SPOILER!!: Answers

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Originally Posted by Tegz

Oh, Char knew that one! She looked around but it seemed nobody else was putting up their hand so she stuck hers up.

"Europa, Callisto, Ganymede and Io are their names, professor!" And wasn't it so cool that people could see them so long ago? Like... impressive and stuff given the limitations there were?

"Correct! Excellent job!"

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Originally Posted by ChanceCoeur

Okay. So planets.

Noelle should have gotten some of that tea. She wiggled her quill in her hand and took notes. She knew about the solar system. Her mom had taught her a song to remember them. My sun went to Mercury just to get to Venus. How on Earth can he afford to get to Mars? Jumping Jupiter, Saturn selling Saturdays, Uranus selling Neptune. My oh my.

It was catchy. Of course, that didn't help with the moons. And whoa. 67 moons on Jupiter? WHOA.

Noelle yawned, not because the class was boring, but because she was tired. She jotted more things down before looking around to see if anyone else knew one of Jupiter's moons. She quietly raised her hand. "Isn't Callisto one?" She remembered her mom saying something. A fable about that moon. But she couldn't remember what it was.

"Yes that's one of them."

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Originally Posted by Suziella

Oh! Juno knew that answer too! She quickly raised her hand, waiting to be called on. Once she was called on she replied, "That would be Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, Professor." She put her hand down, and gave Leon a quick grin.

Yep. She was an astronomy nerd. She couldn't help it. She had always loved the stars, probably because her middle name was Star. Hopefully he didn't think it was dorky. Suddenly, Juno was very embarrassed...but why should she be? She was a smart girl and that was better than not knowing anything.

"Great job, Miss. Darcy, correct!"

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Originally Posted by Lady of Light

Okay, they had moved on. Etta quickly took notes as the professor spoke, quite enjoying this topic. Planets, moon, space... she loved all of it. Quite interesting, wasn't it? Ooooooh, she knew the answer to that question. She waited as her fellow class-mates finished speaking before raising a hand.

"Europa, Io, Callisto and Ganymede." She answered, feeling quite pleased with herself for knowing the correct answer, as childish as that was. Etta couldn't help it. She simply continued with the doodling in her parchment.

"Great job! Correct!"

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Originally Posted by Felixir

Woah. Woah woah woah. Wait. Hold on. Hold up. Hang on. Wait a minute.

Saturn had sixty-two moons? And Juniper Jupiter had sixty-seven? Woahhhhhh. That was a lot, that was FAR too many.

... Abey wanted sixty-seven moons too.

The actual question that was next asked pretty much went completely over Abey's head as he thought over a few things. When he spoke, it was not to give an answer, and alsohe might have definitely actually forgotten to raise his hand in his enthusiasm and just blurted out what he was thinking. Because Abey.

"Do the bigger planets have more because they're big?" Abey didn't know how that might of worked, but it did seem like the bigger the planet, the more moons. Was Mars bigger than Earth though? Honestly, not a clue. "And can moons have moons of their own?" And actually Abey had a lot MORE questions, like if the moons of gas planets were also made of gas, and how those planets knew when it was night-time when they had sooooooo many moons all around them (because obviously night was when the moon came out obviously), and how he could maybe get sixty-seven moons actually.

But he stopped at that point because actually he had gone off topic a little bit. Oh, and hand, Abey quickly raised his and lowered it again because actually he was already done speaking.

Mr. Botros has some really good questions. "Well sorta," she began answering his first question. "Depending on the planet's size and physical composition. The reason why larger planets have more moons is because their gravitational field has a larger reach so it basically acts like a huge magnet and it pulls celestial bodies, moons into the planet's orbit." Hopefully that answered his first question and hopefully he understood that. If not he could always ask her after class was over and head to her office.

"As for your second question, Mr. Botros." she paused for a second. "Yes, a moon is able to have it's own sub-satellite."

Moving on. "I was going to talk all of you through the phases of our moon but instead I want all of you to take the time to research and take notes on what you learn on your own about the phases of the moon." after that she would tell them some more information about the moons. "There's no need to be in groups for this but if you want you can group up. If you're confused by anything don't hesitate to ask."

OOC: You all have 36 hours to research the phases of the moon. Don't worry Caroleena will still discuss the phases of the moon before moving on to the main activity. If you have any questions PM, VM or IM (MuggleDinosaur) me on Skype!