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The B.S. in Physics Returns to Sonoma State University!

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October 19, 1987

the Great Red Spot of Jupiter

Dr. Philip Marcus
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Darwin 103
4:00 PM

Dr. Philip Marcus of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley will explain everything you ever wanted to know about the red spot of Jupiter. He will describe a numerical model of the Jovian atmosphere which can account for the size, shape and location of the spot, as well as its interaction with other planetary features.