Asteroid 2055 YU55 passes close by Earth; how close did it get? ... As Elizabeth Flock reported: An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier missed Earth by only 200,000 miles as it flew by Tuesday night the closest an asteroid has been to Earth in 200 years Asteroid 2005 YU55, as it has been dubbed, streaked by at about 30,000 mph, but some scientists and lucky amateur astronomers caught a glimpse in their telescopes, where they saw strange structures on the asteroid\u2019s dark-colored surface. ...

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... After passing degree work in MAO of NAS of of USSR Sosonkin has received the recommendation for receipt in post-graduate course of M??. ... Subjects of his scientific work were use of new receivers of radiation, in particular of electron-optical converters at observant astronomy. ... On industrial base FTI Sosonkin has created installation on base EOC UM - 92 for Cassegrain focus of a telescope ?ZT-2 and similar to it and installation with the same type EOC for focus of Newton. ...

V. Barale, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Ispra, Italy; M. Gade, University of Hamburg, Germany (Eds.) Remote Sensing of the European Seas Here is a review of the current potential of Earth Observations that devotes particular attention to the challenges posed by the European Seas. ... Part 1: Introduction.- ... Pre-publication pricing: Unless otherwise stated, pre-pub prices are valid through the end of the third month following publication, and therefore are subject to change. ...

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... The damage to NIFS has freed up the RSAA instrumentation team to concentrate on the timely delivery of the Gemini South Adaptic Optics Imager (GSAOI). ... GSAOI is the second instrument that ANU is building for Gemini. ... GSAOI Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/gsaoi/ NIFS Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/nifs/ RSAA Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/ Australian Gemini Project Office Website: http://www.ausgo.unsw.edu.au/ Gemini Public Information Website: http://www.gemini.anu.edu.au/public/ . ...

... In accordance with assignment she was sent to Nikolaev branch of the Pulkovo observatory. At the Nikolaev Observatory Eugene Khrutskaya worked with the meridian circle, she made a lot for automatization of observational process, and in 1973 she created the catalog of right ascensions obtained for more than 6000 stars, and she defended her thesis. ... From 2004 to the present, Evgenia Khrutskaya was Head of the Laboratory of astrometry and stellar astronomy. ... Pulkovo observatory . ...

... A MIDAS command procedure may be created with an editor or via the command . ... where par1 ... par8 are the actual parameters which may be accessed within the command procedure through the character keywords P1 .. ... To pass parameters back to a higher level command, use the command . ... Example 1, MIDAS procedure exa1.prg . ... The command @@ always passes 8 parameters to a command procedure. ... The command DEFINE/PARAMETER should be used for each parameter that is referenced in the procedure. ...

... In 1995, two intermittent detector features (aka hotspots) particular to the ROSAT HRI have been noticed on the edge of the HRI field. ... To view the hotspots: . HS #1 > xdisplay "rh123456n00.qp[key=(rawx,rawy)][186:697,230:741]" HS #2 > xdisplay "rh123456n00.qp[key=(rawx,rawy)][3380:3891,297:808]" HS #3 > xdisplay "rh123456n00.qp[key=(rawx,rawy)][2753:3252,3065:3564]" OR > xexamine rh...qp[key=(rawx,rawy)] [HS #1, if present, appears as a spot in the lower left; HS #2 in the lower right.] ...