Discuss each question with your team. Be prepared to explain the reasoning behind your team's answers after the quiz.

1. Asteroids are
   • destroyed planets.
   • planets captured from outside the solar system.
   • chunks of frozen ice and methane.
   • debris left over from the formation of the Solar System.
2. Asteroids are close enough together that
   • probes traveling to the outer planets must dodge and weave between them.
   • their gravity will eventually pull them together into another planet.
   • they appear as a fuzzy belt across the sky on clear nights.
   • if you stood on one you could maybe see one other asteroid with the naked eye.
3. Ceres, the largest known asteroid in the solar system, is roughly the size of
   • a school bus
   • Van Allen Hall
   • Texas
   • Earth
4. Which of the following statements is FALSE?
   • Most of the asteroids in the Solar System are found between Jupiter and Neptune's orbits.
   • Some asteroids cross Earth's orbit.
   • An asteroid's right ascension and declination are constantly changing.
   • Asteroids shine by reflected sunlight.