Solar System B

[brobo]

Im sorry to do this, but...
JUST GOOGLE IT!!!
Im just saying that you should study everything, because whats on that test may not be on every test. You wont know whats on the test until its too late.

[amerikestrel]

Ugh. My team still hasn't finalized our events ( ) but I probably won't be in Solar System; it seems to be a very popular event choice at my school. But at least I'm 99% I got into the event I want the most.

Anyway, here's a neat site:

http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/

It probably won't help you to study, though.

[EastStroudsburg13]

I was just trying to say that you won't know whats on the test until you get there and it's too late, so you should study everything you can. I didn't say that all tests were going to be like that.

Speaking of studying for everything, I did another invatational the other day and there where not as much questions on the laws of gravitation and atcaction but now a whole lot of questions on the (scientests) that discovered diferent objects.
I need diferent a websight to get info from so any suggestions?

Might it be in the rules somewhere, as that would explain its appearance? If not, then that's okay, some tests are going to have extra information, and it's difficult to study for. That seems logical to have the scientists, though, so you, and the rest of us, should remember to have that.

[amerikestrel]

Might it be in the rules somewhere, as that would explain its appearance? If not, then that's okay, some tests are going to have extra information, and it's difficult to study for. That seems logical to have the scientists, though, so you, and the rest of us, should remember to have that.

I looked in the rules, and there isn't anything that directly states that there will be questions about scientists in the competition. However, there are a couple of statements that could be interpreted to allow for that:

Section 3, Paragraph a: "History and formation of the solar system"

That could be interpreted to include "history of discoveries about the solar system", but they probably wouldn't do that.

Section 3, Paragraph l: "Kepler's laws of Planetary Motion and Newton's Laws of Motion and Gravitational Attraction"

That could include questions on the history of those theories, not just the theories themselves.

But I agree, just because it isn't in the rules, it doesn't mean that there won't be questions on it at the competition.

[brobo]

Yah, on the test I took at the Invitationals last Saturday, the first question gave you about 10 astronamers and asked you to tell who they were and what contributions they made to modern astonomy. It was only a bonus question, though. But for everyone: study famous astronomers. It will be on the test.

EDIT: Sorry about spelling. I did this from a bumpy car on an iPhone.

[AlphaTauri]

Does anyone know where to find out what planets are visible on competition day? I've tried searching the internet multiple times but found nothing.

[brobo]

There's an app for that.

Its called Planets, and its pretty cool. It will show you where the planets are in the sky, the rising and setting time, and a lot of other things. Its also free!

Or, you could try Stellarium. Its a free program where you can look at the whole sky, chose your location, time, and look at constellations... all sorts of things. I used it a lot last year for RFS, but maybe you can use it this year. Even if not, still get it, its pretty cool.

Those are the only two things I know of, but I'm sure there's more out there.

[andrewwski]

If you sign up for a Heavens Above account, you can get sky charts for any time of day that include the visible planets, plus planetary data in table form for all planets.

[EastStroudsburg13]

In addition, you can get sky charts for any day of the year, so you can get charts in advance for the day of competition. It's also very useful for practicing locating constellations in RFS. The only thing is, I've never had to locate the planets on the day of the competition, but that probably changes with the people who make up the test.

[jazzycarr0t]

Wat do i need to know abt constellations for solar system??
plz help