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---+ January 23, 2017 7:30-9:30PM
*Event*: [[AstronomyOnTap][Astronomy on Tap]]<br>
*Venue*: [[http://www.derwolfskopf.com/][Der Wolfskopf]]<br>
---+++ Talk 1
*Title*: The Speed of Light is Slow<br>
*Lecturer*: Adric Riedel<br>
*Position*: Postdoctoral Fellow<br>
*Institution*: Caltech<br>
---+++ Talk 2
*Title*: The Discovery of Dark Matter: Vera Rubin's Missing Nobel Prize<br>
*Lecturer*: Johanna Teske<br>
*Position*: Postdoctoral Fellow<br>
*Institution*: Carnegie<br>
---+++ Quiz Questions / Answers
   1. Out of the 203 people who have won the NOBEL prize in PHYSICS, how many were women? 2
   1. What kind of radiation, named after a Soviet physicist, is created by charged particles traveling faster than the speed of light? Cerenkov Radiation
   1. What is the visual color of the Sun? Yellow
   1. How many kilograms does a photon (a.k.a particle of light) weigh? 0kg
   1. Who is this woman, who was pivotal in the success of the Apollo and Project Mercury NASA programs in the '60s? Katherine Johnson
   1. Which Solar System moon is this? 
   1. What is the most distant human-made object from Earth? Voyager 1
   1. Which country now has the world's largest SINGLE dish radio telescope? China
   1. What object in the sky is sometimes called the EVENING star and sometimes called the MORNING star? Venus
   1. Who told Luke Skywalker "SIZE MATTERS NOT" ? Yoda.


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