Astronomy and Space Flashcards
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Danish astronomer
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Tycho Brahe
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The blue planet (not earth)
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Neptune
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Moons of Neptune
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Triton, Neried, others
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Probe to Neptune
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Voyager II
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Neptune’s discoverer
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Johann Galle, 1856
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Neptune’s orbital period
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165 years
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The smallest planet
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Pluto
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Pluto’s moon
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Charon
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Pluto’s discoverer
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Clyde Taumbaugh
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Pluto’s orbital period
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248 years
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The second smallest planet
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Mercury
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American female astronomer
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Maria Mitchell
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Probe to Uranus
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Voyager II
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English astronomer royal
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Sir Edmund Halley
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English astronomer family
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Herschel
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French astronomer family
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Cassini
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German astronomer
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Johannes Kepler
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Greek astronomer (2nd century)
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Ptolemy
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Italian astronomer
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Galileo (Galilei)
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Polish astronomer
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Copernicus
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U.S. space station
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Skylab
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Russian space station
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Mir (“peace” in Russian)
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American astronomer
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Edwin Hubble
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Mars’ orbital period
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1.9 years
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Planet closest to sun, with no moons.
Mercury
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Mercury's oribital period
88 days
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The "Greenhouse effect" planet
Venus
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Probe to Venus
Venera (Russian)
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Venus' orbital period
225 days
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The only planet not named after mythological figure
Earth
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Lunar probe
Surveyor
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The red planet
Mars
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Mars' moons
Phobos (larger) and Demos (smaller)
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Uranus' orbital period
84 years
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Largest volcano in solar system
Mars' Olympus Mons
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Uranus' discoverer
William Herschel, 1781
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The largest planet (larger than all others put together)
Jupiter
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Galilean moons
Io, Europa, Calysto and Ganymede
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Probes to Jupiter
Voyager I & II, Galileo
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Jupiter's orbital period
12 years
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The ringed planet
Saturn
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Saturn moon with mysterious atmosphere
Titan
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Probes to Saturn
Voyager I & II, Cassini
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Saturn's orbital period
29 years
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Uranus moons names charecterized by what?
name after Shakesperean characters
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First space walk
Alexei Leonov
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Mars probes
Ranger, Pathfinder, Viking
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Pathfinder's mobile rover
Sojourner
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First man in space
Yuri Gagarin
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Closest major galaxy
Andromeda
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Milky Way's satellite galaxies
Large and Small Magellanic Cloud
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Galactic cloud of dust and gas
Nebula
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Nebula named for sea creature
Crab nebula
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"Equine" nebula
Horse head nebula
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"Dog Star", brightest star in sky
Sirius
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North star or pole star
Polaris
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Closest star
Proxima Centauri
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Belt between Mars and Jupiter
Asteroid belt (possibly a destroyed planet)
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Theory of the expanding universe
Big Bang theory
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The Earth's magnetic belt
Van Allen belt
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First man-made object to leave the solar system
Pioneer 10
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One-person U.S. space program
Mercury
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Two-person U.S. space program
Gemini
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Three-person U.S. space program
Apollo
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Apollo 11 landing module
Eagle
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Space Shuttle names
Enterprise (atmospheric tests only), Columbia, Challenger, Atlantis, Discovery, Endeavor
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1983 book chronicling the U.S. Space program
_The Right Stuff_
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Comet that returns every 76 years
Halley's comet
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Comet that struck Jupiter in 1994
Shoemaker-Levy 9
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Comet visible for several months in 1996
Hale-Bopp
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Stars known as "seven sisters"
Pleiades
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Man who played golf on the moon
Alan Shepard
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Highly touted comet that fizzled in 1973
Comet Kahoutek
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First American in space (suborbital)
Alan Shepard
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Second American in space (suborbital)
Gus Grissom
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Third American in space (three orbits)
John Glenn
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First American woman in space
Sally Ride
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First American to walk in space
Edward White
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First American woman to walk in space
Kathryn Sullivan
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First man to walk on the moon
Neil Armstrong
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Second man to walk on the moon
Buzz Aldrin
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Largest known asteroid
Ceres
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Oldest U.S. astronaut, launched in 1998
John Glenn (77 yrs. Old)
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First woman in space
Valentina Tereshkova
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First space shuttle crew
Young and Crippen
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First female space shuttle commander
Eileen Collins
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First satellite, 1957
Sputnik
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First U.S. satellite
Explorer I
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First weather satellite
Tiros
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First communications satellite
Echo I
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First telecommunications satellite
Telstar
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The sun's halo
Corona
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The sun's "breeze"
Solar wind
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Solar magnetic storms with 11-year cycles
Sun spots
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Apollo 13 commander
James Lovell
