Which is the largest meteorite found on earth?
–Samudra Das, Kolkata
The largest known surviving meteorite weighs about 60,000 kg, and is located in northern Namibia where it fell about 80,000 years ago. It’s called the Hoba meteorite, after the farm where it lies, and consists mainly of iron; but created no impact crater, which people have been unable to satisfactorily explain to this day. It’s a cuboid, shaped roughly like the mysterious monoliths that appear in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, although it lies flat on its back–and yet has been named a Namibian National Monument. I’m not sure what this tells us about the state of that nation’s economy or culture.
Nowadays the banks are requesting their customers to fill in their details in the format Know Your Customer (KYC) and one of the banks asks for a Senior Citizen’s Card, as proof of their identity amongst other requirements. Could you tell me from where these cards are issued and who is the authority for issuing these cards?
–John B. Gomes, Kolkata
The state government would be the authority. However, the West Bengal government has no policy at all on senior citizens’ cards (though I’m reasonably certain it does have policies in other matters), such as of authorizing NGOs to issue the cards which some other states’ governments do have. The bank would have to accept another government-issued document. For example, HDFC Bank would accept a PAN card, voter card or driver’s licence (but not a KFC coupon) as proof of age. More importantly, I’m sure a liquor shop would accept these too.
I am having trouble solving some IIT-JEE physics numerical problems. I am not getting coaching anywhere. On which web site shall I find those solutions? Please suggest some tips to crack the IIT-JEE successfully.
–Koushik Mudi, Malda
If the solutions or methods aren’t already on the net, try asking your questions on sites like targetiit.com or goiit.com. For your study, choose recommended texts that include plenty of solved problems. Study all areas in each subject but give extra time to the more important ones such as (in physics) heat, thermodynamics, electrostatics and modern physics. When writing the exam, look for questions that you can easily answer, and do those first. (Often, easy questions appear toward the end of the paper.) In conclusion, if you really want to ‘crack’ the Joint Entrance Exam then you have to be a bit ‘cracked’ and sacrifice a lot of fun for the next few months or years, depending on when you plan to take it. But of course, once all the hard work is over it will have been worth it (I hope). I wish you good luck and happy suffering!
I am a student of the twelfth standard. Can you please tell me the colleges/universities in India that provide integrated M.Sc./M.Tech. courses in computer science(except the IITs)?
–Souvik Biswas, Kalyani
In the twelfth standard and already worrying about a postgraduate degree? You’re even worse than Koushik (quem vide)! Well, you can get useful lists, including contact details, at indiastudychannel.com/courses or career.webindia123.com/career/institutes/index.asp. And you can find an even more useful list of excuses for not studying at www.bored.com/excuselist.
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I owe money to credit cards and collection agencies, if I start a mutual fund or ira could they take that m?
You’d still have the oney.
Not even if your name was Mike Foreman.