transits - 2024 ACF Fall - Buzzpoints App

Question

Answer the following about NASA’s 2023 discovery of six exoplanets orbiting the star HD110067, for 10 points each.

[10m] They were observed by NASA’s “Exoplanet Survey Satellite” that detects these events to discover exoplanets. These events involve a body passing in front of a star without obscuring it, unlike an eclipse.

ANSWER: transits [accept Transit Exoplanet Survey Satellite]

[10e] The exoplanets are located in the constellation Coma Berenices at a distance where this phenomenon would take about 100 years to reach Earth. This phenomenon is transmitted by photons.

ANSWER: light [accept light-years]

[10h] The six exoplanets unusually exhibit this phenomenon, in which their orbital periods are simple integer ratios with each other. The orbits of Io, Europa, and Ganymede exhibit the 4-to-2-to-1 form of this phenomenon.

ANSWER: orbital resonance

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	1	20.00	100%	0%	100%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	9	17.78	100%	33%	44%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	7	20.00	100%	71%	29%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	12	15.00	100%	8%	42%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	10	16.00	100%	30%	30%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	5	14.00	80%	40%	20%

Data


Cornell C	Cornell D	0	10	10	20
CWRU B (DII)	Michigan C	10	10	10	30
Miami B (UG)	Miami A (UG)	0	10	10	20
Michigan A (UG)	Jefferson County Scholars (DII)	0	10	10	20
Ohio State B (DII)	Michigan D (UG)	0	10	0	10
Michigan State A	Michigan B (UG)	10	10	10	30
West Virginia B (UG)	Michigan State B	0	10	0	10
CWRU A (UG)	Ohio State A (UG)	10	10	0	20
Miami C (DII)	Ohio State C (DII)	0	10	0	10
Alberta	Arizona State B	10	10	10	30
UBC A	UW Pride	10	10	0	20
UBC B	UW Gluttony	10	10	0	20
Arizona State A	UW Chastity	0	10	0	10
Boise State	UW Envy	10	10	0	20
UW Lust	UW Sloth	0	10	0	10
UW Wrath	UW Greed	10	10	10	30
Auburn A	Georgia Tech A	0	10	10	20
Furman	Auburn B	0	10	10	20
Belmont	Clemson A	0	10	0	10
Alabama A	Clemson B	0	10	0	10
South Carolina B	Emory A	0	10	0	10
Georgia A	Georgia Tech C	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Emory Oxford	10	10	10	30
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech E	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	South Carolina A	0	10	0	10
Southern	Auburn C	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Mississippi State A	0	10	0	10
Tennessee B	Vanderbilt B	0	10	0	10
Tusculum	Appalachian State A	0	10	10	20
UNC D	Appalachian State B	0	10	0	10
Duke A	Duke B	0	10	0	10
James Madison A	Virginia	0	10	0	10
Liberty C	James Madison B	0	10	0	10
NC State	VCU	10	10	10	30
UNC A	Virginia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Liberty B	UNC B	0	10	0	10
Liberty A	UNC C	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech B	William & Mary	10	10	10	30
Bard A (UG)	Lehigh B (DII)	0	0	0	0
Lehigh A (UG)	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Penn B (DII)	Columbia J (DII)	10	10	0	20
Princeton A (UG)	Rowan A (DII)	10	10	10	30
Penn A (DII)	Rutgers A (UG)	0	10	0	10
West Virginia A (UG)	CWRU C (UG)	0	10	0	10