... 5.06.2001 . ... Credit: NEAR , JHUAPL , NASA Explanation: Orbiting the Sun between Mars and Earth , asteroid 433 Eros was visited by the robot spacecraft NEAR-Shoemaker in 2000 February. ... On 2001 February 12, the NEAR mission drew to a dramatic close as it was crash landed onto the asteroid's surface , surviving well enough to return an analysis of the composition of the surface regolith . ... Publications with keywords: asteroid - Eros . Publications with words: asteroid - Eros . ...

The Sun 11 Solar radio bursts study with high spatial and temporal resolution V.A. Alexeev, A.F. Dementyev, B.N. Lipatov, V.F. Melnikov, M.B. Nechaeva, S.D. Snegirev, Yu.V. Tikhomirov Radiophysical Research Institute NIRFI, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia Theoretical and experimental researches of the energy release fragmentation in solar ares need observations with high spatial 0.01 1 arcsec and temporal 1 ms resolution. ... Several VLBI stations all over the Russia were supplied by this set of equipment. ...

... Design of Imaging Optics . Analyzing Optics . ... The high resolution near infrared camera (CONICA) for the first VLT unit telescope is under development. It serves as a multi-mode instrument for the wavelength region between 1.0 and 5.0 microns, providing diffraction-limited spatial resolution when combined with the adaptive optic system NAOS of the VLT (Rosset et al. ... VLT instrumentation, ALADDIN InSb detector, NIR imaging, NIR spectroscopy, re-imaging optics, IR optics . ...

... Satellite data ] . ... The SCANOR system provides receiving and processing of the Earth-surface pictures made in visible and infra-red bands and transferred by satellites of the NOAA polar orbiter series (in the HRPT mode). ... The SCANOR system includes the desktop receiving device connected to an IBM AT 386 type computer, and the parabolic antenna with the guiding mechanism. The SCANOR system possesses the state-of-art software providing registration and processing of the received data. ...

Instrument . ... Scanning TV-sensor with on-board data recording system for global coverage mode . ... recording, direct transmission . ... IR-radiometer for global coverage and direct data transmission modes . ... The scientific instrument package onboard the Meteor-3 spacecraft provides for regular instant acquisition of images of cloudiness and Earth surface in visible and infra-red bands, data on air temperature and humidity, sea surface temperature and clouds temperature. ...

... ARC 3.5m | Instrument Summary . ... ARCES (Echelle) : the ARC Echelle spectrograph, a high resolution (R~31,500) echelle spectrograph that observes the entire wavelength range from 3200 е to 10000 in a single image on a 2048x2048 CCD. This instrument is permanently mounted at the NA1 port. ... In addition to the facility instruments, several visitor instruments have been used at the 3.5m, and some of these are available to the ARC observing community by contacting the instrument PIs: . ...

Silicon/Tungsten ECal for SiD ­ Status and Progress Ray Frey University of Oregon ICLC Paris , April 22, 2004 · Overview (brief) · Current R D detectors electronics timing · Hybrid Status from K.U. · Summary ICLC Paris R. Frey 1 SD Si/W M. Breidenbach, D. Freytag, N. Graf, G. Haller, O. Milgrome Stanford Linear Accelerator Center R. Frey , D. Strom U. Oregon V. Radeka Brookhaven National Lab ICLC Paris R. Frey 2 Concept ...

To main of Laboratory . The research work and design of optical and optical-electronic devices are carries out by laboratory staff: . ... Lens: . ... In the layout 1 prism systems perform functions of dispersive element, corrector of aberrations, optical reducer. ... Spectral range 200 - 400 nm; . ... Back Forward . ... The main corrector's function are compensation of field aberrations of the main spherical mirror of a telescope (diameter of 600 mm, f'=1200 mm) and increase aperture ratio. ...

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обзор! astro-ph/0207130 . ... Author: Bertil Dorch . Comments: Invited review, IAU coll. ... В обзоре рассматривается трехмерное моделирование магнитных трубок на Солнце. ... Comments: 55 pages, 35 figures -- low resolution figures to allow upload to astro-ph High-resolution version at http://www-sgk.harvard.edu:1080/~sylvain/preprints/ . ... Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, Astron Nachr (accepted; proceedings of "1st Potsdam Thinkshop on Sunspots and Starspots", Potsdam, Germany, May 2002) . ...

The HTSC group has an access to a set of technological equipment for thin film preparation and laboratory measurement system for low temperature electrical measurements. The technological complex of the " Thin Film Oxide Electronics " Laboratory includes two clean rooms of the "1000" class, with a complete set of equipment for photolithography (spinner, oven, hot plate, mask aligner, chemical bench, de-ionized water source) in each clean room. ...

... We present a new method of the ionospheric irregularity investigation based on using of temporal structure function of the phase of the vertical sounding signal. ... Theoretical relation between structure functions of the phase variations and the irregularities can be obtained in the framework of a simple model of frozen irregularity horizontal drift. ... structure function ?? ... The irregularity structure function can be easily calculated if the irregularity spatial spectrum is known. ... Figure 1...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 EPM2002 and EPM2002C -- two versions of high accuracy numerical planetary ephemerides constructed for TDB and TCB time scales E. V. Pitjeva Institute of Applied Astronomy, St. Petersburg, Russia To be consistent with IAU resolutions ICRS should be treated as four-- dimensional reference frame with TCB time scale in which planetary ephemerides should be constructed. ... 2001, 80, 249-- 271. ... Standish E. M. JPL Planetary and Lunar Ephemerides, DE405/LE405. ...

... High spectral, spatial and temporal resolution UV observations of the quiet Sun transition region show a highly structured and dynamical environment where transient supersonic flows are commonly observed. ... Estimates of the kinetic and enthalpy fluxes associated with these events show that explosive events are not important so far as solar coronal heating is concerned. ... In some cases, non-Gaussian line profiles are associated with supersonic flows in small magnetic loops. ...

... February 21, 1997 . New Eyes for the Hubble Space Telescope . ... Explanation : The Hubble Space Telescope 's second servicing mission has been completed. Every few years, the telescope is visited by a Space Shuttle to allow astronauts to switch old instruments for new. ... These new instruments will act like eyes sharing the 2.4-meter telescope mirror with the remaining instruments: the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 and the Faint Object Camera . ... About APOD > . ...

... Observing . ... Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place . ... black holes . ... Three-telescope interferometry allows astrophysicists to observe how black holes are fueled . ... This three-telescope interferometry is a major milestone toward directly imaging the growth phase of supermassive black holes," said Sebastian Hoenig from the University of California, Santa Barbara, one of the astrophysicists who utilized this technique to observe the AGN at the center of galaxy NGC 3783. ...

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P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute Astro Space Center Russian Academy of Sciences S.A. Lavochkin Association, Roscosmos RADIOASTRON The Ground ­ Space Interferometer: radio telescope much larger than the Earth The Spectr-R Project http://www.asc.rssi.ru/ radioastron / High- Resolution HI 21 cm Mosaic of M 33 galaxy GENERAL OUTLINE The RadioAstron ... Such forecast could be used to prepare a long time-scale schedule of scientific observations. ...

Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

. Space vehicle "Magellan". The most detailed snapshots of Venus's surface were made with the help of the american apparatus "Magellan", lanched by the astronauts of a Space membership "Atlantis" in May 1989. The regular radiolocation servey, leading for several years, allowed to get the Venus surface survey with resolution not less than 300 m. Back .