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1.    Time taken by the sun light to reach earth

8 minutes 16.6 seconds

 

2.    Planet closest to earth

Venus

 

3.    Which planet is called the Lord of Heavens?

Jupiter

 

4.    Who discovered Neptune?

J.G Gallee of Germany in 1846

 

5.    Who is the first person to die in space flight?

Co. Komerov on April 23, 1967

 

6.    Where is the Kennedy Space Centre?

Cape Canaveral in Forida, USA

 

7.    Which planet is known as ‘rolling planet’?

Uranus

 

8.    What is the name given to mass which is less than 1.4 Solar Mass?

Chandrasekhar Limit

 

9.    Which is the largest constellation?

Hydra

 

10. Enck’s Comet has the shortest known period of about …..

3.3 years

 

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11. The pole star is a part of the ……. Constellation

Ursa Minor

 

12. Who is considered as the first Astrophysicist?

Johannes Kepler

 

13. Which Constellation is known as ‘Hunter’?

Orion

 

14. NASA’s Deep Impact Space Missions was employed to take detailed pictures of which comet nucleus?

Tempet

 

15. Kalpana Chawla passed away as a result of crash of which space shuttle?

Columbia

 

16. Radio signals are reflected to earth in the layer called

Exosphere

 

17. Geostationary orbits of planets around the Sun can be

Circular elliptic

 

18. Who is the father of Space Science?

Konstantin Tsilkovsky

 

19. Who was the oldest man to go to space?

John Glenn

 

20. The comets orbit around ……..

The Sun

 

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21. ……… is a cloud of galactic dust

Nebula

 

22. ………. Was the first space rocket to hit the Moon

Lunik II

 

23. By which direct method is the age of the Solar System estimated?

Radiometric dating

 

24. Which planet was for the first time observed in 1930?

Pluto

 

25. What is the mean surface temperature of the Sun?

5500°C

 

26. Which planet of the Solar System spins on its axis at the fastest rate?

Earth

 

27. Which planet is known as the ‘will-o-the wisp’ in the sky?

Neptune

 

28. What is the path of the sun across the sky?

Ecliptic

 

29. Which satellite is known as the artificial baby moon?

Sputnik

 

30. Higgs Boson is popularly known as

God Particle

 

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31. Who is the founder of Scientific Astronomy?

Hoffman

 

32. Name the satellite which first relayed television

Telstar

 

33. …….. is the landing craft used by Armstrong

Eagle

 

34. ……. Is the first American launched in a spaceship

John H Glenn

 

35. Which is the slowest rotating planet?

Venus

 

36. Which planet has the period of rotation nearly the same as that of Earth?

Mars

 

37. Which planet has the Great Red Spot?

Jupiter

 

38. Name the comet which is going to appear in 2062

Halley’s Comet

 

39. Which planet is known as rusty planet?        

Mars

 

40. ……….. is the first communication satellite of the world

Echo, USA

 

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41. The World’s first Satellite dedicated exclusively to education

EDUSAT

 

42. The American Scientist who coined the term ‘black hole’

John Wheelar

 

43. International Astronaumical Union considered …….. as the serial number 134340 in August 2006

Pluto

 

44. The Satish Dhawan Space Centre is located at

Sriharikota

 

45. The first satellite to be carried by an Indian launch

IRS – IB

 

46. The first Indian Communication Satellite

APPLE

 

47. Which planet is known as Sun’s pet?

Venus

 

48. Which star determines the latitude of Southern hemisphere?

Hadley’s Actant

 

49. Which celestial object is sometimes referred to as ghost?

Comets

 

50. Which planet has the highest escape velocity?

Jupiter

 

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51. Commercial arm of ISRO

The Antrix Corporation

 

52. Space Centre National Mesosphere, Stratosphere, Troposphere Reader Facility (NMRF) situated in

Gandaki, Near Therepate

 

53. What is the name of India’s first indigenously built second generation satellite?

INSAT – 2A

 

54. ‘Atlantes’ is the name of space shuttle launched by

USA

 

55. First woman Commander of Space Shuttle

Eileen Collins

 

56. Name the space shuttle which exploded seconds after its launch and killed astronauts

Challenger

 

57. The main launch centre of ISRO

SHAR Centre (Sreeharikotta)

 

58. Who made a significant contribution as project Director to develop India’s first Indigenous Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV-III) at ISRO?

A.P.J Abdul Kalam

 

59. The applied research unit of which company is known as SET Labes

Infosys Technologies Ltd.

 

60. Which experimental Satellite for earth observations was launched on June 1979?

Bhaskara –I

 

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61. If you stand on the surface of Mercury, what color would the sky be?

Black

 

62. What is the major component of Venus’ atmosphere?

Carbon dioxide

 

63. What is the name of the largest-known volcano in our Solar System?

Olympus Moon

 

64. When did the first spaceship from Earth land on Mars?

1965

 

65. What is the major component of Jupiter’s atmosphere?

Hydrogen

 

66. Which heavenly body is called Earth Little Sisters?

Titan, moon of Saturn

 

67. What does Cassini law describe

Rotation of Moon

 

 

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