The Sun
The Moon
Eclipses
The Great Pluto Debate
Wonders of our Solar System
100
The Sun goes through one solar cycle of a solar maximum and a solar minimum every this number of years.
What is 11 years
100
The phases of the moon are caused by this
What is the Moon's own shadow
100
When the Earth is directly between the Sun and the moon we get this type of eclipse
What is a lunar eclipse
100
Pluto was originally discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in this year
What is 1930
100
Jupiter's trojans are really these objects, but they didn't come from the belt
What are asteroids
200
Sunspots, solar flares and these are all features observable on the sun and caused by increased magnetic activity.
What are Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs)
200
The moon goes through one complete cycle of phases once every this number of days
What is 27 days
200
We do not get eclipses every month because of this
What is the moon being at a different angle of orbit
200
The Pluto Debate all started when this man decided not to place it with the other planets in his observatory
Who is Neil DeGrasse Tyson
200
Cassini discovered gaps and ridges in the rings of Saturn caused by these objects
What are Saturn's moons
300
When solar storms strike our planet they often result in these spectacular light displays
What are auroras
300
Scientists know that the moon rotates because of this phenomena
What is Earth only seeing one side of the moon.
300
During a lunar eclipse the moon appears to be this color while in totality
What is red
300
Pluto is considered not a planet by many astronomers because it does not meet this requirement to be a planet
What is to clear its own orbital path
300
New understanding on the formation of Jupiter's Great Red Spot came after scientists observed this event.
What is the merging of three smaller storms
400
Scientists discovered that the Sun rotated by doing this
What is tracking sunspots
400
When the moon is complete dark every month we call this event a ...
What is a new moon
400
Solar eclipse appear to be much rarer than lunar eclipses because of this
What is the moon being smaller that Earth so it casts a much smaller shadow.
400
After the discovery of this object, the pluto debate became a much larger problem
What is the dwarf planet Eris
400
This moon of Saturn was recently discovered to be shooting out geysers of water, leading to the possibility of living organisms on it.
What is Enceladus
500
The activity of Earth's magnetic field is called this technical term.
What is geomagnetic activity
500
If the moon disappeared tomorrow the tides on Earth would do this
What is create major tsunamis (tidal waves) that would take out most coastal areas all around the world
500
The tiny shadow that the Moon casts on the Earth during a solar eclipse is called this
What is the umbra
500
This NASA mission just gave planetary scientists lots of information that they claim supports Pluto being a planet.
What is the New Horizons Mission
500
This region that circles our solar system is the where scientists believe comets originated from
What is the Oort Cloud
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