Universe
What is a white dwarf?
Answer: A compact object formed when small stars die.
What is the planet closest to the sun
Answer: Mars
What is the Vostok spacecraft?
Answer: This spacecraft carried the first human into space, with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin completing one full orbit of Earth in 1961.
How many moons are orbiting Jupiter ? Closest answer wins.
95
What solar system do we live in
The milkyway
What are galaxies?
A galaxy is a huge collection of gas, dust, and billions of stars
What is Mars also known as?
Answer: Often called the "Red Planet", this world has the largest volcano in the solar system.
What is Apollo 11?
Answer: This spacecraft carried Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, becoming the first to land humans on the Moon.
What is a Low Earth Orbit (LEO)?
A low earth orbit is an orbit around earth with a period of 128 minutes or less
This plant was once considered to be the ninth planet until it was demoted to a dwarf planet in 2006
Pluto
What is dark matter?
Dark matter is something that has gravity but its invisible
Question: What category of planets are these planets in. Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
Answer: These four planets are known as the rocky or inner planets of our solar system.
What are NASA's Space Shuttles (Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour)?
Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour
What is a Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)?
When a satellite follows follows the same orbit path around the earth from the perspective of the sun
What is the central star of our solar system
The sun
What is the boomerang nebula known for
The boomerang nebula is the coldest universe
This planet was knocked on its side during the early formation of the solar system, causing its unique axial tilt.
Uranus
What Are The Interstellar Probes/Missions
what is the mean orbitial velocity needed to maintain a stable low earth orbit in km (closest answer wins)
7.8km
This planet in our solar system is known for its rings
Saturn
What is a light-year?
Approximately 5.9 trillion miles make up this unit of cosmic distance.
What category are these planets in. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
Gas giants
What is Voyager 1?
Answer: Launched in 1977, this spacecraft became the first human-made object to cross into interstellar space in 2012.
What is a Geostationary orbit (GEO)?
Satellites that stay above a location on Earth
what is the distance between the earth and sun (closest answer wins)
93 million miles