Can you name all the moons? |
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Can you name all the moons? |
 Oct 5 2009, 12:35 PM
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 Junior Member  Group: Members Posts: 39 Joined: 31-May 05 From: Bloomington, Minnesota Member No.: 397  |
I'm a big fan of the timed quiz site Sporcle, and they recently added the ability for registered users to create their own quizzes. I made this one, and haven't really been able to think of who might want to take a swing at it... figured someone here might!
 Can you name the named moons of the planets and dwarf planets? Yes, this includes all the 2 km rocks swarming around Jupiter that have been given names.  I've also made smaller quizzes for each of the gas giants' moons, they can be found under my profile, and are good for working your way up to the big quiz.
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Oct 5 2009, 01:50 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2606 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
Ouch!
And when I peeked at the answers, I only saw a few that I recognized. -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Oct 5 2009, 02:53 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1620 Joined: 20-November 04 From: Iowa Member No.: 110 |
Yikes!
I managed 41 |
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 Oct 5 2009, 03:21 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 278 Joined: 31-August 05 From: Florida & Texas, USA Member No.: 482 |
QUOTE (alan @ Oct 5 2009, 09:53 AM)  Yikes! I managed 41 Yikes ^2! I hit a wall at 22 and kinda got lucky guessing another 4. The timer made me really nervous, until I realized how little I knew. I only know one moon of Neptune? /shame |
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Oct 5 2009, 04:15 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2818 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
I got 63... I only missed Anthe of the Saturnian moons we look at regularly. Of the random junk in the outer satellite systems, I got Kore, Neso, Phoebe, and all but Ananke of the pre-1974 outer Jovian system.
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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Oct 5 2009, 04:29 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 128 Joined: 28-October 08 From: Boston, MA Member No.: 4469 |
For no particular reason I decided a couple years ago to memorize all the moons of Saturn. That helped a lot, although I still blanked on some of them, and there were at least three I could remember but couldn't spell. Some of those Norse moons are ridiculous.
In all I managed 68. |
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Oct 5 2009, 04:42 PM
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 Bloggette par Excellence Group: Admin Posts: 3968 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
I only got 47, pretty poor I think. I'm proud I got the moons of Eris and Haumea, but there are at least four moons in the Saturn system that I really should have remembered. I'm blaming mommy brain.
--Emily -------------------- |
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Oct 5 2009, 05:04 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1147 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
60. Wow that was difficult (especially remembering how Tethys is written...)
-------------------- I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
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Oct 5 2009, 06:24 PM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 486 Joined: 22-January 06 Member No.: 655 |
Oh I win so far! - I got 80 (and I've had a few beers too) Missed the outer Jovian and outer Saturnian moons, and also polydeuces and Daphnis.
I am obviously king of the nerds.... |
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Oct 5 2009, 07:57 PM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 745 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 12 |
65. Managed to remember enough characters from the Tempest to get a few Uranian irregulars and bump up my score. But for some reason I blanked when trying to remember the names of those little co-orbitals at Saturn.
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Oct 6 2009, 01:57 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 39 Joined: 31-May 05 From: Bloomington, Minnesota Member No.: 397 |
Glad people have liked it! I've gotten them all, so it is possible.
Takes some practice, though. Took a couple days trying the individual planet quizzes for Jupiter and Saturn before getting there. If anyone was wondering, the reason the Moon wasn't guessed by 100% of people is because I have some strange friends who are amused by skewing results by playing quizzes and answering only Laomedeia. 
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Oct 6 2009, 02:36 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 6482 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Took it cold & got 39. Should've been 40, but I can't spell "Epimethus"...uh..."Epimethius"...no...y'know, the one around Saturn that pals around with Janus...to save my life!!!
Cool quiz, thanks; lots of fun!
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Oct 6 2009, 06:42 AM
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53 on first attempt.
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Oct 6 2009, 07:49 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 173 Joined: 9-September 08 Member No.: 4334 |
Wow, I really haven't been keeping up on all these...
'Erriapus'? 'Suttungr'? What mythology are these even from? Jupiter's moons at least stuck to classical naming... why break that tradition and make them ten times harder to remember? It might make sense if they were from Chinese legends or something else familiar to a large group of people, but no... The great advantage of using classical sources for names is that they are easy to pronounce (spelled pretty phonetically) and easy to look up the sources for. The same thing applies in biological nomenclature - there are trends, like the current fad for naming large pterosaurs with '-azhdarch-'. |
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Oct 6 2009, 10:08 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2818 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
Personally I like the challenge of attempting to pronounce them. Having hard to pronounce feature names or satellite names makes conference presentations that much more interesting ;-)
Besides, we will cross the bridge on pronouncability when Cassini flies by one of those little guys...
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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