Semester Offered: Second Semester, First Module Credits (Range): 2 Hour Attribute:2 NS Enormous amounts of energy are released when meteorites, asteroids, comets, and planets impact one another at “cosmic velocities.” This course examines where and why impacts take place and what happens when they do. Topics include: Did an asteroid impact kill all the dinosaurs? Was our Moon formed by a huge impact? Have impacts transferred Martian microbes to Earth? Could a large impact end human civilization?
Enrollment Limit:50 Instructor: B. Simonson Consent of the Instructor Required:No Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with GEOL 117