CURIOUSITY QUIZ : ASTEROIDS

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Test Your knowledge on 'Asteroids ' devised on the upcoming occasion of International Asteroid Day on 30th June, 2022. Attempt all the questions by clicking on the right option. Submit the completed Form by clicking the 'Submit' button at the end of the Form. Get your score and the correct answer by clicking the 'View score' button. Good Luck! You can also write your comments on the quiz in the Comment space given at the end of this Page or send your comments and questions related to this quiz for answer directly to the email account given below:

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Background :

Asteroids are thousands of space rocks located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter in the asteroid belt of our Solar System . They vary in sizes from 1 m to 1000 km. It is thought that the life on the Earth might have come from an asteroid. Asteroids also potentially hazardous to life on Earth as they might collide on our planet resulting a major catastrophe. Hence, it is required to constantly track the asteroids in our inner solar system and destroy them with rockets before they hit our Earth. A large asteroid exploded in mid air in the Siberian region of Russia on 30th June, 1908 and devastated nearly 80,000 trees . To commemorate this occasion and to remind us the potential threat from the asteroids to the humanity and our commitments to safeguard our planet earth from their possible impacts, the United Nations has declared June 30 as the International Asteroid Day.

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Where is the asteroid belt located ?

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Between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn

Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter

Between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus

Between the orbits of Earth and Mars

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This is the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt . It is so big that it is often called a Dwarf Planet. Like a planet, it has a crust, mantle and core. Name it :

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Vesta

Juno

Ceres

Pallas

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This is the only asteroid visible to the naked eye due to its high reflective surface:

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Vesta

Ceres

Psyche

Hygiea

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Asteroids are mainly divided into three types . These are :

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P type, M type and S type

C type, R type and S type

C type, M type and F type

C type, M type and S type

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What is the distance of the asteroid belt from the Sun ?

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10 to 15 AU

4 to 6 AU

2 to 4 AU

20 to 30 AU

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What is the name of the spacecraft to have the first close observation of an asteroid ?

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Dawn

Lucy

Psyche

Galileo

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A Catholic priest at the Academy of Palermo, Sicily in Italy discovered one of the largest asteroid in 1801. What is his name and what is the name of the asteroid he discovered ?

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Johann Franz Encke ; Eunomia

Von Zach ; Vesta

Giuseppe Piazzi ; Ceres

Max Wolf ; Brucia

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Asteroids are also called :

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Protoplanets

Planetesimals

Minor planets

Dwarf planet

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This asteroid is unusual in that, like Uranus, it rotates on its side, with its axis of rotation tilted at high angles to the orbital plane. Name it :

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Vesta

Pallas

Juno

Eros

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Which law suggested that there should be a planet between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter?

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Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation

Galileo's Law

Bode's Law

Cassini Law

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Name an asteroid that has a dog-bone shape:

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216 Kleopatra

25143 Itokawa

2062 Aten

21 Lutetia

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Who has coined the term asteroid?

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Carl Sagan

William Herschel

Issac Newton

Edmond Halley

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Name the group of asteroids that cross Earth's orbit and also may come close to Earth or even collide with our planet?

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Apollo objects

Vesta

Davida

Juno

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Name the group of asteroids that is located at the Lagrangian points, L4 and L5 and lie in the same orbit as Jupiter:(Lagrange points are points of equilibrium for small-mass objects under the influence of two massive orbiting bodies.)

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Eros

Pallas

Trojan

Vesta

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A large asteroid exploded in mid air in Siberia on 30th June, 1908 flattening about 80,000 trees. This is the world's largest asteroid impact event in recorded history . This event is known as :

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Eastern Siberian Taiga event

Siberian Crash event

Trojan event

Tunguska event

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This is the second biggest natural space object to have entered into the Earth's atmosphere since 2008. Its impact flattened, damaged or shattered nearly 7200 houses. Can you name it?

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Chelyabinsk meteor

Chicxulub asteroid

Trojan aseroid

Tunguska asteroid

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This asteroid's impact is suspected to have triggered one of the biggest mass extinctions nearly 65 million years ago. Can you name the event?

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Chelyabinsk meteor event

Chicxulub asteroid event

Trojan event

Tunguska asteroid

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This is regarded as the potentially most high risk asteroid supposed to hit the Earth in near future. It comes closer to our Earth in every 6 years. Can you name the asteroid ?

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Chelyabinsk asteroid

Chicxulub asteroid

Asteroid Bennu

243 Ida

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This is the asteroid to first found to have its own moon:

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Chelyabinsk asteroid

Chicxulub asteroid

Asteroid Bennu

243 Ida

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This is thought to be the richest asteroid to have large deposits of Iron, Nickel and Gold:

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16 Psyche

Chicxulub asteroid

Asteroid Bennu

243 Ida

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The author holding model of a piece of asteroid ( made with modeling clay) developed during a workshop organised on 30th June, 2022 on the occasion of International Asteroid Day.

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