Alex Filippenko
Francis Del A Mor
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LOWER THE GLOBE!!!!!!
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Our Solar System contains what.
What is the sun, the planets, and other smaller objects.
100
Mercury's year is how many Earth days
What is 88 days
100
The outer atmosphere of Jupiter is made of what 3 things.
What is layered clouds of water, methane, and ammonia
100
Which to planets don't have moons?
What is Mercury and Venus
100
Scientists refer to comets as what?
What is dirty snowballs
200
One way scientists measure distances in space is by using the what
What is astronomical unit
200
The time an object takes to revolve around the sun is called its what
What is period of revolution
200
NASA has sent how many missions to Jupiter (Hint the number is between 1-100 and is a prime number) #think
What is 5
200
On which side is the light on for a new moon?
What is TRICK QUESTION there is no light on the moon that we can see during a New Moon
200
What is the difference between the ion tail and dust tail of a comet (Name 2 differences)
What is the ion tail is made of electrically charged particles and the dust tail is made of dust and gas. Another difference is that the ion tail is always pointed away from the sun. The dust tail just follows in the orbit of the comet.
300
What do stars mean in the Greek language
What is wanderers
300
Name two reasons why Mars is a cold planet
What is because of its thinner atmosphere and its distance from the sun.
300
Unlike most other planets, Uranus is tipped over on its side. So its axis of rotation is tilted by almost how many degrees?
What is 90 Degrees.
300
Moons range in size to very small to what?
What is as large as terrestrial planets
300
Describe the Torino Scale
What is a system that allows scientists to rate the hazard level of an object moving toward Earth.
400
In what century was Uranus founded.
What is the 18th century.
400
What is the largest mountain in the solar system and what planet is does it originate on.
What is Olympus Mon and Mars.
400
What is the name of Pluto's moon
What is Charon
400
What is Saturn's largest moon?
What is Titan
400
What is the difference between a meteor, meteorite, and a meteoroid.
What is Meteor- a bright streak of light caused caused by a meteoroid or comet dust burning up in the atmosphere. Meteoroid- a small rocky body that travels through space. Meteorite- A meteoroid that reaches the Earth's surface without burning up completely.
500
Do martians live on Mars, JK what is the diameter of Jupiter in km.(You have to be within 5,000 km to get it)
What is 142,984 km
500
Scientist are still intrigued by the mysteries of mars. Several recent missions to Mars were launched to gain a better understanding of the Martian world. Mars Express Orbiter which was launched in 2003 was sent to Mars to find out what?
What is to help scientists find out the composition of the Martian atmosphere and Martian climate
500
The mystery, now called Pluto is the farthest planet away from the sun. What is the size relation of Pluto and Mercury.
What is Pluto is half the size
500
What are the moons of Uranus made of and why is one of its moons, Miranda, have a strange surface.
What is ice and rock. Miranda is like this because scientists think that something may have hit it and made it break into pieces, it then went back together because of gravity which made its surface weird.
500
Name 4 reasons why Earth doesn't have as many noticeable craters as the moon.
What is 1. Earth has an atmosphere which causes things to burn up before they hit Earth 2.Weathering 3.Erosion 4.Tectonic Activity
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