Astronomy and Space Flashcards
Danish astronomer
Tycho Brahe
The blue planet (not earth)
Neptune
Moons of Neptune
Triton, Neried, others
Probe to Neptune
Voyager II
Neptune’s discoverer
Johann Galle, 1856
Neptune’s orbital period
165 years
The smallest planet
Pluto
Pluto’s moon
Charon
Pluto’s discoverer
Clyde Taumbaugh
Pluto’s orbital period
248 years
The second smallest planet
Mercury
American female astronomer
Maria Mitchell
Probe to Uranus
Voyager II
English astronomer royal
Sir Edmund Halley
English astronomer family
Herschel
French astronomer family
Cassini
German astronomer
Johannes Kepler
Greek astronomer (2nd century)
Ptolemy
Italian astronomer
Galileo (Galilei)
Polish astronomer
Copernicus
U.S. space station
Skylab
Russian space station
Mir (“peace” in Russian)
American astronomer
Edwin Hubble
Mars’ orbital period
1.9 years
Planet closest to sun, with no moons.
Mercury
Mercury’s oribital period
88 days
The “Greenhouse effect” planet
Venus
Probe to Venus
Venera (Russian)
Venus’ orbital period
225 days
The only planet not named after mythological figure
Earth
Lunar probe
Surveyor
The red planet
Mars
Mars’ moons
Phobos (larger) and Demos (smaller)
Uranus’ orbital period
84 years
Largest volcano in solar system
Mars’ Olympus Mons
Uranus’ discoverer
William Herschel, 1781
The largest planet (larger than all others put together)
Jupiter
Galilean moons
Io, Europa, Calysto and Ganymede