History of Astronomy Online Scavenger Hunt
Directions: Using the internet, search for the personand datefor each discovery.Document the website you found the information on!!
1. I was the first person to use a telescope to look at the heavens.
Who am I? ______
2. We discovered the relationship between a star’s temperature and it’s brightness.
Who are we? ______
3. I was the first person to fly in space.Who am I? ______
4. I was a female British astronomer who helped discover pulsars.
Who am I? ______
5. I was the first person to walk on the moon.Who am I? ______
6. I developed the big bang theory.Who am I?______
7. I was the first person to accurately estimate the size of the Earth.
Who am I?______
8. I was the first person topropose that the planets go around the sun.
Who am I? ______
9. I rediscovered the heliocentric model of the solar system in the middle ages.
Who am I? ______
10. I discovered four moons of Saturn.Who am I? ______
11. I worked very closely with my brother and discovered 8 comets and developed a catalog of the nebulae and clusters that we both identified.
Who am I? ______
12. I am regarded as the greatest observer of the pre-telescopic era. I made precise measurements of the solar system and over 600 stars.
Who am I?______
13. I discovered the planet Uranus using a self built reflecting telescope.
Who am I? ______
14. I developed the theory of gravity and explained how gravity keeps planets in orbit around the sun. Who am I? ______
15. I proved some comets were period when I predicted the return of a comet in 76 yrs, which was eventually named after me.
Who am I? ______
16. I was able to calculate the relative sizes and distances of Earth, Moon and Sun.
Who am I? ______
17. I am the president who launched the Apollo lunar exploration program.
Who am I? ______
18. We discovered Neptune together.
Who are we? ______
19. I developed theories of relativity that explain the evolution of the expanding Universe. Who am I?______
20. I named stars by assigning them to constellations and giving them Greek letters.Who am I? ______
21. I studied planetary motion and published Almagest.
Who am I? ______
22. I discovered the first active galaxy.
Who am I? ______
23. I study physics and predicted that black holes emit radiation.
Who am I? ______
24. I developed the laws of planetary motion and realized the orbits were elliptical.
Who am I? ______
25. I showed that other galaxies existed and observed that the universe is expanding because the other galaxies are all moving away from the Milky Way.
Who am I? ______
26. I made and launched the world’s first liquid fueled rocket.
Who am I? ______
27. I was the first American in space.
Who am I? ______
28. I proposed the existence of a disk-shaped region of minor planets outside the orbit of Neptune. It is now named after me. Who am I? ______