Outer Space Trivia Questions With Answers
Which planet has the most moons?
A: Jupiter has the most of any planet. Saturn is second.
Which planet is the hottest?
A: Venus is the hottest planet.
Which planet is the coldest?
A: Pluto is the coldest planet. It has an icy temperature of -400 F.
How much would 100 pounds here on earth weigh on the
moon?
A: If you weighed 100 pounds on earth, you would weigh only about 16 pounds on the moon.
What is Titan's atmosphere made of?
A: The atmosphere of Titan is made mostly of Nitrogen (80-90%), just like the Earth's atmosphere!
What is the diameter of the earth?
A: The diameter of the earth at the equator is 7,926.41 miles (12,756.32 kilometers).
What is the diameter of the moon?
A: The diameter of the Moon is 3,474 kilometers.
How fast is the speed of light?
A: In metric units, the speed of light is exactly 299,792,458 meters per second (or 1,079,252,848.8 km/h).
Approximately 186,000 miles per second.
How many miles is one light year?
A: A light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles.
What is a meteorite made of?
A: Most meteorites contain at least some iron metal (actually an alloy of iron and nickel). You can see the metal shining on a broken surface. Iron meteorites are all metal, stony iron meteorites are about half metal, half stone, and stone meteorites contain small flecks of metal.
How long is an astronomical unit?
A: The Astronomical Unit is the average distance between the Sun and
Earth. Its value is 149,597,870 km (about 93 million miles).