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Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the first asteroid, Pallas, on January 1, 1805. Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the first asteroid, Vesta, on January 1, 1810. Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the first asteroid, Juno, on January 1, 1811. Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the first asteroid, Ceres, on January 1, 1801.
2) Pick the true statement:
Aristarchus proposed the geocentric model of the Solar System. Aristarchus proposed the heliocentric model of the Solar System.
3) Did Eratosthenes calculate the distance from the Earth to the Sun and the Moon?
Yes No
4) Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy) believed that all celestial bodies revolved around the Sun.
Correct Incorrect
5) Pick the true statement:
Clyde Tombaugh discovered planet Pluto in 1930. Clyde Tombaugh discovered planet Neptune in 1930.
6) Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovered 2 asteroids and a comet.
True False
7) Heinrich Schwabe discovered that ... had an ... cycle.
lunar eclipses ___ 22 year solar eclipses ___ 5.5 year sunspots ___ 11 year
8) John Couch Adams and Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier predicted the existence of planet Neptune - independently of each other.
9) Is Cassini's Division a dark division in the rings of Jupiter?
10) Asaph Hall discovered the two moons of Mars: Phobos and Deimos.