... February 15, 1996 . NEAR to an Asteroid . Credit: NASA , JPL , Galileo Project . Explanation: Excitement mounts as NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft nears launch - currently scheduled for 3:53 ET on February 16. ... For comparison, above is an image of the limb of asteroid Ida made by the Galileo spacecraft from a distance of about 1,500 miles, the highest resolution image of an asteroid surface - so far. ... Do asteroids ever strike the Earth? ... About APOD | ...

... In such cases the old bad pixel tables were used. ... 1 XMM­Newton CCF Release XMM­ CCF ­REL­61 Page: 2 4 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE List of Blocks changed CAL VERSION XSCS flag EPN BADPIX 0021 2000 ­06­11T03:00:00 BADPIX YES ( post facto ) EPN BADPIX 0022 2000 ­06­29T02:49:00 BADPIX YES ( post facto ) EPN BADPIX 0023 2000 ­07­03T12:00:00 BADPIX YES ( post facto ) EPN ...

... RSC Energy General Designer . ... The possibility of continuing the exploitation of the complex in the conditions of the inevitable obsolescence and depreciation of the on-board equipment providing the achievement of the necessary level of safety has been one of the most important and always controlled problems during all the term of exploitation of the complex Mir. ... The technical condition of the complex Mir gives the opportunity to continue its exploitation in a piloted mode till 2002 and more....

... Operational risk includes both transaction and strategic risk. ... Credit report should include: Loan provisions ============ Bad debt provision Operations ============ Number of Accounts in Arrears Number of letters sent last quarter Number of phone calls made last quarter Number of meetings with members last quarter Loan rescheduling and loan top-ups ============================ Number of loans in arrears that were rescheduled last quarter Number of ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... We test Denkmeier's 3-D eyepieces . ... Discovery 's launch will be scheduled for no earlier than February 3 . ... NASA managers have targeted space shuttle Discovery 's launch for no earlier than February 3, 2011, at 1:34 a.m. EST. ... Because of Discovery 's delayed launch, the earliest opportunity for the liftoff of the final scheduled shuttle mission, STS-134 on Endeavour , is April 1, 2011. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

Analysis of general features of the chaotic system behavior and investigation of the properties of concrete chaotic sources. ... Analysis of information properties of chaotic systems and chaotic oscillations as concrete objects for information processing and comunications. ... This hypothesis gives a possibility of designing simple mathematical structures accomplishing various processes of information processing using chaos. ... Activities | ... E-mail: chaos@mail.cplire.ru ...

... Magnetic storms online . ... Geomagnetic activity forecast . ... February : 2016 . ... No magnetic storm is expected . From 2 February 2016 to 28 February 2016 the following magnetic storms and disturbances are expected: . February 03, 2016 geomagnetic disturbances . ... February 08, 2016 geomagnetic storm of level G1 (minor) . ... February 16, 2016 geomagnetic disturbances 2 February 2016 - 28 February 2016 . ... Probability of a magnetic storm . ... Probability of a strong magnetic storm . ...

UPDATE FROM 03/08/2012: AT THE TIME OF ARRIVAL IN ENVIRONMENT DISTURBANCES OF LARGE SOLAR FLARE 05.03 0230 0409 0643 N17E52L299 X1.1/2B 3.7E-11 429 1 CME AND DEVELOPMENT MODERATE MAGNETIC STORM, IN COMPLEX ACTIVE REGIONS ON SUN AR11429 (N18L299, Sp = 1270 m.v.h. at 7.03) + AR11430 (N19L315, Sp = 200 m.v.h to 7.02) THE TWO LARGE SOLAR FLARES WAS OCCURRENCED 07.03 0000 0024 0349 N17E27L299 3B/X5.4 6.7E-11 429 1 II / 2, IV / 2, ... NEXT WEEK THE SUNSPOT ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE THE AVERAGE. ...

... For queued observations, the nightly scheduling will be performed by sta# astronomers using an Operational Toolkit. ... The toolkit will make all observation preparation data available to the oper­ ator, and will allow the definition of queues and timelines of Observation Blocks (OBs). ... The operations team then uses the Operational Toolkit to browse the repos­ itory and build queues, based on object visibility, expected observing conditions, and user­defined scheduling constraints. ...

... The robot spacecraft NEAR-Shoemaker has been orbiting asteroid Eros for nearly one year On February 12, before maneuvering fuel wanes, NASA will command the craft to descend right down onto the surface. Planetary Nebula Mz3: The Ant Nebula . ... Planetary nebula Mz3 is being cast off by a star similar to our Sun that is, surely, round. Why then would the gas that is streaming away create an ant-shaped nebula that is distinctly not round? Welcome to Planet Earth . ... Earth's Plasmasphere . ...

... The ESO-MIDAS system is built along lines which should allow easy integration of complex analysis algorithms as well as allowing greater flexibility in interactive use and in the creation of user specific procedures from the basic building blocks. The first design proposal for ESO-MIDAS, made late 1980, used some ideas from the UK STARLINK project for the software interface definitions. ... It consists of the following three parts, the monitor, the applications, and the interfaces. ...

Instrument . ... Scanning TV-sensor with on-board data recording system for global coverage mode . ... recording, direct transmission . ... IR-radiometer for global coverage and direct data transmission modes . ... The scientific instrument package onboard the Meteor-3 spacecraft provides for regular instant acquisition of images of cloudiness and Earth surface in visible and infra-red bands, data on air temperature and humidity, sea surface temperature and clouds temperature. ...

LIF Marseille and Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia. E-mail: alexander.shen AT lif.univ-mrs.fr, sasha.shen AT gmail.com . ... Kolmogorov complexity, algorithmic information theory . Teaching (mathematics, computer science): Independent University of Moscow, Moscow State University, Moscow mathematical school No 57. ... Kolmogorov memorial conference, Moscow. IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity, Aarhus (Denmark), ("Kolmogorov day") . ...

... 2015 - 2016 . ... Eugene Higgins Professor of Astrophysics, Princeton University . ... December 8, 2015 . ... November 10, 2015 . ... University of the Sciences in Philadelphia author . ... Amateur Astronomer . ... 2014 - 2015 . ... June 9, 2015 . ... Digital Planetarium and the 2012 Transit of Venus from Hawaii . 2013 - 2014 . ... International Occultation Timing Association . ... 2012 - 2013 . ... 2011 - 2012 . ... Princeton University . ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

. The briefing on the Defence Trade Control Act will be about the Act itself and how it may potentially impact research activity in RSAA (20 mins). Following this discussion, researchers who consider their work has no exposure to Act are free to leave. The second 40 minutes will explore more closely those areas where researchers believe their work may have potential exposure.

OptInt PmWiki . ... MROI Delay Line Design Contract . ... Systems Engineering Docs . ... MROI FTT Contract Private Material . ... Doc Man . ... 1100 FTT/NAS . ... 1120 Camera . ... 1170 Test Equipment . ... MRO-TRE-CAM-0000-0102 FTT/NAS Conceptual Design Report . ... MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0109 "FTT/NAS,FLC-UTE" FTT/NAS & FLC to Enclosure ICD . MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0110 "FTT/NAS,FLC-NOT" FTT/NAS & FLC to optical table ICD . MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0111 "FTT/NAS,FLC-UT" FTT/NAS & FLC to UT optical ICD . ...

The group that operates in Firenze and Urbino has developed a number of inertial sensor of displacement (accelerometers), that are needed in the control loop of the superattenuators, and is also concerned in the measurement of the seismic noise in the area of the interferometer. ... 39-0552307-696 . ... 39-050911255 . ... 39-07224892 . ... 39-0552752-218 . ... Arcetri Home Page . Virgo Group Page . ...

... Posts tagged ?complex data? ... Posted by chasc . This is a special session at the January 2010 meeting of the AAS. ... Continue reading ?Beyond simple models-New methods for complex data? Tags: 2010 , 215 , AAS , AAS 215 , astroinformatics , astrostatistics , complex data , January , Methods , special session , Washington . ... Comment . ... Entries RSS . Comments RSS . ... AAS-HEAD 2011] Time Series in High Energy Astrophysics . ... CAS 2010 . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

... Lecture notes + integrated exercises, solutions and marking . ... C/C++ Program Compilation . ... UNIX Library Functions . ... Further Data Types . ... Not assigning a pointer to memory address before using it . ... Exercise . ... Threads: Basic Theory and Libraries . ... Thread Levels . ... Global and Private Thread-Specific Data Example . ... Example Use of Thread Specific Data:Rethinking Global Variables . ... Further Threads Programming:Thread Attributes (POSIX) . ... Thread programming examples...

... Manager of Research and Educational Microsatellite Program, . ... MICROSATELLITE INTEGRATION ACCORDING TO INTERNATIONAL LEGAL STANDARDS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION . ... CONTROL OF MICROSATELLITE AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT . ... BASIC RESULTS OF THE EDICATIONAL PROGRAM . ... The state-of-the-art of the research and technological progress makes it possible to adapt the issues related to satellite development and operation, as well as its control and data acquisition processes to the educational...