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Porco and Beans
Perrier
Lap Lace #1
Lap Lace #2
Potpourri
100
This is Porco's job at the institution with which she is affiliated.
What is a researcher?
100
This was Perrault's country of origin.
What is France?
100
These were Laplace's professions.
What is a mathematician and astronomer?
100
This is what Laplace believed extended throughout the entire solar system.
What is the sun's atmosphere?
100
This is where the Seine River Basin is located.
What is Eastern France?
200
This is where Porco did her work.
What is the University of Arizona?
200
This was Perrault's profession.
What is a physicist?
200
This was the century in which Laplace did his work.
What are the 1800s?
200
This is what Laplace believed the sun's atmosphere created as it shrank.
What are concentric rings?
200
In addition to rain and stream runoff, Perrault needed to account for this to establish estimations of groundwater.
What is evaporation?
300
Porco believed that planetary rings are current examples of this.
What are planetismals?
300
This is the century when Perrault did his work.
What are the 1600s?
300
This was the body that Laplace's preconceptions said all the planets revolved around.
What is the sun?
300
These are what Laplace believed the concentric rings leftover from the sun's shrinking turned into over time.
What are gaseous disks?
300
Contrary to the findings of Laplace, these three planets spin in a direction opposite to their orbital motion.
What are Venus, Uranus, and Pluto?
400
These four planets in our solar system have rings similar to those Porco was referring to.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
400
This is where Perrault studied rainfall.
What is the Seine River drainage basin?
400
Laplace hypothesized that all planets revolved on their own axes in the same direction as this.
What is their orbit around the sun?
400
These are what Laplace believed gaseous disks turned into.
What are planets?
400
These two planets have moons large enough to qualify as double planets.
What are Earth and Pluto?
500
This is who Porco worked with at the University of Arizona.
Who is Timothy D. Swindle?
500
This is what Perrault determined must account for the difference between rainfall and steam runoff.
What is groundwater?
500
This was Pierre-Simon de Laplace's country of birth.
What is France?
500
This part of Laplace's theory is largely denounced by scientists today.
What is the concentric rings concept?
500
This is the association that leads the establishment of theories regarding the creation of the solar system.
What is the American Association for the Advancement of Science?