1. Jessica Rickman

3.  Brightest star  “Scorching” or “Sparkling”  “Dog Star”  Appears low in the sky

4.  Canis Major  January through March  Observers thought it was a UFO

5.  1.8 times the Sun’s diameter  8.7 light years away  White Main Sequence Star

6.  1930, first white dwarf discovered  Sixth closest star to Earth  Binary System

8.  Ancient Egyptians thought that Sirius was the cause of the annual Nile River flooding.  “Osiris, whom Sirius may have represented, was a god of life, death, fertility and rebirth of plant life along the Nile.”

10.  Earthsky. Deborah Byrd. Feb. 19, 2012. Earthsky Communications Inc. April 20, 2012.