True/False: Ceres is the farthest Dwarf Planet from Earth.
False-It is the closest.
True/False: Haumea is the first known Kuiper Belt Object to have rings.
True
Which planet appears reddish-brownish color?
MakeMake
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: Haumea is one of the slowest rotating objects in our solar system.
False-It is one of the fastest
Which Dwarf Planet is about the same size as Pluto but 3 times farther from the Sun?
Eris
True/False: The Kuiper belt has millions of small icy bodies from the creation of our Solar System.
True
Which Dwarf Planet is Oval-shaped like a football?
Haumea
What is the name of the Spacecraft that NASA sent to orbit around Ceres?
Dawn
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: As Eris orbits the Sun, it actually leaves the Kuiper Belt and possibly the Solar System too
True
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: Other than Ceres, the rest of the Dwarf Planets are found in the Kuiper Belt.
True
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
How many moons does Haumea have?
Two
True/False: Pluto has 10 moons orbiting it.
False-it has only 5 moons that orbit it.
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 is the largest Dwarf Planet.
True-and it is the largest object in the Kuiper Belt.
True/False: Ceres is the largest of all the Dwarf Planets.
False-It is the smallest
True/False: It takes Pluto 248 Earth Years to orbit the Sun just once making one year.
True
True/False: Eris has 1 moon named Dysnomia.
True
True/False: We discovered water on Ceres.
True
True/False: MakeMake has frozen methane & ethane on its surface
True