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Pluto's Characteristics
Other Objects in Space
Break Through Discoveries
Vagabonds
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Give any mnemonic for the order of the major planets.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
100
List some characteristics of Pluto's surface.
What is icy and solid?
100
List the four terrestrial planets.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars?
100
Describe how the discovery of the "Kuiper belt" in 1992 threatened Pluto.
What is Pluto's status as a major planet?
100
List the reason why astronomers don't name astroids?
What is there are too many to them all (tens of thousands recorded).
200
State the theme the planets were named after.
What is Roman Gods and Goddesses?
200
Define was is so unique about Pluto and its relationship to its largest moon Charon compared to other planets and their moons.
What is both Pluto and its moon orbit a sport in free space as opposed to Pluto. Also, they are closer in size then other planets and their moon?
200
Define the one exception to the order of the planets (hint: this includes Pluto as a planet).
What is Pluto spends 20 years out of its 248 year orbit closer to the sun then Neptune?
200
Describe the reason Pluto was discovered later than the other planets.
What is Pluto is far away from the sun and harder to see.
200
Describe the location of the majority of astroids in our solar system.
What is in between Mars and Jupiter?
300
Define the composition of comets.
What is frozen gas, frozen water, dust and miscellaneous particles.
300
State what makes the debris surrounding Pluto so interesting compared to debris around other planets.
What is the debris surrounding Pluto is almost as big as the planet itself and there is a lot?
300
List three characteristics of the Jovian planets.
What is big in size, ringed, composed of gas, low density and fast rotating.
300
Describe an important reason astrophysicists and engineers study asteroids
What is to figure out how to deflect any big asteroids coming towards earth?
300
List what astroids are generally composed of.
What is rock and or metal?
400
State the other purpose Clyde Tombaugh's (the discovered of Pluto) cane.
What is punctuating why Pluto should remain a planet
400
Define the average temperature of Pluto in degrees F.
What is -365 F
400
Name the reason astrologists refer to Jupiter as the "guardian" of planet Earth.
What is Jupiter's gravitational pull deflects comets heading towards earth?
400
Name the fastest "hunk of hardware" ever launched to Pluto on January 19, 2006
What is the "New Horizons" spacecraft?
400
Name the largest astroid in our solar system.
What is Ceres?
500
Name the girl who came up with the name for planet Pluto
Venetia Burney
500
Define the degree Pluto tips at from the plane of the solar system.
What is 17 degrees.
500
List the name of the dwarf planet Eris.
What is Dysnomia. the name of the dwarf planet.
500
Name the first spacecraft to explore any of the comets and eros?
What is NEAR shoemaker?
500
List the reason scientists hope to gather more information about vagabonds.
What is to gather information to tell us about the formation, evolution of our solar system?
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