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Trivia Questions

America's first weather satellite, its name stood for Television & Infrared Observation Satellite

Corvus, a small constellation south of Virgo, is said to represent this black bird

In 1973 Alan Bean spent nearly 2 months aboard this U.S. space station

2 stars in the bowl of the Big Dipper, called The Pointers, point to this star

Some scientists say thousands of these, known as "dirty snowballs", strike our atmosphere every day

Unlike the spiral type, like ours, the elliptical type of this system has little gas & rather dim stars

Most of these minor planets revolve around the sun in a "belt" between the orbits of Mars & Jupiter

Titan is the largest moon of this planet; Calypso & Telesto are among the smallest

On Valentine's Day 2000, the Near spacecraft is due to begin orbiting this asteroid named for the Greek god of love

One of the more impressive meteor showers comes in December from this constellation of the twins