We had the flower presentations from Remembrance Day today, and then you read http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/venus-like-planet-hot-atmosphere-1.3314461 and answered the following questions:

Questions:
 1. What is the name of the new planet that was discovered?
 2. What is it named after?
 3. Is it a rocky planet, or a gas giant?
 4. It’s size is like what planet in our solar system?
 5. It’s atmosphere is like what planet in our solar system?
 6. How many light-years away is it?
 7. Is there life on this planet? Why?
 8. What is a planet outside our solar system called?
 9. Fill in the blanks: "Our ultimate goal is to find a twin __________, but along the way we've found a twin __________."
 10. What are they going to launch (send into space) in 2018? What is it going to do?

We learned more about light-years (1 light-year = 9.5 trillion kilometers (that's 9,500,000,000,000 km)

HW: You had more than enough class-time to work on these questions today. Please finish them for homework. We will be reading through the text tomorrow as a class, and going over the answers.