| Jennifer Loong
Oh-Dee: Orbit Determination
| Division: | Engineering & Computing Sciences | | Category: | Senior | | Region: | Greater Vancouver | | City: | Richmond, BC | | School: | York House School | | Abstract: | This is a software program that can determine the orbit of any observable asteroid in the solar system, using the Laplacian Method. Only 3 observations are needed prior to writing the program in IDL syntax. The results generated by OD are called orbital elements, which depict the size, shape and orientation of the orbit in detail. |
| Awards | Value | Award for Excellence in Astronomy
Senior
Sponsor: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada | $200.00 | International Summer School for Young Physicists Award
Sponsor: Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics | $2 500.00 | The University of Western Ontario Scholarship
Bronze Medallist - $1000 Entrance Scholarship
Sponsor: University of Western Ontario | $1 000.00 | Bronze Medal - Engineering
Senior
Sponsor: Youth Science Foundation Canada | $300.00 | | Total | $4 000.00 | |
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