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; . ...

What is a Family ASTRO Kit? Our series of Leader Kits allow educators of all types* to lead fun and educational Astronomy Events for students, families, afterschool programs and clubs, youth groups, and community programs (e.g, boys' and girls' clubs, Girl and Boy Scouts, park and recreation programs, etc.) Each Family ASTRO Leader Kit allows you to lead at least two 90-minute Astronomy Events, and you can repeat each event (for new participants) as many times as you like. ...

... Our tours this year include: Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Bauman Moscow State Technical University Orevo Laboratory, Russian Mission Control Center (TsUP), Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Lavochkin Scientific and Industrial Association, Energomash Scientific and Industrial Association, Scientific and Industrial Association "Zvezda", Khrunichev State Research & Production Space Center, Monino Air Force Museum. Bauman Moscow State Technical University . Moscow) . ...

... In order to realize the optimal scientific return from the VLT, ESO has undertaken to develop an end-to-end data flow system from proposal entry to science archive. The VLT Data Flow System (DFS) is being designed and implemented by the DFS Group (ESO Internal access only) in collaboration with VLT Division and Instrumentation Division . ... VLT Control System Interface . ... OBs are the quantum of data that flows within the DFS, collecting state, data and status information as they flow. ...

A brief introduction to the XPA messaging system, which provides seamless communication between all kinds of Unix event-driven programs, including X programs, Tcl/Tk programs, and Perl programs. ... A program becomes an XPA-enabled server by defining named points of public access through which data and commands can be exchanged with other client programs (and users). ... An XPA name server program, xpans, through which XPA access point names are registered by servers and distributed to clients. ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

... A Proposal for an International Atlas of Lunar Exploration Philip J. Stooke Department of Geography University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C2 Introduction. ... I propose the creation of an International Atlas of Lunar Exploration to tell this story in cartographic form. ... Many new products would be based primarily on spacecraft images rather than drawn maps, which will also reduce costs and help illustrate the primary data products of the principal lunar missions. ...

lsst.tcc љ 1.2.2-3-g89ecb63 . ... Files . ... include . ... testSwig.h . ... 2 љ #include "boost/shared_ptr.hpp" . 3 љ #include "boost/make_shared.hpp" . 4 љ #include "coordConv/coordConv.h" . ... 17 љ TestSwig () : pvt (), obsSys (2012.5), ptrObsSys (boost::make_shared<coordConv::ObsCoordSys>(2013.5)) {} . 18 љ coordConv::PVT pvt ; . ... 31 љ testSwig = tcc.base.TestSwig() . 32 љ testSwig.pvt.pos = 125 . ... tcc::TestSwig . ... tcc::TestSwig::pvt . ... tcc::TestSwig::TestSwig . ...

PROGRAM, ABSTRACTS and . PROCEEDINGS . Program, abstract and proceedings . ... Abstract Preparation . ... Last updates, 24 Nov 2001: . ... The third International Conference on Physics of Low-Dimensional Structures (PLDS-3) will be held on October 15-20, 2001 in Chernogolovka, Institute of Solid State Physics Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow District. ... The scientific program covers a wide range of issues in modern physics of low-dimensional systems including the following topics: . ...

... 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. ...

... Average resolution at altitude H=668 km . ... Swath width at H=668 km and inclination of beginning of swath 20.48 degrees . ... Resolution at H=668 км . ... Наименование параметра . ... 1 канале . ... Полоса обзора при H=668 км . ... 1-5 спектральной зоне, не более . ... 1 спектральной зоне . 0,48-0,52 мкм . ... 0,915-0,997 мкм . ... 1-4 канал . ... 1-4 каналов . ... Спектральные характеристики каналов (по уровню 0,5): . ... For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . ...

... List Of Participants . ... 8:00-10:30 Educational Lectures for the students UlSU and UISS young participants . ... 17:30 Cultural program (excursions along Ulyanovsk historical part, etc) . For September 16-17 culture program is planed. It includes walk to the wonderful place-forest on Volga bank, trip along Volga, etc. ...

... After hearing and discussing Rocket-Space Corporation Energy General Designer U.P.Semevov's report on the fulfilling the flight program of the orbital complex Mir and proposals on its further exploitation, the Council draws attention to: . ... According to the Russian Government Resolution No. 76 of January 21, 1999 a large amount of work to find and attract Russian and foreign investments to provide the further exploitation of the orbital station Mir was carried out. ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...