Asteroid Trivia: How Well Do You Know Space Rocks?
Idyllic via DISCORD
Created 7/12/2024
This quiz is a deep dive into the fascinating world of asteroids!
1. What are asteroids primarily composed of?
Organic materials only
Rocky and metallic materials
Icy water formations
Gaseous compounds
2. Which spacecraft was the first to land on an asteroid?
Juno
Galileo
NEAR Shoemaker
Voyager 2
3. What is the region called where most asteroids in our solar system are found?
Kuiper Belt
Asteroid Belt
Herschel Ring
Oort Cloud
4. What is the largest known asteroid in the asteroid belt?
5. Which asteroid did the OSIRIS-REx mission visit?
6. How old are most asteroids believed to be?
Thousands of years old
Billions of years old
Hundreds of years old
Millions of years old
7. What is the name of the theory suggesting that an asteroid impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs?
Meteorite theory
Chicxulub theory
Asteroid Wind hypothesis
Kuiper impact theory
8. What is a meteoroid before it enters Earth's atmosphere?
Meteor
Satellite
Comet
Asteroid
9. Which is a common characteristic of asteroids?
Spherical shape
Irregular shape
Gaseous composition
Highly reflective surface
10. What is the Yarkovsky effect?
Thermal radiation affecting orbit
Solar wind pressure
Gravitational waves only
Magnetic field disruption
11. What asteroid was visited by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft?
12. Which type of asteroid is considered the most metal-rich?
R-types
S-types
C-types
M-types
