Asteroid day quiz competition

Among these four, Which is not an asteroid?

• Vesta

• Makemake

• Oumuamua

• Haumea

What is the name of the only space probe that ever landed in a Comet (67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko)?

• Cassini

• Juno

• Philae

• Akatsuki

What is the mass of the asteroid belt?

• 30 times the mass of the moon

• 0.3 times the mass of the moon

• 3 times the mass of the moon

• 0.03 times the mass the moon

________________ is a region of the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune, believed to contain many comets, asteroids, and other small bodies made largely of ice.

• Debris disc

• Kuiper belt

• Centaur

• Jupiter Trojans

What is the name of the trans-Neptunian object that is responsible for the downgrade of Pluto from Planet?

• Sedna

• Charon

• Eris

• MakeMake

How many asteroids, meteor, and comet materials hit the earth every day?

• 100 tons

• 1000 tons

• 10 tons

• None. We have a force field

What is the name of the comet that collided with Jupiter in July 1994?

• Comet Hale-Bopp

• Comet Shoemaker-Levy

• Comet Neowise

• Haley’s comet

What does the term “Asteroid” mean?

• Death from above

• Fireball

• Rocky body

• Star like