Questions in this quiz: Meteors and Meteorites

Meteoroid vs meteor vs meteorite. Annual showers (Perseids, Leonids, Geminids), notable falls (Chelyabinsk, Tunguska, Allende), Hoba (the largest intact meteorite), and meteorite types.

1. The parent body of one of the year's most reliable August meteor showers is which periodic comet? — Options: 109P/Swift–Tuttle, 55P/Tempel–Tuttle, 1P/Halley, 2P/Encke
2. The Geminid shower is unusual among major annual showers because its parent body is not a comet but a: — Options: Near-Earth asteroid, Centaur object, Kuiper Belt dwarf planet, Damocloid
3. Which event produced an estimated 1,500 injuries, mostly from broken window glass, when a roughly 20-meter body exploded over Russia in February 2013? — Options: The Sikhote-Alin fall, The Tunguska event, The Chelyabinsk superbolide, The Vitim event
4. The 1908 Tunguska event is most widely attributed to which kind of impactor? — Options: A stony asteroid that airburst at low altitude, An iron meteorite that cratered the taiga, A fragment of a long-period comet's nucleus, A pallasite that fragmented on entry
5. The Allende meteorite, which fell in Mexico in 1969, is scientifically prized chiefly because it is rich in: — Options: Calcium–aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs), Widmanstätten patterns of nickel-iron, Olivine crystals embedded in metal, Tektite glass spherules
6. The largest single intact meteorite ever found lies on a farm near Grootfontein in which country? — Options: Namibia, Argentina, Greenland, Tanzania
7. Which broad meteorite class accounts for the overwhelming majority — roughly 85–90% — of observed falls? — Options: Ordinary chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites, Iron meteorites, Achondrites