... Following several successful moon landings,NASA decided to use its last Saturn V not to fly to the moon but to place in low Earth orbit a large space station, named Skylab. ... It was followed that year by three manned flights using the smaller Saturn IB, each carrying 3 astronauts for a prolonged stay aboard Skylab. ... Mass measurements aboard Skylab were part of the medical experiments conducted there. ... Measuring body mass in the M172 chair (see illustration) was not a simple matter. ...

There are some variables which are set internally by the shell and which are available to the user: Name Description . ... 0 the name of the command currently being executed. $# the number of positional arguments given to this invocation of the shell. $? the exit status of the last command executed is given as a decimal string. ... For example '1 2' 3 becomes "1 2 3" . is identical to the arguments received by the shell, the resulting list of words completely match what was given to the shell. ...

In Actor Prolog a resident is a special mechanism that helps processes to inspect state of other processes. A resident observes the state of a specified (target) process and if the state of the process changes (for instance, after message handling) it proves a specified predicate of the process. ... Work of the resident. ... Any change of the list of target processes or arguments of resident function results in activation of the resident and repeated collection of information in the target worlds. ...

Astronomical Society of the Pacific Product Return Information We want you to be completely satisfied with every purchase you make with us. If you are in any way dissatisfied with a product you ordered, we will exchange it, replace it, or refund your money within 30 days of receipt. ... Customers are responsible for postage on all returns back to the ASP. ... Damaged shipments: If your package was damaged in shipment via UPS, we will contact UPS direct for claim instructions. ...

... LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 18, 2004 . ... Kernel . ... LWN.net FAQ . ... This article is part of the LWN Porting Drivers to 2.6 series . One significant change introduced in 2.6 is the preemptible kernel. ... In 2.6, if preemption is configured in, kernel code can be interrupted at (almost) any time. ... The preemptible kernel means that your driver code can be preempted whenever the scheduler decides there is something more important to do. ... Driver porting: the preemptible kernel . ...

. Pulkovo Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is situated . near Saint-Petersburg. It was founded in 1839. 196140, Saint-Petersburg, Pulkovskoye chaussee 65/1 . English version . Russian version . This page has been accessed times since May 1, 1999.

... R.A. = 00h55m04s.86, Decl. = -37 41'43".7 . ... Variable star in NGC 1511 . ... Variable star near Pegasus 2001bn IAUC 8624 BV anon 2001bh 7622 K star ugc11635 2001dh 7482 M star ic5374 1999db 7227 QSO anon 1999dc 7227 AGN anon 1999cx 7210 AGN anon 1999cu 7210 AGN anon 1999bs 7141 cat var ugc11093 1998di 6982 dwarf nova anon 1993U 5818 QSO anon 1993V 5818 QSO anon 1992W 5517 M star mcg 8-23-96 1992X 5517 M star mcg 6-32-24 1991ap 5327 QSO anon 1989Z 5162 var ngc4013 1985J 4059 CV ugc6274 ? ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . Colin Johnston . ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . Robot Exploration . ... Science Fiction . ... Thanks to extensive training and consummate professionalism, the two astronauts successfully and without a fuss fixed the problem . ... Article by Colin Johnston, Science Communicator) . ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... SSAU History . ... The first Russian symposium on nanosatellites RusNanoSat-2015 will take place in Samara State Aerospace University from June 2 to June 4. ... The first SSAU nanosatellite SamSat-218 (the first Russian students nanosatellite) will be sent into orbit in the first launch campaign from the space-launch complex Vostochniy, together with a small spacecraft Aist-2 . ... The first Russian symposium on nanosatellite RusNanoSat-2015 will be attended by the leading Russian and foreign . ...

SUBROUTINE TAP_SAHA ( ZELEM, TEMP, NEL, ION_MIN, ION_MAX, U, CHI, IONFRN, STATUS ) . ... Provides ionisation potential for a given ion. ... Purpose: Calculate relative abundances of ions of species K. Language: Fortan 90 Invocation: CALL TAP_SAHA ( zelem, temp, nel, ion_min, ion_max, u, chi, : ion_frn, status ) Description: Calculate relative ionisation fractions of ions j = 1,.... for atomic species (Z), given temperature and electron density, using the Saha ionisation equation. ... ION_MAX. ...

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The X International Astronomy Olympiad has been held in Beijing (China) on October 25 - November 2, 2005. ... China Beijing . ... Like at VII and VIII IAOs the host team (team of Beijing city) took part in the Olympiad as the 16 th team. ... The 10 th International Astronomy Olympiad has been held successfully in Beijing on October 25 - November 2, 2005. ... J.Zhu (Beijing, X IAO-2005 LOC Chairman), . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman of the International Astronomy Olympiad, . ...

... The conference will be also partially hosted by the Steklov Mathematical Institute, Gubkin 8, 119991, Moscow . The nearest metro stations are: Akademicheskaya (orange line) from which there is a 15-minute walk or Leninsky Prospekt (orange line) and Universitet (red line) from which one may take a tram No. 3 or 39 to the stop ?ulica Gubkina?. ... The location of the conference room at the building of the Steklov Institute will be announced later. ... Location of the Steklov Mathematical Institute . ...

... The draft classification (version August 9, 2006) for new GCVS versions . IAU XXVIth General Assembly, . ... Along with the "+" sign (coexistence of two types), it is suggested to introduce the "|" sign (meaning "or") – for classification options for the same object, e.g. EC|Ell, EC|RR. Pulsating variables . Present: . ... L, Lb (for red stars) . ... Eruptive variables . ... Move to rotating variables . ... ACV, SXARI . ACV . ... Cataclysmic variables and other stars with outbursts . ...

Modified 11 April 1999. The last modifications concerns to the new ground tracks selection on the base of the more wide list of the INSPIRE particpants. ... The range value was changed from 2 deg to 4 deg for the distance between lat/lon of the graund track and place of the INSPIRE members. Plots of predicted tracks under USA and Europe 11 April 1999 . April, 17, 1999 (USA) . April, 17, 1999 (EUR) . ... 11 April 1999 . ... place . ... Back to the IKI Satellite Situation Center (SSC) . ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. ... Being the 8th commercial launch for Dnepr, this is also its first 'return to flight' mission since the failure encountered on July 27, 2006 during liftoff from Baikonur. In parallel with the successful completion of its first launch campaign in 2007, ISC Kosmotras continues preparations for the next two Dnepr launch missions scheduled to fly from Baikonur and Yasny launch bases. ... Dnepr Program . ...

... В четверг, 14 апреля 2016 г., состоится семинар кафедры астрофизики. Повестка дня . ... Начало в 11 час.15 мин. Ауд. ... В четверг, 31 марта 2016 г., состоится семинар кафедры астрофизики . ... В четверг, 24 марта 2016 г. , состоится семинар кафедры. ... В четверг, 17 марта 2016 г. , состоится заседание кафедры. ... ОСП НИИ ПММ Национального исследовательского Томского государственного университета) . ... Copyright 2016 Астрономия в Санкт-Петербургском университете . ...

fitshdr_edit - FITS-file headers interactive editor fitshdr_edit [options] FITSfile_name . fitshdr_edit utility allows to modify FITS headers' lines interactively (FITS MultiExtentionsFiles included). fitshdr_edit is just simple shell script around fitshdr utility. ... It means, that You can't remove line from header! ... 560:CRDELT2 = 21.0 / this is example 640: 720:HISTORY header No.0: 1st history line 123456789012345678901234567 880:COMMENT Sat Sep 25 21:17:34 CEST 2004 / by fitshdr_edit . ...

Trace: ranking . ... CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION my_rank (tsvector, tsquery, int ) RETURNS float AS $$ use List::Util qw(min max); my ($string, $ query ) = @_; my $maxpos = 0; # Parse tsvector, taking into account positional information foreach (split / /, $string){ if(/^'(\w+)'(:([0-9,]+))?$/){ foreach(split /,/, $3){ $ vector {$_} = $1; $maxpos = max($maxpos, $_); } } } my @ vector = map {$ vector {$_}} sort {$a = $b} keys(% vector ); # Parse tsquery, assuming it to be ORed only $ ... SAI VO | ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... The Nine Planets . ... COULDN'T WE BUILD A SATELLITE THAT WE COULD PLACE IN A FIXED ORBIT AROUND EACH OF THE PLANETS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM, WE COULD STUDY THE ATMOSPHERE AND SURFACE OF EACH PLANET SIMILAR TO THE WAY IN WHICH WE USE THEM TO WHATCH OUR WEATER OR SPY ON OUR ENEMIES? ... The Mars Global Surveyor is on its way to Mars (expected to reach Mars orbit in a few months) and will also be in a permanent orbit around Mars. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...