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 | 8 | 16.25 | 88% | 38% | 38% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 24.44 | 100% | 78% | 67% |
Data
| Cornell C | Cornell D | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |