Pluto
A) 1930 B) 2000 C) 1950 D) 1900
A) Galileo Galilei B) Clyde Tombaugh C) Isaac Newton D) Albert Einstein
A) 3.67 billion miles B) 100 million miles C) 20 million miles D) 1 billion miles
A) Comet B) Dwarf planet C) Gas giant D) Asteroid
A) Voyager 1 B) New Horizons C) Hubble Space Telescope D) Cassini
A) Styx B) Nix C) Charon D) Hydra
A) 248 Earth years B) 365 Earth days C) 100 Earth years D) 10 Earth years
A) Helium B) Carbon dioxide C) Nitrogen D) Oxygen
A) Beyond Neptune's orbit B) In the Kuiper belt C) Between Mars and Jupiter D) In the asteroid belt
A) Third largest B) Second largest C) Fourth largest D) Largest known
A) Neptune B) Charon C) Eris D) Uranus
A) Carbon and hydrogen B) Ice and rock C) Iron and nickel D) Silicon and magnesium
A) Roughly one-sixth of the Moon's mass B) Twice the Moon's mass C) Half the Moon's mass D) Equal to the Moon's mass
A) 40 to 60 astronomical units B) 30 to 49 astronomical units C) 25 to 45 astronomical units D) 20 to 35 astronomical units
A) 3 hours B) 5.5 hours C) 10 hours D) 7 hours
A) A stable orbital resonance B) Neptune's orbit around Pluto C) Gravitational pull of the Sun D) Pluto's high speed
A) Five B) Six C) Three D) Four
A) Pluto has no atmosphere. B) Charon is larger than Pluto. C) They orbit each other in perfect circles. D) The barycenter of their orbits does not lie within either body, and they are tidally locked.
A) August 25, 2006 B) September 12, 1989 C) July 14, 2015 D) June 10, 1997
A) 2100 B) 2200 C) 2178 D) 2025
A) Cronus B) Pluto C) Minerva D) Jupiter
A) Falconer Madan's initials B) Percival Lowell's initials C) Herbert Hall Turner's initials D) Venetia Burney's initials
A) Percival B) Cronus C) Minerva D) Jupiter
A) Pluto the dog itself B) Mickey Mouse's canine companion, also named Pluto C) Donald Duck D) Goofy
A) Walt Disney B) Glenn T. Seaborg C) Ernest W. Brown D) Ben Sharpsteen
A) Lowell had insider information about Pluto B) Lowell accurately predicted the position and orbit of Pluto C) It was a coincidence that it matched Pluto's orbit D) The prediction was based on solid evidence
A) 1992 B) 2000 C) 1985 D) 1978
A) California Academy of Sciences B) Hayden Planetarium C) Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum D) American Museum of Natural History
A) Neil deGrasse Tyson B) Brian G. Marsden C) Carl Sagan D) Michael E. Brown
A) Massachusetts Institute of Technology B) Stanford University C) University of California, Berkeley D) Harvard University
A) Public outcry B) Widespread support C) Scientific debate only D) General indifference
A) 1500 km B) 2000 km C) 2376.6 km D) 1700 km
A) 45° B) 180° C) 120° D) 90°
A) 52° B) 38° C) 180° D) 90°
A) Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) B) Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter C) Alice UV Spectrometer D) Ralph Telescope
A) Trojan asteroids B) Scattered disc C) Oort cloud D) Asteroid belt
A) New Mexico B) Illinois C) California D) Arizona
A) 90° B) 180° C) 52° D) 38°
A) Sputnik Planitia B) Brass Knuckles C) Tombaugh Regio or 'Heart' D) Belton Regio or 'Whale'
A) Tectonic shifts B) Impact cratering C) Volcanic activity D) Glaciological interactions
A) 3 B) 12 C) 24 D) 6.387
A) 2006 B) 1985 C) 1999 D) 2012
A) 13.65 B) 14.5 C) 12.8 D) 15.1
A) Ultraviolet imaging B) Charon-shine C) Infrared scanning D) Direct sunlight reflection
A) 25% B) 50% C) 75% D) More than 98%
A) Methane B) Ethane C) Liquid water D) Ammonia
A) 90% B) 30% C) 70% D) 50%
A) Minor planet B) Dwarf planet C) Plutoid D) Sub-planet
A) Uranus B) Saturn C) Pluto D) Neptune
A) Belton Regio or 'Whale' B) Tombaugh Regio or 'Heart' C) Brass Knuckles D) Sputnik Planitia
A) Heliocentric theory B) Kepler's laws C) Kozai mechanism D) Newton's law
A) From the center towards surrounding mountains B) Randomly without direction C) Towards the center from surrounding mountains D) In a circular pattern around Sputnik Planitia
A) January 1, 2017, at 06:00 am ET B) December 31, 2016, at 11:59 pm ET C) July 14, 2015, at 12:00 pm ET D) October 25, 2016, at 05:48 pm ET
A) Brian G. Marsden B) Neil deGrasse Tyson C) Carl Sagan D) Michael E. Brown
A) -50 °C B) -100 °C C) -10 °C D) -240 °C
A) Quasi-satellite B) Trojan C) Rogue D) Satellite
A) Less than 5 degrees B) Over 17 degrees C) Exactly 90 degrees D) Zero degrees
A) Solar-powered with traditional solar panels B) Fusion-enabled based on the Princeton field-reversed configuration reactor C) Nuclear fission-based reactor D) Wind turbine energy system
A) About 57 AU B) About 17 AU C) About 8 AU D) About 11 AU
A) IAU B) JPL C) NASA D) ESA
A) Tombaugh Regio B) Belton Regio C) Brass Knuckles D) Sputnik Planitia
A) New Mexico B) Illinois C) Arizona D) California
A) 100–150 μm B) 500–600 μm C) 400–500 μm D) 200–300 μm
A) Eastern hemisphere B) Western hemisphere C) Southern hemisphere D) Northern hemisphere
A) Comets B) Meteoroids C) Trans-Neptunian objects D) Asteroids
A) Causes volcanic activity B) Heats up the surface C) Cools the surface D) Has no significant effect
A) 2011 B) 2005 C) 1978 D) 2012
A) It completely disappeared. B) It became denser than Mars' atmosphere. C) Its atmospheric pressure had fallen by 20% D) The presence of oxygen was confirmed.
A) 1:1 superresonance B) Jovian planetary alignment C) Kozai mechanism D) 2:3 mean-motion resonance
A) Around 300° east B) At the poles C) Near the equator D) Anti-Charon face
A) Tens of kilometers across B) A few meters across C) Thousands of kilometers across D) Several hundred kilometers across
A) Downgraded B) Demoted C) Plutoed D) Dwarfed
A) 60° B) 180° C) 90° D) 45°
A) 0.11 inches B) 0.05 inches C) 0.22 inches D) 0.30 inches
A) Marc W. Buie B) Gonzalo Tancredi C) Alan Stern D) Julio Ángel Fernández
A) 18:22:33 B) 6:9:12 C) 1:2:3 D) 3:4:5
A) 2,368 km B) 2,360 km C) 2,370 km D) 2,376.6 km
A) Venus B) Mars C) Saturn D) Jupiter |
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