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Name Game
100
The New Horizons spacecraft is the size of these objects.
What is a piano or sofa?
100
Pluto is this temperature.
What dwarf planet is very cold?
100
This is the largest object in the Kuiper Belt.
What is Pluto?
100
The Kuiper Belt is named after this astronomer.
Who is Dutch-American astronomer Kuiper?
100
This is another name for dwarf planets.
What are plutoids ?
200
The New Horizons was launched this year.
What happened in 2006?
200
This is the hottest planet.
What is Mercury?
200
Pluto's largest moon is named this.
What is Charon?
200
This astronomer built his own telescopes.
Who is Clyde Tombaugh?
200
An 11-year-old girl from England did this.
Who named Pluto?
300
New Horizons saw these features on Pluto.
What are valleys, mountains, plains and craters?
300
This mnemonic names the planets in order.
What is "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos"?
300
This is the number of moons orbiting Pluto.
What is five?
300
This team of astronomers waited nine years for data.
Who is the New Horizons team?
300
This planet was named after the Greek god of the afterlife.
What is Pluto?
400
Scientists hope to learn more about this from New Horizons data.
What are the origins of the universe?
400
Kuiper Belt objects are leftovers from this.
What is the birth of the universe?
400
This the shape of Pluto's orbit.
What is an ellipse or racetrack?
400
This Roman god of the sea has a giant planet named after him.
Who is Neptune?
400
This planet is farthest away from the Sun.
What is Neptune?
500
New Horizons discovered this "valentine."
What is an image of a heart-shaped feature on Pluto?
500
This causes the white color of some Kuiper Belt objects.
What are water ice eruptions on the surface?
500
KBOs are made of this.
What are frozen substances such as methane, ammonia and water?
500
This discovery happened in 1930.
What was Clyde Tombaugh's discovery of Pluto?
500
Clyde Tombaugh's original name for his discovery was this.
What is Planet X?
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