Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Leonid meteors seen from 13 km altitude aboard an aircraft during the 1999 Leonids Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (Leonid-MAC). Comet Tempel-Tuttle provides the cometary debris for the Leonid meteor shower. ... Every 17-19 November Earth crosses Tempel-TuttleтАЩs orbit and the Leonids become visible. With clear, dark skies observers may see 10 to 15 Leonid meteors every hour on those mornings. ...

... A pixmap is an off-screen buffer you can draw graphics into. After drawing into a pixmap, you can copy it to a window, causing it to appear on the screen (when the window is visible). ... In GDK, the pixmap type is called GdkPixmap . ... Drawables include windows, pixmaps, and bitmaps. ... GdkDrawable is used in function declarations when either a window or a pixmap is an acceptable argument. ... GdkPixmap* gdk_pixmap_new (GdkWindow* window , gint width , gint height , gint depth ); . ...

JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight . ... Scheduled for completion about 2006, the completed International Space Station will have a mass of about 1,040,000 pounds. ... The assembled space station will provide the first laboratory complex where gravity, a fundamental force on Earth, can be controlled for extended periods. ... Hospitals, business parks and solar electric power stations that beam clean, inexpensive energy back to Earth are likely to dot the "space-scape" 40 years from now. ...

... Results of measurement of Jovian flux, enumerated on a standard distance 4.04 бе, are displayed on figure 1a. The attempt is made to divide a response of a magnetosphere of the falling comets into two parts: immediate responce during impacts and more delaed one. On figure 1b the relation of the measured flows to a relative phase is showed and the data from July 17 till July 23 are excluded. ... A shaped line - prospective sinusoidal relation of a flow to a phase. c) Flux depending on date. ...

If you go out tonight and look up at the full Moon, and you're like most people, you'll probably see the face of a man, or, alternatively, a rabbit superimposed on the bright disk of the Moon. ... When people look at the full Moon, they often see either a Man in the Moon (left) or a rabbit in the Moon (right). ... The Face on Mars is a naturally occurring rock outcropping that just happens to look like a face when lit from the side. ... The Face on Mars,'' Odyssey , October 1991, page 12. ...

EVOLUTION OF RADIO NOISE STORMS AT COMPRESSED DYNAMIC SPERTRA . ... An analysis of large-scale variations of noise storm intensity and frequency spectra has been carried out basing on IZMIRAN dynamic radio spectra compressed in time. It is shown that various enhancements and weakening of noise storms as well as changes of their frequency spectrum appear to be caused by effects of coronal mass ejections on sources of the emission or/and electron acceleration in the corona. ...

The Earth. ... The middle raiding of the Earth is 6371,032 km, the pole 6356,777 km equatorial - 6378,160 km. The Earth surface area is 510,2 mln km^2, 70,8% of which is the World ocean. ... According to the modern cosmogonical views the Earth was formed 4,6 - 4,7 billions years ago from the protoplanet cloud captured by the Sun. ... The Earth is conditionally divided into 3 parts: a bark a cloak and a core (in the centre). The external layer - the bark is 35 km thick. ... Above the Earth. ...

The Telescope:Pointing Data script takes set of pointing error measurements of pointing reference stars across the sky. ... To retry measuring the star, fix the problem (e.g. by adjusting focus, exposure time or offset) and press Continue . ... For each point in the az/alt grid the script will find and slew to a nearby pointing reference star, measure the star, write the pointing error to a data file whose path is displayed, and correct the pointing error. ...

... Vol. 32, no. 2, 2012, 643 ­ 656; 2) On connectedness of chaotic sections of some 3-periodic surfaces, Ann. ... 43, 2013, 253 ­ 271; 3) On typical leaves of a measured foliated 2-complex of thin type (with Ivan Dynnikov), to appear in Amer. ... 2); 4) Polygonal billiards with one sided scattering (with Serge Troubetzkoy), to appear in Annales de l'Institut Fourier; 5) On the Hausdoff dimension of the Rauzy gasket (with Artur Avila and Pascal Hubert), arXiv: 1311.5361, submitted. ...

The perturbation method is based on the small-parameter expansion of an unknown solution of the light scattering problem in a vicinity of the exact solution. ... The only probably exclusion is the case of anisotropic particles for which the rigid solution is either impossible or too complicated. For such problems the perturbation method can give information of the first approximation, which is important for understanding of the basic principles of influences of the material anisotropy. ...

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