Astronomy Trivia Page - 4

Trivia Questions

In 1994 fragments of Shoemaker-Levy 9 struck this planet, creating a plume over 1,000 miles high

The solar observatory at Kitt Peak in this Southwestern state focuses on spectroscopy

According to one of this German's laws of motion, planets travel faster when they are closer to the sun

All the stars you can see with the naked eye are part of this galaxy

A camera orbiting this planet in March 1999 snapped a crater that resembles a "happy face"

In an emergency repair mission scheduled for October 1999 NASA will replace all of the gyros in this telescope

In 1967 what were called "Schwarzschild Singularities" were renamed this

Its "A" ring is a little over 9,000 miles wide

Its perigee, the closest it can come to Earth, is 221,456 miles

The lowest point on this heavenly body is the Diana Chasma, a rift valley