Alphabet Game - OUTER SPACE

[Bonnie Ballentine]

X = X-Ray

Electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength between about 0.0lnm to 10nm.

[Dorothy Donn]

Y - Yellow dwarf – Ordinary star, like the sun and is at its stable point in its transformation.

[Corrie Kinkel]

Z = Zenith, the point in the sky directly overhead. Not directly space-related but it must do because Z is difficult!

[Dorothy Donn]

A - Andromeda galaxy is a spiral galaxy that is nearly two and a half million light years away in the constellation Andromeda.

[Bonnie Ballentine]

B = blue moon

 

 

[libera]

C = Chondrules, glassy spheres found in meteorites.

[Dorothy Donn]

D - Denison Olmsted – American physicist and astronomer born in Hartford, Connecticut. He is attributed for founding meteor science. He demonstrated that meteors are cosmic in origin and not an atmospheric phenomenon.

[Bonnie Ballentine]

E = Earthshine

[Bonnie Ballentine]

F = flare

[Dorothy Donn]

G - Galilean moons/satellites – Jupiter’s four largest moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto as discovered by Galileo in 1610.

[libera]

H = Helene, one of the 18 moons of Saturn

[libera]

I = Impact craters ( remains of collision between asteroid and meteorite)

[Bonnie Ballentine]

J = JUNO

Juno is a large asteroid, and one of the four brightest asteroids.

[libera]

K = Kleopatra (this is really the name of an asteroid I found, I read this and that is interesting,  it was already discovered in 1880 but the Arecibo observatory in Puerto Rico discovered in 2000 that this asteroid is bone-shaped)

[Corrie Kinkel]

L = Laika, the first dog in space

[Dorothy Donn]

M - Morning star – Venus, when it appears in the morning sky.

[James Durrant]

O = OSCAR - Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio. The first OSCAR was launched on December 12, 1961 the latest is OSCAR 107.