... The map available here shows the location of the workshop, of the Arcetri Observatory, and of some Hotels nearby. The hotels shown on the map have offered special rates to the participants of the Workshop on Cosmic Polarization Rotation (CPR WS). ... Hotel Villa Agape (see here ) offers single and double rooms at 72 and 135 euro per night, respectively, including taxes, continental breakfast, and private parking for one car. ... Please reserve before August 1st, 2015. ... cpr@arcetri.astro.it . ...

... Carefully measure the diameter of the craters formed by the impact without disturbing the sand. ... Crater diameter increases with increasing mass. ... Without disturbing the sand, carefully measure the crater diameter. ... Did you measure any difference in the diameters of the craters? Yes, as velocity increases, so does crater diameter. ... Impact cratering. ... Impact craters can be demonstrated with younger or less advanced students using mud instead of sand and ball bearings. ...

VRAM-based Windows and CAD Accelerator . ... 5 Year Warranty Diamond's Stealth 64 VRAM is the latest addition to the award winning Stealth family of graphics accelerators for compute-intensive Windows and DOS applications. Designed for PC/ and VESA local bus architectures,. the VRAM based Stealth 64 sets a new standard in 64-bit graphics performance. With 4MB of VRAM, the Stealth 64 displays 24-bit true color up to 1152x864 resolution and provides 65,536 colors at 1280x1024 resolution. ...

Next: PSF1DRB Up: PIXTOPIXSENS Previous: Generation from Ground Calibration Contents . Ideally the in-orbit PixToPixSens file will be generated from internal calibration measurements using the fullframe high resolution engineering mode. However due to their large data volume the fullframe high resolution data won't be available frequently enough to base the in-flight generation of the PixToPixSens file on the high resolution data. ... i.e. the average counts per pixel per CCD-frame . ...

This directory contains Calgary Neutron Monitor Data at five minute resolution. Each file is a gzipped tar archive that contains files of uncorrected count rates and barometric pressures at five minute intervals for one year. A file named snm.calg.fmi.YYYY.tgz is an archive that holds five minute data for the year YYYY. ... So a file named cal01030.fmi contains five minute uncorrected data for year 2001 day 30 (which is Jan 30, 2001). ... A text file named note.txt is also usually present. ...

... ST-ECF, ESO, STScI and the NICMOS IDT organized a workshop on near infrared imaging from space and ground was held in Pula on May 26-27, 1998. ... The meeting was held in May 1998, about one year after science observations started with NICMOS, and about half a year before the Infrared Spectrometer and Array Camera (ISAAC) starts to operate on the VLT. Currently, it is expected that NICMOS will operate until the end of 1998. ...

... For the XRBs which are highly variable the concurrent presence of the RXTE/ASM that continuously measures their X-ray spectral states invites a new and innovative program to harness the available information to facilitate detailed studies of individual systems as well as comparative studies between classes of systems. ... This will enable them to quickly decide which data are worth putting in effort to extract and further analyze. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

... New version of magnetic field data (descriptor "itm") is now available with small corrections in offsets and attitude coverage. ... Full set of INTERBALL-TAIL AKR radiointensity KP for AKR instrument is now available (descriptor "ita"). ... KP data availability plots are created. ... Magnetic field data (descriptor "itm") after 1st January, 1998 are recomputed with corrected Bx_GSE offset (this was just 0.5 nT correction). ... CDF files for plasma wave KP are now available (descriptor "itw"). ...

... Magnetic Storms . ... Cosmic Rays . ... Energetic Particles . ... Solar fast Particles . We cannot observe the way the distant universe accelerates cosmic rays or produces energetic photons, but acceleration processes also occur on our Sun , though on a much more moderate scale. ... That is why such events are often missed by cosmic ray detectors near the equator, where the lowest energies are excluded by the Earth's magnetic field. ... Should we be concerned about solar energetic radiation? ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . ... A small spacecraft Aist-2D , developed by the scientists of Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) and the experts of the Rocket and Space Centre Progress will see from outer space what is hidden under the thick top of trees and below the Earth's surface. The radar equipment was installed on Aist-2D , which was delivered to the space launcher complex Vostochniy on January 22. ... Tomography of the Earth's ionosphere will also be carried out. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . General information Main characteristics of the Radio telescope Observing programs General view of the antenna array Main research areas Principle of generation of radio images Radio telescope 's beam Receiving systems Main characteristics of the base receiving-recording complex Calibrations Data archive and databases Publication SSRT - Siberian Solar Radio Telescope . ...

Title: A New Model of the Gravitational Lens 0957+561 and a Limit on the Hubble Constant . Authors: Norman A. Grogin , Ramesh Narayan (Harvard Univ.) ... Title: ROSAT/PSPC observation of the distant cluster CL0939+472 . ... Title: Interaction in the Bimodal Galaxy Cluster A3528 . ... Title: Cosmological Implications of Galaxy Cluster Evolution . ... Title: Galaxy Cluster Virial Masses and Omega . ... Matches 201 to 222 from a total of 222 matches for the search pattern galaxy cluster . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Flights Chronology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . ... Rocket Space Complexes . Sea Launch . ... The Sea Launch project is the world's first purely commercial international venture to develop and operate a sea-based space launch system. ... Contribution of RSC Energia to the Russian Rocket-Space Technology . ...

... Do this a few times to make sure that your machine registers the same time (to within 0.01 second) each time. ... There is a red and green marker available on the ruler. ... Do the same for intervals of 2 to 4m, 3 - 5 m and 4--6m. The average velocity is determined by the time it takes for the ball to go a given distance. ... As in the previous exercises involving the real ball dropping make plots of average velocity vs height above the surface and total distance travelled versus time. ...

... 4 November 1994 . orbit . ... 0.0128 . ... orbit period . ... satellite mass . 1950 kg . scientific payload mass . 550 kg . ... For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . 1997-2002 SMIS IKI RAN and SRC "PLANETA" Moscow, Russia. ...

... III Российская олимпиада школьников . ... Задачи теоретического тура: 8-9 класс. ... Вам даны данные о комете Hyakutake 1996 B2 (файл из сети Internet): 1. ... Оказалось, что в местности Вашего приземления полдень наступил в 8 часов 42 минуты Мос- ковского летнего времени, а высота Солнца при этом h = 72њ. ... Радиус Луны равен 1740 км. 10 класс. ... См. задачу 2 для 8-9 класса. ... Направление движения пульсара произвольно. 11 класс. ... Задачи практического тура: 8-9 класс. ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

... Cosmic Balloons (Nursery age activity - times vary) . Why not come and see our pre-school show Little Yellow Star and after pop into the Arts and Crafts workshop to take home your very own cosmic constellation balloon. If Ursa the Bear or Canis the Dog are not exciting enough for you why not take home your very own balloon alien or astronaut that can easily be decorated to look even better for any future space missions. ... Meteorites . The Planetarium has aquired aб small lunar meteorite. ...

... The project assumes creation of an international space observatory - the interferometer "Earth - Space - Space" in order to perform of astronomical investigations in millimeter, submillimeter and infrared regions with extremely high sensitivity (to a few nanoJanskies units of flux density in continuum spectrum) and extremely high angular resolution (to a parts of microsecond of arc or, possibly, nanosecond). ... radio-interferometric channels of the system "Space - Space", region 0.2 - 3 mm; . ...