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Old 07-August-2004, 01:59 AM
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Default Re: 3rd Annual Astronomy Challenge

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Originally Posted by milli360
1. What year did the fiftieth star appear on the USAn flag?
Trick question. Everybody knows that there are only 47 states.
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4. What day of the year has the worst time to see the Milky Way? (to nearest week)
The day that the store ran out and I had to get a Twix instead.
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5. What comes next in this sequence: Uranus, Neptune, Pluto?
I'll guess Dopey, but I don't remember a Disney character named Uranus.
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7. To the nearest hundredth of a second, how long does it take the Earth to rotate? (see question 1 of the first challenge, or question 9 of the second one)
Exactly 1 day.
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8. When was Io discovered? (to within ten years)
Captain Eo was discovered in 1986.
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