E: 09/04 win a waterproof phone{MERGED}

chickaroonee

http://www.focusmag.co.uk/competitions.asp

The £245 XP3 is the latest in Sonim’s award-winning Xtreme Performance series and is the world’s only waterproof GSM phone. It’s been built to remain fully functional in temperatures from -20°C to 60°C, and even after being submerged in depths of one metre of water for 30 minutes. It has a rugged plastic shell and for those of you who prefer texting to talking, the buttons have been engineered to be able to handle over 500,000 pushes.
There are two Sonim XP3 phones to giveaway to two winners who correctly answer this month’s competition question. To find out more about the prize visit www.sonimXP3.com

HOW TO ENTER

Just anwer this simple question:

How many asteroids with a diameter greater than 1 km are there near Earth?

A 765
B 657
C 567

chickaroonee

all I can find is estimated between 500-1000 ?

reniannen

Please see Criceto's post below, I think these figures are outdated now. Sorry

I think it's 657

'Between all of the automated systems, 4711 near-Earth asteroids have been discovered including over 600 more than 1 km in diameter.' (Wikipedia)

And this is an old article, but has that exact figure - 'Between March 1998 and February 2001, LINEAR covered almost 500,000 square degrees of sky and discovered 657 near-Earth asteroids.'

Need someone with this issue of the magazine for a definitive answer though.

Knightowl

Have I lost the plot here

"It’s been built to remain fully functional in temperatures from -20°C to 60°C, and even after being submerged in depths of one metre of water for 30 minutes. It has a rugged plastic shell and for those of you who prefer texting to talking, the buttons have been engineered to be able to handle over 500,000 pushes"


But can you get a signal underwater :rolleyes:


Oh and to what depth......and do you have to remove your snorkel?

scubaangel

Do you have any idea how often I forget to stop texting when setting off on a dive?

ravernoloo

hahaha i know this is a bit of a strange prize, why have they included the amount of times you can hit the buttons? "the buttons have been engineered to be able to handle over 500,000 pushes" Its not like you would count it? Or would it stop working after you have pressed the buttons a certain amount of times? I dunno, i dont think i'll enter this one but good luck for all of you who do! Think of all that underwater talk u can have hahaha

Knightowl

"500,000 pushes"

Would seem like 5 if you have the bends :rolleyes:

Criceto

There is a table here:

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/stats/

That gives the current number as 767

dianne3344

anyone else having problems entering this one?

reniannen

Criceto wrote: »

There is a table here:

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/stats/

That gives the current number as 767

that's so close to 765 I'd be tempted to go for that one now. I knew the figures I found were old that's why I mentioned it. Will edit my own post and direct people to yours. Sorry peeps.

So wait a minute there's over 700 asteroids over 1km in width poised to strike us at any moment? :eek:

Actually, why worry, it's always America they hit
(Hollywood told me so)

ravernoloo

haha i'll take your word on that one!