... Stars . ... By admin March 2, 2012 Posted in: March . ... On a clear night these beautiful, bright stars of the Winter Circle are a joy to behold. ... Moving clockwise the next member of the circle is the brightest star in the night sky, Sirius, the Dog Star, shining at magnitude -1.4 in Canis Major. ... The constellation of Gemini provides two of the stars to the circle. The twins heads, Castor and Pollux which at magnitude 1.1 is the 17th brightest in the sky and dimmest in the circle . ...
ENGLISH . ... . ... . ... Alexander Zheleznyakov , translated by Mikhail Vorobyov . The outstanding Russian expert in the field of artillery and rocket engineering Alexander Dmitrievich Zasjadko was born in 1779 in the family of Malorossian (Ukrainian) noblemen in the village of Lutenka in the Gadjachskiy district of the Poltava region. ... . . , 1997-2002. ...
... Early priests in Babylonia, Egypt, China and other countries, even among the Maya in America, examined therefore the motions of the Sun, Moons and planets across the sky, and came up with a variety of calendars, some still in use. ... During the year the Sun traces a full circle around the sky, so that if we keep a separate count of "Sirius days" and "Sun days", at the end of the year the numbers will differ by 1. ... Thus the calendar still slips, but at a very slow rate, about one day in 128 years...
-. ... S P A C E V I E W S Issue 1999 .02.01 1999 February 1 http://www.spaceviews.com/ 1999 /02/ *** News *** Russian Government Extends Life of Mir NASA Confirms New Service Module Delay Pluto Classification Debate Heats ... Delta and Atlas Delayed Agreement Clears Way for Globalstar Launches Astronomers Get Unprecedented Look at Gamma-Ray Burst Five Space Science Missions Selected for Study SpaceViews Event Horizon Other News *** Articles *** ...
... Giuseppe Piazzi / . Insurrection:... insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make republicans: the people in action to initiate progress. ... . ... Giuseppe Piazzi quotes . ... [28] . ... [120] . ... [76413] . ... 07.04.2016 07:04:10] iHeart Radio Awards NO .. ...
... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO . ... VLT Unit Telescopes Names . ... TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope . ... By decree of the International Astronomical Union, a newly discovered minor planet (asteroid) in the solar system has been given the name Portugal, honouring this European country. The minor planet was first discovered on photographical plates, obtained with the 1-metre ESO Schmidt Telescope, at ESO's La Silla Observatory in the Chilean Atacama desert. ...
... In 1965, in view of the fact that the country's leadership put S.P.Korolev in overall charge of the effort to land a man on the Moon and bring him safely back to Earth, Korolev decided to focus the work of his team on the manned space flight, while the work on the lunar robotic craft was turned over to Lavochkin Design Bureau headed at the time by G.N.Babakin. ... This flight was considered as an initial phase of preparation for a manned lunar landing mission. ...
... This oral history interview is being conducted with Bill Gerstenmaier at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, for the Commercial Crew & Cargo Program Office History Project. ... Prior to being in this position, you had served as the Program Manager for the International Space Station [ISS]. ... We were under a lot of pressure to try to figure out creative ways of keeping Space Station supplied and functional, and able to do research. ... It also really changed the way we did business. ...
... Space activity at the beginning of XXI-st Century view from inside G.M.Chernyavskiy STC for Earth Space monitoring of FSUE , Russia 1. The systemic approach in astronautics Everyone who has linked his life with astronautics and those who are interested in the future of the inhabitancy medium and its expansion up to cosmic scales, are troubled about the current state and development of space activity in the World and in the Native Land of the first artificial Earth satellite (AES). ...
... Board of Directors . ... Past Officers & Board Members . ... The Society shall be called The Astronomical Society of the Pacific, a nonprofit public benefit corporation. ... The Executive Committee of the Society is composed of the President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer, and up to two other members of the Board as may be designated by a majority vote during a Board meeting, provided that at all times the Executive Committee shall contain at least two members of the Board of Directors. ...
... SpaceGround Radio Interferometer RadioAstron V. V. Andreyanova, N. S. Kardashevb, and V. V. Khartov a b b Astrophysics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia e mail: andre@asc.rssi.ru Lavochkin NPO (Science and Production Corporation), Khimki, Russia Received December 16, 2013 Abstract--The paper considers the design, features, and characteristics of the Russian spaceground very long baseline radio interferometer (VLBRI) RadioAstron. ... The CRT 10 space radio telescope, Dokl. ...
... Even though the DoD would ultimately select senior Air Force officials, US Navy oceanographers and Air Weather Service officers as shuttle payload specialists, MSEs would be the first personnel from an American military programme to go into space. ... One Air Force officer, Maj. ... Jacobson was concerned about shuttle launch delays and wanted the MSEs to understand that his mission, i.e., the launch of national security payloads, dwarfed their mission, flights in space by Air Force personnel. ...
. Original text . English translation . OMHROS, ODUSSEIAS, 20, 350 . " Toisi de kai meteeipe QeoklumenoV qeoeidhV: . " a deiloi, ti kakon tode pasxete; nukti men umewn eiluatai kefalai te proswpa te nerqe te gouna, . oimwgh de dedhe, dedakruntai de pareiai, . aimati d' erradatai toixoi kalai te mesodmai: . eidwlwn de pleon proquron, pleih de kai aulh, . iemenwn Erebosde upo zofon: helioV de . ouranou ecapolwle, kakh d' epidedromen axluV. "" . Homer, "Odyssey", 20, 355 . Theoclymenus saw this and said,
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... The first of our family to visit the cape were French sailors on ships run by the French East India company, stopping at the Cape to resupply en route between France and Mauritius (see Mauritius section). ... Two years later, the British sent out of governor. ... She was the first of our ancestors to spend any substantial time in South Africa. ... In later years he acquired the nickname "Matebili Thompson" but I will use it throughout to distinguish him from his father. ... He stayed for two minutes...