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