January 23, 2017 7:30-9:30PM

Event: Astronomy on Tap
Venue: Der Wolfskopf

Talk 1

Title: The Speed of Light is Slow
Lecturer: Adric Riedel
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Institution: Caltech

Talk 2

Title: The Discovery of Dark Matter: Vera Rubin's Missing Nobel Prize
Lecturer: Johanna Teske
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Institution: Carnegie

Quiz Questions / Answers

1. Out of the 203 people who have won the NOBEL prize in PHYSICS, how many were women? 2
2. What kind of radiation, named after a Soviet physicist, is created by charged particles traveling faster than the speed of light? Cerenkov Radiation
3. What is the visual color of the Sun? Yellow
4. How many kilograms does a photon (a.k.a particle of light) weigh? 0kg
5. Who is this woman, who was pivotal in the success of the Apollo and Project Mercury NASA programs in the '60s? Katherine Johnson
6. Which Solar System moon is this?
7. What is the most distant human-made object from Earth? Voyager 1
8. Which country now has the world's largest SINGLE dish radio telescope? China
9. What object in the sky is sometimes called the EVENING star and sometimes called the MORNING star? Venus
10. Who told Luke Skywalker "SIZE MATTERS NOT" ? Yoda.