| Biography |
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| I attend Campbell Collegiate and am in grade ten. I used to go to École Massey School and I have been in a French immersion program since kindergarten. I'm also in several extracurricular activities. I'm in band, choir, chamber choir, and the improvisation club. I was also on the school soccer team and played competitive soccer in Regina. For several years I have wanted to do investigation or experiment in astronomy. I find it very interesting and cool that we can discover planets and look cosmic phenomenon light years away and know so much about them. I was doing a biology unit in school when it came time to make a science fair project and I decided to tie it into my experiment. The solar energy our planet receives is essential for life on Earth, without it we wouldn’t be alive today, and when I found the definition of orbital eccentricity, I immediately asked myself ‘how would that change our world?’. I wanted to know more about how the eccentricity of our planet solar energy and in turn affects life on Earth, and that’s how my project started. |
| Atanas Kolev
Orbital Eccentricity and Solar Energy
| Challenge: | Discovery | | Category: | Intermediate | | Region: | Regina | | City: | Regina, SK | | School: | Campbell Collegiate | | Abstract: | I created a program to simulate a planet orbiting around its star, and by using different eccentricities and keeping either the time average distance or the angular momentum constant I can learn how eccentricity can affect the amount of solar energy a planet receives. |
| Awards | Value | Excellence in Astronomy Award
Intermediate
Sponsor: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada | $750.00 | Excellence Award - Intermediate
Bronze Medal
Sponsor: Youth Science Canada | | Western University Scholarship
Bronze Medallist - $1000 Entrance Scholarship
Sponsor: Western University | $1 000.00 | | Total | $1 750.00 | |
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