Foundations of Astronomy
This is the location of Stonehenge
What is Salisbury Plain, England?
Electron model prosed 1913 stating that electron can only orbit at certain radii, or energy levels
What is the Bohr Model?
Order of the planets (bonus for the belts)
Mercury, venus, earth, mars, the asteroid belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Kuiper Belt
The cluster of galaxies that the Milky was is part of
What is the Local Group?
The first artificial satellite
What is Sputnik I?
The forms of electromagnetic radiation from lowest frequency to highest
What are radio, microwave, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray?
Frequency shift due to relative motion between source and observer
What is the Doppler Effect
The four Galilean moons
What are Calipso, Ganymede, Io, and Europa?
What Quasar is short for
What is Quasi-stellar radio source?
The first person in space
Yuri Gagarin
Author of On the Revolutions of the Celestial sphere which proposed a heliocentric model of the universe
Who is Nicholas Copernicus?
Rapidly rotating and highly magnetic neutron star
What is a Pulsar
Four layers of the Earths atmosphere (bonus points if ou get them in order)
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere
4 classes of galaxy classification made by Hubble in 1924
What are elliptical, spiral, barred spiral, and Irregular?
The three astronauts on the Appollo 11
Who are Buzz Aldrin, Lance Armstrong, and Micheal Collins?
Danish astronomer born in 1956 who made daily observations of the sky for decades
Who is Tycho Brache?
Absorption lines of the sun named after the man who discovered them
What are Fraunhoffer lines
The person for which Uranus was almost named
The cosmological principle
What is the universe is homogeneous and Isotropic
The day/month/year Appollo 11 launched
What is July 16th, 1969?
Kepler's three laws
What is
1. planetary orbits are elliptical
2. An imaginary line connecting a planet to the sun
3. the square of a planets orbital period is proportional to the cube of its semimajor axis
Anni J Cannons system of spectral classes still in use today
What is O B A F G K M L T?
Three factors for planetary definition
What are Body orbits the sun, has sufficient mass to be nearly round, and the body clears the region around its orbit
Percentage of the interstellar medium is interstellar dust
What is 1%
The first manned mission to orbit the moon and return
What is Appollo 8?