. 2.31. This is Vishnu that guards the Tata Institute . The destination of his arms is the following: The arm number 1 is for blessing; The arm number 2 keeps a wheel weapon that designates the authority above the world; The arm number 3 keeps a conch (a sea shell); The arm number 4 gives a Prasad (the gifts).

... Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (Captain, USN, RET.) ... After his second mission, he led the International Space Station (ISS) Operations branch of the Astronaut Office. ... In October 2014 Lopez-Alegria became an independent consultant; he is based in Washington, D.C. SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: Mission Specialist (MS)-2, STS-73 Columbia (October 20 to November 5, 1995). ... The primary mission objective was delivery of the Expedition 6 crew to the ISS and the return of the Expedition 5 crew to Earth. ...

The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...

... Berezhnoi A.A., Klumov B.A., Shevchenko V.V., Fortov V.E. Collision of a comet with Jupiter: Determination of fragment penetration depths from the molecular spectra, JETP Letters, V. 63, No. 6, p. 405-410, 1996 . ... Berezhnoi A.A., Klumov B.A., Shevchenko V.V., Fortov V.E. Shock chemistry in Jovian atmosphere following SL9 impacts, International Conference on the SL9-Jupiter Collision, I-2, July 3-5, 1996, Meudon, France . ... Berezhnoi A.A., Klumov B.A. Lunar ice: Can its origin be determined? ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... ESOcast . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope . ... Now members of the public have a unique opportunity to go behind the scenes and follow astronomers on a planet hunt as it happens. ... ESOcast 80: Follow a Live Planet Hunt . ...

PROTOCOL OF THE INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON "WARNING" MISSION . ... According to the National Space Program of Ukraine on 1998-2002 the experimental space system WARNING has to be designed and launched in 2001. ... Composition of scientific payload is implemented in the international cooperation. ... Lviv Center of Space Research Institute (LC SRC), Ukraine. ... Space Research Institute NASU-NSAU (SRI), Kiev, UKRAINE; . ... Lviv Center of Space Research Institute (LC SRI), Lviv, UKRAINE; . ...

... INTRODUCTION Some Analysis Centers in Russian Federation such as Information-Analytical centre of positioning, navigation, and timing (IAC PNT) TSNIIMASH, Mission Control Centre (MCC), High-precision ephemeris and time correction estimation system (HETCES/SVOEVP) as well as a number of Analysis Centers of the International GPS Service for Geodynamics (IGS) are producing daily precise orbits and time corrections of GLONASS satellites. ... Calculation of weights of both the Centers and the satellites....

... URL http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/cbat.html ISSN 0081-0304 Phone 617-495-7440/7244/7444 (for emergency use only) SATELLITES OF PLUTO Further to IAUC 8648, the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature has approved the following new designations and names of satellites of Pluto : Pluto II Pluto III Nix Hydra = S/ 2005 P 2 = S/ 2005 P 1 SUPERNOVAE 2006db , 2006dc , 2006dd Three additional ... IAUC 8709). ... 2006 June 21 c Copyright 2006 CBAT Daniel W. E. Green ...

... the historical dates of the Ukrainian space industry; . ... EXPOSITIONS OF UKRAINIAN SPACE INDUSTRY ENTERPRISES AND PARTNERS ON THE SUBJECT OF . ... Ukrainian Space Industry Investment Potential Exposition: . Investment opportunities in Ukrainian space industry; . ... Investment projects with participation of Ukrainian space industry enterprises; . ... Ukrainian space industry enterprises' securities; . ... Expositions of the Ukrainian Space Industry Leading Enterprises and Partners . ...

. Have taught over 100 students internationally using Web-based courseware I have authored in the following subjects: . Physics 161: Physics of Energy and the Environment . Physics 162: Alternative and Renewable Energy . Astronomy 121: The Solar System . Astronomy 123: Cosmology and the Origin of Life .

METAR Wishlist Following is a list of items that I'd like to add to METAR or that others have requested. ... It'd be nice to have a lot of METARs which encompass various weather condition which we can test against. ... Sites around the world use similar (but slightly different) formats for their METARs. There is always a METAR format the parser will fail on. Calculate Heat Index and/or Wind Chill Both would be fairly easy to do, provided you get the formulas correct. ...

... The ST-ECF consisted, until its closure in December 2010, of a small group of astronomers, software scientists and media specialists who support Hubble science in Europe and collaborate internationally on HST science, instrument, archive and outreach activities. provided detailed technical information about the HST and its science instruments, . supported European astronomers in the preparation of HST observing proposals . ... acted as a European centre for associated meetings and workshops, . ...

... SAO RAS . ... In 2016, a leading center of the Russian ground-based observational astronomy, Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The Observatory organizes an international conference "Multi-spin galaxies 2016", as a part of the festivities. ... Afanasiev Victor (SAO RAS, Russia) . ... Mapelli Michela (INAF - Padova, Italy) . Moiseev Alexei (SAO RAS, Russia) - chair . ... Karachentsev Igor (SAO RAS, Russia) . ... Russia), . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... US state, Canadian province, or country . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Magazine . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... space flight . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... international space station . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

El Paso maps are available from any car rental agency at the airport. Plan an approximate 3 hour drive time from El Paso to Apache Point. ... Bliss; this road turns into Fred Wilson Blvd. Travel to Hwy. 54--Patriot Freeway--approx. 6 miles. Turn north on Hwy. 54 to Alamogordo--approx. 86 miles. ... The Relief Route ends at Hwy. 82--approx. 5 miles. Continue east on Highway 82 to Cloudcroft--approx. 16 miles. ... After 1.8 miles, turn west (right) on State Highway 6563 to Sunspot. ...

The most recent leap second was added on 2012 June 30: The protocol files in this version have been updated to UTC1-TAI = -35. The following IAU Circular describes prior leap seconds. As announced by the IAU Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams in Circular No. 9004 on 11 December 2008, Bulletin C36 of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service announced that a positive leap second will be added on 1 January 2009. ...

... Satellite data ] . ... SMIS IKI RAN has developed the software package which may be used both by owners of acquisition stations and individual users of satellite information. ... AVHRR instrument data processing. ... This enables the users who are not yet qualified in computer methods of satellite data processing, to get a quick start with the software. ... The basic software package enables a user to solve a wide range of tasks (in our server You can find the data processing samples ). ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . This page contains brief information on recent astronomical discoveries as reported in the International Astronomical Union Circulars (IAUCs)and the Minor Planet Electronic Circulars (MPECs) . ... Web Site . ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

The following files list line and continuum emissivities from the Arcetri Spectral Code. ... Ne = 10^8 g-zipped file (phot cm^3 s^-1); Ne = 10^8 g-zipped file (erg cm^3 s-1) . ... File format (html): File format for the continuum files . ... File format (html): File format for binned line emission files The following files list transitions whose emissivities have values greater than a fixed amount (10^-19 phot s^-1 cm^+3 and 10^-30 erg s^-1 cm^+3 respectively): . ...

... Here are a few features of the tweets from the 221st meeting of the American Astronmical Society . ... The retweet numbers are close to the values that Twitter has for the tweets, which means that I can't have messed up too much (I wouldn't expect perfect agreement since Twitter does not guarantee that any search will return all matching tweets). The most re-tweeted accounts. ... Number of re-tweets . ... The number of tweets used in this analysis is and the graph accounts for of this total. ...