The Origins of Our Solar System: A Journey Through Time

What is the estimated age of Earth's formation?

• About 4.5 billion years ago

• About 2 billion years ago

• About 3.5 billion years ago

• About 5 billion years ago

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What celestial body is Bennu originally a part of?

• A planet

• A large asteroid

• A protostar

• A comet

What are chondrules?

• Ice particles in comets

• Gases in the protostar

• Metallic cores of planets

• Molten droplets of rock

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What major event influenced the formation of the solar system's planets?

• A black hole's formation

• A nearby supernova

• The cooling of the universe

• The appearance of a new galaxy

How did Jupiter influence the solar system after the sun ignited?

• It stabilized the orbits of outer planets

• It moved inward, disrupting the asteroid belt

• It exploded in a supernova

• It formed rings like Saturn

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What is believed to have been delivered to Earth by impacts from space?

• Only water

• Only organic materials

• Neither organics nor water

• Both organics and water

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What event led to the creation of Bennu?

• The formation of the Milky Way

• A collision that shattered its parent body

• Jupiter's movement in the solar system

• The ignition of the sun

What mechanism causes Bennu to migrate towards the sun?

• Solar heating acting as a thruster

• Gravitational pull from Earth

• Magnetic fields from the sun

• Its reflective surface

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What is the purpose of the Osiris Rex mission?

• To study and sample Bennu

• To change Bennu's orbit

• To colonize Bennu

• To destroy Bennu

What effect did close encounters with Earth and Venus have on Bennu?

• They increased its mass

• They made it spin faster

• They turned it inside-out and pulled off material

• They stripped it of satellites

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