SUMMER CONSTELLATIONS
The Strongman.
What is Hercules?
The Princess of Ethiopia.
Who is Andromeda?
Larger or smaller than the diameter of the earth? =
100 bonus points for how many miles +/- 300 miles.
Smaller.
By 405 miles. (105- 705 miles acceptable for bonus points to be manually remembered)
The dominant energy reaction in the sun.
What is FUSION?
A basic reference list of star clusters, nebulas, and galaxies. It was compiled in 1888 by Danish astronomer Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer, who based his work on earlier lists made by the Herschel family of British astronomers.
What is the NGC catalog. New General Catalog.
The Shield. It sits between Sagittarius and Aquila, has no stars brighter than 3rd magnitude, and its most most outstanding feature is the Milky Way, itself. Hint: Its abbreviation may be confused with that of Sagittarius.
What is Scutum? (Abbreviation: Sct )
The Trojan prince who became the bartender to Zeus and the other gods.
Who was Ganymede? (Kidnapped by the eagle Aquila.)
96% of the atmosphere is made of this gas.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
The rapidly moving continuous stream of charged particles moving away from the sun.
What is the solar wind?
Collinder, Dolidze, Berkeley, and Ruprecht cataloged these.
What are Open Clusters.
Helen of Troy's two brothers.
Who were Castor and Pollux?
Length of the Venusian day. (in earth days +/- 20%)
What is -224 days 17 hours. (179-269 days)
The minus sign is due to the retrograde rotation of the planet. Credit still given is not identified.
The equatorial rotation rate of the sun.
What is once every 25 days?
Moving backward; having a backward motion or direction.
What is Retrograde?
Atmospheric pressure on Venus.
92 bars (atmospheres). 1411 psi. Equivalent to the pressure 1 km below the ocean's surface.
The physical law that results in all the planets rotating in the same direction.
What is the Conservation of Angular Momentum.
The Colt. It lies between the nose of Pegasus and Delphinus.
What is Equuleus.
(Ee-KWOO-lee-us)
Year of the first flyby and probe to visit Venus.
What is 1961.
These methods are used to measure the magnetic field of sunspots.
What is spectroscopy and/or the Zeeman Effect?
The point at which the stars of a binary system are closest.
What is PERIASTRON.