15 questions on the asteroid belt:
The quiz above includes the following questions:
- Where is the asteroid belt roughly located?
- To differentiate the asteroid belt from other groups of asteroids, it is commonly called the ...
- Roughly how thick is the asteroid belt?
- What is the total mass of the asteroid belt?
- The asteroid belt’s total mass is what percentage of that of Earth’s Moon?
- It is thought that originally the asteroid belt’s mass was equivalent to ...
- How many asteroids in the belt are currently known to be bigger than 100 km?
- The asteroid belt’s only dwarf planet is ...
- How many 1km (or more) wide asteroids are there in the asteroid belt according to a recent infrared survey?
- How many different categories of asteroids are there in the asteroid belt?
- C-type asteroids are rich in ...
- S-type asteroids are rich in silicate and are mostly found in the ...
- What percentage of the total population of the asteroid belt is made of metal rich asteroids (M-type)?
- The asteroid belt is between ...
- In 1801 Italian astronomer Guiseppe Piazzi discovered the first asteroid belt object. What was it?