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Astronomy General Knowledge - Expert #1 - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 87 times
- The average score is 5 of 15
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| What is the actual name of the "North Star" | Polaris | 86%
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| What was the first asteroid ever discovered? (Discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi in 1801) | Ceres | 57%
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| What "burst" is sometimes released during a supernova, that if one were to hypothetically hit Earth, would cause a mass-extinction event? | Gamma-ray burst | 44%
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| What is defined as "a massive and extremely remote celestial object, emitting exceptionally large amounts of energy, and typically having a starlike image in a telescope." | Quasars | 44%
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| To the nearest tenth, how far away (in light years) is the closest star to our Sun? | 4.2 | 43%
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| What is the name of the newest dwarf planet in our solar system, named afterthe Polynesian creator of humanity and the god of fertility? | Makemake | 41%
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| How many known moons does Jupiter have? | 67 | 27%
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| What is the degree of tilt of Uranus' axis? | 98 degrees | 26%
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| Fill in the blank: About four days before _____ passes through its perihelion point, its orbital motion around the sun just equals its rotation rate. At this point, as seen from _____, the sun's normal east-to-west path across the sky ceases and appears to reverse its course in the sky and begins to drift back toward the east. | Mercury | 24%
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| What is the third biggest galaxy in our supercluster? | the Triangulum galaxy | 19%
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| What is the name of the asteroid that passed byEarth in 2017 and is shaped like a cigar? (was also hypothesized that it could be alien) | Oumuamua | 17%
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| What is the smallest known moon in our solar system? (It orbits a dwarf planet) | Styx | 16%
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| Which of Saturn's rings is caused by water ice from the moon Enceladus? | E Ring | 10%
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| What is defined as "a process by where the atmosphere melts away and removes the surface material of an incoming meteorite." | Ablation | 7%
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| What are defined as "evolved, massive stars that have completely lost their outer hydrogen and are fusing helium or heavier elements in the core" | Wolf-Rayet Stars | 1%
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