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116101. The object that orbits Earth in both the Earth-centered (geocentric) and Sun-centered (heliocentric) models of our solar system?
Answer: the Moon
116102. A cycle of Moon phases can be seen from Earth because the?
Answer: Moon revolves around Earth
116103. Which member of the solar system has a diameter of 3.48 x 103 kilometers?
Answer: Earth’s Moon
116104. When a thin crescent of the moon is visible just before sunrise, the Moon is in its______?
Answer: Waning Phase
116105. The inner planets tend to have ______?
Answer: fewer moons
116106. The planets that tend to have rings tend to have _______?
Answer: Many moons
116107. What does Cassini’s law describe?
Answer: Cassini’s laws describes the rotation of the moon
116108. What do the bright patches on Moon signify?
Answer:
116109. Lunar eclipse generally occurs at new moon or full moon?
Answer: At full moon
116110. Small planetary bodies found in between the orbit of Mars and Jupiter?
Answer: Asteroids
116111. Biggest Asteroid?
Answer: Vesta
116112. The second biggest Asteroid?
Answer: Pallas
116113. The asteroid that will hit the earth in 2022?
Answer: 2000 BF 19
116114. The asteroids which has the smallest orbit?
Answer: Icarus
116115. Which is the smallest of the asteroids?
Answer: Adonis
116116. A major belt of asteroids is located between Mars and Jupiter. What is the approximate average distance between the Sun and this major asteroid belt?
Answer: 390 million kilometers
116117. Which of the asteroids has the largest orbit?
Answer: Hidalgo
116118. A solar system object of rocky composition and comparable in size to a small city is most likely _______?
Answer: an asteroid
116119. What is a comet?
Answer: A comet is a lump of frozen gases of various kinds in which there are many small stony or metallic particles.
116120. The biggest comet?
Answer: Centauri 2060 Chiron
116121. Halley’s comet last appeared in?
Answer: 1986
116122. Halley’s comet will reappear in?
Answer: 2062
116123. The comet called ‘Comet of the Century’?
Answer: Comet Hale Bopp
116124. Hale Bopp was discovered by?
Answer: Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp
116125. What are the different parts of a comet?
Answer:
116126. What produces the tail of a comet?
Answer: The radiation of the Sun produces the tail of a comet.
116127. Which comet has the least orbital period?
Answer: Encke Comet
116128. What does the Latin word comet means?
Answer: Long - haired
116129. After how many years the Hale - Bopp comet appears?
Answer:
116130. Name the comets that appears after about 75,000 years?
Answer: The Kohoutek’s comet
116131. What do you call the bright head of a comet?
Answer: Coma
116132. Name the comet whose tail measured longest a staggering 570 million km?
Answer: Comet Hyakutake
116133. Leonid meteoroids are associated with which comet, whose Orbital period is 33.3 years?
Answer: Comet 55P/Temple Tuttle
116134. The first couple in space abroad the shuttle Endeavour?
Answer: N Jan Davis and Marck Lee
116135. Which was the first spacecraft to be launched into space?
Answer: Sputnik (Russia)
116136. When was Sputnik launched into space?
Answer: 4-Oct-57
116137. Which was the first space craft to land on moon?
Answer: Luna -9
116138. In which year Luna -9 landed on the moon?
Answer: 1966
116139. Who was the first woman to walk in space?
Answer: Svetlana Savitskaya
116140. The name of the spacecraft in which Yuri Gagarin travelled?
Answer: Vostok - I
116141. Who was the first American in Space?
Answer: Allan Sheperd
116142. Who was the first astronaut to land on moon?
Answer: Neil Armstrong
116143. Name the spacecraft which brought rock pieces from the moon?
Answer: Luna 16
116144. Name the first American Artificial Satellite?
Answer: Explorer – I
116145. Who was the oldest man to go to space?
Answer: John Glenn
116146. Which space probe took the worlds first living creature, dog Laika to space?
Answer: Sputnik - 2
116147. When was the first orbiting space station, USSR’s Salut I launched?
Answer: 1971
116148. When did the former USSR launch the MIR Space station?
Answer: 1986
116149. Who was the first US woman in Space?
Answer: Sally Ride in 1983
116150. Which is the famous US rocket launching station in Florida?
Answer: Cape Canaveral
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