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Women's History Month Quiz
Thursday, March 30, 2000
1. Name the astronomer responsible for bringing the discovery of "dark matter" to the forefront of astronomy.
2. How much of the universe might be made of this material?
3. What type of objects did this astronomer study to detect this missing material?
4. Name the radio astronomer whose career inspired the movie "Contact."
5. What area of research is her specialty?
6. What field did she study before astronomy?
7. Name the astronomer who discovered the radio sources called "pulsars."
8. Where was this discovery made?
9. What was special about these objects?
10. At first, the astronomer and her colleagues called these LGMs. Why?
1. Vera Rubin
2. 90 percent
3. Galaxies
4. Jill Tarter.
5. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence -- SETI
6. Engineering
7. Jocelyn Bell Burnell
8. England
9. These supernova remnants gave off extremely fast-paced repeating signals
10. The signals seemed too "perfect" to be natural, so they speculated they might be from Little Green Men
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