December 16, 2019 7:30-9:30PM

Event: Astronomy on Tap
Venue: Der Wolfskopf

Talk 1

Title: How to find moons outside our solar system
Lecturer: Jackie Pezzato
Position: Graduate Student
Institution: Caltech

Talk 2

Title: Exploding Stars: Making the Elements of the Universe
Lecturer: Andrew Emerick
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Institution: Carnegie Observatories

Quiz Questions / Answers

1. What planets in the solar system lack moons? Mercury & Venus
2. The Geminid meteor shower occurred last week--why is it called "Geminid"?
3. In Star Wars, what planet is the home of Chewbacca and the Wookies? Kashyyyk
4. What was the proposed landing site of Apollo 13? Fra Mauro Crater
5. What SpaceX satellite program will roll out 12-42,000 satellites, many of them outshining the visible stars in the sky? Starlink
6. What is the term for the curve representing the shortest path between two points on a sphere or other surface? Geodesic
7. What Soviet Space Program was designed to help the Soviet Union's allies with manned and unmanned space missions? Interkosmos
8. What is the point in a planet's orbit where it is closest to the Sun? Perihelion
9. Less than a second after the Big Bang, the Universe expanded at an incredible rate for a short period of time--what was this period called?
10. What NASA space telescope will be retiring next month after almost 17 years of service? Spitzer Space Telescope