Astronomy 5th grade
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| What spacecraft will reach Pluto in 2015? | New Horizons
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| What is the name for little Plutos that are in the Kuiper Belt? | Plutinos
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| A ring of comets and asteroids that orbit the sun outside the solar system is known as? | Kuiper Belt
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| An object about half the size of Pluto that was discovered in 2002? | Quaoar
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| What is the temperature that liquid freezes at called? | Freezing point
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| How long does it take Pluto to revolve? Rotate? | 248 years to revolve. 6 days to rotate.
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| What is the name of Pluto's moon? | Charon
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| Is Pluto a terrestrial or gaseous planet? | Terrestrial
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| How was Pluto discovered? | Astronomers where looking for a planet that was pulling on Neptune.
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| Pluto's strange features? | Opposite rotation, looks like a comets nucleus, inclining orbit, terrestrial planet in the outer planets,
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| Why do some people think it is not a planet? | too small, orbits outside of other planets, moon is too big, misfit with the gas giants, looks like a Kuiper belt object
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| What do astronomers believe that Pluto is? | A dwarf planet. A comet?
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