The document discusses several topics related to space exploration: 1. It describes 3753 Cruithne, an asteroid that shares Earth's orbit. 2. It mentions the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in 2018 as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. 3. It asks the reader to identify Pluto based on clues about its discovery and classification.

1. CELESTICON 5.0

2. ROUND 1

3. FITB
• 3753 ______ is a Q-type Aten asteroid in orbit around the sun, in an orbital resonance of 1:1 with Earth,
making it a co-orbital object. It’s solar orbit can be described as a quasi-satellite horseshoe shaped orbit
around the Earth, which takes 770 years. The true orbit around the Sun with a period of one year takes
it from inside Mercury’s orbit to outside Mars’. It is incorrectly referred to as Earth’s second moon.
• The name is from Old Irish and refers to the name of the eponymous king of the Picts.

4. THE ANSWER FOLLOWS…

5. CRUITHNE

6. 2.
• If stars are large enough, they tend to
spend most of their post main-sequence
life in the ‘giants’ region on the H-R
diagram. What is the main characteristic o
such stars?

7. THE ANSWER FOLLOWS…

8. HELIUM FUSION

9. 3. ID X
• X is a flagship class space observatory under construction. It is scheduled for launch in October 2018 as
the successor to one of the most famous man-made structures in orbit around Earth.
• Launch mass: 6,500 kg (14,300 lb)[2]
• Dimensions: 20.1 m × 7.21 m (65.9 ft × 23.7 ft) (sunshield to keep the instruments below 50K)
• Power: 2,000 watts
• The project represents an international collaboration of 17 countries.
• X is named after the Director of NASA appointed in 1961 who achieved Kennedy’s goal of landing men
on the moon by the end of the ’60s through the Apollo Program.

10. THE ANSWER FOLLOWS…

11. JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE

12. 4. PUT FUNDA

13. THE ANSWER FOLLOWS…

15. 5. CONNECT

16. THE ANSWER FOLLOWS…

17. PLUTO

18. 6. #KOLSTYLZ… WELL KIND OF
On 24 December 2015, a woman got a call, where the caller said, “Hello, is this Planet Earth?”. She
originally thought it to be a prank, but it wasn’t. Who was the caller?

19. THE ANSWER FOLLOWS…

20. TIM PEAKE

21. ROUND 2
SCIENCE FICTION

22. 1. WHAT IS BEING DESCRIBED HERE?
• By using a matter/antimatter reactor to create plasma, and by sending this plasma through ____ coils, a
starship can create a ____ bubble through which it could manoeuvre into subspace, thus allowing it to
exceed the speed of light.

23. 2. ID X AND Y
In the famous travel guide X, upon searching for the tourist destination Y, you would find the description of
Y as “Mostly harmless”.

24. 3. ID X
• An X is a virtual reality facility built aboard Federation vessels. These can be used for recreational
purposes, creating familiar environments, participating in interactive stories, practicing sports and for
training officers and their children aboard the ships. Apart from being able to walk, see and hear the
projected objects, the use of hard light, tractor beams, force-fields, transported matter and replicated
matter allows users to touch and feel the projections. A ship can have several Xs.

25. 4.
• X’s literal translation in the local language is “They that walk in the shadows”.
• X is found in the constellation of Kasterborous at galactic coordinates 10-0-11-00:02 from the Galactic
Zero Centre.
• X is also called ‘The Shining World of the Seven Systems’
ID the planet X.

26. EXCHANGE YOUR SHEETS

27. THE ANSWERS ARE

28. 1. WHAT IS BEING DESCRIBED HERE?
• By using a matter/antimatter reactor to create plasma, and by sending this plasma through warp coils, a
starship can create a ____ bubble through which it could manoeuvre into subspace, thus allowing it to
exceed the speed of light.

29. WARP DRIVE

30. 2. ID X AND Y
In the famous travel guide X, upon searching for the tourist destination Y, you would find the description of
Y as “Mostly harmless”.

31. X: HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Y: EARTH

32. 3. ID X
• An X is a virtual reality facility built aboard Federation vessels. These can be used for recreational
purposes, creating familiar environments, participating in interactive stories, practicing sports and for
training officers and their children aboard the ships. Apart from being able to walk, see and hear the
projected objects, the use of hard light, tractor beams, force-fields, transported matter and replicated
matter allows users to touch and feel the projections. A ship can have several Xs.

33. HOLODECK

34. 4.
• X’s literal translation in the local language is “They that walk in the shadows”.
• X is found in the constellation of Kasterborous at galactic coordinates 10-0-11-00:02 from the Galactic
Zero Centre.
• X is also called ‘The Shining World of the Seven Systems’
ID the planet X.

35. GALLIFREY

36. ROUND 3
AUDIO CONNECT
DIFFERENTIAL SCORING: 5X POINTS ARE AWARDED TO THE TEAMS WHICH IDENTIFY THE AUDIO,
WHERE X IS THE NUMBER OF TEAMS THAT GOT IT WRONG.
ADDITIONALLY, YOU CAN POUNCE FOR THE THEME AFTER ANY AUDIO CLIP AT THE POINTS
MENTIONED IN THE SLIDE.
BONUS +10 TO THE TEAM(S) TO GET THE THEME FIRST.

37. 1. THEME AT 25/-20

38. 2. 20/-15

39. 3. 15/-10

40. 4. 10/-5

41. 5. 5/-5

42. THE ANSWERS FOLLOW…

43. 1. PARTITA 3 IN E MAJOR BY JS BACH

44. 2. MELANCHOLY BLUES BY MARTY BLOOM AND
WALTER MELROSE,

45. 3. JAAT KAHAN HO BY KESARBAI KERKAR

46. 4. BEETHOVEN’S SYMPHONY 5

47. 5. JOHNNY B GOODE BY CHUCK BERRY

48. +5/0 FOR THE THEME NOW

49. THE ANSWER FOLLOWS…

50. MUSIC IN THE VOYAGER GOLDEN RECORD NOW AT THE
EDGE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM

51. ROUND 4

52. 1. FITB
• The ____ _____ ___________ (also known as the lunar cataclysm) is an event thought to have occurred
approximately 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago, corresponding to the Neohadean and Eoarchean eras on
Earth. During this interval, a disproportionately large number of asteroids collided with the early
terrestrial planets in the inner Solar System, including Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.This happened
after the Earth and other rocky planets had formed and accreted most of their mass. It is the reason for
most of the craters on the Moon and Mercury.

53. THE ANSWER FOLLOWS…

54. LATE HEAVY BOMBARDMENT

55. 2. WHAT IS BEING DESCRIBED HERE?
• Aphelion ~1200 AU, perihelion ~200 AU, semi-major axis a ~700 AU
• Eccentricity e ~0.6
• Qrbital period 10,000 to 20,000 years,
• An inclination i ~30° to the ecliptic—The object's orbital orientation was approximately opposite to
those of the six TNOs (with an longitude of perihelion offset by about 180°)
• An argument of perihelion ω = 150° (compared to roughly 310° for the average of the six analysed
TNOs).

56. THE ANSWER FOLLOWS…

57. THE HYPOTHETICAL PLANET NINE

58. 3. MORE OF A RIDDLE
• War is a terrible thing. It is glorious, but we never know what the outcome is. We don’t know who will
win, what the winner will do, who lives or who dies. It is a time of panic and terror for everyone. If I talk
about the panic and terror in close association with the God of War, what am I talking about?(X and Y)

59. THE ANSWER FOLLOWS…

60. PHOBOS AND DEIMOS

61. 4.
• SpaceX made history on 21 December 2015 when the Falcon 9 successfully landed upright after
depositing satellites in orbit. Why did SpaceX name the rocket Falcon 9?

62. THE ANSWER FOLLOWS…

63. MILLENIUM FALCON REFERENCE

64. 5. PUT FUNDA.
• This is Dennis Tito

65. THE ANSWER FOLLOWS…

66. FIRST SPACE TOURIST

67. 6.
• USA : Astronaut
• Russia : Cosmonaut
• India : X

68. THE ANSWER FOLLOWS…

69. 6.
• USA : Astronaut
• Russia : Cosmonaut
• India : Vyomanaut

70. ROUND 5: LVC

71. +45/0

72. +40/-35

73. +35/-30

74. +30/-25

75. +25/-20
?

76. +20/-15

77. +15/-10

78. +10/-5

79. +5/0

80. THE ANSWER FOLLOWS…

81. SUBRAHMANIAN CHANDRASEKHAR