Created by OKTechMasters

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• Created byOKTechMasters Sara Duncan
• Modified by Heidi Manning and Paul Seifert

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Contestants
Dont Forget...
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Always phrase your answers in the form of a
question!
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Debris
Terrestrial Planets
Rings and Moons
Earth and Sky
Astronomical Instruments
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Final Jeopardy
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Debris for 200
The direction a comets tail points.
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What is away from the Sun?
Back toGame
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Debris for 400
The cause of a meteor shower.
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What is flying through debris from a comet?
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Debris for 600
DAILY DOUBLE
This area beyond Neptune is the probable source
of short-period comets
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What is the Kuiper Belt?
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Debris for 800
These asteroids share the same orbit as Jupiter.
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What are the Trojan Asteroids?
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Debris for 1000
The asteroid the NEAR spacecraft orbited and
landed on.
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What is Eros?
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Terrestrial Planets for 200
The largest volcano in the solar system.
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What is Olympus Mons?
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Terrestrial Planets for 400
A bulging, circular feature on Venus, caused by
rising magma that didnt break the surface.
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What is a corona?
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Terrestrial Planets for 600
A geological feature on Mars believed to be
caused by running liquid water.
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What are run-off channels, gullies or outflows?
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Terrestrial Planets for 800
The clouds of Venus are composed of this.
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What is sulfuric acid?
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Terrestrial Planets for 1000
The terrestrial planet with the lowest average
density.
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What is Mars?
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Astronomical Instruments for 200
The primary advantage of the Hubble Telescope.
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What is it is above the Earths atmosphere
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Astronomical Instruments for 400
This instrument analyzes the colors of light
absorbed and emitted by atoms.
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What is a spectroscope.
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Astronomical Instruments for 600
This instrument uses a silicon chip sensitive to
light.
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What is a CCD?
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Astronomical Instruments for 800
A method of linking multiple telescopes for
improved resolution.
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What is interferometry?
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Astronomical Instruments for 1000
The largest one of this type of telescope has
only a 40 inch aperture.
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What is a refracting telescope?
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Rings and Moons for 200
The moon with liquid water beneath its crust.
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What is Europa?
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Rings and Moons for 400
The moon with a thick atmosphere
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What is Titan?
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Rings and Moons for 600
The moon that Pluto might resemble.
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What is Triton?
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Ring and Moons for 800
The composition of the Neptunes ring particles.
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What is dust and rock.
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Rings and Moons for 1000
These satellites keep Saturns F Ring in place.
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What are shepherding satellites (Pandora and
Prometheus).
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Earth and Sky for 200
An absolute means of specifying a stars location
on the celestial sphere.
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What are right ascension and declination.
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Earth and Sky for 400
The phase of the moon during a solar eclipse.
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What is new moon?
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Earth and Sky for 600
The place on Earth where Polaris is at your
zenith.
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What is the north pole?
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Earth and Sky for 800
DAILY DOUBLE
The time of the year when the ecliptic crosses
the equator.
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What is the equinox?
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Earth and Sky for 1000
The time of day when the first quarter moon rises.
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What is noon?
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Final Jeopardy!

• Spacecraft

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• This spacecraft, which recently arrived at Mars,
  has the most powerful camera ever sent to another
  world.

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What is the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.