Physics 55: Miscellaneous Links

• Astronomycenter.org, database of material for helping instructors of introductory astronomy courses.

• Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards (NASA).
• American Astronomical Society Education Office.
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP). Education link is useful.
• Bad Astronomy: misconceptions about astronomy.
• Celestial navigation:
  • Bowditch's "The American Practical Navigator", including celestial navigation.
  • Celestial Navigation for Dummies.
  • Celestial Navigation Fundamentals.
• Einstein@home, project to use home computers to search for gravity waves in data from the LIGO project.
• Lynette Cook, artist who specializes in astronomical art.
• Extraterrestrial communication.
  • List of links related to interstellar communication.
  • Dutil-Dumas message in Lincos language, broadcast to the stars.
  • Encounter 2001 project (send craft out to the stars),
  • LINCOS: Design of a Language for Cosmic Intercourse, book by Hans Freudanthal. This link has excerpts from that book.
• The Mars Society , organization pushing for a human flight to Mars.
• Most common errors in undergraduate mathematics.
• Nobel Prizes in Physics.
• The Oh-My-God Particle, by which is meant an experimentally observed cosmic ray (proton) with energy 10²⁰ eV.
• The Official String Theory Web Site
• Randomness of radioactive decay.
• Summer astronomy opportunities for undergraduates
  • The Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy (SARA) REU.
  • NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program (USRP)
• Slacker Astronomy, weekly astronomy-related podcasts.
• Spaced Penguins, game to explore properties of dynamical orbits.
• SpaceImaging.com, high-resolution commercial images taken from Earth orbit.
• Shapley Visiting Lectureships in Astronomy, list of astronomers able to give interesting public talks.
• SpaceWeather: science and news about the Sun-Earth environment.
• Telescope companies:
  • Celestron telescopes.
  • Meade telescopes.
  • Orion telescopes.
• Your Weight on Other Worlds.