The Asteroid Belt

What are the four largest objects in the asteroid belt?

• Ceres, hygeia, Pallas, vesta

• Vesta, Pallas, Hygiene, eris

• Haumea, Pluto, Kuiper, Vesta

• Pallas, Ceres, Hygeia, Vesta

True or False: The Asteroid Belt is shaped like a doughnut.

• True

• False

The asteroid belt is wide as the distance between Earth and Mercury: True or False

• True

• False

The mass of the objects in the asteroid belt would comprise how much of the mass of our moon?

• 10%

• 2%

• 4%

• 40%

• 44%

What is a meteorite?

• Petite (very little) bits of asteroids that have exited the atmosphere and landed on Earth.

• Large chunks of asteroids that have exited the atmosphere and landed on Earth.

• Trails of asteroids that have exited the atmosphere and landed on Earth.

NASA is yet to launch spacecraft into the asteroid belt: True or False

• True

• False

Asteroids can be in what shape?

• Regular and Round

• Irregular and Round

• Irregular and Flat

Iron and what metal have been found inside asteroids?

• Rock fragment with magnet attraction

• They have no metals.

• Cobalt

• Nickel

What is the largest object in the asteroid belt?

• Eris

• Vesta

• Ceres

• Hygeia

Asteroids orbit the Sun in what shaped region of space?

• Bagel shaped

• Doughnut shaped

• Circular with a hole