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Famous Astronomers - Henry Draper, Daniel Kirkwood, ...

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1) Hipparchus compiled a ...

map of stars and constellations
detailed Moon map
map of Mars


2) Pick the true statement:

The Henry Draper catalog is a catalog of comets.
The Henry Draper catalog is a catalog of stars.
The Henry Draper catalog is a catalog of nebulae.


3) Pick the true statement:

Daniel Kirkwood discovered a gap in Jupiter's rings.
Daniel Kirkwood discovered a gap in the asteroid belt.
Daniel Kirkwood discovered a gap in Saturn's rings.
Daniel Kirkwood discovered a gap in the ozone.


4) Pick the correct statement:

James Gregory invented the reflecting telescope.
Hans Lippershey invented the refracting telescope.
John Hadley built the first reflecting telescope.
All these statements are incorrect
All these statements are correct


5) The first woman in space was ...

a Soviet
an American


6) James Van Allen discovered doughnut-shaped belts of ... that circle the Earth.

asteroids
radiation
comets
ozone


7) Who realized the relationship between a star's brightness and its temperature ?

Henry Norris Russell
Ejnar Hertzsprung
Both these people did
None of these people did


8) Pick the true statement:

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky is sometimes called the father of modern aeronautics.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky is sometimes called the father of modern astronomics.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky is sometimes called the father of modern astronautics


9) Harlow Shapley made the first accurate estimate the size of ...

the universe
the Milky Way Galaxy
the Andromeda Galaxy
the Large Magellanic Cloud


10) Kuiper's belt is a belt of ...

gas
comets
rocks
stars



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