Astronomy and Space Flashcards by Bob Nickles | Brainscape

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First space walk

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Alexei Leonov

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Closest star

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Proxima Centauri

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The Earth’s magnetic belt

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Van Allen belt

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Solar magnetic storms with 11-year cycles

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Sun spots

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The ringed planet

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Saturn

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Saturn’s orbital period

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29 years

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The sun’s “breeze”

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Solar wind

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Apollo 13 commander

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James Lovell

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U.S. space station

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Skylab

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Comet that returns every 76 years

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Halley’s comet

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Polish astronomer

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Copernicus

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First weather satellite

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Tiros

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Probe to Uranus

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Voyager II

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Third American in space (three orbits)

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John Glenn

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Second American in space (suborbital)

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Gus Grissom

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Second man to walk on the moon

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Buzz Aldrin

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Oldest U.S. astronaut, launched in 1998

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John Glenn (77 yrs. Old)

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English astronomer royal

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Sir Edmund Halley

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Italian astronomer

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Galileo (Galilei)

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First woman in space

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Valentina Tereshkova

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The “Greenhouse effect” planet

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Venus

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North star or pole star

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Polaris

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Probe to Neptune

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Voyager II

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Comet that struck Jupiter in 1994

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Shoemaker-Levy 9

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American astronomer

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Edwin Hubble

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Largest volcano in solar system

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Mars’ Olympus Mons

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1983 book chronicling the U.S. Space program

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The Right Stuff

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Mars’ orbital period

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1.9 years

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The sun’s halo

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Corona

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The only planet not named after mythological figure

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Earth

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First American woman to walk in space

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Kathryn Sullivan

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Largest known asteroid

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Ceres

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Venus’ orbital period

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225 days

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Planet closest to sun, with no moons.

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Mercury

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First man to walk on the moon

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Neil Armstrong

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Three-person U.S. space program

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Apollo

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Russian space station

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Mir (“peace” in Russian)

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First telecommunications satellite

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Telstar

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Comet visible for several months in 1996

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Hale-Bopp

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Man who played golf on the moon

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Alan Shepard

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First man in space

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Yuri Gagarin

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Space Shuttle names

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Enterprise (atmospheric tests only), Columbia, Challenger, Atlantis, Discovery, Endeavor

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First American in space (suborbital)

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Alan Shepard

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The smallest planet

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Pluto

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First American to walk in space

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Edward White

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Theory of the expanding universe

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Big Bang theory

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The second smallest planet

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Mercury

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The red planet

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Mars

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Nebula named for sea creature

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Crab nebula

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“Dog Star”, brightest star in sky

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Sirius

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Galactic cloud of dust and gas

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Nebula

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Apollo 11 landing module

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Eagle

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Mercury’s oribital period

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88 days

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The blue planet (not earth)

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Neptune

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Two-person U.S. space program

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Gemini

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Belt between Mars and Jupiter

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Asteroid belt (possibly a destroyed planet)

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Jupiter’s orbital period

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12 years

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Mars’ moons

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Phobos (larger) and Demos (smaller)

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First American woman in space

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Sally Ride

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The largest planet (larger than all others put together)

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Jupiter

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First man-made object to leave the solar system

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Pioneer 10

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Neptune’s orbital period

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165 years

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First U.S. satellite

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Explorer I

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First satellite, 1957

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Sputnik

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Closest major galaxy

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Andromeda

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Pluto’s orbital period

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248 years

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Uranus’ orbital period

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84 years