BYA Class Six

• Outline

• The Moon:

  • Shombert's lecture on the Moon (University of Oregon)

  • Overview (full moon, third quarter)

  • Young and Old Craters, Rays around young craters.  Meteor Crater Arizona

  • Lunar highlands
        (heavily cratered regions of the moon)

  • Impact basins

  • Lunar seas (Maria)
        (The impact basins filled with lava forming the lunar seas.  These form the face of the 'Man in the Moon')

  • Lunar Mountains
        (these surround the impact basins and were formed by the impacts)

  • Volcanism
        (lava flows, rilles, domes, vents)

  • Regolith
        (lunar soil, soil and rocks)

  • Breccias
        (rock fragments welded together by impact)

  • Impact crater

    • rim, central peak, terraces, ejecta blanket

  • Near and Far Side
        (movie)

• Lunar Phases:

  • (My) Diagram

  • US Naval Observatory on Phases

  • Animated diagram  (I like this animation, but note, they start with the sun on the left.)

• Astronomy Web Sites

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