1. Which planet is sometimes known as Earth's sister planet?

Mars
Uranus
Venus
Neptune

2. Most asteroids are found between . . .

Mars and Jupiter
Mercury and Venus
Earth and Mars
Jupiter and Saturn

3. I am often called a snowball in space. What am I?

An Asteroid
A Comet
A Meteor
Constellation

4. The name comet means:

Bright mass
Long-haired
Distant planet
Natural satellite

5. Halley's Comet appears once every . . .

Decade
43 years
100 years
76 years

6. Rotation is . . .

The circling of a smaller object around a larger object is . . .
A non-metallic chemical element.
The spinning of an object on it's axis
All of the above

7. What kind of star is the Sun?

A large, luminous star with a cool surface and red in colour
A small, hot star near the end of its nuclear fusion period
A medium size star known as a yellow dwarf
A natural body having a regular orbit around a larger body

8. In Greek mythology, Orion was . . .

A lion
Seven sisters
A giant hunter
A young woman

9. Who was the first woman in space?

Chiaki Naito-Mukai
Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova
Roberta Bondar
Valentina Tereshkova

10. The first two humans to set foot on the moon were . . .

Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong and John Glenn
John Glenn and Buzz Aldrin
James Lovell and Neil Armstrong