Extraplanetary Exec
Space Stuff
Astronomical Accolades
Super Solar Systems
Observational Opportunities
100
VP of Stargazers
What is Rebecca?
100
The common name for M45 (pictured below)
What is the "Pleiades"?
100
First human-made object to enter space
What is the Bumper-WAC?
(Also: a rocket made of a missile on top of a V-2 rocket)
100
The closest star to Vayu
What is the Sun?
100
The location of the Observatory
What is the Truman State University Farm, at the end of LaHarpe Street traveling West?
200
Person & Position that makes sure that we don't potentially bring ourselves to harm, particularly during lazer limbo.
What is Jon, the Risk Manager extraordinaire?
200
Messier Number for the object commonly known as the Crab nebula?
What is M1?
200
The first American woman in space
Sally Ride
200
The eight planets in the Solar System in order from the closest to the Sun to the farthest from the Sun
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
200
The Reason for this color of light:
What is "Preserve your night vision!"?
300
The name of the tab on stargazers.truman.edu in which you can find information about the exec team as well as semi-awkward pictures
What is 'Meet the Exec Team'?
300
Closest spiral galaxy to Earth
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
300
The first woman in space
What is Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova?
300
The dwarf planet that is the reason that a planet was downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2016.
What is Eris?
300
The date and time of the next Open House
What is Tuesday, September 18 @ 7 o'clock p.m. to 9 o'clock p.m.?
400
The only Exec member who lives on campus.
What is Paul?
400
The type of Star that the Sun is.
What is G2?
(Also accepted: G2V)
400
First creature in space.
What is Laika, a super cute doggo from the Soviet Union?
400
The process happening at the center of the Sun
What is nuclear fusion?
(Also accepted: Description of the process)
400
The date of the next total lunar eclipse
January 20th 2019
500
The two favorite constellations of the President.
What are Orion and Hercules?
500
The color of a star that is 30,000 K and has an apparent magnitude of -10.
What is blue?
500
Number of people currently in space
What is six?
(Andrew Feustel, Richard Arnold, Oleg Artymyev, Serena Auñón-Chancellor, Alexander Gerst, and Sergey Prokopev)
(go follow their twitters and such!)
500
Date that TESS was launched from Earth
What is April 18, 2018?
500
Size of the lens in the 'scope in the Dome
What is seventeen inches?