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QUIZ COMPETITION on International Asteroid Day (JUNE 30, 2024)
About the Quiz Competition
- Start Date: 29th June 2024
- Free Participants
- Open to All
- Link will be open from 8am to 8pm.
- E-CERTIFICATES WILL BE GIVEN TO ALL PARTICIPANTS
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World Asteroid Day is dedicated to speed up the discovery of asteroids and preparing the planet for an asteroid impact. Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya is hosting Online Quiz Competition to mark the world Asteroid Day with a mission to raise public awareness about the risks of asteroid impact as well as to inform the public about the mitigation actions to be taken at the global level in case of the crisis due to a credible near-Earth object threat.
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1. When the first asteroid named Ceres was discovered?*
1 January, 1800
1 January, 1801
1 January, 1802
1 January, 1804
2. What is the purpose of observing International Asteroid Day?
*
To raise awareness about Asteroids
To raise funds for artificial satellites
To honor astronauts
All of the above
3. In which year United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution to celebrate International Asteroid Day?
*
2015
2016
2017
2018
4. Who had coined the term asteroid?
*
Issac Newton
Edmond Halley
William Herschel
Carl Sagan
5. Which spacecraft provided the first close observation of an asteroid?
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Galileo
Juno
Voyager
comnet
6. Who discovered first asteroid, 1 Ceres?
*
Giuseppe Piazzi
Edwin Hubble
Nicolaus Copernicus
Galelio
7. Most asteroids are composed of*
Rock
Nickel
Iron
All of the above
8. Name an asteroid that has a dog-bone shape
*
210 Kleopatra
216 Kleopatra
2062 Aten
2013 Vyuhg
9. What was the name of the second asteroid discovered?*
Apollo
Baequra
Pallas
Eros
10. Which asteroid was discovered to have its own satellite?*
433 Eros
243 Ida
435 Eros
245 Ida
11. Name an asteroid that is located at the Lagrangian points, L4 and L5, and lies in the same orbit as Jupiter?*
Eros
Pallas
Trojan
Vesta
12. What asteroid did the NEAR Shoemaker mission land on in 2001?*
433 Eros
243 Ida
435 Eros
245 Ida
13. In which year second asteroid was discovered?*
1800
1801
1802
1803
14. NASA announced the discovery of an Earth trojan in *
2008
2009
2010
2011
15. The smallest known asteroid is *
1991 BA
1992 BA
1993 BA
1994 BA