Feb 25, 2026  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
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AST 191 - The Solar System


[3 Credit Hours]

A course emphasizing the nature, origin and evolution of planets, satellites and other objects in the Solar System. Topics also include historical astronomy, the naked eye phenomena of the sky and modern solar system discoveries made by spacecraft. This course may be taken independently of AST 192.

Course Attributes:
Distance Learning Approved
Meets UK Core Intellectual Inquiry in the Natural, Physical and Mathematical Sciences



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