home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... A Minor Planet's Night Out . ... Orbiting between Mars and Jupiter are thousands of rocky bodies. ... In 1804 came Juno; in 1807, Vesta. ... Most minor planets, as asteroids are sometimes affectionately called, hum in elliptical orbits between Mars and Jupiter. ... This helps us as we select the Guest Observer, and it helps readers to understand what you studied. ...

What follows is a brief list of benchmarks and discoveries that shaped our ideas on atoms and nuclei. ... Discovery of electrons . ... Comparing this to Faraday's results, one could get " Avogadro's number ", the number of (say) hydrogen atoms in one gram of hydrogen--an enormously large number. ... Similarly, energized atoms are only allowed to exist in one of a number of energy levels. ... By the way, Avogadro's number is 602,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (6.02 10 23 ) molecules in 1 gr hydrogen. ...

ESO PR 06/96; 16 February 1996 . ... In the early morning of January 31, 1996, Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake made his second comet discovery within five weeks. ... Information about some earlier comet encounters may be found in the Appendix at the end of this Press Release. ... By a straightforward extrapolation of the current brightness, it would appear that Comet Hyakutake will reach magnitude 1 on March 25, 1996, at the time of the closest approach to the Earth. ...

... On January 1, 1925, thirty-five-year-old Edwin Hubble announced findings that ultimately established that our universe was a thousand trillion times larger than previously believed, filled with myriad galaxies like our own. ... Six years later, continuing research by Hubble and others forced Albert Einstein to renounce his own cosmic model and finally accept the astonishing fact that the universe was not immobile but instead expanding. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Next: Observations and reduction Up: The discovery of SN1998bv Previous: The discovery of SN1998bv . ... Since the life cycle of massive stars is very short (<30Myr), one can expect to observe more or less frequent SNe in galaxies where current intensive star formation takes place. ... 1998). ... The supernova SN 1998bv was discovered on April 6, 1998 in the galaxy HS 1035+4758 selected as an ELG candidate in the HSS. ... Figure 1: DSS image of the galaxy HS 1035+4758. ...

... Cosmic Vacuum . Recent observational studies of remote supernovae have suggested the existence of cosmic vacuum with the density which is larger than the total density of all the other forms of cosmic energy in the Universe. Vacuum produces the field of anti-gravity and induces acceleration of the cosmological expansion. ... The discovery of the cosmic vacuum leads to a drastic change in the current concepts concerning the present state of the Universe. ...

... ASTEROID’S MOONS : DISCOVERY BY RADAR . ... Moons of known asteroids have a low position ambiguity, which makes their discovery with powerful ground-based radar much easier than the discovery of new asteroids or other objects of Solar System. ... The other technique is a direct detection of radar echo from an asteroid moon. ... However, the diameter of a ground-based fully-steerable reflector is limited by 120-150 m to make it possible to perform two different functions: focusing and tracking (fig. ...

Lectures . ... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2010-2011 Lecture Series 2010-2011 ? Top Ten Discoveries of the Phoenix Misson to Mars? by Suzanne Young . ... Lecture Series 2010-2011 . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Amateur Astronomers Medal . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

This service is intended as an aid to visually observing close-approaching asteroids. ... By clicking on the column headers for "Object Name", "Maximum Brightness", and "Maximum Angular Speed", you can sort the list by those fields. ... When This is the predicted time when the asteroid will be closest to the Earth. ... This field shows red if an asteroid comes as close as the moon. ... PHA (Potentially Hazardous Asteroid) This does NOT mean that this is going to hit the Earth. ...

... Master . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . ... 20.06.2012 . ... 27 Apr 2012: GRB 120427A: MASTER follow up observations GCN13274 . ... 29 Mar 2012: MASTER OT 123412-632503 detection during Swift trigger 518853 ATel4007 . 26 Mar 2012: GRB 120323A: MASTER follow up observations GCN13116 . ... 29 Jan 2012: GRB 120129A: MASTER optical observations GCN12907 . 06 Jan 2012: GRB 120106A: MASTER Early OT marginally detection GCN12818, GCN12811 . ...

... PUBLIC LECTURE - APRIL 12, 2016 . New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto and Planet X . ... Dr. Green will talk about "New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto, and Planet X". ... Beginning in 1992 planetary astronomers began to find Pluto like objects beyond the orbit of Neptune showing us that Pluto was a member of an entirely new family of objects we now call the Kuiper Belt. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

The beam pattern and the polarization characteristics . of the radio telescope RATAN-600 . The Mueller matrix elements was computed via formulas [1]: . ... The BP were computed by the aperture method, proceeding from the fild distribution in the aperture of the primary mirror. The components of the main and cross-polarization components of the electric field in the vertical aperture of the primary mirror was computed in Frenel diffraction approximation. ...

... To save time, I will only provide ephemerides in 2000 coordinates. ... Note: most the orbital elements used to create these ephemerides were obtained from the International Astronomical Union Circulars (IAUCs), Minor Planet Circulars (MPCs) or the ICQ Comet Handbook. ... The following 1-day ephemeris (March 1, 1997 - October 1, 1997) is from Donald Yeomans of JPL and is based on Reference Orbit #55 (March 4, 1997). 2000 coordinates (March - September, 1997) [3/4/97] . ... Epoch: 1997 Feb. 1.0 . ...

Next: Large Scale Clustering in the Universe - A Package of Codes . ... The discovery of a correlation between the light curve shape and intrinsic brightness has made Type Ia supernovae exceptionally accurate distance indicators out to cosmologically interesting redshifts. ... But supernovae are relatively rare events. ... Type Ia supernovae make excellent distance indicators, so these events at high redshift can be used to map out the history of the expanding Universe. ...

... Комментариев нет 22 августа 2010, 13:58 Blogger , English , Астрономия . ... Neptune will finally complete its first full orbit of the sun since it was discovered in 1846a approximately one year from now, according to NASA estimates. ... Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-21 . ...

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... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Using a database view Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), containing almost a million spectra created 15,000 sample galaxies with active star formation, which is used for various studies and physical state of evolution of galaxies. ... Star clusters of the Galaxy . The project MWSC (Milky Way Star Clusters) directory using 2MASS, which includes nearly 500 million vision to the limit Ks = 15.3, analyzed more than 4,000 cluster-like objects in the galaxy. ...

God Science Forum Message . Forums: . ... God and Science ћ SETI ћ Software ћ UFO ћ XEphem . ... God and Science | ... Discover The Science Behind The "Wormwood Star Prophecy" . ... Scientific Scenario Of A Comet's Impact And The "Wormwood Star" Prophecy . ... The Wormwood prophecy cites a "great star, blazing like a torch". ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Peter J.K. "Jeff" Wisoff (Ph.D) . NASA Astronaut (former) . ... A veteran of four space flights, STS-57 in 1993, STS-68 in 1994, STS-81 in 1997 and STS-92 in 2000, Dr. Wisoff has logged a total of 42 days, 56 hours, 1 minute and 48 seconds in space, including , 19 hours and 53 minutes of EVA time in three space walks. ... Following 183 orbits of the Earth in 269 hours and 46 minutes, the eleven-day mission ended with Space Shuttle Endeavour landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California. ...

... Scientists from G. I. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics- Syberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) and Image Processing Systems Institute (IPSI) of the Russian Academy of Science, became the first people in the world obtained terahertz non-diffractive twisted Bessel beams and used them for the first time the formation of surface electromagnetic waves on the metal surface. ...