General Knowledge Questions and Answers on Asteroids

1. Which of the following statement is/are correct about asteroid ‘1998 OR2’?
A. It has a diameter of 1.8-4.1 km.
B. It was found in 1998.
C. It will stay 3.9 million miles away from our planet.
D. All the above are correct

2. When the first asteroid named Ceres was discovered?
A. 1 January, 1800
B. 12 January, 1801
C. 12 February, 1800
D. 1 January, 1801

3. Which law suggested that there should be a planet between Mars and Jupiter?
A. Bode’s Law
B. Planetary Law
C. Celestial Law
D. None of the above

4. Asteroids are made up of
A. Nickel
B. Iron
C. Rocks
D. All the above

5. Asteroids are also known as
A. Minor Planets
B. Small Stars
C. Planets
D. Only A and B

6.  Who discovered first asteroid, 1 Ceres?
A. Giuseppe Piazzi
B. William Herschel
C. Nicolaus Copernicus
D. Edwin Hubble

7. Which of the following statement is/are correct about asteroid belt?
A. Between orbits Mars and Jupiter most of the asteroids lie.
B. This belt is divided into smaller belts.
C. This belt is separated by distances known as Kirkwood gaps.
D. All the above

8. Name an asteroid that is located at the Lagrangian points, L4 and L5 and lie in the same orbit as Jupiter?
A. Eros
B. Pallas
C. Trojan
D. Vesta

9. Name the group of asteroids that cross Earth’s orbit and also may come close to Earth or even collided with the planet?
A. Apollo
B. Vesta
C. Davida
D. Juno

10. Name an asteroid that has a dog-bone shape?
A. 216 Kleopatra
B. 25143 Itokawa
C. 2062 Aten
D. 21 Lutetia

11. Who had coined the term asteroid?
A. Carl Sagan
B. William Herschel
C. Issac Newton
D. Edmond Halley