... The first person to orbit the Earth was the Russian Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The first American to do so was John Glenn, who completed three orbits on February 20, 1962; more than 26 years later, at age 77, Glenn returned to space aboard the space shuttle. ... Any manned mission faces the problem of safe return to Earth, which requires getting rid of the huge amount of energy associated with orbital motion. A spacecraft in low Earth orbit moves at about 24 times the velocity of sound. ...

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XMM­Newton CCF Release Note XMM­CCF­REL­60 OM Photometry R. Much / A. Talavera February 15, 2001 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE List of Blocks changed CAL VERSION XSCS flag OM COLORTRANS 0005 2000­01­01T00:00:00 COLORMAG No OM PHOTTONAT 0003 2000­01­01T00:00:00 COINCIDENCE Yes 2 Changes The structural changes are introduced to make the COLORTRANS file compatible to the CAL/SAS changes which are required to improve on the OM photometry. ... An additional extension COINCIDENCE was added. ...

All stars derive their energy through the thermonuclear fusion of light elements in to heavy elements. High temperatures are required so that the mutual electrostatic repulsion of the protons in each fusing atomic nucleus is overcome. ... Elements with more protons in their nuclei require higher temperatures. ... This sequence is now shown in the animation below. ... First Step of the Proton-Proton Chain Narration . Second Step of the Proton-Proton Chain Narration . ...

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... Eclipses of the Moon in 2009 : . In 2009 there are four eclipses of the Moon (tree penumbral eclipses on February 9, July 7, and August 5-6 and a partial eclipse on December 31). ... Moon enters penumbra (P 1 ) . ... Moon leaves penumbra (P 4 ) . ... Eclipse, lunar : . ... It may be total (the Moon passing completely through the Earth's umbra ), partial (the Moon passing partially through the Earth's umbra at maximum eclipse), or penumbral (the Moon passing only through the Earth's penumbra ). ...

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... Table of Contents . Author Index . Subject Index . Enter words for search: . This is a WAIS search of the entire contents of all the articles, performed by the wwwwais gateway program. ... You may use "and" and "or" in a search. For example, compare the results of a search for "midas and aips" to the results of searching for "midas" alone. Copyright 1997 Astronomical Society of the Pacific , 390 Ashton Avenue, San Francisco, California 94112, USA . ...

The nasa.gov site requires that JavaScripts be enabled in your browser. ... Contact NASA . ... The term "astronaut" derives from the Greek words meaning "space sailor," and refers to all who have been launched as crew members aboard NASA spacecraft bound for orbit and beyond. Since the inception of NASA's human space flight program, we have also maintained the term "astronaut" as the title for those selected to join the NASA corps of astronauts who make "space sailing" their career profession. ...

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... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

... Комментариев нет 3 августа 2010, 23:15 Blogger , English , Астрономия . Dark Stars and Boosted Dark Matter Annihilation Rates. (arXiv:1008.0348v1 [astro-ph.CO]) : "Dark Stars (DS) may constitute the first phase of stellar evolution, powered by dark matter (DM) annihilation. ... Secondly, we study the dependence of DS properties on the concentration pa- rameter of the initial DM density profile of the halos where the first stars are formed. ...

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The idea of component-oriented programming is that in the course of implementation of various software projects a programmer (or a programmers team) accumulates a library of reused software fragments that are used in different projects. ... To solve such problems there are some special syntax means in Actor Prolog that support component-oriented programming. ... A package in Actor Prolog is a set of classes linked by implication. ... Actor Prolog supports visual component-oriented programming. ...

RadioAstron AO-1 prop osal Submission dead line: February 8, 23:59 UT. ... Team contact name and e-mail address: Ivan Petrov (e-mail: Ivan.Peterov@gmail.com ) Total observing time request: 100 hrs Number of independent observing segments and typical range of pro jected baselines required: 20 (3-30 Earth diameters) Specific dates and time intervals requested : If your experiment requires specific dates and UT ranges, please, indicate them: February 1, 2014: 08:00-16:00 UT -- M87 imaging ...

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If you select Select item, the Data retrieval from observatory list dialog box will appear. Click on one of two radio buttons to the left of data fields intended for observatory code or name and introduce the required data. In case of observatory name it is possible to introduce its fragment. ... If it is necessary to enter new observatory into the list, mark one of the entries with missing data and select Edit in drop-down menu. ... In this case Landscape mode should be selected. ...

OptInt PmWiki : MROI Delay Line SW / Preliminary Design Review . The Preliminary Design Review for the Production Software Contract will take place at 8.30am MST (3.30pm GMT) on 1 February 2010. ... Production Trolley Software Functional Description (INT-406-VEN-1002) . Production Workstation Software Functional Description (INT-406-VEN-1003) . Production Metrology Software Functional Description (INT-406-VEN-1004) . ... Prototype) VME Software Functional Description (INT-406-VEN-0104) . ...