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Astronomy History Multiple Choice - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 945 times
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- The average score is 7 of 15
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| Pluto is not the only celestial body to be demoted from planet status. Which of these were once called a planet but are not considered one today? | Ceres | 69%
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| #4 was also convinced of the existence of a planet very close to the Sun, whose gravitational effects could explain Mercury's shifting aphelion. What is the name he gave this nonexistent planet? | Vulcan | 65%
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| Who is credited with the discovery of Neptune? | Urbain Le Verrier | 63%
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| Who discovered the planet Uranus? | William Herschel | 62%
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| Why are there seven days in a week? | Each unfixed object visible in the sky (e.g. 5 planets, moon, & sun) were assigned a day | 60%
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| How were Gamma Radiation Bursts, or GRBs, first observed? | Satellites meant to detect nuclear explosions instead detected flashes in distant galaxies | 57%
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| What discovery led to Pluto being demoted from planet status in 2006? | The Discovery of Eris, a similarly sized body in the Kuiper Belt | 53%
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| How did Friedrich Bessel directly measure the distance from the Sun to another star in 1838? | Using Parallax: Looking at the change in the angular position of the star at different times of the year and calculating the distance with trigonometry. | 52%
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| How many planets did Voyager 2 fly by, not counting Earth? | 4 | 49%
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| Mercury's shifting aphelion, or in other words the changing orientation of its elliptical orbit, remained unexplained until 1915. Who offered up the now-accepted explanation for this phenomenon? | Albert Einstein, citing general relativity. | 49%
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| Who first observed the Andromeda Galaxy in writing? | Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi in 964 CE | 39%
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| Annie J. Cannon developed the modern stellar classification system in the early 1900s. How are stars classified under this system? | By Color and Temperature | 32%
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| Who first proposed that there are several galaxies besides the Milky Way? | Thomas Wright in 1750 | 27%
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| What was the first major piece of evidence suggesting the existence of gravitational waves? | A binary pulsar was discovered, and the gradual decay of its orbital period could only be explained through the existence of gravity waves | 25%
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| Which of the following was NOT a proposed name for Uranus? | Her Majesty's Star | 18%
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