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Quiz: Moon matters
1. What is the name of Pluto’s only moon?
2. Which is the largest moon or satellite in our solar system
3. What is the study of the Moon’s physical features called?
4. Where will you have to be to see Earthshine?
5. Mars has two moons, what are their names?
6. Which moon of Saturn was almost shattered by the object that produced the Herschel Crater on its surface?
7. Which of the four Galilean moons around Jupiter is the closest to the planet?
8. When did Galilei discover the four moons of Jupiter, a sound evidence indicating that not all heavenly bodies circle the earth, supporting Copernicus Heliocentric theory?
9. How long is one day on the Moon?
10. What crater of our Moon has white spoke like rays appearing from it that are the most visible from earth using good binoculars?
Answers:
1. Charon.
2. Ganymede, which is a moon of Jupiter
3. Selenography
4. On the moon earthshine is the light of the sun reflected by the earth on to the moon
5. Phobos and Deimons, meaning Fear and Panic. They were so named because in Roman mythology, Phobos and Deimons drew the chariot of the Roman war god Mars
6. Mimas, the smallest of Saturns moons
7. Io. Io is also extremely volcanically active due to the tidal forces exerted on it by Jupiters tremendous gravitational pull
8. 1610
9. 27.3 Earth days. The Moon is in a synchronous orbit around the earth so its day is equal to the time it takes to orbit the earth
10. Tycho, which has some of the steepest peaks on our moon
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