What is a small What is the name Which planet has a object made of ice, of most surface and NASA’s frozen gas, and famous space atmosphere most dust that orbits the telescope? like the Earth? sun called? a) Yerkes a) Mercury a) an asteroid b) Kitt Peak b) Venus b) a comet c) Palomar c) Mars c) a meteor d) Hubble d) Jupiter d) a meteroid Earth’s tides are Which is the What is the name caused by brightest known of the first satellite gravitational pulls comet in the solar sent into space? by: system? a) Vela a) the Earth a) Tempel b) Vostok b) the Sun b) Hyakutake c) Echo c) the Moon c) Halley’s Comet d) Sputnik d) the Moon and d) Lovejoy Sun What is the name Which planet is The first weather of the space shuttle the densest? satellite launched destroyed in midair was 28 Jan 1986? a) Earth b) Venus a) Vanguard a) Atlantis c) Mars b) Tiros b) Endeavour d) Mercury c) Nimbus c) Challenger d) Echo d) Columbia What is the most What is the Who was the first distant object brightest star in the man in space? visible to the naked night sky at any eye? time? a) John Glenn a) Saturn b) Yuri Gagarin a) Alpha Centauri b) Andromeda c) Alan Shephard b) North Star galaxy d) Gherman Titov c) Sirius c) The Sun d) Venus d) The Milky Way
What is a small object made of ice, frozen gas, and dust that orbits the sun called? a) an asteroid b) a comet c) a meteor d) a meteroid What is the name of NASA’s most famous space telescope? a) Yerkes b) Kitt Peak c) Palomar d) Hubble Which planet has a surface and atmosphere most like the Earth? a) Mercury b) Venus c) Mars d) Jupiter Earth’s tides are caused by gravitational pulls by: a) the Earth b) the Sun c) the Moon d) the Moon and Sun Which is the brightest known comet in the solar system? a) Tempel b) Hyakutake c) Halley’s Comet d) Lovejoy What is the name of the first satellite sent into space? a) Vela b) Vostok c) Echo d) Sputnik Which planet is the densest? a) Earth b) Venus c) Mars d) Mercury The first weather satellite launched was a) Vanguard b) Tiros c) Nimbus d) Echo What is the name of the space shuttle destroyed in midair 28 Jan 1986? a) Atlantis b) Endeavour c) Challenger d) Columbia Who was the first man in space? a) John Glenn b) Yuri Gagarin c) Alan Shephard d) Gherman Titov What is the most distant object visible to the naked eye? a) Saturn b) Andromeda galaxy c) The Sun d) The Milky Way What is the brightest star in the night sky at any time? a) Alpha Centauri b) North Star c) Sirius d) Venus
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