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Worksheetsdwarf planets comets and asteroids
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 12mins
Who discovered Pluto ( He was 24)
Carl Sagan
Edwin Hubble
Johannes Kepler
Clyde Tombaugh
How many Dwarf Planets are in our solar system
3
6
143
5
do dwarf planets have a clear orbit path
Yes
No
what is the nearest dwarf planet to Earth
Pluto
Ceres
Haumea
Eris
How many moons does Pluto have?
none
1
5
13
what dwarf planet has rings in our solar system
Haumea
none of them
Eris
Pluto
How long does it take for Haumea to complete a day?
4 hours
5 hours
5 days
360 years.
what is the biggest asteroid in our solar system?
Pallas 2
3 Juno
10 Hygiea
4 Vesta
What is the name of the cluster that most asteroids are kept in.
(a)
what was the first asteroid discovered?
Ceres
Ceser
plato
pallas
when was the first asteroid discovered?
1801
1802
1901
2001
How many asteroids are in our solar system?
1,113,527
1,113,528
2,008,346
3,405,569
Who came up with the word asteroid?
Thomas Scott
Robert Shale
William Herschel
Giuseppe Piazzi
Were do most of the asteroid hang out in our solar system
between Mars and Jupiter
The Asteroid belt
keplers belt
Hildas
What is the large group of asteroid that follow Jupiter's orbit but they never collide with Jupiter's because they lie in Lagrangian points.
Jupiter asteroid
Kepler
hereon asteroids
Trojan Asteroids
What are asteroid rich in?
Minerals
water
trees
cells
Can an asteroid support life.
yes
no
Asteroids are classified into categories based on how their ____ compares to earth.
Size
Speed
Distance
Orbit
Who discovered the first asteroid?
William Herschel
Galileo Galilei
Giuseppe Piazzi
Issac Newton
Can asteroids have moons?
Yes
No
What is it called when two asteroids of roughly the same size orbit each other?
(a)
