What does 'light year' really mean
How long does a light year take to travel
One year
What is the end of the solar system called?
Oort Cloud
How many years did it take for the Messenger mission to get to Mercury
six and a half years
What are the most commonly found objects in our solar system
asteroids
What does one light year equal?
5.88 billion miles
5.88 trillion miles
5.88 TRILLION miles
What orbits the planets?
Asteroid belt
When you line up Earth and Venus, how far apart are they from each other?
38 million Kilometers
What is the largest man-made object in space
ISS
How many light-years across is the Milky Way?
100,000 light years
Where in the Milky Way is our solar system?
Orion Spur Star cluster
What is the launch window to go to Mars
every 26 months
What is the tail of gases called on a comet
coma
How many seconds does light take to travel from the Moon to the Earth?
1 second
What are the four terrestrial planets?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
How much weaker is the sunlight for Uranus
400 times weaker
What is the largest asteroid called
Ceres
A star is 100 light-years away. How long has the star been without light today?
100 years ago
What are the four Jovian Planets?
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
How much farther is Neptune from the sun than Earth
30 times farther
How big can a meteoroid get
1 meter