Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #107 - Space Science Trivia

Space science trivia questions - Scroll down for answers.

1. Which planet has the most moons?
    
2. Which planet is the hottest?
    
3. Which planet is the coldest?
    
4. How much would 100 pounds here on earth weigh on the moon?
    
5. What is Titan's atmosphere made of?
    
6. What is the diameter of the earth?
    
7. What is the diameter of the moon?
    
8. How fast is the speed of light?
    
9. How many miles is one light year?
    
10. What is a meteorite made of?
     
11. How long is an astronomical unit?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 107 - 
Space Science

1. Jupiter has the most of any planet. Saturn is second.
   
    
2. Venus is the hottest planet.
   
    
3. Pluto is the coldest planet. It has an icy temperature of -400 F.
   
    
4. If you weighed 100 pounds on earth, you would weigh only about 16
   pounds on the moon.
   
    
5. The atmosphere of Titan is made mostly of Nitrogen (80-90%), just like the Earth's atmosphere!
   
    
6. The diameter of the earth at the equator is 7,926.41 miles (12,756.32 kilometers).
   
    
7. The diameter of the Moon is 3,474 kilometers.
   
    
8. In metric units, the speed of light is exactly 299,792,458 meters per second (or 1,079,252,848.8 km/h).
   Approximately 186,000 miles per second.
   
    
9. A light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles.
   
    
10. Most meteorites contain at least some iron metal (actually an alloy of iron and nickel). You can see the metal shining on a broken surface. Iron meteorites are all metal, stony iron meteorites are about half metal, half stone, and stone meteorites contain small flecks of metal.
    
     
11. The Astronomical Unit is the average distance between the Sun and
    Earth. Its value is 149,597,870 km (about 93 million miles).