GU AstronomyBurn Trip

Quiz

Question 1

Name the Nebulae

Orion Nebula M42in Orion

Pleiades M45in Taurus

Eagle Nebula M16in Serpens

Trifid Nebula M20in Sagittarius

Ring Nebula M57in Lyra

Lagoon Nebula M8in Sagittarius

What happened here?

Question 2

Crash landing site of Beagle 2

Christmas 2003

Question 3Name the planets

Tatooine

Question 3Name the planets

Coruscant

Question 3Name the planets

Naboo

Question 3Name the planets

Geonosis

Question 3Name the planets

Mustafar

Question 4

BarbedComments

1 2 3 4

5 6 7 8

1 = Ludwig Boltzmann 2= Wilhelm Roentgen 3 = Johannes Kepler 4 = James Clerk Maxwell

5 = Galileo Galilei 6 = Plato 7 = Lord Kelvin 8 = Aristotle

Question 5

What type of eclipse is shown here?

Annular eclipse of the Sun

Question 6

Sep 2004, Utah desert. What happened?Crash landing of the Genesis probe

Question 7Name the six different types of quark

Top bottomStrange charmedUp down

Question 8Nine constellations are different kinds of bird; how many can you name?

Apus (bird of paradise), Aquila (eagle), Columba (dove), Corvus (crow), Cygnus (swan), Grus (crane), Pavo (peacock), Phoenix (phoenix), Tucana (toucan)

Question 9

2012

Parker

Lady Penelope

Jeff Tracy

Tin Tin Brains

Alan Tracy

Scott Tracy

Gordon Tracy

Virgil Tracy

John Tracy

Question 10