Solar System Facts

Here are some questions about our Solar System. do you know the answers?
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What planet would float in water if there were a pool large enough to hold it at buoyancy?
Saturn
What was the name of the comet that Marshall Applewhite believed hid a spaceship behind it that you had to die to board?
Hale-Bopp
What was the name of the comet that broke up and crashed into Jupiter?
Shoemaker-Levy 9
How many fragments did it break into before impact?
21
How many earth years in a plutonian year?
247.68
What is the minimum estimation for the number of years it takes for Sol System to orbit the Milky way?
225 million
What dwarf planet in the Cuiper Belt is roughly the same size as Pluto?
Eris
Pluto and it's moon orbit a Barycenter(a spot somewhere between the core's of each body that is the mathmatical center of mass between them), rather than Charon orbiting Pluto alone. What does this make them?
binary planet
What other planet has this relationship with it's moon(s)?
Earth
Because the Earth's orbit is not circular around the sun, the distance between the two varies. What is the difference in miles between it's closest point and furthest point?
about 3,500,000 miles
Questions
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Is Jupiter's great red spot getting larger or smaller?
smaller
What asteroid in the main asteroid belt is large enough to be called a dwarf planet?
Ceres
What percent of the moon's mass does the entirely of the main asteroid belt equal?
4%
Name two other asteroid populations in Sol System.
Trojan
Near Earth Asteroids
What are the two 'dust moons' that orbit the Earth in actuality?
clouds of dust
Who discovered them in 1961, even though they weren't confirmed until 2018?
Kazimierz Kordylewski
What direction does a comet's tail always point?
away from the sun
What starts at roughly 500km above the surface of the earth?
exosphere
The atoms of this section don't behave like atmosphere because while they are subject to gravitation, they lack the _________ to interact with one another.
density
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