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	Web links related to class material If you find a good website, nominate it (post its URL on the class e-post site) Units and constants National Institute for Science and Technology Physics Lab (NIST, formerly known as the US Bureau of Standards) - see links here under "products and services"  Martindale's physics center (many links to references on systems of units, physical constants, etc) Physics constants page from  physics.about.com The Heavens NASA Astronomy picture of the day archive Your Sky virtual planetarium (source for skymaps used in class) Solar System Live (planets' relative positions now, or at any date) How big is the solar system (1000 pace model) Solar system properties (orbits, periods etc) Ptolemy (St. Andrews U.) Nicolas Copernicus (St. Andrews U.) Johannes Kepler (NASA) Galileo Galilei  (Rice U.)  NASA Stardust mission (collect samples from Comet Wild and return them to Earth; UW Astronomy Prof. Don Brownlee is scientific leader of project) NASA Huygens mission (landed on Saturn's moon Titan Jan 14, 2005) NASA Deep Impact mission (crash-lands on a comet in July, 2005) Mechanics Newtonian mechanics (Goddard Space Flight Center) Newtonian mechanics (U. of Oklahoma)
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