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