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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2024 ACF Fall at CornellfallY120.00100%0%100%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio StatefallY917.78100%33%44%
2024 ACF Fall at WashingtonfallY720.00100%71%29%
2024 ACF Fall at GeorgiafallY1215.00100%8%42%
2024 ACF Fall at North CarolinafallY1016.00100%30%30%
2024 ACF Fall at RutgersfallY816.2588%38%38%
2024 ACF Fall at IllinoisfallY924.44100%78%67%

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Auburn AGeorgia Tech A0101020
FurmanAuburn B0101020
BelmontClemson A010010
Alabama AClemson B010010
South Carolina BEmory A010010
Georgia AGeorgia Tech C0101020
Georgia Tech BEmory Oxford10101030
Tennessee AGeorgia Tech E0101020
Georgia Tech DSouth Carolina A010010
SouthernAuburn C010010
Vanderbilt AMississippi State A010010
Tennessee BVanderbilt B010010