An astronomy or space term named after a person
Our answer book holds 66 answers to “An astronomy or space term named after a person”, from the first thing anyone would say to names almost nobody would think of. The answers that come to mind first are Hubble's law, Doppler effect and Halley's Comet. They count, but they keep you close to the ground. It is a fairly short list: only 17 answers sit in the two rarest tiers, so reaching one takes real knowledge.
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PLAY ONLYCLICK FREEThe most common answers
EVERYONE- Hubble's law
- Doppler effect
- Halley's Comet
- Kepler's laws
- Hawking radiation
- Oort cloud
- Kuiper belt
- Roche limit
- Lagrange point
- Drake equation
- Fermi paradox
- Van Allen belts
- Cassini Division
- Galilean moons
- Coriolis effect
These are the 15 answers we rate as most common, out of the 66 we know. They score the least. The other 51, including every rare one, stay inside the game.
How the 66 answers are spread
| EVERYONE | 10 |
| THE CROWD | 12 |
| SOME | 14 |
| A FEW | 13 |
| ALMOST NOBODY | 12 |
| ONLY YOU | 5 |
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