... Dale A. Gardner . NASA Astronaut (deceased) . ... NASA EXPERIENCE: б  Gardner was selected as an Astronaut Candidate by NASA in January 1978, reporting to the Johnson Space Center in July 1978.б  In August 1979, he completed a one-year training and evaluation period, making him eligible for assignment as a mission specialist astronaut .б  He subsequently served as the Astronaut Project Manager for the flight software in the shuttle onboard computers leading up to the first ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 11.11.1997 . ... Constellations of nearby stars include Sagittarius , Libra , Scorpius , Scutum , and Ophiuchus . ... Open clusters include M6 , M7 , M18 , M21 , M23 , M24 , M25 . Globular clusters include M9 , M22 , M28 , M54 , M69 , M70 . ... November 1997 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: Galactic Center . Publications with words: Galactic Center . ... Sgr A*: Fast Stars Near the Galactic Center . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Moon . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... What changed our view of Chariklo is the discovery of a ring system around it, the first such feature found around a Solar System body smaller than a gas giant planet. ... Almost certainly the rings were born when a collision with a smaller asteroid blasted millions of tonnes of debris off CharikloтАЩs surface. ... A ring system detected around the Centaur (10199) Chariklo (Braga-Rigas et al.) ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. November 30, 1998 . An Annotated Leonid . ... Explanation: The 1998 Leonids Meteor Shower was perhaps the most photographed meteor event in history. Patient observers saw bright meteors streak across dark skies every few minutes, frequently leaving fading trails stretching across the sky. ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

OptInt PmWiki : MROI Fast Tip Tilt / Tech Meet 7 . ... Adopt layout variation that allows camera to be adjacent to compact baseplate supporting other components. ... Kinematic mounting of optics mounts to baseplate not ruled out, but no need to consider in detail yet (until we decide use of different materials for baseplate and mounts is preferable) . ... XS: Calculate bending under thermal gradient of invar or stainless steel baseplate, sized for any of the 3 (plus 1 variation) candidate layouts . ...

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Past Robert J. Trumpler Award recipients . ... The Robert J. Trumpler Award of the ASP is given each year to a recent recipient of the PhD degree in North America whose research is considered unusually important to astronomy. ... To be considered for the Trumpler Award, a nominee's Ph.D. must have been awarded within two years of the time of the nomination and most or all of the thesis must have been published in a recognized journal with an issue date prior to 1 January 2013. ... Nominations . ...

. Distance Conversion Calculator . by Matt Oltersdorf 2000 04 02 2225 UTC . Type the known value into the appropriate units field, click the . calculate button and the program will show all values for . related unit properties. Kilometers . Meters . mm . Inches . Feet . Yards . Miles . Astronomical Units (A.U.) . Light Year (LY) . Parsec (pc) . Kilometers . Miles .

... 200 MHz Backend . 100MHz/200MHz . ... Additionally, the other deep survey would benefit considerably from the increased bandwidth coverage. ... 100/4096: . 3-level/4bit . ... 100/2048: . ... Degradation in the sampling will results in considerable bandwidth loss due to RFI. ... 1 ms blanking of data . ... 1-2 Hz dump rate (combined with the <1ms blanking) would allow for efficient processing of the data, and excising of any 'leftover' RFI in the data without losing too much of the useful data. ...

... This paper describes IRSA's new generation query support in which the Informix server has domain-specific embedded query support, e.g., datablades modules with astronomical functionality. The first IRSA Astronomical datablade developed supports coordinate conversions. ... Coordinate conversion is a complicated process. ... The embedded astronomical query which combines a data searching engine with coordinate conversion capability is an efficient tool for the astronomical community. ...

. -!> download . Left: Consequtive explosion of 20 supernovae during 30 Myr. Right: Single hypernova (GRB) explosion with the total energy equivalent to 20 supernovae. The simulation was performed using a 2D Eulerian hydro code. The animation was done using IDL. -!>

... Berezhnoy A.A., Kozlova E.A., Shevchenko V.V. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia, Moscow, Universitetski pr., 13, 199992. katk@sai.msu.ru According to the data from "Lunar Prospector" [1] the areas of high hydrogen content in the lunar south pole region coincide with the areas of such craters as Faustini (87.2є S, 75.8є E), Cabeus (85.2є S, 323є E) and other crates. ... We estimate the total permanently shadowed area in the lunar northern polar region at 28 260,2 km2. ...

In this chapter we will consider two very simple but useful Web agents that I have written on Actor Prolog for my own needs. ... Let us start the Web agent. Fig. ... Start of the Web agent. The Context diagram consists of three blocks: "Logic Programming Sites", "Edit", and "Check". ... Some Web sites that are linked with the logic programming and Prolog are listed in the pulldown list (these addresses are transferred to the "Edit" block from the "Logic Programming Sites" block). ...

... Russian KOI8 . ... Radio galaxies and cosmology [in Russian]) . ... The book is devoted to investigations of powerful radio galaxies in the different wavelength ranges. ... The history of study for radio galaxies is given and the outlook on radio galaxy exploring is considered. ... The cosmological tests to check the Universe evolution parameters constructed on the observational data of radio galaxies are considered in details. ... List of detected misprints (in Russian). ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Open symbols refer to data available in the literature. ... The best-fit lines correspond to the exponential-linear relation discussed in Sect. ... We present a new extensive analysis of the old problem of finding a satisfactory calibra- tion of the relation between the geometric albedo and some measurable polarization properties of the asteroids. To achieve our goals, we use all polarimetric data at our disposal. ...

... Corvus Capital, along with its own capital, has the backing of a number of international funding partners. ... MyCloudtag App has launched in the Apple App Store Google Play store! App Fitness & Health . Andrew Regan lead a 10 man team on the first ever there-and-back crossing of the Antarctica. ... CloudTag is a London Listed Company focused on the Fitness and Wellbeing Market. AIM Fitness & Health . Sirius Petroleum is an Oil Gas Company listed on London's AIM. AIM Oil & Gas . ...