The SN PIT Team
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Dr. Nancy Grace Roman
PIT Pets
Roman Space Telescope
100

This member has two first names, and at least one other member can never remember which one is the actual first name.

Who is Russel Ryan?

100

These two PIs share the same birthday.

Who are Rebekah and David?

100

This is the area of astronomy that Dr. Roman pressured.

What is stellar astrophysics?

100

This member had a horse that loved to bite them.

Who is Lauren Aldoroty?

100

Roman's primary mirror is approximately this diameter.

What is 2.4 meters?
200

This member has played on the field during an NFL game.

Who is Megan Sosey?

200

This member participated in the Olympic Trials for air rifle.

Who is Lauren Aldoroty?
200

This is the year that Dr. Roman started at NASA.

What is 1959?

200

This PIT member has two cats named after characters from Hamlet.

Who is Cole Meldorf?

200

This is the launch pad that Roman took off from.

What is Launch Complex 39A?

300

This PIT member helped create a virtual space for astronomy in Linden Lab's Second Life.

Who is Rob Knop?

300

These two PIT members have played in the same string quartet.

Who are Rob Knop and Michael Wood-Vasey?

300

The University Dr. Roman worked at prior to being at NASA.

What is the University of Chicago?

300

This member has two cats with space-themed names.

Who is Maria Acevedo?

300
This is the number of pixels in the WFI.

What is over 300 million?

400

This PIT member was a nuclear reactor operator.

Who is David Rubin?

400

This PIT member was a previous chair of the Physics department at a private liberal arts college.

Who is Thushara Perera?

400

They denied Dr. Roman's request to purchase a digital computer in 1954 saying that computers would not be useful for data analysis.

Who is Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar?

400

This PIT member has a dog named Rigel.

Who is James DerKacy?

400

This is where NASA got the primary mirror for Roman.

What is we don't talk about this?

500

This member failed the high-school driving test by 1 point, and waited two years before passing DMV test and getting a drivers license.

Who is Rick Kessler?

500

This PIT member played music for another member's wedding.

Who is Rob Knop?

500
This is a cheeky Nancy based re-definition of the NASA acronym.

What is "Nancy And Some Associates"?

500

This PIT member’s cat won a fight with a venomous snake.

Who is Dan Scolnic?

500
The side boosters of the Falcon Heavy have this many previous flights.

What is two previous flights? (and the first flight for one booster)

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