Space Rocks
Gas Giants
Kuiper Belt & Dwarf Planets
Stars & Galaxies
Space Travel
100
A large ball of ice, mixed with rocks and dirt, having a long luminous tail when its orbit passes close to the sun.
What is a COMET?
100
Saturn's special moons that keep the rings on Saturn from spreading out too far.
What are SHEPHERD MOONS?
100
The best known dwarf planet.
What is PLUTO?
100
What type of galaxy is this?
What is a SPIRAL GALAXY?
100
This nation was the first to figure out how to make rockets in the 1200s.
What is CHINA?
200
Large rocks orbiting the sun in space.
What are ASTEROIDS?
200
A gas found on the planet Jupiter. It is also found in balloons that float.
What is HELIUM?
200
The spacecraft currently exploring the Kuiper Belt.
What is NEW HORIZIONS?
200
This makes it impossible for most of us to see the Milky Way.
What is the MILKY WAY?
200
The first satellite built and launched by Russia.
What is SPUTNIK?
300
Dirt and small pebbles floating in space that become meteors when they enter Earth's atmosphere.
What are METEOROIDS?
300
Planets that are blue in color get this color from this gas in their atmosphere.
What is METHANE?
300
The name of the first Kuiper Belt Object discovered in 1992.
What is QB1?
300
The constellation you would use to locate Betelgeuse.
What is ORION?
300
The first man in space.
Who was YURI GAGARIN?
400
A meteoroid that hits the Earth's atmosphere and burns up... a "shooting star".
What is a METEOR?
400
This brother and sister team discovered Uranus.
Who are the HERSCHELS?
400
The only dwarf planet NOT found in the Kuiper Belt.
What is CERES?
400
The color of the hottest stars.
What is BLUE?
400
How frequently the International Space Station orbits the Earth.
What is every 90 MINUTES?
500
Meteors that have entered the Earth's atmosphere and fallen to the ground without completely burning up.
What is a METEORITE?
500
Neptune's second largest moon and one of the darkest objects in our solar system.
What is PROTEUS?
500
These 3 points are necessary to be classified as a planet.
What is...
1. Orbits the sun
2. Round shape due to gravity
3. Cleared the neighborhood around its orbit by collision or redirection.
500
The name of an exploding star.
What is a SUPERNOVA?
500
The name of the first space station ever sent into space in 1971.
What is SALYUT?