Finals Round 1

Infinite Bounce

Hope you have been to the TECHPLANET!!!!

Something unexpected is happening on X. 2013 was supposed to be the year of “Y" the peak of the 11-year cycle. Yet 2013 has arrived and Z is relatively low. Z are well below their values from 2011.

What am I talking about?

(or Give me just Z)

A persisting hexagonal wave pattern around the north polar vortex in the atmosphere of this planet at about 78°N was first noted in the Voyager images.The straight sides of the northern polar hexagon are each approximately 13,800 km long. entire structure rotates with a period of 10h 39m 24s (the same period as that of the planet's radio emissions) which is assumed to be equal to the period of rotation of the planet’s interior. Identify the planet

Id. X X was born in Chicago on December 22, 1911. He was a ham radio operator, studied radio engineering, and worked for various radio

manufacturers in Chicago from 1933 to 1947. He constructed the first Radio Telescope.

This colorful view of Y was produced by using images from the color base map imaging campaign during MESSENGER's primary mission. These colors are not what Y would look like to the human eye, but rather the colorsenhance the chemical, mineralogical, and physical differences between the rocks that make up Y's surface.

Id. X

X was born in Karnal, India. X was the first Indian American astronaut. X first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator.

Id. XX is a classic spiral galaxy. At only 30 million light years distant and fully 60 thousand light years across, M51, also known as NGC 5194, is one of the brightest and most picturesque galaxies on the sky. This image is a digital combination of a ground-based image from the 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory and a space-based image from the Hubble Space Telescope highlighting sharp features normally too red to be seen.

The rings of __________was the third ring system to be discovered in the Solar System. It was first observed in 1979 by the Voyager 1 space probe and thoroughly investigated in the 1990s by the Galileo orbiter. It has also been observed by the Hubble Space Telescope and from Earth for the past 23 years. Ground-based observations of the rings require the largest available telescopes.

What are such diagrams commonly known as?

Walther Bauersfeld, chief design engineer and later director of Carl Zeiss, hit upon this idea in 1910s. The original plan had been for some sort of globe similar to that of the 1654 Globe of Gottorf. The new idea simplified things immensely. The mechanism could be on a small scale and easily controllable. Five years of calculations and trials were needed to bring this idea to fruition. Five years, in which Bauersfeld and a large staff of scientists, engineers, and draftsmen considered the astronomical principles involved which would realize them.

What are we talking about.

X is an Indian astrophysicist. X is a proponent of steady state cosmology. He developed with Sir Fred Hoyle the conformal gravity theory, commonly known as Hoyle–X theory. It synthesizes Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and Mach's Principle. It proposes that the inertial mass of a particle is a function of the masses of all other particles, multiplied by a coupling constant, which is a function of cosmic epoch. In cosmologies based on this theory, the gravitational constant G decreases strongly with time.

Mercury - Alpha Pictoris

Venus - Phi Draconis

Moon - Delta Doradus

Earth - ______________

Mars - Deneb

Saturn - Delta Octantis

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Round 2

A large but faint constellation having M92 is named after a Greek hero who had a horse, based on which also we have a constellation. Identify both the constellation.

Identify X and Y

The Egyptian god of sky, X is represented by a Y. According to mythology the sun is the right eye of X and the moon is his left eye and they traverse the sky when the Y flies across it. X had a fierce battle for Egypt with Set in which he lost his left eye. This is sometimes given as an explanation for the moon being less bright than the sun.

Which constellation, containing the North Galactic Pole, owe its name to Queen and wife of King of Egypt, Ptolemy III under whose reign Alexandria became an important cultural place.?

Identify X and Y

• X, the brightest star in the constellation Y, the largest constellation, is named from the Arabic “the solitary one", there being no other bright stars near it. It was also known as the "backbone of the Serpent" to the Arabs.

• X, daughter of Y and Z(who was very proud of her beauty) is the fertility Goddess in Greek mythology and also “the Lady of the Heaven”.

Identify X, Y and Z.

According to Greek mythology, X is a winged divine white horse. He was sired by Poseidon and was instructed by Zeus to bring lightning and thunder from Olympus. He was captured by the Greek hero Bellerophon near the fountain Peirene with the help of Athena and Poseidon. His rider, however, falls off his back trying to reach Mount Olympus. Zeus transformed him into the a constellation and placed him up in the sky. Id X.

Round 3

Infinite Bounce

____________, as it represents by its name, is an instrument, which is very helphul to the astronomers to find out the zenith distance and the altitude of the sun. The beauty of the instrument is, that it givs us direct readings. Basically the instrument consists of two circular stone building. If we unite them together, it becomes one instrument. This way one is complimentary to the other. They are constructed at a resonable distance. In the center of the instrument a prependicularrod is fixed, which is of the same height of the building itself.

Twelve stone triangles are fixed above the ground. These triangular stone slabs are graduated from 90 degree to 45 degree, while 45 to 0 degree the graduations are on the circular wall. This is an instrument by which we come to know the movement of stars.

__________ is the Low-Frequency Array for radio astronomy, built by the Netherlands astronomical foundation ASTRON and operated by ASTRON's radio observatory. It is the largest connected radio telescope ever built,using a new concept based on a vast array of omni-directional antennas. The project is based on an interferometric array of radio telescopes using about 20,000 small antennas concentrated in at least 48 larger stations. 40 of these stations are distributed across the Netherlands, five stations in Germany, and one each in Great Britain, France and Sweden.

X is a titanium-rich mineral with the chemical formula (Mg,Fe2+)Ti2O5. It was first found at Tranquility Base on the Moon in 1969 and named for the three Apollo 11 astronauts. Together with tranquillityite and pyroxferroite, it is one of the three minerals which were discovered on the Moon. X was then identified in various locations on Earth and synthesized in the laboratory.

Under some conditions cloud pockets can develop to contain large droplets of water or ice that fall into clear air as they evaporate. Such pockets may

occur in turbulent air near a thunderstorm. Resulting phenomenon is called X and can appear especially dramatic if sunlit from the side.

________ constellation was created by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille out of dim Southern Hemisphere stars in honour of Table Mountain, a South African mountain. Though the stars of ___________ do not feature in any ancient mythology, the mountain it is named after has a rich mythology. Called "Tafelberg" in Dutch and German, the __________has two neighbouring mountains called "Devil's Peak" and "Lion's Head"

Cydonia is a region on the planet Mars, and has attracted both scientific and popular interest. The name originally referred to the albedo feature (distinctively coloured area) that was visible from Earthbound telescopes.

Cydonia was first imaged in detail by the Viking 1 and Viking 2 orbiters.

Why did one of the images taken by Viking 1 on July 25, 1976 attracted worldwide attention?

Logo of what?

Giotto di Bondone painting The Adoration of the Magi(1301) is believed to be also representing X. The painting is considered to be a milestone in the history of astronomical art because of this. What is X?

A ______ eclipse shifts between a total and annular eclipse. At certain points on the surface of Earth it appears as a total eclipse, whereas at other points it appears as annular. _______eclipses are comparatively rare.

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Round 4

RULES• Questions open to all

• Write down the answers on the piece of paper provided to you.

• If all the six teams get it correct, no points

• If five teams get it -> 5 points

• Four teams get it -> 10 points

• Three teams -> 15 points

• Two teams -> 20 points

• Only one team gets it ->25 points

A _________star is a late type star similar to a red giant (or occasionally to a red dwarf) whose atmosphere contains more_________thanoxygen; the two elements combine in the upper layers of the star, forming X, which consumes all the oxygen in the atmosphere, leaving ___________ free to form other compounds, giving the star a "sooty" atmosphere and a strikingly red appearance.

____________________refers to the blurring and twinkling of astronomical objects such as stars caused by turbulent mixing in the Earth's atmosphere varying the optical refractive index. The _______________conditions on a given night at a given location describe how much the Earth's atmosphere perturbs the images of stars as seen through a telescope.The most common ____________ measurement is the diameter (technically full width at half maximum or FWHM) of the ________ disc (the point spread function for imaging through the atmosphere).

The early _________ was invented in the Hellenistic world in 150 BC and is often attributed to Hipparchus. The _______was effectively an analog calculator capable of working out several different kinds of problems in spherical astronomy. Theon of Alexandria wrote a detailed treatise on the _______, and Lewis (2001) argues that Ptolemy used an _______ to make the astronomical observations recorded in the Tetrabiblos._______s continued in use in the Greek-speaking world throughout the Byzantine period. About 550 AD the Christian philosopher John Philoponus wrote a treatise on the _______ in Greek, which is the earliest extant Greek treatise on the instrument. In addition, Severus Sebokht, a bishop who lived in Mesopotamia, also wrote a treatise on the _______ in Syriac in the mid-7th century. Severus Sebokht refers in the introduction of his treatise to the _______ as being made of brass, indicating that metal _______s were known in the Christian East well before they were developed in the Islamic world or the Latin West.

______________is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 spacecraft from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers from Earth, as part of the solar system Family Portrait series of images. In the photograph, Earth is shown as a tiny dot (0.12 pixel in size) against the vastness of space. The Voyager 1 spacecraft, which had completed its primary mission and was leaving the Solar System, was commanded by NASA to turn its camera around and to take a photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space, at the request of Carl Sagan.

• Albrecht Dürer was a German painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His high-quality woodcuts (nowadays often called Meisterstiche or "master prints") established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since.

• He is considered as the first to publish X in 1515, which is an important milestone in the history of Astronomical art.

Name the phenomenon

X is an 8.5 cm (slightly over 3") aluminium sculpture of an astronaut in a spacesuit, which commemorates astronauts and cosmonauts who have died in the advancement of space exploration. It is at Hadley Rille on the Moon, placed there by the crew of Apollo 15 on August 1, 1971.