Astronomers 2018

________ checked our current calculations of the motion of the moon and planets.

• Simon Newcomb

• Nicolas Copernicus

• Stephen Hawking

• Tycho Brahe

___________ discovered two radiation belts around the Earth.

• Nicolas Copernicus

• Neil Degrasse Tyson

• James Van Allen

• Galileo Galilei

________ led the charge to reclassify as a dwarf planet and made astronomy interesting for common people.

• Simon Newcomb

• Tycho Brahe

• Isaac Newton

• Neil Degrasse Tyson

________ was the first astronomer to put forth a heliocentric model of the Solar System.

• Albert Einstein

• Nicolas Copernicus

• Tycho Brahe

• Stephen Hawking

_________ studied black holes and stated that massive bodies create a time-space curvature around them.

• Simon Newcomb

• Stephen Hawking

• Albert Einstein

• Neil Degrasse Tyson

________ is famous for his equation e=mc².

• Neil Degrasse Tyson

• Albert Einstein

• Isaac Newton

• Tycho Brahe

_______ held a geocentric view of the Solar System and his data was used by Copernicus.

• Galileo Galilei

• Tycho Brahe

• Isaac Newton

• Annie Jump Cannon

______ invented the reflecting telescope and is known for his three laws of motion.

• Isaac Newton

• Edwin Hubble

• Albert Einstein

• Johannes Kepler

_______ created a system for classifying stars.

• Annie Jump Cannon

• Henrietta Swan Leavitt

• Albert Einstein

• Edwin Hubble

__________ studied pulsating stars.

• Johannes Kepler

• Jan Oort

• Henrietta Swan Leavitt

• Arthur Eddington