Download Scavenger Hunt: Who am I

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Scavenger Hunt: Who am I?
Use the sites listed on the Solar System & Planets page of the Kid Zone at
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/glossary/Astronomers.shtml to
find the names of the people credited with each discovery.
_____________________ 1. I invented the first telescope and discovered the 4 moons
of Jupiter.
_____________________ 2. We discovered the relationship between a star’s
temperature and its brightness.
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_____________________ 3. I discovered Pluto.
_____________________ 4. My theory of the universe was held as law for thousands
of years even though I was wrong.
_____________________ 5. I discovered the first and largest asteroid.
_____________________ 6. I developed the big bang theory.
_____________________ 7. I discovered Triton, the largest moon of Neptune.
_____________________ 8. I realized that the planets go around the sun.
_____________________ 9. I discovered Titan the largest moon of Saturn.
_____________________ 10. I discovered the four moons of Saturn.
_____________________ 11. I discovered a new star in Cassiopeia.
_____________________ 12. I made the first catalogue of stars and the first map of the
skies.
_____________________ 13. I discovered the planet Uranus.
_____________________ 14. I study black holes and the subatomic particles that
radiate from them.
Adapted from S. Baker 2001
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_____________________ 15. I predicted the return of a comet, which was eventually
named after me.
_____________________ 16. I discovered Hyperion, one of Saturn’s moons.
_____________________ 17. I discovered the two moons of Mars, Phobos and
Deimos.
_____________________ 18. We discovered Neptune together.
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_____________________ 19. I created a model of the Solar System in which all the
planets orbit the sun.
_____________________ 20. I named stars by assigning them to constellations and
giving them Greek letters.
_____________________ 21. We discovered Neptune. Who are we?
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_____________________22. I believed that the Earth was the center of the universe.
_____________________23. I discovered the surface of Venus was noxious and hot.
_____________________24. I made a list of comets in the 1700s.
_____________________25. I showed that other galaxies existed and observed that
the universe is expanding.
_____________________26. I published the first moon map.
Adapted from S. Baker 2001