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The largest planet in the solar system
What is Jupiter?
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They were the first two men to set foot on the moon
Who are Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin?
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What galaxy is closest to ours?
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
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The ring of bodies orbiting between Jupiter and Mars
What is the Asteroid Belt?
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This feature of Jupiter is actually a massive storm system.
What is the big red spot?
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This planet has the most visible ring system
What is Saturn?
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This animal was the first mammal to orbit the Earth
What is a dog?
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This space object is over 300,000 times larger than Earth
What is the Sun
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The solar system contains five of these, including Pluto
What are dwarf planets?
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One of these exploded in or above Siberia in early 2013.
What is a meteor?
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This planet has a 'great blue spot'
What is Neptune?
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He was the first man in space
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
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First seen in 239 B.C., this space object becomes visible every 75 years.
What is Halley's Comet
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Became the fifth man in space and the first American to orbit the Earth. Also a US Senator.
Who is John Glenn?
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This object is the largest international collaboration in space and has been constantly orbiting the Earth since 1998.
What is the International Space Station?
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This planet has a 1:1 orbit resonance with the sun, which means that one side always faces towards the sun while the other points away.
What is Mercury?
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Collectively, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, and Io are called this
What are the Galilean moons?
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This planet rotates backwards (in relation to other planets) on its axis
What is Venus?
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These twin rovers landed on Mars in 2004 and continued operating until 2010.
What are Spirit and Opportunity?
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This meteor shower occurs every year in December.
What are the Geminids?
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This planet will be at its closest point to Earth in 26 months
What is Mars?
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Birthplace of a comet
What is the Oort cloud?
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The first man made object in space
What is Sputnik?
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This probe was the first man made object to leave the Solar System in 2011.
What is Viking 1?
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This telescope has used new techniques to discover over 3,000 exoplanets.
What is Kepler?
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