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Formation
Detection Methods
Search for Earth
Miscallaneous
100
The year in which the planet orbiting 51 Pegasi was discovered.
What is 1995
100
True of False: inner planets have higher density than outer planets
What is True
100
The most limited method of the four introduced in the presentation
What is Direct Imaging
100
Name the mission that has discovered the most exoplanets until now
What is Kepler Space Craft
100
Possible candidates for exoplanets are called:
What is Kepler Candidate
200
Catholic monk who believed in Copernius' views and thought that other solar systems existed.
Who is Giordano Bruno
200
The disk of planetary matter orbiting a sun or stellar remnants
What is Prostellar disk
200
The method used to identify the exoplanet in 1995
What is Radial Velocity
200
How many Kepler candidates are there (up to 500)
What is 4175
200
Name the role that Matt Damon plays in Interstellar
Who is Mann
300
Astronomer who observed nebulae and discovered a great number of stars at the Mt. Wilson Observatory.
Who is Edwin Hubble
300
Object formed from dust, rock, and other materials
What is planetesimal
300
Which method is useful for identify atmospheric gas?
What is Transit
300
Define Super-Earth
What is exoplanets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune
300
The name of the mission collaboration between MIT and NASA to observe exoplanets in detail
What is TESS
400
Two names of Swiss astronomers who discovered 51 Pegasi b.
Who are Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz
400
White dwarves, Black holes, and Neutron stars are
What is stellar remnant (or compact stars)
400
Name all four methods used to observe exoplanets
What is Radial Velocity, Transit, Direct Imaging, and/or Microlensing
400
What are types of gases that may allow life to form
What is Biosignature gases
400
The number of confirmed exoplanets (within 50)
What is 1804
500
What method did Mayor and Queloz use to find 51 Pegasi b?
What is radial velocity
500
This causes different density planets to form
What is condensation
500
Another name for radial velocity method, named after the effect that allows such method
What is Doppler Spectroscopy
500
One of the recently discovered Super-Earths
What is Kepler 440b
500
The name of the sun that Mayor and Queloz finds exoplanets nearby
What is 51 Pegasi