Our Solar System
The planets in order from the closest to the sun to the furthest.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
Two stars that appear close together in the sky, which can be either a true binary system (two stars gravitationally bound and orbiting each other) or an optical double (stars that appear close but are far apart and only appear close due to their alignment along our line of sight).
What is a double star?
The organization that cares for the observatory.
What is the Georgetown University Astronomical Society?
Astronomical Society weekly meeting day and time.
What is Tuesday from 8-10pm?
The sounds you hear in space.
What is nothing?
The planet in our solar system with the longest name.
What is Venus?
The estimated age of the universe.
What is 13.8 billion years old?
The Jesuit directing the observatory's construction.
Who is Father James Curley S.J.?
The year Georgetown Astronomical Society was founded.
What is 1972?
The name of the two astronauts that just came back from a staycation in space.
What is Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore?
The number of moons Jupiter has.
What is 95?
The percent of visible matter in the universe.
What is 4%?
The rank of our observatory amoungs oldest college observatories in the United States.
What is the third?
The movie we watched this semester.
What is "Fly Me to the Moon"?
The speed of orbital debris.
What is 18,000 miles per hour?
The dwarf planets in our solar system.
What is Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris?
The average temperature of space.
What is 2.725 Kelvin which is -454.72°F (-270.4°C)?
The year NASA’s director secured an act of Congress designating the observatory as a national monument.
What is 1969?
The size of our main telescope (inches).
What is 12"?
Black holes are hot. (T or F) +200 points if you guess the temperature.
What is false? Temperature −273.15 degrees Celsius or nearly 0 degrees Kelvin.
A giant spherical shell surrounding the Sun, planets and Kuiper Belt Objects.
What is the Oort Cloud?
The year currently planned for the ISS to deorbit.
What is 2030?
The observatories original name.
The number of meetings your team attended in total. (Every team must answer).
What is team with most meetings attended?
First astronaut in space.
Who is Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.