Asteroids

Question 1

1.	All asteroids are found between Mars and Jupiter

Answer

true

Question 2

2.	Comets are balls of fire flying through space

Answer

true

Question 3

3.	If you put all the asteroids together and made one planet from then, the new planet would be smaller than Earth’s moon.

Answer

true

Question 4

4.	Ceres, the largest asteroid, is also the brightest one.

Answer

true

Question 5

5.	Shooting stars are really stars falling out of the sky.

Answer

true

Question 6

6.	Comets are essentially dirty, snowy mud-balls in space.

Answer

true

Question 7

7.	Comets are believed to come from a huge cloud of comets a thousand times more distant than Pluto called the Oort Cloud.

Answer

true

Question 8

8.	If a meteor hits the Earth’s surface, we change its name to a meteorite.

Answer

true

Question 9

No asteroids are visible to the naked eye.

Answer

true

Question 10

10. Comets have two tails.

Answer

true

Question 11

11.	A comet’s tail always drags behind the comet .

Answer

true

Question 12

12.	A comet’s tail always points away from the Sun.

Answer

true

Question 13

13.	Flying a spaceship through the asteroid belt is very dangerous.

Answer

true

Question 14

14.	A comet gets smaller each time it goes around the Sun.

Answer

true

Question 15

15.	Most meteors are rocks smaller than pebbles or sand.

Answer

true

Question 16

16.	Meteors showers are pieces of disintegrated comets.

Answer

true

Question 17

18.	Bolides are what we call large meteors

Answer

true

Question 18

19.	Asteroids that cross Earth’s orbit are called Apollo asteroids.

Answer

true

Question 19

Some scientists think the extinction of the dinosaurs may have been caused by the collision of a Trojan Asteroid with Earth.

Answer

true

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