... exoplanets . ... Extreme life-forms might be able to survive on eccentric exoplanets . Research suggests that planets potentially hostile to human life might be the perfect place for extremophiles to survive. ... Although planets like these would be very different from Earth, this might not preclude them from being able to support alien life. т??Scientists have found microscopic life-forms on Earth that can survive all kinds of extreme conditions,т?? ... Kane said. ...

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XEphem Forum Message . Forums: . ... Post . ... Re: Re: Re: Xephem Catalogs . ... I'm wondering if the discrepancy with the Hipparcos catalog positions is related to precession correction not being applied to the Hipparcos objects? ... www.astronomy.net . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Paper by Bessell on Hipparcos and Tycho Passbands . ... Paper by Sung and Bessell on 40inch CCD UBVRI extinction and standard transformations. ... Paper by Bessell on Standard Systems for Encylopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics . ... Corrected fluxes for Hamuy et al. standard stars. ... Contact: Prof. Michael S. Bessell Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics Mount Stromlo Observatory Cotter Rd, ACT 2611 Australia telephone: +61 2 6125 0268, fax: +61 2 6125 0233 email: bessell@mso.anu.edu.au...

... Solar System . ... Planets . ... Until V774104 was discovered Eris (illustrated in this artist?s impression) was the most distant observed member of the Solar System. ... V774104 hardly rolls off the tongue, but this is just a provisional designation and this little world will probably receive a name eventually. ... This bleak little world was found by astronomers led by Scott Sheppard and Chad Trujillo using the 8m Subaru telescope in Hawaii and the Dark Energy Survey Camera in Chile. ...

... Table of Contents -- Index -- PS reprint -- PDF reprint . ... The recently reshaped VizieR system, a unified query interface to an increasing number of catalogs (presently ), is presented. ... Besides the adoption of this new protocol, the most visible changes in this new version of VizieR are an easy access to notes, and possibilities of navigation between the tables of a catalog. ... There are presently rows in this table, i.e. an average of tables per catalog. ...

Next: Modes of Operation Up: CCD Scientific Performance Previous: Field of View . Thermal excitation of charge carriers from the valence to the conduction band creates a dark current signal which may vary with position in the array, and also has temporal shot noise variation. ... In a device devoid of localized defects which give rise to individual dark current spikes , most dark current arises from electrons generated at interface states at the surface. ...

... Go to This section of the glossary . ... APHELION : The point in a planet's orbit where it is farthest from the sun. ... It melts at 83.95 K, and boils at 87.45 K. Many people don't realize that argon makes up a full 1% of our atmosphere, while carbon dioxide is only a fraction of a percent of our atmosphere. ... COMET: An object moving about the sun in an eccentric orbit and composed of materials which, on warming up near the sun, form a "tail" which always points away from the sun. ...