Astronomers can't name things
Method of fusing hydrogen into helium in a LOW MASS star
PP chain (proton-proton chain)
NASA bolted a 12 inch gold mixtape of Earth sounds and images onto a spacecraft and launched it into space
Voyager Golden Record
The 2013 fireball over Russia that broke windows and sent ~1,500 people to hospitals without even making a crater
Chelyabinsk meteor
This planet could float in a bathtub (given a large enough one) (yes this is real) (skinny core😍)
Saturn
The last professor to give a talk at RAS
ANDREW BAKER 🐐
Meaning of the acronym WISEASS
Weizmann Institute of Science Experimental Astrophysics Spectroscopy System
NASA put spiders in orbit to see whether they could still spin webs in zero gravity
Skylab Spiderweb Experiment
In July 2019, a football field sized asteroid flew by Earth with basically no warning, only 40000 miles above the surface
July 23, 2012 near-miss CME/solar superstorm
The planet that rotates at a nearly 90° tilt, basically rolling around the Sun (barrel core😍)
Uranus
How long has the dome been giving Matt a headache
2 years
Meaning of the acronym Hot DOGs
Hot Dust-Obscured Galaxies
i want a hot god
NASA sent into space a small metal plaque showing naked humans and a map to our Sun mounted on two early outer-planet probes
Pioneer Plaque
Hypothetical planet that potentially collided with Early-Earth that might have formed the moon (kaboom)
Theia
The planet gets absolutely mogged by it's SUPER version (it's literally called "Super-____") (dainty core 😍)
Super-Saturn
The astrophysics majors in our officer team
Jack & Ollie
The name of a nebula near globular cluster NGC 4372, in the southern constellation of Musca.
(A hint is available if needed)
Dark Doodad Nebulae
This 1991 Space Shuttle mission flew thousands of tiny jellyfish as research subjects
This named asteroid will pass about 20,000 miles above Earth’s surface on April 13, 2029 (closer than many satellites)
Asteroid 99942/Apophis
This planet contracts as its interior cools, leaving giant wrinkles everywhere (raisin core😍)
Mercury
The current presidents cat
(AKA First Cat of RAS)
Mango