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Pluto Party Puzzles

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What year was Pluto officially discovered?

a)

1998

b)

1933

c)

1930

d)

1887

2.

How many moons does Pluto have?

a)

5 moons

b)

1 moon

c)

7 moons

d)

2 moons

e)

4 moons

3.

What are the names of Pluto’s moons?

a)

Charybdis, Scylla, Chiron, Hera, Hydra

b)

Circe, Ulysses, Antigone, Nyx

c)

Diana, Juno, Styx,

d)

Charon, Nyx, Styx, Kerberous, Hydra

4.

Where was the observatory where Pluto was first spotted?

a)

Greenwich, England

b)

San Diego, California

c)

Flagstaff, Arizona

d)

Atacama, Chile

5.

Who named the planet Pluto?

a)

A high school chemistry teacher

b)

An 11 year old girl

c)

A famous astrologer

d)

The chairman of General Motors

6.

Who discovered Pluto?

a)

Clyde W. Tombaugh

b)

Wilford W. Clyde

c)

Clyde C. Barrow

d)

Daniel C. Johnston

7.

When was Pluto wrongfully stripped of its title and outrageously declared a dwarf planet?

a)

2000

b)

2006

c)

2004

d)

2008

8.

How far is Pluto from the sun?

a)

12.3 billion miles

b)

2.1 billion miles

c)

3.7 billion miles

d)

723 million miles

9.

What was the name of the first spacecraft to fly past Pluto?

a)

Voyager 2

b)

New Horizons

c)

None (none have passed it)

d)

Sputnik

10.

What is Pluto composed of?

a)

Iron and rock

b)

Hydrogen and helium

c)

Ice and rock

d)

Ice and hydrogen

11.

In which part of the solar system is Pluto located?

a)

Kuiper Belt

b)

Asteroid Belt

c)

Oort Cloud

d)

Heliospheric Disc

12.

What size is Pluto compared to earth?

a)

1/10 the size of earth

b)

1/6 the size of earth

c)

1.2 times the size of earth

d)

1/4 the size of the earth