July 25, 2016 7:30-9:30PM

Event: Astronomy on Tap
Venue: Der Wolfskopf

Talk 1

Title: The First Beer was not Brewed on Earth
Lecturer: Rachael Beaton
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Institution: Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science

Talk 2

Title: Jupiter: Exposed
Lecturer: Rahul Patel
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Institution: IPAC

Quiz Questions / Answers

1. In what U.S. State is Meteor Crater located? Arizona
2. Why do we have seasons on the earth? The Earth's rotational tilt relative to its orbit
3. What were the first words uttered by the apollo 11 astronauts when they landed on the Moon? "Contact light."
4. What is the brightest star in the sky? The Sun
5. In Star Wars, Cloud City was located on what planet? Bespin
6. Approximately how many stars are in our own Milky Way galaxy? 100 billion
7. After Hydrogen and helium, what is the most abundant element in the universe? Oxygen
8. What is the largest asteroid in the solar system? Ceres
9. To be launched in 2018, what space telescope is seen as the successor to the Hubble space telescope? James Webb Space Telescope
10. Which caltech scientist was the architect of LIGO, wrote the book on gravity, and wrote the movie interstellar? Kip Thorne