Constellations
I am the famous asterism of Ursa Major
What is the Big Dipper
You can find me directly North and all the others rotate around me
What is Polaris or the North Star?
In my model of the universe, I put the sun in the center, the planets around the sun in circular orbits, and the stars on an outermost sphere. It was simple, harmony, beautiful, pleasing to the mind.
Who is Copernicus?
T2 = k Rav3
What is Kepler's Law of Periods
A body at rest stays at rest and a body in motion continues at constant speed in a straight line until acted upon by a force.
What is Newton's 1st law or Law of Inertia
Help! I am tied to a rock about to be eaten by the dreaded sea monster!
Who is Andromeda
Our favorite nickname of us is Wandering Stars because we can go west, drift eastward, and go backwards
What are planets?
In my model, I put the earth in the center and everything revolved around the earth. Retrograde motion--no problem. I used epicycles, equants, and eccentrics to explain it all.
Who is Ptolemy?
What is Mars?
My friend Kepler stated that planets move in elliptical orbits with the sun at one focus, therefore, I propose that a force must be acting on the planets.
Who is Isaac Newton? Example of the Great Synthesis of combining terrestrial laws of motion to heavenly laws of motion.
Following the curve of the Big Dipper's handle, you can find me tending my sheep or flying a kite
Who is Bootes (or Herdsman)?
I have 8 phases and synchronous rotation.
What is the Moon
I am a compromiser. I put earth in the center with the sun and moon orbiting it, and the planets orbiting the sun. Best of both systems!
Who is Tycho Brahe?
My 2nd Law states that all planets' orbits are this shape.
What is an ellipse?
Every object in the universe attacts every other object with a force dependent on the masses and distances between the objects.
What is the Universal Law of Gravitational Force
Double Jeopardy: Every winter, I stand guard with my shield, sword, and bright fancy belt.
Who is Orion
I change my maximum altitude and my rising and setting position EVERY DAY.
Who is the Sun
Think of a cube in a dodecahedron in a tetrahedron in an octahedron in a icosahedron in a sphere. Thats my model of the universe!
Who is Johannes Kepler?
In 1609 and 1610, I blew the world away with my discoveries of the heavens looking through my telescope.
Who is Galileo?
I figured out G.
Who is Henry Cavendish?
It may take a bit of imagination but I am the BIG DOG.
What is Canis Major?
Even though we are light years apart from each other, we move together as a group. We are fixed.
What are the stars?
Double Jeopardy: In the beginning there were interlocking spheres for earth and sky, then sun, then planets, all connected through a common axis. A common name is this.
What is a sky globe
Scientists put powerful telescopes up in space to avoid this layer of Earth; so much light, so clear, so beautiful!
What is the atmosphere?
The laws of motion for objects on earth also apply to the objects in the heavens. Everything is united by this common cause of motion.
What is gravity?