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- Release Date :: 30.06.2024
- Presents ‘Planetoid’ an Online Quiz on ‘World Asteroid Day’ (Observed on 30th June)
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1. When the first Asteroid named Ceres was discovered?
4 points
1 January, 1800
1 January, 1801
1 January, 1900
1 January, 1901
2. Which law suggested that there should be a planet between Mars and Jupiter?
4 points
Newton’s Law
Einstein’s Law
Bode’s Law
Duckworth Lewis Law
3. Asteroids are also known as?
4 points
Minor Planets
Minor Stars
Minor Galaxies
Major Galaxies
4. Name the group of Asteroids that cross Earth’s Orbit and also may come close to Earth or even collided with the planet?
4 points
Apollo
Vistara
Denodoid
Justin
5. Name an Asteroid that has a dog-bone shape?
4 points
Leonidus
Dimitriclies
Kleopatra
Luteriana
6. Who is one of the co-founders of Asteroid Day?
4 points
Stephen Hawking
Ratan Tata
Lueis Banks
Rinchin Tamang
7. In which year did United Nation adopt a resolution proclaiming the observation of International Asteroid Day?
4 points
1916
1961
2006
2016
8. An asteroid can be classified as?
4 points
Rocky Objects
Plastic Objects
Static Objects
Burning Objects
9. Where are the greatest number of Asteroids located?
4 points
Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
Between the orbits of Venus and Earth
Between the orbits Earth and Moon
Between the orbits of Moon and North Star
10. Which spacecraft provided the first close observation of an Asteroid?
4 points
Juno
Voyager-1
Galileo
Pioneer 10
11. The body of an Asteroid made up of which elements?
4 points
Rocks
Silicate Minerals
Nickel-Iron
All of the above
12. Which of these is a space telescope that study the Asteroids?
4 points
D Canon
Hubble
Loop
Neapolitan
13. What is the most likely method for deflecting an Asteroid that poses a threat to Earth?
4 points
Blowing it up with a nuclear bomb
Attacking rockets to it to change its trajectory
Painting it white to reflect sunlight
Using water gun to change its path
14. What is the name of the asteroid that is believed to have caused the extinction of the Dinosaurs?
4 points
Atlanta
Huston
Iidiana
Chicxulub
15. What is the approximate size of the Asteroid that caused the Tunguska event in 1908?
4 points
Less than 10 meters
Less than 20 meters
50 – 80 meters
150 – 180 meters
16. Which is the American Space Agency that studies Asteroids?
4 points
NASA – Near Earth Object Studies
SERA – Far Space Object Studies
NASA – Deep Space Object Studies
ISRO – Black Hole Object Studies
17. What is the primary threat posed by an Asteroid?
4 points
Collision with Earth
Pollution of outer space
Disruption of satellite communication
Formation of asteroid belts
18. Recently, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has named an Asteroid after which Indian scientist?
4 points
Satish Chandra
K Kasturirangan
Jayant Murty
Gunjan Saxena
19. Scientist recently detected water molecules on the surface of two asteroid for the first time ever by using which telescope?
4 points
SOFIA
HALO
HOBIT
ABRAHAM
20. Asteroids that are always closer to the Sun than the Earth are called?
4 points
FOA – Far Orbiting Asteroids
NEO – Near Earth Objects
NSO – Near Sun Objects
NOS – Near Orbit Study
21. Which Asteroid was discovered to have its own satellite?
4 points
951 Gaspra
243 Ida
Both of the above
None of the above
22. How many known Asteroids are there in our Solar System?
4 points
1.4 Lakh
4 Lakh
1.4 Million
4 Billion
23. How big an asteroid can be?
4 points
About 1 Kilometres wide
About 10 Kilometres wide
About 100 Kilometres wide
About 1000 Kilometres wide
24. Which of these Asteroid exploded over Russia that caused widespread damage and injured over 1,000 people?
4 points
Chandelier
Chelyabinsk
Chinchid
Candidovar
25. Asteroids are rocky objects that sizes from tiny particles to objects having mass of several hundred kilometres, orbits to whom?
4 points
Moon
Sun
Earth
Pluto