbor, The Moon
http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/users/cowley/lecture17/

Lecture 19 - The Earth and the Moon II: Histories
http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/users/cowley/lecture19/

Lecture 20 - Thermodynamics and Chemical Equilibrium
http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/users/cowley/lecture20/

Formation of the Solar Nebula from an Interstellar Cloud
http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/users/cowley/lecture22/

A Cosmochemical Classification of the Elements
http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/users/cowley/lecture23/

Early Speculations
http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/users/cowley/lecture24/

Lecture 25 - Mercury: A Moon-like Planet?
http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/users/cowley/lecture25/

Like the Earth, But Not on the Surface
http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/users/cowley/lecture26/

Cowley's website - http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/users/cowley

Andre

I just checked lecture 26 Venus, http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/users/cowley/lecture26/
which is my pet planet. But I think the current scholar view is somewhat different from the lesson, especially pertaining the water and the Urey reactions.

I'm not impressed, I'm afraid.