Hard Comet and Asteroid Mastery Quiz
Test deep knowledge of icy visitors and rocky relics orbiting our Sun.
Quiz Questions
Answer all questions below and test your knowledge.
- 1
Which comet discovered in 1994 became the brightest object in the night sky for two years?
- 2
What term describes the distant region where most long‑period comets originate?
- 3
Which asteroid was the first to have samples returned to Earth after a spacecraft landed on it?
- 4
The Tunguska event of 1908 is most plausibly explained by the impact of which type of object?
- 5
What is the approximate orbital period of the short‑period comet 2P/Encke?
- 6
Which taxonomy classifies asteroids by composition into C, S, and M types?
- 7
During a close approach in 2024, which near‑Earth asteroid was observed to spin faster than two minutes per rotation?
- 8
What physical process primarily drives the formation of a comet’s ion tail?
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