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What is how many constellations are there?
100
Asteroids are made mostly of this
What is rock?
100
This is what comets are made of.
What are dust and ice?
100
This is how a meteor starts off.
What is a rock that breaks out of the asteroid belt and travels on its own?
100
These are the names of the two major stars in the constellation Gemini.
What are Castor and Pollux?
200
the Hunter
Who is Orion?
200
Most asteroids are found between these 2 planets
What are Mars & Jupiter?
200
This is the name of a famous comet.
What is Halley's Comet?
200
The Milky Way is this shape of a galaxy.
What is a spiral?
200
This is the name of the two pointer stars and they are part of this asterism.
What is Merak and Dubhe and the Big Dipper?
300
Circumpolar Constellations
What are constellations that can be seen every night?
300
One of the biggest asteroids and how many miles is it across in diameter.
What is Ceres and 620 miles across?
300
This is the year when we will see Halley's Comet next
What is 2061?
300
This is when a meteor turns into a meteorite.
What is when a meteor flies through the Earth's atmosphere without burning up and hits the surface of the Earth?
300
This is how you find Sirius in the night sky.
What is locate Orion's belt and move downward and to the left?
400
This is what the North Star is also known as and it is part of this asterism.
What is Polaris and the Little Dipper?
400
This is one feature the Earth and asteroids have in common.
What is they both rotate around a central axis?
400
Comets orbits are shaped like this.
What is a football?
400
This is the group of galaxies the Milky Way belongs.
What is the Local Group?
400
This is why constellations will not look the same thousands of years from now.
What is the expansion of the Universe?
500
This is an easily recognizable group of stars but not an official constellation.
What is an asterism?
500
This kept some asteroids in the asteroid belt from joining in and forming the planets.
What is Jupiter's pull?
500
This is how the tail of the comet is formed.
What is as the comet comes close to the Sun it melts and leaves behind a tail of gas?
500
It take about this long for the Milky Way to orbit once.
What is about 200-250 million years?