The choice of which type of electricity is called "positive" and which "negative" was made around 1750 by Ben Franklin, early American scientist and man of many talents. Franklin studied static electricity, produced by rubbing glass, amber, sulfur etc. with fur or dry cloth. ... Later, when electric batteries were discovered, scientists naturally assigned the direction of the flow of current to be from (+) to (-). ... Exploration" home page (index) Glossary . Official GSFC Home Page .. ...

Proposal Identification No.: T2567 Date Received: 2010-Jan-29 15:41:05 Technical Page Proposal Type: General Category : Observation Category : Total Time Requested: Minimum Useful Time: Prop osal Title: ABSTRACT: Regular Terrestrial Aeronomy HF Heating experiment 40 Hours two Creating Space Plasma from the Ground It was predicted ( Carlson , 1993) that once high power HF transmitters achieved the Giga-Watt ERP level, they would from the ground produce plasma ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . The Armagh Human Orrery is the first large-scale outdoor exhibit to show with precision on the ground the positions of the main planets, a dwarf planet and two comets. It is an innovative education and learning tool designed to explain the motion of the planets around the Sun and the changing position of Earth, relative to those planets, as it too revolves around the Sun. ... The Armagh Human Orrery . ...

... Solar is a companion program that reads a line list from the Moore Tables of the Rowland Atlas of the Sun and creates a spectrum based on the wavelength and equivalent width of the tabulated features. ... The distribution contains the original source code for Colorspec and Solar in C, a version of Solar written in Fortran, the NSO solar flux atlas in a format suitable for use with Colorspec, the Moore Tables, and a few sample spectra. Download Colorspec - Current Version 1.0 . ...

... Up: Science Data Pipelines . ... We designed and developed a package which simulates extragalactic point source data within a given field of view and SIRTF band. ... The simulator is modular and extensible to enable multi-wavelength simulations, has been optimized by utilizing parallel processing capabilities, and will be used to test pipeline software. ... The extragalactic simulator is capable of generating large numbers of galaxies within a given patch of sky for SIRTF pipeline testing. ...

... The simple pair of formulas derived in problem (8) . ... around the z axis, , giving the above result and producing (x',y'), while z remains the same, so that in the new system z' = z. Then we rotate (x',y',z') by an angle ? around the x' axis, using the same formulas but with (y',z', ?) in place of (x,y, ?) ... Knowing its semi-major axis a, eccentricity e and mean anomaly M, one can derive its true anomaly f (using appropriate formulas, not given in #12a) and from it the radial distance r . ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... des actualit†йs . ... les plus belles images de l'Univers d†йcrypt†йes pour vous . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil Mercure multicolore . ... Les couleurs du bassin Caloris, sur Mercure, ont †йt†й ici fortement accentu†йes, afin de mettre en †йvidence les variations g†йologiques de sa surface. ...

. You can compare any two versions of a file that is under the control of SCCS with the sccsdiff command: /usr/sccs/sccsdiff -r version -r version s. filename . Using this command produces a line by line difference between the two versions of the file. Results are shown in the same format as that produced by the diff command. Examples .

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Universe . ... About four centuries ago, a tiny white dwarf star about the same diameter as Earth, but with a mass equivalent to the Sun, swung in a tight orbit about some larger star. The white dwarfтАЩs intense gravity tore material from its more massive companion. ... The quantity of mass in the universe is constant since the universe started its last self-replication, since its last singularity, its last pre-big bang re-birth conception. ...

... For us to see them from such great distances, quasars must be producing enormous energy -- they are about 1000 times brighter than an average galaxy! ... One of their choices for the energy source of quasars was a black hole. ... On the one hand, it may seem difficult to think that mere friction between bits of matter could account for the energy of a quasar, but, on the other hand, gravity is unimaginably strong near a black hole. ... How does matter actually rush towards the black hole? ...

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Follow-up observations with the University of Washington 0.76 m telescope at Manastash Ridge Observatory (MRO) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) cataclysmic variable (CV) SDSS J170053+400358 are presented. ... They estimate that the dimming amounted to about 0.028 mag (using two comparison stars that were each about 4 mag fainter than HD 209458). only UW affiliated authors have been listed, student researchers are marked with an ``*'' . ... XTE J1859+226" UW affiliated authors: *Kevin Krisciunas. ...

... This page will contain a form to pass parameter values for a on-line working code producing figures illustrating the dependence of optical properties of different scatterers on their parameters. Specify the parameters and press start calculation button to produce a figure. ... Independent variable: x v a/b alpha Re(m)? another? ... Number of curves: 1 2 3 . ... Curve #1: . Particle shape: sphere spheroid another? TE/TM mode: TE TM . Other parameters: x= Re(m)= Im(m)= a/b= alpha= . ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 The ephemerides server of the Institut de m'ecanique c'eleste et de calcul des 'eph'em'erides N. Baron, J. E. Arlot Institut de m'ecanique c'eleste et de calcul des 'eph'em'erides, Paris, France The Institut de m'ecanique c'eleste et de calcul des 'eph'em'erides (IMCCE), formerly known as Bureau des longitudes, produces, since its creation (1795), the French ephemerides for most of the bodies of the solar system. ... The code of several theoretical models is provided...

... Aurora - June 23, 2015 . Sunspot, Active Region AR2371, produced an M2 class flare and sent a coronal mass ejection toward the Earth on June 21st. ... A meteor trail, airplane and clouds are also in the image. 30-second image with dark slide, Samyang 14mm, f/2.8 lens imaged at f/5.6, Unmodified Canon T1i on a Tripod, No filter, ISO 800, processed with Adobe Photoshop. 00: 17 hrs EDT, 23 June 2015, Harvard, MA. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

polimodel -- Produce model linear polarization and position angle images . ... Whether to apply random errors to output polarization and position angle values. seed = "" [integer] . ... This task produces a model linear polarization image and corresponding position angle image from an input image assumed to represent intensity (Stokes I parameter). ... A threshold for the input image can be defined such that polarization and position angle are not computed for input values less than this threshold. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Flights Chronology . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... History of flights . ... Behavior of mesenchymal truncal cells from bone marrow during space flight. ... Effects of space flight environment on the lactolen producer strain. ... Investigation of space flight factors effect on bacteriophages. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

Software Forum Message . Forums: . ... Astronomy Software Discussion | Post . ... NightCal Fix . ... Post Message | Back to Thread Topics | ... We've just had a look at the first external website to reproduce one our our calendars and realised that NightCal is missing . ... kB) from the Nightcal website at www.nightcal.co.uk. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

MICROSCOPES . ... In the last three to five years, LOMO has developed new lines of products, including new families of biological, fluorescent, and polarizing microscopes, night vision devices, consumer Maksutov telescopes, etc. ... 1939 Company introduces its first student and biological microscopes. as well as its first manual movie camera . ... 1956 LOMO produces its first wide-screen-format movie projector and introduces its first fluorescent microscope for chemical structure analysis. ...