... Astronomy index . ... This tour, of the world of astronomy, physics and spaceflight, may just as well end with a light-hearted 1878 poem by the Czech poet Jan Neruda . ... Do Frogs Exist there Too ?" . ... Like moles they dig for learning. ... They call one foot, that's all. ... Do frogs exist there too?" ... star? jim ?ab?k u?en? . ... teprv jim loket jeden. ... Foot" as used here, in Czech "loket," actually means "cubit," the distance from elbow to stretched fingertips, about a foot and a half. ...

. You may want to open an existing file to change its contents. To do this type: ue filename . So to open the file called letter you would type: ue letter . Tip ...

... AstroGrid Registry . ... 3.Get/Find New Registries . ... Below you will find sections about information about eXist and how it works with the Registry. eXist embedded (Moving your Data Out) . ... You could of course make backups of the data directory and after doing an upgrade or deploy simply copy back over the data directory and restart your servlet/j2ee container. ... Change the JNDI property of "reg.custom.exist.configuration" and point to this directory plus conf.xml ex: /exist/db/conf.xml. ...

... Another significant contribution to the crystal energy of metals is the electron-ion interaction or the electron bandstructure energy (E BS ) which is defined by the interaction of valence electrons and the Brillouin zone (BZ) planes. ... The program BRIZ has been developed for 3D visualization of Brillouin zone configurations and intersections of BZ planes with a Fermi sphere[4]. ... 1.75 (electrons/atom). ... 4] Degtyareva V.F., Smirnova I.S.: BRIZ: a vizualization program for Brillouin zone ? ...

... This appartus will drop a mass from different heights. When the mass strikes the ground, some percentage of its original energy will be absorbed by the ground. ... The percentage of the energy which is absorbed by the surface on each "bounce" (EAS) . ... The impact velocity of the object will also be given at each bounce. ... Start= Drop the ball after Energy, Mass and EAS have been set; resume after step or pause has been selected . ... Reset = Reset experiment to intial values . ...

... The remote area was formed very early, at a time when the Universe was a fifth of its present age and the presence of the galaxy string defies existing models, which can not explain how a string this big could have formed so long ago. ... The simulations tell us that you cannot take the matter in the early Universe and line it up in strings this large," Dr Francis said. ... But in the early Universe, most galaxies had not yet formed, and most dark matter clouds will not yet contain a galaxy. ...

... Message Bus and Distributed Object Technology Doug Tody IRAF Group, NOAO 1 , PO Box 26732, Tucson, AZ 85726 Abstract. In recent years our applications have become increasingly large and monolithic, despite successful e#orts to structure software internally at the class library level. ... Data Service Compute Service Message Bus Message Bus Concepts Message Bus Console Client Component Client Component Request (Host 1) (Host 2) Broadcast Event Figure 1. ...

Storing and accessing the largest astronomical catalogues with the SAI CAS project S. Koposov1,2,3, O. Bartunov2, S. Karpov4 et al2. ... Why we want to build our own Catalogue Access Service The requirements for our CAS system The importance of the Database for the CAS (PostgreSQL & Q3C) The technical realization of CAS What has been already done Example of work TODO Storing and Accessing Astronomical Catalogues Existing projects CDS OpenSkyQuery CASjobs with SDSS They are all really great! ...

As of 1.3, the Apache source directories have been re-organised. This re-organisation is designed to simplify the directory structure, make it easier to add additional modules, and to give module authors a way of specifying compile time options or distribute binary modules. ... The non-module source files have moved from src into src/main . ... Configure . ... For example, say it is called mod_demo.c. The archive for this module should consist of two files, in a suitable directory name. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Early Mars bombardment likely enhanced life-supporting habitat . ... The Real Reality Show: Would aliens be anything like us? ... April 2016: the historic journey to Europa . The Real Reality Show: All about the Drake Equation . ... The Real Reality Show . ... The Real Reality Show: Could Life Exist on Europa or Titan? ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

spaceweb@oulu.fi - last update: 30 April 1997, 1000 UT (RR) . In the magnetospheric physics, the ballooning mode instability (BMI) is a disturbance of the equilibrium between outward directed forces caused by the particle pressure and the curvature drift on one hand and inward directed forces exerted by the tangential stress of the field lines on the other hand (e.g., Hameiri et al., ... For recent references on ballooning instability, see, e.g., Liu (1997). ... 102 , 4927-4931, 1997. ...