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