III International Astronomy Olympiad 1998

The III-rd International Astronomy Olympiad took place on October 20-27, 1998 at the Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences (SAO RAS) in North Caucasus. There were two official languages at the Olympiad - English and Russian. Problems were prepared by the Organizing Committee in these two languages but the team leaders were responsible to translate problems to native languges of participants (i.e. to Bulgarian and Portuguese). Character of the problems to solve were analogous to ones of the Olympiads 1996-1997. common photo of participants Common photo of participants, 79 kB States, participaited in the III IAO: Brazil. Bulgaria. India. Moscow Land. Russia. observers from Denmark. The main points of the programme of the Olympiad were the following:

Monday October 19 Indian and Bulgarian delegations arrive Tuesday October 20 Excursions to the nearest mountains (for Indian and Bulgarian delegations) Brasilian, Danish, Moscow land and Russian delegations arrive Wednesday October 21 Official opening ceremony, conference Excursion to RATAN-600 Unofficial opening ceremony Welcome party Thursday October 22 Theoretical round Friday October 23 Practical round Observational round I ("Sun") Lecture Excursion to BTA Observational round II ("Stars") Saturday October 24 Excursion to historical places near the Observatory Lectures Sunday October 25 Excursion to Arkhyz Closing Ceremony Monday-Tuesday October 26-27 Delegations depart

Number of Diploma:

            Team       1...2...3
          Brazil.......-...-...1
          Bulgaria.....3...1...1
          India........1...-...3
          Moscow land..1...1...1
          Russia.. ....1...1...4
          Total.... ...6...3..10