MIT OpenCourseWare
The Solar System
- Instructor
- Prof. Richard Binzel
- Term
- Spring 2006
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 16 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 12.400 The Solar System, Spring 2006, Prof. Richard Binzel — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- MIT lists a session calendar for this course, but it could not be verified well enough to build a sequence from it — materials are grouped by section instead.
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- Referenced in a table, but without MIT's own verified order, so it isn't used to claim a sequence.
Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Assignments
- This file contains information about nebular disk model and chemical evolution of the disk (formation_notes2.pdf) Download
- Problem Set 1 - Featuring a Scale Model of the Solar System in MIT’s Infinite Corridor Download
- Problem Set 2 - Featuring the Death of the Sun and the Destruction of Earth Download
- Problem Set 3 - Featuring the Javelin Event at the Interplanetary Olympics and a Comet Possibly Aimed Towards Earth Download
- mete_classificat.pdf Download
Study Materials
11 files
- Basic Facts Download
- Moon Phases and Seasons Download
- Survey of the Planets Download
- Solar Structure Download
- Orbital Elements Download
- Solar System Formation Download
- Meteorite Definitions Download
- Icy Satellites Download
- Atmospheric Basic Properties Download
- Atmospheric Structure Download
- Life Notes Download
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Richard Binzel, 12.400 The Solar System, Spring 2006.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Spring 2006 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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