5 February 2006, Hawaii?

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Your question has multiple answers due to lack of information, the evening and northern hemisphere helped:

I'm guessing Hawaii, February 5th, 2006 around 10:30.

[Edit: 10 minutes late ]

Hmmm,
who is going to get the cigar?
Eroica was first with the day and the location, but evanoconnor guessed the time almost to the minute. And he was right about the missing information.

Anyway, applause to you both

Maybe you can decide between the two of you who is going to continue?

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go ahead, I had the last one

Thank you.

What is wrong with this list of the constellations? (I spotted seven mistakes - there may be more!)

Constellations

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I don't know how particular you are being, but...

• Andromeda is missing
• Canes is not specified as Canes Venatici
• Scutum is misspelled as Scuturn
• Serpens is not specified as Serpens Caput
• Serpens again is not specified as Serpens Cauda
• Triangulum is not specified as Triangulum Australe
• The first Triangulum is misspelled as "triagulum."
• Camelopardalis is misspelled as "cameloparadalis."

That's all I can up with. And yes, I cheated using my Sky Atlas (had to put that $$ to good use). I haven't memorized them all--has anybody?
BTW, I don't care if I get the cigar or not, it was fun looking at them. If that isn't what you intended, well,

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And Sagittarius is misspelled saggitarius;
It's Piscis austrinus, not pisces austrinus.
It's doradus, not Dorado.

I think it should be Chamaeleon, not Chameleon.

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My Sky Atlas, purchased through Sky & Telescope, does spell it Sagittarius, and Piscis Austrinus, however they spell it Dorado. ???

Gotta go to work...

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That's six. Serpens is the correct name.

Well, that's all eight. Dorado is quite correct (Doradus is the genitive). I wondered about Chamaeleon, but acording to Wikipedia's disambiguation page, Chameleon can mean Chamaeleon (constellation), so I declined to include it.

I'll give the cigar to Melusine for getting most of them (including one I had missed).

[Edit: You have used 13 images (i.e. smileys) in your message. You are only allowed to use 8 images!!]

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Thanks Eroica, but you can ask another question...I'm at work and can't think right now and MUST start working here before I lose my job. Make it tough for Arneb, , he likes a good challenge!

Edit to add: Thanks to Sky & Telescope for their Sky Atlas...that I paid for. ;-)

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Die Sonne scheidet hinter dem Gebirge. In alle Täler steigt der Abend nieder
mit seinen Schatten, die voll Kühlung sind.

A note: when Glom started this quiz he didn't post rules, and many people have used sources (see page 1), which I think is OK. It's ethical to mention if one does, imo, however. The last question I saw as a timed one, and figured Arneb would be lurking around the corner (he wakes up first!)

Anyway, I found a site that has difficulty-rated science quizzes, which I like. Sources can be used, but if you know the answers off the top of your head then bravo for you!

I am omitting most of the multiple choices.

Ten Question Quiz

1. Which planet's diameter is 40% smaller than Earth and 40% larger than Earth's moon?
2. How far from our galaxy is our sister-world, Andromeda?
3. Which planet's surface is 98% nitrogen?
4. According to scientists at NASA, how far from Earth is the edge of the universe?
5. The biggest asteroid to hit the Earth in the 20th century struck on what continent?
6. Light cannot escape from a black hole once it crosses which of the following?
   • • a) the Hallenburg point
     • b) the Schwarzschild radius
     • c) the perpendicular angle of a black hole
     • d) the Flutzenhouser diameter
7. Which of Mars' moons orbits the red planet three times in a single day (or once every seven hours)? (One Word spelling counts)
8. Polaris (the North Star) is the Latin abbreviation for what?
9. Which planet has winds that reach speeds of 1,100 miles per hour at its equator?
10. The atmospheric composition of Neptune is 85% helium.
    • a) True
      b) False

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Die Sonne scheidet hinter dem Gebirge. In alle Täler steigt der Abend nieder
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Ill give this a try tho one of these puzzles me
1. Mercury
2. 2.35 megaLY
3. Pluto
4. 13.7 billion LY
5. Asia
6. (b)
7. Phobos
8. pole
9. Jupiter
10. (b)

[Edit: GRRRRRRRRR it happened again]

All but #9, IMO.

Evanoconor missed 1 and 10.

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"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

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You can never have that much helium mean b, false. Since you can't have that much helium [Edit: Unless you are in the late stages of nuclear fusion]. the little circle is from your original post, just to let you know, I still was second anyways

IMO, 4 and 9 are incorrect, and 8 was corrected by Eroica (they require the proper names, not the translated meaning ). George didn't see that 4 is incorrect, too. There's still a chance to list all 10 correctly...anybody...#4 is up for grabs.

Evanconnor missed #'s 1,4,8



BTW, because of WMAP articles I got #4 right, too. I did OK...like 50%,

BTW, IMO, have you checked your PM mailbox since last week?

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Die Sonne scheidet hinter dem Gebirge. In alle Täler steigt der Abend nieder
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There is no edge of universe?

Very controversal question

I think it's odd that I got that one right.

Clue: It's according to NASA. You must determine the edge to get the right answer.

BTW, only 42% people who took the quiz got it right, and I'm sure some of those were guesses. It was mentioned in an article (or maybe it was my book)...I don't know, but I read it very recently.

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Die Sonne scheidet hinter dem Gebirge. In alle Täler steigt der Abend nieder
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