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Name: Class: Date: 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. _____________________ _____________________ 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 Name: Class: Date: _____________________ 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. _____________________ _____________________ 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? _____________________ _____________________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