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---+ February 13, 2017 7:30-9:30PM
*Event*: [[AstronomyOnTap][Astronomy on Tap]]<br>
*Venue*: [[http://www.derwolfskopf.com/][Der Wolfskopf]]<br>
---+++ Talk 1
*Title*: Galaxies are People Too<br>
*Lecturer*: Louis Abramson<br>
*Position*: Postdoctoral Researcher<br>
*Institution*: UCLA<br>
---+++ Talk 2
*Title*: Pulsars: Spinning Stellar Corpses<br>
*Lecturer*: Anna Ho<br>
*Position*: Graduate Student<br>
*Institution*: Caltech<br>
---+++ Quiz Questions / Answers
   1. Which continent is the best for finding meteorites? Antarctica
   1. Where on the Moon did Apollo 11 land? Sea of Tranquility
   1. What solar system object has a heart-shaped planar region pictured here?  Happy Valentimes! Pluto
   1. The Big Dipper has two stars called the "pointer stars".  To what do they point? Polaris
   1. What property of the Earth is responsible for causing the Northern Lights by channeling charged particles to the Earth's poles? Magnetic Fields
   1. What Star Wars ship made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs? Millenium Falcon
   1. What major contribution earned Albert Einstein the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics? Photoelectric Effect
   1. Two engineers at Bell Labs in the 60s discovered "the afterglow of the Big Bang" with a radio antenna--what did they discover? Cosmic Microwave Background
   1. Why are sunspots darker than their surroundings on the surface of the Sun? Lower temperature
   1. Arabs have made significant advancements in astronomy. What is Orion's shoulder star (named in arabic)? Betelgeuse

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