[AstroNet] FW: AMSAT Sponsors ARISSat-1 Re-entry Contest

Fri Sep 30 08:38:00 SAST 2011

http://www.arrl.org/news/amsat-sponsors-arissat-1-re-entry-contest

AMSAT Secretary Alan Biddle, WA4SCA, said the ARISSat-1 Team is still
looking for
entries in the Chicken Little Contest. This is your opportunity to
calculate or
guess when ARISSat-1 falls out of orbit. This is defined as the time it
crosses
an altitude of 78 kilometers, which is considered to be the point of no
return.
"This involves your prognostications, calculations, guesses,
darts-in-the-calendar submissions for when ARRISSat-1 makes its final
orbit,"
Biddle said. "We have a fair number of submissions from all over the
world from
adults, but very few from students. If you know of one who might be
interested,
encourage them to enter."

There are three categories in this contest: Student category for
Kindergarten
through grade 8, Student category for high school (grades 9-12) and
Adults. "In
addition to individual students, we encourage classes or organizations,
such as
science clubs, to make group submissions," he explained. "Please give
the UTC
date in the format of day, month, year, hours, minutes and seconds.
Submissions
are limited to one per person or group. Members of a group making a
submission
may not submit a second individual entry. Adults and individual students
should
include their name and amateur call sign, if they have one. Individual
students
should also give their grade in school. Student groups should include
the name of
their group or class, school and which category they represent. Finally,
we would
like to know your city, state, province or region, and your country."

Submissions will close on October 15, 2011 at 23:59:00 (UTC). Biddle
said that
the closest predictions in each category will be recognized for their
achievement. Send your submissions via e-mail to
chickenlittle at arissat1.org.

Contest: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/ARISSat/ARISSatContest

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