Our Solar System
Which planet weighs the most?
Which planet is 4th from the sun?
What is Mars?
How long is our moon's lunar cycle approximately?
29.5 days!
The first person to step on the moon
Who is Neil Armstrong?
What is the theoretical opposite of a black hole?
What is a white hole?
Where is most of the mass in our solar system concentrated?
What is the Sun?
At the edges of our galaxy (and many others), do stars and gases move faster, slower, or at the same rate as inner matter?
At the same rate! (This is a large piece of evidence for dark matter)
Saturn's largest moon?
The actual title for NASA (extended)
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?
What is Orion?
Does Venus spin the same way or a different way than Earth (clockwise vs. counterclockwise)?
It spins a different way (counterclockwise)!
The Andromeda galaxy! (M31)
How did the moon come into Earth's orbit?
A Mars-sized body, Theia, collided with young Earth, and the debris became the moon!
The first country to make it into space
The USSR (Russia)
Where is the Oort Cloud?
On the outskirts of our solar system!
Relative to other stars, is our sun large, small, or average?
Average!
The name of the galaxy we are in
The Milky Way!
How far does the moon move from us every year (on average)?
4cm!
The first African-American woman to travel into space
Who is Mae C. Jemison?
What is aphelion?
When the earth is furthers from the sun
5 billion years!
How many stars are in the Milky Way? (closest wins)
100 billion to 400 billion!
How far away approximately is the moon from the Earth? Closest wins.
(average of) 384,400 kilometers
The year NASA was founded
What is 1958?
How long is the Earth's year?
365.25 days!