Pluto
True or False: you can see Pluto in the night sky without a telescope or binoculars, so long as it is dark enough.
False: that thing is too far away to see without a telescope.
True or False: American astronauts were the first to land on Mars.
False: no humans have stepped foot on mars yet.
What galaxy to we reside in?
The milky way
This great hunter in the sky contains the stars Betelgeuse, Bellatrix and Rigel.
Orion
Name one ring around Saturn
There’s the Janus Ring, the Methone Ring Arc, the Anthe Ring Arc and the Pallene Ring, as well as the Roche Division Wow, that was moving.
Name the belt of icy objects that Pluto can be found in.
The Kuiper Belt, found in 1992, named after Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper.
Name one of the two astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission to step foot on the moon.
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
What is the name of the large galaxy that is moving toward us?
Andromeda
What star can you use to find north?
Polaris, or the "north star"
The ISS
International speace station.
True or False: In roman mythology, Pluto is the god of the underworld
True: He is the Roman god of the underworld. Similar the the Greek god, Hades.
Sputnik was the first artificial space satellite put into orbit by humans. What country was responsible for it's launch in 1957?
USSR (Russia)
What is the most massive planet in our solar system?
Jupiter, it's HUGE. 1.898 E 27 kg (317.8 Earth mass)
Name four zodiac constellations
Name the rocket that was most famously used in the Apollo missions.
Saturn V
What is different about Pluto's orbit compared to the first eight planets?
It is tilted in relation to the ecliptic.
There are six people of three nationalities in space right now. What space vehicle are they in?
The International Space Station.
How far away from the sun are we right now, in Astronomical Units.
93 million miles or 8 light-minutes
What "fuzzy" object can be found beneath Orion's belt? (hint, these places are the birthplace of stars)
A nebula
There are many ________ satellites
2,666
Pluto is considered a "dwarf planet". Name at least one other dwarf planet.
Eris, Makemake, Haumea, Ceres
How many people have stepped foot on the moon? (closest answer gets the points)
12
True or False: the Voyager Space probe, launched by NASA in 1977, is now beyond the boundaries of our solar system.
TRUE! And amazing!
What is the name for the path that the sun takes across the sky? The moon, planets, and zodiac constellations can be found in this line as well.
The ecliptic.