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Our Solar System & The Weirdest Things Found in  ...

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    Covers what we learn during Lesson 4 of the Weirdest Things Found in Space Class: https://outschool.com/classes/weirdest-things-found-in-space-sp-anYbWxSz?usid=osbrOtkO&signup=true
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  • True/False: Our Solar System has 2 belts.
    True
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  • True/False: The furthest belt away from Earth is called the Asteroid Belt.
    False-It is the Kuiper Belt
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  • True/False: The Kuiper Belt is full of dark, unknown, & mysterious objects.
    True
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  • True/False: There are no planets in the Kuiper Belt.
    False-There are dwarf planets and other planetesimals in the Kuiper Belt.
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  • True/False: The Kuiper Belt is one of the least explored areas of our Solar System.
    True
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  • True/False: NASA has recently sent the Apollo spacecraft to the Kuiper Belt to explore it.
    False-It is the New Horizons space probe.
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  • True/False: After studying Pluto, the New Horizons space probe detected a weird space rock.
    True
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  • True/False: The weird space rock found was named Arawn.
    True
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  • True/False: Arawn was so weird because of its size.
    False-it was due to several other things, but not its size.
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  • True/False: Arawn was spinning very slowly.
    False-it was spinning super fast & should have torn itself apart from the force of the spin.
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  • True/False: Arawn had lights going on & off in a pattern.
    True
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  • True/False: As the New Horizons Probe got closer to Arawn, all of a sudden, everything on the probe stopped working.
    True
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  • True/False: From the evidence, it seems like this weird space rock has the ability to affect human technology.
    True
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  • True/False: After the New Horizons Probe came back on-line, Arawn was still right where it had been.
    False-It was completely gone & could not be found again.
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  • True/False: Arawn is the weirdest space rock we have found in our very own Solar System.
    True...at least for now!
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  • True/False: There are still many mysteries in our Solar System, our Galaxy, and the Universe to uncover.
    True, very true!
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