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Name: ______________________________________! ! Class Period: ________ The Pluto Files Film Questions and Notes Ms. Frichtl, Mr. La Barge, Mr. Waterson NOTE: Get used to seeing Neil deGrasse Tyson. He’s the most famous astrophysicist in the USA ! and, one of our favorites. 1. All the planets are listed below. Circle the rocky ones. ! Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto 2. All the planets are listed below. Circle the gas giants. ! Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto NOTE: Go back to question one and put a square around Pluto. It’s rocky, but not very big. 3. What major newspaper wrote a story about the Hayden Planetarium’s new display that only had ! 8 planets? ________________________________________________ 4. Dr. Tyson compares planet size using familiar objects. Draw a line that matches the planet with ! the object he uses: ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Sun! ! Mercury! Venus!! Earth! ! Mars! ! Jupiter! Saturn!! Uranus! Neptune! Pluto! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! roller skate ball bearing gum ball! ! ! tiny rubber ball red dodge ball croquet ball bocce ball bowling ball 8 foot Weather Balloon big blue marble bead ! 5. Pluto’s diameter can only stretch between two states in America. What are they? ! ___________________________________________________________________ NOTE: Pluto’s orbit isn’t circular like all the other planets. It orbits the Sun in an ellipse (oval) 6. Pluto is the only planet to cross over another planet’s orbit. What is the other planet that Pluto ! crosses? _____________________________________ NOTE: The movie tells us that Pluto has 3 moons. Since this movie was made we’ve discovered two ! more. The Earth has one moon, Pluto has FIVE. 7. How far is Pluto from the Sun? ___ billion miles NOTE: Percival Lowell built a large telescope in the desert. At the time it was the largest telescope in the world. He was convinced that there was life on Mars and his telescope was going to prove it. He was wrong. NOTE: Circle the name Clyde Tombaugh in this sentence. He’s one of the scientist you’ll have to know. NOTE: Tombaugh used a BLINK COMPARATOR to quickly switch between two different photographs while he looked for the differences in the pictures. Planets move faster than the background of stars and would show up in two different places on the pictures. Don’t forget - that Pluto would just be a tiny speck on the picture. 8. How old was the person who named Pluto after the God of the Underworld? _________ 9. Who was born in Streator, Illinois? _________________________________________ 10. Clyde Tombaugh never went to college. His family wanted him to do what they did. What did ! Clyde Tombaugh’s family do for a living? _________________________________________ 11. Clyde Tombaugh made many telescopes from a lot of different materials. One of his most ! creative telescopes was called the Grazer Gazer. The Grazer Gazer’s base was made ! from an old ________________________________________ 12. What is the name of the area beyond Pluto that is made up of billions of icy objects that are the ! leftovers from the formation of the solar system. This area is named for the astronomer who ! first guessed that Pluto-like objects would be found and the word “belt,” because it goes ! around the whole solar system. The ______________________ Belt. NOTE: Dr. Mike Brown discovered an object in the Kuiper Belt which is larger than Pluto. He named this “tenth” planet Eris, after the Greek Goddess of Strife and Jealousy. NOTE: The International Astronomical Union (IAU) - you’ll have to know this. 13. In 2006, Pluto was demoted from the list of planets. How long was Pluto a planet? ____ years 14. Many people today refer to Pluto (and the objects like it) as _______________ planets. 15. In 2006, what space mission was launched to Pluto? ___________ _________________ 16. The spacecraft that’s going to Pluto also has a little of Clyde Tombaugh’s ___________ on board.
