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