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Early Astronomers One

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Introduction:
"I will ask you a question on an accomplishment in Astronomy (pre 20th Century), and you determine who did it."


1. Who discovered the moons of Jupiter in 1610?
    Brahe
    Newton
    Galileo
    Copernicus


2. Who discovered the division in the rings of Saturn?
    Lowell
    Galileo
    Cassini
    Herschel


3. Who discovered the planet Uranus?
    Copernicus
    Herschel
    Einstein
    Nobody


4. Who discovered the moons of Mars?
    Herschel
    Hall
    Adams
    Leverier


5. Who discovered the first asteroid, Ceres?
    Answer: (One Word, last name only)


6. Who developed the heliocentric theory?
    Copernicus
    Kepler
    Galileo
    Brahe


7. Who was the first person to actually see Neptune?
    Galileo
    Herschel
    Adams
    Leverrier


8. Who formulated the three laws governing the motions of the planets?
    Galileo
    Copernicus
    Brahe
    Kepler


9. Who predicted the existence of the planet Neptune?
    Einstein
    Leverrier and Adams
    Kepler and Newton
    Herschel


10. Who was known to make the first accurate measurement of the Earth's size?
    Eratosthenes
    Ptolemy
    Aristotle
    Socrates


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