AOA,

QUESTION 1: How distant is the closest star?
54 million miles away
72 million miles away
93 million miles away
127 million miles away


QUESTION 2: The North Star, known as Polaris, is the brightest star in the sky?
True
False


QUESTION 3: Saturn, with its rings, could just fit between the Earth and the Moon ?
True
False


QUESTION 4: You are making a model of the Earth and Moon to show their relative sizes and massiveness. You've decided that Earth will be a ball of clay 6 inches in diameter, so the Moon should be: ?
a tennis ball;
a ping pong ball;
a golf ball;
a baseball.


QUESTION 5: Meteor showers are: ?
falling stars;
large chunks of rock;
dust and other debris from comets.


QUESTION 6: Which planet was discovered in 1781 by amateur astronomer William Herschel?
Pluto
Jupiter
Uranus
Neptune


QUESTION 7: Which planet has a diameter of 4,200 miles and orbits our sun every 687 days?
Saturn
Venus
Mars
Jupiter


QUESTION 8: Where does "sky" end and "space" begin?
5 miles high
20 miles high
50 miles high
140 miles high


QUESTION 9: Which of the following statements is true?
The moon orbits around the Earth's center;
The Earth and the Moon each orbit around a common center;
The Earth orbits around the Moon's center.


QUESTION 10: A total eclipse of the Sun by the Moon can only occur when the Moon is: ?
at first quarter;
full;
third quarter;
new;
any of the above.