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ASTRONOMY QUIZ -1 :
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1. Only One Asteroid has the distinction of being discovered by Indian scientists and also being named after an Indian. Name it.
2. In a few million years a Total Solar eclipse would not be visible ffrom the Earth.why ?
3. What are the Indian Names for the two nodes between the Ecliptic and the Orbit of the Moon ?
4. The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionised Astronomy because
a) it is above the cloud cover.
b) it is nearer to the stars and hence can take better pictures.
c) Absence of Atmospheric Turbulence allows it to take clearer pictures.
d) It can work all the time and is not restricted to the night alone.
5. Galileo was the First person to use a combination of lenses to look at the sky.But the credit for observing that such a combination of lenses will magnify distant objects goes to a Dutch Spectacle-maker. Name him.
6.Halley's comet is named after Edmund Halley because
a) He was the first person to discover it.
b) He was the First person to calculate it's orbit and predicted it's return accurately.
c) He was instrumental in getting Newton publish his work on the law of gravitation and hence got a comet named after him.
d) He identified a peice of meteorite that fell from the sky, as being part of the comet.t
7. Western Astrology claims to predict details of a person's life based on his/ her Sun-Sign. Say , if you are born between March 15 and April 15 you are an Aries and your life will be so and so....Apart from the supposed falsity of Astrology from general principles , there is a basic factual error in the system of Sun-Signs practised today. What is it ?
8.Identify him.
9. What's this ?
10. What is the small dot to the left of the moon ?
