Astronomy

Eight.

c) Gus Grissom.

Lunar International Observer Network.

Pluto.

Jupiter, with 63 as of 2009.

Mars

Perigee

The Crab.

5,800 K (5.,530 C).

Asteroids.

Hale-Bopp.

The degree to which an orbit deviates from a circle. The eccentricity of Earth’s orbit is 0.07.

Iridium The Iridium satellite constellation is a system of 66 active communication satellites and spares around the Earth. It allows worldwide voice and data communications using handheld devices. The Iridium network is unique in that it covers the whole earth, including poles, oceans and airways, however the service is interdicted due to American embargoes in North Korea, Iran, Libya and Sudan. The name was taken from the element Iridium, with the atomic number of 77 — the size of the satellite constellation projected in the early stages of planning.

Christa McAuliffe.

Project Mercury.

Hubble.

Saturn

Saturn

Venus

Uranus With the exception of earth, all the other planets take their names from Roman myth. Uranus is the third-largest and fourth most massive planet in the Solar System. It is named after the ancient Greek deity of the sky. Sir William Herschel announced its discovery on March 13, 1781, expanding the known boundaries of the Solar System for the first time in modern history. Uranus was also the first planet discovered with a telescope.

The Milky Way

Martin Ryle.

Geostationary.

THE ASTEROID BELT

A Comet

Friendship 7

Colonel Rudolf Abel, the Soviet intelligence agent convicted of spying on 1957, who was exchanged for downed American U-2 reconnaissance pilot “Francis Gary Powers in 1962.

E. Nigma. The E. is for Edward.

Billiards

Execution-style murder

Jack Nicholson.

Orlando Bloom

VENUS

JUPITER

3

THE ANGLE OF THE SUN OR STARS ABOVE A HORIZON

The polar skies

Apollo 17

The dense, burned-out remains of a star; a stellar corpse

Orbiting the Earth – The Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the first general-purpose orbiting observatory was launched on April 24, 1990

Pluto

2

About 1.5 light years

David Scott and James Irwin

3,000 YEARS

THE GREAT BEAR

URANUS

Umbra

A constellation is a group of stars that, when seen from Earth, form a pattern

The hunter’s moon It is the first full moon after the harvest moon (which is the full moon nearest the autumnal equinox). The name is also said to have been used by Native Americans as they tracked and killed their prey by autumn moonlight, stockpiling food for the winter ahead