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Space: The Final Frontier

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  • Did Gravity pulled together dust and gas to form the planets?
    True
  • Name the 8 planets in our solar system!
    Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. (Pluto if you believe in that sorta thing)
  • True or False: Planet formation required solid “seeds” before gravity could build planets?
    True - It's called Planetestimals
  • How many rings does Saturn have?
    Over 1,000 rings!!!
  • True or False: Removing gravity from a planet would not change its orbital paths.
    False - Planets orbital paths are defined by their gravitational strength.
  • How far is the Earth from the Sun?
    151.84 million km
  • What is the biggest planet in our solar system?
    Jupiter!!
  • True or False: There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
    False - The Milky Way has hundreds of billions of stars, more than trees on Earth.
  • True or False: Space travel makes your spine longer because of reduced gravity.
    True - Astronauts actually grow a few centimeters in microgravity .
  • True or False: A light-year is a measure of time.
    False - It's the distance that light travels in one year which is about 9.46 trillion kilometers
  • True or False: The Moon has a "dark side" that never faces the Sun.
    False - The Moon rotates too, so all sides receive sunlight
  • Yes or No: Do black holes form the same way as planets?
    No - they form from collapsed stars.
  • True or False: Your thoughts are like gravity, pulling your goals to you like how gravity pulls dust together to make a planet
    True! Let's talk more about that in tonight's workshop.
  • True or False: All planets form at exactly the same speed.
    False – growth rates vary by environment.
  • True or False: Space junk travels at extremely high speeds - fast enough to damage spacecraft.
    True. Even small debris moves fast enough (~28,000 km/h) to pose risks
  • True or False: The Universe is estimated to be 13.8 billion years old.
    True - that is the current estimate :)
  • True or False: You can walk on all the planets in the Milky Way!
    False - Jupiter and Saturn are gas giant planets and Uranus and Neptune are the ice giants. All of them do not have solid surfaces.
  • True or False: Only very large objects like planets and stars have gravity.
    False. Every object with mass exerts gravitational pull - even small dust particles
  • What does Einstein's E=mc² stand for?
    Einstein's Formula E=mc² is where E=energy and m=mass and c²=the speed of light (or in simple terms speed).
  • Guess how long is one day on Venus?
    1 day on Venus is 243 'Earth' Days. That's longer than it takes Venus to orbit the Sun! (225 'Earth Days')
  • True or False: Gravity works only on Earth.
    False - it works everywhere in the universe
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