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Stars Space Exploration

Answer the Following Questions. What is the earth's nearest celestial neighbor? What is its distance from the earth? . The Earth's nearest celestial neighbor is the Moon, which has an average distance from the Earth of about 240,000 miles (386,000 kilometers).. Answer the Following Questions. What

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Stars Space Exploration

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    1. Stars & Space Exploration Two Pathfinder Honors

    2. Answer the Following Questions What is the earth's nearest celestial neighbor? What is its distance from the earth?

    3. Answer the Following Questions

    4. Answer the Following Questions

    5. Answer the Following Questions

    6. Draw a diagram of our solar system and be able to name the planets in order.

    7. How fast does light travel? How far does light travel in a year? Light travels at 186,000 miles per second (not miles per hour), which is 300,000 kilometers per second. In one year, light will travel 5.88 trillion miles (9.4 quadrillion km). This distance is also called a light-year.

    8. The word planet means wanderer because the planets appear to wander about the sky relative to the stars. The stars do not move in relation to one another (although they all appear to move together because of the Earth's rotation on its axis). What is the difference between planets and fixed stars? Identify in the sky eight fixed stars.

    9. Polaris

    10. Capella

    11. Acturus

    12. Mintaka

    13. Alshain

    14. Bellatrix

    15. Betelgeuse pronounced “Beatlejuice”

    16. Coxa

    17. What is a constellation? Name and point out six. Name two constellations visible throughout the year. A constellation is any one of the 88 areas into which the sky - or the celestial sphere - is divided. The term is also often used less formally to denote a group of stars visibly related to each other in a particular configuration or pattern.

    18. Ursa Major - better known as the Big Dipper.

    19. Ursa Minor-better known as the Little Dipper

    20. Cassiopeia It is on the opposite side of Polaris from the Big Dipper. VISIBLE ALL YEAR

    21. Boötes

    22. Cygnus, Altair, and Lyra These are summer constellations. The brightest stars make up the Summer Triangle.

    23. Northern Hemisphere: (VISIBLE ALL YEAR) Ursa Minor Ursa Major Draco Cepheus

    24. Draw the following constellations:

    25. Big Dipper, North Star, & Cassiopeia

    26. Orion

    27. What is the Milky Way? A large gathering of stars and bodies making up one of many galaxies. The portion visible in the night sky of Earth is only a single dimensional or flat view of the galaxy as our solar system is part of the same galaxy we have lack for a broader perspective.

    28. The Milky Way Galaxy

    29. What is the morning star and evening star? Why does it carry both names? This is not a star at all but the Planet Venus and draws in part its modern status as the Morning Star and Evening Star from mythology. Venus never appears on the opposite horizon from the sun due to its relative location to the sun and Earth. Mercury too fits this profile but is rarely actually visible.

    30. The Morning & Evening Star

    31. Explain zenith and nadir.

    32. What is the aurora borealis? What causes it?

    33. Aurora Borealis

    34. Discuss the statement made by Ellen G. White in Early Writings, page 41, concerning the opening in Orion.

    35. Know and discuss who each of these people were and their contribution to space exploration:

    36. Robert H. Goddard

    37. John Glenn

    38. Hermann Oberth

    39. Yuri Gagarin

    40. Wernher Von Braun

    41. Galileo Galilei

    42. Neil Armstrong

    43. Valentina Tereshkova

    44. Sally K. Ride

    45. Alan Shepard

    46. Explain what these acronyms stand for:

    47. Describe each of these space programs:

    48. What was Sputnik?

    49. The Apollo 8 astronauts were in lunar orbit on Christmas day, 1968. They each read from a book, and their readings were broadcasted back to Earth. What was the name of the book?

    50. Quiz time To complete this honor, you must successfully take and pass this quiz.

    51. 1. What is a constellation?

    52. Check your answers on the next slide

    53. 1. A constellation is any one of the 88 areas into which the sky - or the celestial sphere - is divided. The term is also often used less formally to denote a group of stars visibly related to each other in a particular configuration or pattern. 2. Orion 3. Neil Armstrong 4. Valentina Tereshkova 5. National Aeronautical and Space Administration 6. Genesis

    54. Congratulations! You have now completed the Star Honor & the Space Exploration Honor. Make sure your instructor signs your worksheet. Take documentation of completion to your club director to receive your patch.

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