| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jan 25 07:59PM +0100 > Jupiter. 4 for Dan Blum, Stephen, and Dan Tilque. > For some reason three different entrants guessed Mercury, the > second-worst answer at 59 days. I think I somehow manage to confuse rotation around its own axis with the rotation around the sun, or maybe I had some funny idea about the two rotations being correlated. Whatever, I'm kind of happy that I am not alone or making that bad answers. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 25 03:12PM -0600 Mark Brader: >>> its axis, just under 10 hours? >> For some reason three different entrants guessed Mercury, the >> second-worst answer at 59 days. Erland Sommarskog: > I think I somehow manage to confuse rotation around its own axis > with the rotation around the sun... Ah, I didn't think of that. In astronomical terminology the word "revolution" is used for the latter meaning rather than "rotation", even though the two words are near synonyms in any other context. Thanks for explaining. A planet that completed one revolution around the Sun in 10 hours would orbit about 1,000,000 miles from the Sun's center, which I'd guess would be close enough to evaporate it. -- Mark Brader | "...the scholarly instructor whisked his pupils through the Toronto | entire universe in five months. Of course, the universe msb@vex.net | was much smaller in those days." --John Franch My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jan 25 08:57PM > 1. Last Friday a coroner opened Australia's fourth inquest into a > notorious and bitterly controversial legal drama: the 1980 death > of a 9-week-old baby. How do the parents explain the death? dingos took the baby > 2. Researchers have discovered which new type of planet, which > had a movie with the same name? interstellar > 1. Name the NCAA basketball team that was the first to start > 5 African-American players and then beat the Kentucky Wildcats > in the 1966 championship game. Villanova > 3. Who was the 45-year heavyweight boxer and griller that came > out of a 20-year retirement to beat Michael Moorer in 1994? George Foreman > 5. Which National League underdog team miraculously defeated the > pitching-heavy Baltimore Orioles in the 1969 World Series? Mets > 7. Appalachian State upset which college football powerhouse at > the Big House for perhaps college football's biggest upset? Ohio State; Auburn -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
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