U5W4 Light Detective

In 1930, Tombaugh took pictures of the "silvers" in the night sky. Using a machine that merged multiple pictures at the same time, he discovered the orbital movement of a new planet

• Pluto

• Saturn

• Mars

• Earth

The Kuiper Belt is made up of

• large, icy objects

• flying stars

• satelites

• flares

Michael Brown's team sends pictures to ten computers located at CIT.

CIT is an acronym fo

• Cleveland International Transit

• Clarissa Ivonne Talamantes

• Corporate Information Technology

• California Institute of Technology

These are used to take pictures and control telescopes while astronomers sleep

• robots

• rovers

• drones

• Bluetooth

With Brown's discovery, astronomers labeled Eris and Pluto as

• twin planets

• dwarf planets

• common stars

• Cooper Constellations

Frozen nitrogen in its atmosphere causes Eris to be bright and

• extremely hot

• extremely reflective

• extremely small

• extremely slow

This week you are practicing the reading skill of

• Sequence

• Main Idea and Detail

• Author's Purpose

• Theme

What is a synonym for deduction

• reasoning

• mathematics

• sale

• liquidation

This is a galaxy containing billions of stars

• The Milky Way

• The Kuiper Belt

• Black Hole

• Saturn

In this expository text, the word drone is used to describe the noise a robotic-camara telescope makes.

• noun

• verb

• article

• preposition