What has around 1.9 mission asteroids in it & lies between Mars & Jupiter?
The Main Asteroid Belt
True/False: The asteroid belt has so many asteroids they are always running into each other, colliding, and it would be near to impossible to travel through it.
False
Which dwarf planet is the only one found within the Main Asteroid Belt?
Ceres
True/False: There are roughly about 600,000 miles between asteroids in the Main Asteroid Belt.
True
What type of Asteroid shares an orbit with a larger planet but doesn't collide with it because its position, the Lagrangian Points.
Trojan Asteroids
Asteroids that pass through the Earth's orbit are known as what?
Near-Earth Asteroids
True/False: NASA has sent robotic spacecraft to explore asteroids.
True
This is a theoretical cloud of predominantly icy planetesimals which surround the sun at distances from 2,000 to 2,000,000 AU.
The Oort Cloud
This is the most distant region of our Solar System.
The Oort Cloud
True/False: The Oort Cloud is thought to be like a giant spherical shell surrounding the solar system like a big bubble.
True
What is a region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter or radiation or light can escape it?
A Black Hole
The boundary of a black hole is also called what?
The Event Horizon
The infinitely small, dense point within a black hole where the laws of physics no longer apply is the ___.
Singularity
True/False: There are two main types of Black Holes, Stellar & Supermassive Black Holes.
True
What type of black hole starts because a star dies?
Stellar Black Hole
What types of black holes are enormous & found many times at the center of galaxies?
Supermassive Black Holes
