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IceInSpace Thousand Member Competition!
And the Winners Are...Congratulations to the following winners of the IIS1K Thousand Member Competition!
- 1st Prize Winner - jackenau
- 2nd Prize Winner - cahullian
- 3rd Prize Winner - Ian
- 4th Prize Winner - grl
Many thanks to the IIS1K sponsors for their support and sponsorship of the competition.
And many thanks to the members of IceInSpace for their continuing valued support and for taking part in the competition.
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Greg Bryant from AS&T on the left, and Mike (iceman) from IceInSpace on the right
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The IIS1K competition is to celebrate reaching 1000 registered members on IceInSpace!
It's not the most significant milestone, as I know not all of those users visit every day, or post every day, and some have gone onto other hobbies, or visit other sites, or have never visited again after signing up. But it's still a great milestone for us to achieve. It signifies the continued growth of the site, and the fact that we're obviously doing something right. Looking at trends, there's more people visiting each day now than ever before. There's more people posting each day than ever before. Googlebot transfers over 1.3Gig of bandwidth each month alone!
So we're heading in the right direction. We filled a niche market at a time where there wasn't much else around like it in Australia. It started as my simple homepage back in September 2004, but with the introduction of the forums it grew steadily, and at times grew very quickly!
We're now 18 months later, with over 1000 members and we're now one of the biggest and most popular amateur astronomy websites in the Southern Hemisphere! It's a great achievement for a community site and i'm personally very very proud of how far the site has come.
This competition is to celebrate our achievement, and to reward the community with the chance to win some great prizes. To encourage participation in this competition, the questions will be multiple choice, and to be in the draw to win the prizes, you only need to get 1 answer correct!!
The competition is kindly sponsored by:
The competition will be in the form of 30 multiple choice quiz style questions about astronomy, and you will have three weeks to get your entries in. We welcome all new members to be part of our IIS1K Celebrations!
The prizes, thanks to our generous supporters are:
1st place
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Southern Astro Remote Imaging
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CopyToDVD Software
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Australian Sky&Telescope Prize Pack
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2nd place
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Stellar Seat
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CopyToDVD Software
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3rd place
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STAR Atlas:PRO™ - Advanced Edition - Level III
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CopyToDVD Software
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4th place
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CopyToDVD Software
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All place getters will also receive an IceInSpace pen and some IceInSpace stickers.
How To EnterTo enter the competition, follow these easy steps:
- You first have to be sign up to be a member of the IceInSpace Forums. To do this, simply register with the forums and don't forget to use a valid email address as you will need it to activate your account. It's free to become a member and will only take you 30 seconds!
- You will see a link to the the Quiz Entry Form below when the competition is launched. At that time, do your research, answer as many questions as you can, and then you will submit your answers online. You can only submit your answers once, so check your answers carefully!
- Submit your entry before the close date of 5pm AEST on Thursday the 6th July 2006.
Quiz QuestionsThe competition has now closed.
You can use the link below to see the answers you submitted, but if you did not enter you cannot submit an entry.
IceInSpace Thousand Member Competition Quiz Entry Form
Quiz AnswersBelow are the answers to the IceInSpace Thousand Member Competition Quiz.
- What is the name of the first MER Rover to land successfully on Mars?
Answer: Spirit. (explain)
- From the surface of Mars, Phobos does what?
Answer: Rises in the West, sets in the East. (explain)
- How many mirrors does a reflector telescope have?
Answer: 2 - primary and secondary. (explain)
- How does a longer focal length eyepiece differ from a short focal length eyepiece?
Answer: A longer focal length eyepiece has lower magnification. (Magnification = telescope focal length / eyepiece focal length)
- Who discovered Saturn's largest moon, Titan?
Answer: Christiaan Huygens. (explain)
- Who originated the Steady State Theory of the Universe?
Answer: Due to conflicting answers found, everyone marked correct.
- In space, who first discovered the Doppler effect?
Answer: Vesto Melvin Slipher. (explain, explain, explain)
- What are Lagrange Points?
Answer: Solar system regions where a small object can act as a balance between two larger objects. (explain)
- What are MACHO’s
Answer: Massive Compact Halo Objects. (explain)
- A Neutrino has:
Answer: No electrical charge, no detectable mass, substantial energy. (explain)
- In the Milky Way Galaxy, where is our Solar System located:
Answer: 0, Local Arm, Orion Arm. (explain)
- Who discovered the Andromeda Galaxy?
Answer: Al-Sufi. (explain)
- Who first accurately calculated the distance to a star?
Answer: Friedrich Bessel. (explain)
- Who first proposed the geocentric model of the solar system?
Answer: Due to conflicting answers found, everyone marked correct.
- What was the first spacecraft to enter into orbit around Mars?
Answer: Mariner 9. (explain)
- Who were the Celestial Police?
Answer: Six German astronomers who searched the region between Mars and Jupiter for a *missing* planet. (explain)
- Who discovered the first asteroid?
Answer: Guiseppe Piazzi. (explain)
- The Milky Way is to the solar system as a football field to what in size?
Answer: bacterium. MW is about 100 million times larger than the SS (100000 lightyears vs 11 lighthours). Ditto footy oval (~100m) to bacterium (~1 micron). (explain, explain, explain)
- Who first predicted that light is an electromagnetic (EM) wave like radiant heat and other forms of EM radiation (e.g., radio waves, microwaves, x-rays)?
Answer: James Maxwell. (explain)
- Who was the first scientist to successfully demonstrate that light must be made up of particles we now call photons?
Answer: Albert Einstein. (explain)
- Why is a telescope's angular resolution limited by its aperture?
Answer: Because light is waves. (explain, explain)
- Which famous experiment attempted to measure the speed of the Earth through space and subsequently revolutionised our understanding of space and time?
Answer: The Michelson-Morley experiment. (explain)
- What is the focal length of an f/12 refractor that has a 4 inch objective lens?
Answer: 1.2 metres. (explain)
- What is the approximate apparent size of Jupiter through a 6mm eyepiece in a typical Dobsonian telescope, compared with the size of the naked eye Moon?
Answer: 5 times larger. (explain, explain, explain)
- What is one difference between Newtonian reflector and apochromatic refractor telescopes?
Answer: Newtonian reflectors have been around for longer. (explain, explain)
- Which type of telescope was invented by a priest?
Answer: Cassegrain reflector. (explain)
- Who invented the apochromatic lens?
Answer: Ernst Abbe. (explain)
- What is a lightyear?
Answer: The distance light travels in a year. (explain)
- What is the most distant planet that appears in Galileo's sketches?
Answer: Neptune. (Neptune appears as a star labelled "fixa" in one of Galileo's sketches.
AS&T June 2006, p. 47)
- Which country was the first to successfully land a spacecraft on Mars?
Answer: USSR. (explain)
Competition Rules
- Please read the rules carefully, and be sure to ask any questions on the forum if anything is unclear. A thread discussing the competition is found here in the General Chat section.
- The competition is open to all IceInSpace Forum registered members, including the moderators. The moderators are volunteers and have had no involvement in organising this competition, so they are eligible to enter. The administrators (mojo and myself) are not eligible to enter.
- There is no minimum length of membership to be eligible to enter; anyone who is a member before the closing date can participate.
- The competition will be launched on Wednesday the 14th June 2006 at 9am AEST and will run for 3 weeks. The competition will close at 5pm AEST on Thursday the 6th of July 2006.
- All entries must be submitted using the online entry form before the closing date. Entries received after the closing date will not be eligible.
- Only 1 entry per member is accepted. You can only submit your answers once via the online quiz entry form.
- The questions are multiple choice, and there is only 1 correct answer per question.
- To be entered into the draw to win the prizes, you only have to get 1 question correct. However the more correct answers you get, the more times you will entered into the draw. The following scale will determine how many times you will be entered into the draw:
- Between 1 and 9 correct answers: 1 entry into the draw
- Between 10 and 19 correct answers: 2 entries into the draw
- Between 20 and 29 correct answers: 3 entries into the draw
- All 30 answers correct: 4 entries into the draw
- On (or around) the 15th of July 2006, all entries will be placed into a hat and the first, second and third place getters will be drawn in that order out of the barrel. The actual date of the draw will be announced as it gets closer.
- Prizes will be posted out to the winners in the week following the draw, after all winners have been contacted and acknowledged their prize.
- The Australian Sky & Telescope subscription prize is only available to Australian and New Zealand members of IceInSpace. The prize pack includes:
- 12 month subscription
- A copy of the current issue + Gemini Observatory CD
- An S&T starwheel
- An AS&T Shirt
- The Southern Astro Remote Imaging prize includes:
- Web browser interface into the observatory, very simple to use. Point and click imaging. Instant results.
- 8 hours or a full night of imaging from dusk to dawn.
- The 8 hours can be split into 2 x 4 hour over two nights.
- Guided tour of the system via Skype or MSN.
- 2 hours of image processing advice over the telephone.
- The Stellar Seat prize is only available to Australian members of IceInSpace due to the high shipping cost.
- The winners will be contacted via email or forum PM and may have their names displayed on this site. Make sure your profile is setup to receive PM's and ensure your email address is valid so that you can be contacted!
- All winners must acknowledge their prize within 1 week of the draw. In the event that the winner cannot be contacted, the runners up will receive the next available prize and a new 4th place winner will be drawn.
- The prizes cannot be converted to cash.
- The judges decision is final and no correspondance will be entered into.
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