Near-Earth Asteroids and the Arecibo Observatory Radar The Arecibo Observatory radar is the world's most powerful instrument for post-discovery characterization and orbital refinement of near-Earth asteroids. Arecibo radar observations are critical for identifying asteroids that might be on collision course with Earth and, if necessary, preventing a collision. ... A model of the primary component of asteroid 1999 KW4, derived from radar data. ...

... The on-board TV system produced about 1500 images, including the close-up pictures of the comet nucleus from a distance ~ 8000 km. ... TV data were processed by international team, including the USSR, Hungary, France, GDR and USA scientists. ... The Image Processing SW for this system was developed by Planetary Data Image Processing Lab personal under RSX11M. Some image processing results are presented below. ... The nucleus shape definition. ... The jets definition. ... The nucleus size definition....

... Observing may be done from any location. ... See this link for further details, limiting magnitude charts, and star count tables: http://www.imo.net/visual/major/observation/lm Proof Point Information : Shapley-Sawyer Classification: Reference: http://x.astrogeek.org/articles/article.php?article_id=15 Brief Description: I - High concentration toward the center; E.g ., NGC 6864, M75 II - Dense central condensation; E.g ., NGC 7089, M2 III - Strong inner core of stars ; E.g ., ...

... As an initial overview, here are the important steps in creating a skeletal Gnome source tree. ... Create a toplevel directory to hold all the components of your application, including build files, documentation, and translations. ... The po directory holds the translation files; gettextize will also create a file called po/Makefile.in.in , used to build the translations. Create a file called po/POTFILES.in listing source files which should be scanned for strings to translate. ... configure.in ...

XmCCD ----- The programs provided here offer a Linux graphical user interface to astronomical and scientific CCD cameras. ... It is the latest one they offer and the files included allow support for Android and Mac OS X. This distribution of XmCCD includes source code to utilize the SBIG shared library libsbigudrv.so with a Motif-based graphical user interface. ... The XmCCD source package includes and will install: SAOimage ds9 xpa cfitsio SAOimage is the primary image display for XmCCD. ...

Sometimes we require more than one line for a statement Print *, 'This is a long output line',& ' this is the second part',& ' and this is the third part!' Nowadays, in the free form, we continue a line with the symbol "&" (called ampersand), i.e. with the sign & at the end of the old line instead of an almost arbitrary character in column 6 of the new line. ... Exclamation mark in column 1 of course means a comment line also in the old fixed form. ... 3.1) What does the following line mean? ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... honing the skills of performing the tasks of operating the orbital (suborbital) spaceship in a normal autonomous flight and in case of occurrence of off-optimum situations; . ... preparing for conducting visual observations, photographing and video filming envisaged by the flight program; . ... preparing the astronaut's body to the effect of space flight factors, honing the skills of operating the spaceborne medical facilities, rendering self and mutual aid; . ...