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Dainsie · 03-02-2005, 03:31 AM

Come in every one. This isn't exactly a lesson, but you can still score some major points!

This (kinda) lesson will be spent on records. The biggest, brightest, hottest... you name it. I will post a question, something to do with a record within the universe, and the first person to correctly guess it will earn 5 points. I have 25 questions to ask, so there is 125 house points up for grabs!

Just a few quick rules...
1. Only the first person to correctly guess will be awarded points.
2.There will be no disputing of answers as they come from a completely reliable source.
3. Have fun and earn some points for your house!

So get ready, the questioning is about to begin!!

loony 4 ........ · 03-08-2005, 02:02 PM

''The hottest place in the solar system outside of the sun is Jupiter's moon Io. Io, one of the four Jovian moons discovered by Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei in the early 17th century, orbits Jupiter so closely the giant planet's gravity places great stresses on the moon's crust.''

Dainsie · 03-09-2005, 02:00 AM

[QUOTE=She-Who-Is-Not-To-Be-Psycho!]The Sun?

Yes, the centre of the sun is the hottest place.

Fastest winds in the solar system?

Makani · 03-09-2005, 02:08 AM

Anelreas raised her hand. "I can't seem to remember a name, but Neptune contains the fastest winds in the Solar System. They blow at around 2,400 km per hour (1,500 miles per hour)."

loony 4 ........ · 03-09-2005, 02:12 AM

The fastest winds in the solar system are in Neptune which travel at a speed of 2200km/h

Dainsie · 03-09-2005, 03:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TrixiePixie

Anelreas raised her hand. "I can't seem to remember a name, but Neptune contains the fastest winds in the Solar System. They blow at around 2,400 km per hour (1,500 miles per hour)."

That's right!

Most volcanically active body in the Solar System?

demented_death_eater · 03-09-2005, 03:20 AM

Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system.

GanymedeCraft17 · 03-09-2005, 03:25 AM

:: "Thats a moon of Jupiter, Like Ganymede is." Ganymede piped in. She new that much about Astronomy. She hoped her interest would be noticed. ::

She-Who-Is-Not-To-Be-Psycho! · 03-10-2005, 05:43 AM

Jupiter's natual satellite, "Io".

Dainsie · 03-10-2005, 05:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by demented_death_eater

Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system.

Thats right!

*Professor Dainsie smiles, noticing her enthusiasm, and throws her a lolly pop*

Most distant object in the Solar System?

She-Who-Is-Not-To-Be-Psycho! · 03-10-2005, 06:38 AM

(*slapsforehead* didn't read the 'Io' part in her post

)

*raise hand* Sedna.
It is a planetoid eight billion miles from the Sun (that's three times farther away from the Sun than Pluto) and its classification as the 10th planet is still an issue astronomers discuss a lot about.

Dainsie · 03-10-2005, 06:45 AM

No I'm sorry, that's not right...

Drusilla Black · 03-10-2005, 07:58 AM

"I s it 1992 QB1 then?" Drusilla asks. "Or maybe 2002 LM60?" she adds after a moment of thinking.

serenasnape · 03-10-2005, 12:59 PM

The Oort Cloud is further out than the Kuiper Belt. Sedna is thought to be between the two.

The Oort Cloud is found at the outer reaches of the solar system and is made up of as many as a trillion comets, but we don't know how many there actually are or how big they are. The Oort Cloud could be from 50,000 to 100,000 AU from the sun. (Approximately 50,000,000 - 100,000,000 miles.)

Makani · 03-10-2005, 01:16 PM

Anelreas sat puzzled in her chair. She was almost sure that the answer was Sedna, but the Professor proved her wrong. She had only heard of The Oort Cloud once, and she didn't remember much about it. With that being so, The Oort Cloud could possibly be the answer.

demented_death_eater · 03-11-2005, 02:52 AM

Most distant object in the Solar System?

The object is a mysterious planet-like body three times farther from Earth than Pluto.
The object, called Sedna for the Inuit goddess of the ocean, is 13 billion kilometers (8 billion miles) away, in the farthest reaches of the solar system.

She-Who-Is-Not-To-Be-Psycho! · 03-11-2005, 06:14 AM

Nadia slapped herself in the forehead. "Of course, we did study them before, didn't we?" She shook her head - even the moons would have made a better answer, he thought sadly.

"The Oort cloud is not an object in itself, however, but a classification. It is thought that other stars are likely to possess Oort clouds of their own, and that the outer edges of two nearby stars' Oort clouds may sometimes overlap, causing the occasional intrusion of a comet into the inner solar system. We only found one Oort Cloud. The Oort cloud in question's name is 90377 Sedna, and it is named that way because it's suspected the planetoid Sedna is part of the Oort cloud."

"Another possible answer to that question might be 2000 CR105 "

Dainsie · 03-11-2005, 11:17 PM

I'm actually going to contest this answer myself!

As I said my answers come from a very reliable source of recoreds (you can probably guess who if you think about it) but this answer is wrong!

Sedna is further away than the answer I have, so I will give it to you! Nadia gets the points. Stoopid records... lol

Largest cyclone in the Solar System?

Makani · 03-11-2005, 11:26 PM

Anelreas raised her hand. "The largest cyclone in the Solar System is The Great Red Spot. The Spot is an anticyclone – the opposite of a cyclone – and its long lifetime (over 300 years) is because Jupiter is mainly a gaseous planet. Driven by Jupiter's internal heat source, the Spot's interior is very mellow for a cyclone." She paused, wondering if she had said too much or had even said the right answer.