Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors
True or false?
Wildcard
What field?
Nebulae and Galaxies
100
A small body of matter from outer space that enters the earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
100
Sound travels faster in space.
FALSE. There is no sound in space at all.
100
The event that started the universe.
What is the Big Bang?
100
Studying planets, stars, and galaxies.
What is astronomy?
100
Galaxy or nebula?
What is a galaxy?
200
'An icy, small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases.'
What is a comet?
200
A full NASA space suit costs $12,000,000.
TRUE.
200
The reason it is impossible to walk on Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus, and Saturn.
What are solid surfaces?
200
Discovery, scientific understanding, using that understanding to serve human purposes, spacecraft, launch considerations, flight trajectories, navigation, etc.
Space Exploration.
200
Which is smaller?
a) a galaxy
b) a nebula
b) a nebula
300
'A small rocky body orbiting the sun that never comes into the Earth's atmosphere.'
What is an asteroid?
300
As of December 2019, of the 565 total space travelers, 43 have been women.
FALSE: 'As of December 2019, of the 565 total space travelers, 65 have been women.'
300
The moon, Titan, orbits this planet.
What is Saturn?
300
Studying rocky planets.
Planetary Geology.
300
An item in space that 'occupies the space between stars and acts as a nursery for new stars'.
What is a nebula?
400
4 Vesta. Is it a meteor, an asteroid, or a comet?
An asteroid.
400
Neil Armstrong's famous quote: "one small step for man, one giant leap for man kind" was the first thing ever said on the Moon.
FALSE.
The first words uttered on the Moon was Buzz Adrin, Neil's companion in space, saying 'contact light' to people on Earth. They had spent a few hours in the shuttle after landing, before walking on the surface.
400
Name Jupiter's 4 main moons.
SCORING:
100 pts for each one.
Last 100 pts if you get them all.
What are Europea, Callisto, Io, and Ganymede?
400
Meteorology.
Studying the weather of planets.
400
The coldest place in the universe (Hint: it's a nebula):
a) Crab Nebula
b) Boomerang Nebula
c) Eskimo Nebula
b) Boomerang Nebula
500
Kohoutek. Is it a meteor, an asteroid, or a comet?
A comet.
500
There have been JELLYFISH in space.
TRUE:
'NASA raised thousands of jellyfish in space. They ended up unfit for life on Earth.' - The Atlantic
'On June 5 1991, the crew of Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off with almost two and a half thousand baby jellyfish in their stead as part of a life sciences experiment. By the end of the mission, nine days later, there were 60,000 jellies.' -Unknown
500
The astronaut is famous for having written his/her daughter’s initials on the moon.
a) Gene Cerman
b) Sally Ride
c) Jerry Ross
a) Gene Cernan?
500
Atmospheric science.
Understanding planetary atmospheres.
500
Which type of nebula does not exist:
a) Planetary Nebula
b) Dark Nebula
c) Dusty Nebula
d) Supernova Remnant
e) Reflection Nebula
f) Veil Nebula
g) Omega Nebula
h) Emission Nebula
c) Dusty Nebula