Table of Contents

1) Introduction. Cox; 2)General Constants and Units. Cox; 3) Atoms and Molecules. Dappen; 4) Spectra. Cowley, et al; 5) Radiation. Keady & Kilcrease; 6) Radio and Microwave Astronomy. Hjellming; 7) Infrared Astronomy. Tokunaga; 8) Ultraviolet Astronomy. Teays; 9) X-Ray Astronomy. Seward; 10) Gamma-Ray and Neutrino Astronomy. Lingenfelter & Rothschild; 11) Earth. Schubert & Walterscheid; 12) Planets and Satellites. Tholen; 13) Solar System Small Bodies. Binzel, et al; 14) Sun. Livingston; 15) Normal Stars. Drilling & Landolt; 16) Stars with Special Characteristics. Fernie; 17) Cataclysmic and Symbiotic Variables. Sparks, et al.; 18) Supernovae. Wheeler & Bennetti; 19) Star Populations and the Solar Neighborhood. Gilmore & Zeilik; 20) Theoretical Stellar Evolution. Becker/Pensell/Cox; 21) Circumstellar and Interstellar Material. Mathis; 22) Star Clusters. Harris & Harris; 23) Milky Way Galaxies. Trimble; 24) Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei. Wilkes; 25) Clusters and Groups of Galaxies. Bahcall; 26) Cosmology. Scott, et al; 27) Incidental Tables. Fiala, et al.

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