E u ro- As i an As t r on omi cal S oci et y

The I nt e rn at i onal A st r on omy Ol ym pi ad

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I I Asian-Pacific
Astronomy Olympiad
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411. XII. 2006

Vladivostok, Russia

Theoretical round
English
Groups

1. Where is Vladivostok? You see a figure from the book of a Russian popular astronomy
writer M.V.Shevchenko, which explains the elliptic character of the Earths orbit. Redraw
this figure into your answer sheet and point approximately the position of Vladivostok on
the image of the Earth, where it is winter midday in Vladivostok. Give the reasons of your
answer.

2. Meteor. The meteor is seen from the point A at the altitude 30 over the horizon, the
magnitude of the meteor is equal to 0m. The same meteor is seen at a zenith from the point
B. What is the magnitude of the meteor at this point? The atmosphere extinction can be
neglected.
3. A queer orbit. XXIII century. Midnight. A recently discovered planet in a remote solar type
star system (its parallax is equal to 0.003200959") is observed. It is found out, that the circle
of the visual motion of the planet in the sky has the radius equal to exactly 0.003200959",
however the star is not in the center of this circle but on a half-radius distance from the
center. In the first newspaper article devoted to the discovery, the daring assumption has
been stated, that high level (in the techniques and law) civilization lives on the planet, which
has learned how to break the I Kepler law. Do you have any other assumptions? Find the
period of rotation of the planet around the star. Whether the planet (territory outside
artificial constructions) is suitable for humans life if the size and mass of the planet are
approximately equal to ones of the Earth?
4. Satellite. It is required to launch an artificial satellite in circular polar orbit around the Earth
so that it exactly once (neither more, nor less) a sidereal day would appear at a zenith of the
point with geographical coordinates in the latitude of 0 and longitude of 0. What are the
possible periods of revolution of the satellite? Put down the answer as XXHYYM within 1
minute accuracy.
5. 60. The problem is devoted to the 60-th Moscow astronomical olympiad. The Moscow
astronomy amateur observes a star with declination +60 by the telescope with the
magnification factor 60 and the field of view 1 (60'). Because of incorrect adjustment the
clockwork of the telescope goes in (1/60) faster, than it is required. How long is it possible
to observe the star without correction of the telescope?
6. N'N'N. The problem is devoted to the Moscow astronomical Olympiad. Moscow
astronomical olympiad carried out annually, the first Olympiad (I MAO) took place in 1947.
Let us assume, that the following problem is given at this Olympiad annually: Massive
spherical cluster has the radius N pc and consists of N millions stars similar to the Sun. One
of the stars is moving at the edge of the cluster with the speed N km/s. Whether this star will
leave the cluster?. Every year N is equal to the number of the Olympiad. In what years the
star could leave the cluster? In what years it cant leave it?
Maximum total time for all jobs is
4 hours.