True/False: Ceres is the largest of all the Dwarf Planets.
False-It is the smallest
True/False: Ceres is the largest object in the Asteroid Belt.
True
How many Earth hours does it take Ceres to spin around to make one day?
9 Earth Hours
True/False: Ceres is the farthest Dwarf Planet from Earth.
False-It is the closest.
Ceres is about 2.8 AU from the Sun, so it takes how many Earth Years to make one Year on this Dwarf Planet (one orbit around the Sun)?
It takes 4.5 Earth Years
What is the name of the Spacecraft that NASA sent to orbit around Ceres?
Dawn
True/False: We discovered water on Ceres.
True
True/False: Other than Ceres, the rest of the Dwarf Planets are found in the Kuiper Belt.
True
True/False: The Kuiper belt has millions of small icy bodies from the creation of our Solar System.
True
True/False: Objects within the Kuiper belt are called Tiny-Noodle Objects
False-They are called TNO’s, or Trans-Neptunian Objects
True/False: Pluto was once considered a planet.
True-until they changed the definition & decided that objects that don’t have enough gravity to clear their orbital paths should be called Dwarf Planets.
True/False: Pluto is the largest Dwarf Planet.
True-and it is the largest object in the Kuiper Belt.
True/False: Pluto might have an ocean just beneath its surface.
True-and some believe it may have life in the liquid waters.
True/False: Pluto has 10 moons orbiting it.
False-it has only 5 moons that orbit it.
True/False: It takes Pluto 248 Earth Years to orbit the Sun just once making one year.
True
Which Dwarf Planet is Oval-shaped like a football?
Haumea
