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Planets
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| considered to be the ninth planet from the Sun | Pluto |
| in 2006, it was reclassified as a dwarf planet | Pluto |
| part of the Kuiper belt | Pluto |
| five natural satellites, the largest of which is Charon. | Pluto |
| relatively short orbital period of about 75.5 years | Halley's comet |
| visible to the naked eye as it passes Earth | Halley's comet |
| the comet appears in the sky of the Bayeux Tapestry | Halley's comet |
| an extremely long-period comet | Comet Hale–Bopp |
| had a sodium tail | Comet Hale–Bopp |
| Members of the Heaven’s Gate cult killed themselves in a 1997 mass suicide in an attempt to board a spaceship they believed was hidden by the comet. | Comet Hale–Bopp |
| short-period comet with an orbital period of about 6.5 years | Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 |
| collided with Jupiter in 1994 | Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 |
| had passed the planet’s Roche limit | Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 |
| most massive object in the asteroid belt | Ceres |
| most massive object in the asteroid belt | Ceres |
| discovery of of this dwarf planet involved the collaboration of multiple scientists, including Carl Friedrich Gauss | Ceres |
| surface features include Ahuna Mons, a cryovolcano that erupts aqueous solutions, which quickly freeze upon exposure to this dwarfsplanets cold surface. | Ceres |
| discovered by Heinrich Olbers | vesta |
| dwarf planet that was co-discovered in 2005 by Mike Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David Rabinowitz. | eris |
| Rheasilvia crater | vesta |
| based on the study of HED meteorites | vesta |
| “scattered” out of the Kuiper belt by the gravity of Neptune, falling into a high-eccentricity orbit that ranges between 38 and 97 AU from the Sun. | eris |
| orbited by the moon Dysnomia. | eris |
| hypothetical solar system body that, between 4 and 5 billion years ago, collided with Earth | Theia |
| some estimates placing it around the size of Mars | Theia |
| its collision with Earth—include observations of shock heating in meteorites of approximately the same age as the hypothesized impact and the fact that the Earth is much more abundant in light chlorine, while the Moon contains more heavy chlorine | Theia |
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