Cosmonautics' Day Raffle! [SUCKED INTO A WORMHOLE AKA CLOSED]

katrinwolf • 12 April 2018 at 1:11 PM

International Day of Human Space Flight, or Cosmonautics' Day, is today! And here comes a small space-themed raffle. Let's celebrate!

To join:
1) Choose a number from 1 to 30
2) Post any interesting space-themed fact you can find 😊
3) Ping me, please!

You can:
-ping your friends to join
-react to the space facts 😃
-donate to the raffle if you have something space-themed you don't need (thank you!)

You can't:
-join from more than one account (obviously)
-pick a number someone else has already picked
-whiiiiiiineeeeee if you don't win (blame the random number generator, not me 😈 )
-ping the flat-earthers to troll them

Third place:
-a Cosmomon + 2 travels of your choice from this list:
Shooting Star in NGC-19823
Interstellar Collision
Incoming Mysterious Asteroid
Satellite Planets
Fiery Planet
Bootes Dwarf Galaxy
Cigar Galaxy M82
Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy
Bode's Galaxy M81
Centaurus A (NGC5128)
Willman 1
(might add some more if I find them)

Second place:
-a Seleni + 2 Constellation travels of the ones present here

First place:
-a Cosmiathan + 1 Constellation travel + 1 normal travel from the lists above.

Closing: one day after we get 30 people. MIGHT be extended if I find something good to add to the prize pool (highly unlikely, but you'll be notified!)

"Поехали!"

Numbers taken:
4 - @yolk
5 - @crown
7 - @crescentmoons
8 - @bluestar1313
14 - @playermocha345
16 - @totallynotjoey
17 - @icedmagma
18 - @iris1929578
21 - @budgie
22 - @heaven
28 - @silverserpent

crescentmoons • 12 April 2018 at 1:59 PM

@katrinwolf

I pick number 7.

Space has always kind of fascinated and terrified me, which is awesome! I think an interesting space fact is that the red spot on Jupiter, which is a gigantic storm, is even wider than earth, and it's been raging on for thousands of years. It makes me wonder what it'd be like to be able to exist on a planet where such a thing exists?

Also if anyone's interested,

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-juno-mission-provides-infrared-tour-of-jupiter-s-north-pole

this video of jupiter's north pole is so crazy

pinging @potatoesenpai

bluestar1313 • 12 April 2018 at 2:40 PM

@katrinwolf
Oooh I would love to join! Space is one of my passions, I actual have two telescopes. Number #8 please and thank you.

Interesting space fact: Neptune, the eighth planet from the sun, is a swirling gas planet with a white cloud storm system named the "Scooter Cloud" which rotates around the planet every 16h. It also rains solid diamonds due to the atmospheric conditions.

katrinwolf • 12 April 2018 at 3:20 PM

@bluestar1313, @crescentmoons Added you both, and thanks for the cool facts! 😊

Deleted • 13 April 2018 at 10:28 AM

@katrinwolf
I would like to join too. I’ve never heard of Cosmonautic’s Day before but now I do!
Fun Fact:
On the moon, foot prints and tire tracks would stay there forever. Why? Because nowind swept them up!
Venus is the odd one out. It is different from the other planets. While the other planets spin forward, Venus is the only one that spins backwards!
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Might be funny to some people, not as funny to others. Take your pick.
Number #14 please.

@crescentmoon If you mean a gigantic storm raging for thousands of years on a whole planet. I think nobody would still be in existence. But if it is like Jupiter, only that one spot, the people (if they are like humans) would die off. However if the people living there have evolved.. what would they look like?

Deleted • 13 April 2018 at 10:42 AM

@katrinwolf Hi! May I have number 5? Thanks for hosting! 😃

Did you know Asteroid means star-like?
The following is copy and pasted from mental floss's site page about space.
.......

The first asteroid was discovered in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi, though he didn't know it at the time. He thought he had discovered the long-sought planet between Mars and Jupiter. He named his discovery Ceres, after the Roman goddess of harvest (and namesake to the word cereal, though that word wouldn't be coined until 1818).

Just over a year later, another "planet" was discovered. And another. And another. Eventually, there were so many planets that astronomers threw up their hands and gave the whole group a new classification: asteroid, or "star-like" in Greek. The name was chosen because they appeared, well, star-like in telescopes; they would not resolve as discs as planets do. Ceres's run as a planet lasted about 60 years before it was demoted to asteroid. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union reclassified it again, this time as a dwarf planet. This is the same decision that designated Pluto as a dwarf planet, though there is some debate on this point.

😱 😱

budgie • 13 April 2018 at 11:47 AM

@katrinwolf If 21 is still avaliable, could I join? ^^

TIL: There's a 30,000 kilometer hexagonal cloud at Saturn’s north pole.

icedmagma • 13 April 2018 at 12:32 PM

@katrinwolf I would love to enter! Did you know the hottest stars burn blue and white, while the ones that are closer to dying out are red? I would love number 17

katrinwolf • 13 April 2018 at 2:28 PM

Added everyone! 😸

iris1929578 • 13 April 2018 at 2:56 PM

@katrinwolf

18! 😊

When you look at a star, you are basically looking back in time. AKA if you go to the exact place where the star is from Earth, the star might not be there. It takes years for the light to reach Earth. 😊 I just remembered it and I loved the fact.

totallynotjoey • 16 April 2018 at 4:53 AM

@katrinwolf
16

Galileo Galilei invented the first telescope. It was meant to be used for military purposes but when he pointed it to the 'heavens' he came across a big shock. He looked at the moon through his lenses and was surprised to find that the moon was not smooth like he (and almost all of the world) had thought. Anything corresponding with the heavens was thought to be perfect. The moon was not perfect, in fact, it had craters and holes all over it's surface. Galileo became an immediate superstar. This did not last long because of religious reasons. Not sure who did this, but whoever it was, they had to punish Galileo because he had gone against the gods

I can't remember the rest except that he had gone under house arrest or something ^^;

heaven • 16 April 2018 at 6:47 AM

@katrinwolf: 21

We have eight planets in our Solar System. However, outside of our Solar System there are thousands of other planets. The extra-solar planets or exo-planets are in orbit around another star. So far we have almost 1800 confirmed new worlds, with another 3000 awaiting confirmation. Astronomers are looking to a star’s goldilocks zone for planets that may be habitable, just like the Earth. The majority of planets discovered so far are hot gas giant planets.

katrinwolf • 16 April 2018 at 8:15 AM

@heaven Sorry, but number 21 is taken! Would you like another one?
@totallynotjoey Added!

heaven • 16 April 2018 at 8:38 AM

@katrinwolf: sure! Is 22 okay? If not, I will take 29.

katrinwolf • 21 April 2018 at 9:42 AM

Sorry for being slow everyone, there are... issues (aka Federal Service for Supervision of Communications is having its spring mental breakdown; I'm visiting EggCave through VPN now). What's new:
- Added everyone to the raffle list
- Added a few more travels to the possible prize pool
- You all are awesome 😸
A fact from me: contrary to what some people believe, a comet's tail isn't made of fire - it's dust and/or gas blown out from the comet's atmosphere by the Sun's light pressure or outstreaming solar wind plasma. And the central part of the atmosphere surrounding a comet's nucleus is called a coma. Certainly a more pleasant meaning of the word 😊
And a few pings:
@blub
@yolk
@elivelton_white
@silverserpent

yolk • 21 April 2018 at 1:33 PM

@katrinwolf
How fun, thank you for the ping.
I'll take number four please :-)

A stellar fact: You wouldn’t be able to walk on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus or Neptune because they have no solid surface

silverserpent • 21 April 2018 at 3:53 PM

@katrinwolf Thanks for the ping! I'll take number 28, please. 😃

Fun fact:
Venus rotates so slowly around its axis that one day takes 243 Earth days to complete.
However, Venus' orbit around our sun takes 225 Earth days.
This means that a day on Venus is 18 Earth days longer than a year on Venus. 😊

katrinwolf • 13 May 2018 at 11:32 AM

Looks like it's not getting any more people. Guess I overestimated it a bit 😋 So I guess the reasonable thing to do is to close it now. Calling everyone involved to make sure you're okay with it! If no one has anything against it, the raffle will be closed tomorrow and the winners chosen from the amount of participants we have now.
(and if you've just stumbled upon it, you'll have time until tomorrow to participate. Just check the numbers carefully, as you likely won't be able to edit them)
4 - @yolk
5 - @crown
7 - @crescentmoons
8 - @bluestar1313
14 - @playermocha345
16 - @totallynotjoey
17 - @icedmagma
18 - @iris1929578
21 - @budgie
22 - @heaven
28 - @silverserpent

budgie • 13 May 2018 at 11:50 AM

@katrinwolf Thats fine with me

icedmagma • 13 May 2018 at 4:44 PM

@katrinwolf that's fine 😊

iris1929578 • 13 May 2018 at 5:29 PM

@katrinwolf

Yep, looks good!

totallynotjoey • 14 May 2018 at 12:59 AM

@katrinwolf
Thanks for hosting it 😊

katrinwolf • 14 May 2018 at 1:36 PM

Sooo... closed! Random number generator has generated some random numbers, and the winners are:
3rd place - @playermocha345
2nd place - @yolk
1st place - @icedmagma

Congrats to the winners! Please message me with what travels from the prize pool you'd like to get, and I'll set up the lots. And huge thanks to everyone for participating, you're all awesome 😸

Deleted • 14 May 2018 at 6:10 PM

@katrinwolf Ok. Can you just select 2 random travels? I don’t know what their like, so will be happy with any 2. Trade #899759

icedmagma • 15 May 2018 at 9:39 AM

@katrinwolf thank you! If I could get interstellar collision that would be great! ❤️ thank you for hosting this raffle

katrinwolf • 16 May 2018 at 2:48 PM

@playermocha345 Offered on your lot! Also made a lot with all the travels, so that you can see them - if you'd like a different one than I've offered, simply tell me 😊
https://eggcave.com/trades/899902/show
@icedmagma You also get one constellation travel! Any preferences? I've put a random one in the lot so far, so tell me if you'd like a different one.
@yolk Knock knock, anybody home? 😊

Deleted • 16 May 2018 at 7:58 PM

@katrinwolf Thank you! Could i possibly exchange one for a satelite planet unless someone has already requested that? I'll send it one back to your inventory.

yolk • 18 May 2018 at 8:49 AM

@katrinwolf
Whoopsie, doorbell must be broken...
Thank you for hosting this! In regards to the constellations, surprise me :-) I'm not picky, I like them all.

katrinwolf • 18 May 2018 at 2:42 PM

@yolk https://www.eggcave.com/trades/900075/show Here's your prize, then! 😊
Also: @playermocha345 - sent you Satellite Planets, and @icedmagma here's the actual link to your lot that silly old me forgot to put in the reply before *facepalms at herself* https://eggcave.com/trades/899904/show

yolk • 21 May 2018 at 12:03 PM

@katrinwolf
Thank you! :-)