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