Pluto/Kuiper Belt Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
What spacecraft will reach Pluto in 2015? | New Horizons |
What is the name for little Plutos that are in the Kuiper Belt? | Plutinos |
A ring of comets and asteroids that orbit the sun outside the solar system is known as? | Kuiper Belt |
An object about half the size of Pluto that was discovered in 2002? | Quaoar |
What is the temperature that liquid freezes at called? | Freezing point |
How long does it take Pluto to revolve? Rotate? | 248 years to revolve. 6 days to rotate. |
What is the name of Pluto's moon? | Charon |
Is Pluto a terrestrial or gaseous planet? | Terrestrial |
How was Pluto discovered? | Astronomers where looking for a planet that was pulling on Neptune. |
Pluto's strange features? | Opposite rotation, looks like a comets nucleus, inclining orbit, terrestrial planet in the outer planets, |
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 |
What do astronomers believe that Pluto is? | A dwarf planet. A comet? |
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