... A group of children sang Russian folk songs. The songs were different: one was about the celebration of "Masleniza", another one was about our Motherland. Our guests really liked a young boy who played "balalaika". ... It helped British girls to learn more about our country, our traditions and culture. ... We also saw Russian Ballet. A nice beautiful girl was dancing for our guests. ... Last year when another group of British teenagers came to our school she also danced for them. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... Martian Mission . Cosmonauts . ... The orbital flight of Vostok spacecraft piloted by cosmonaut comrade GAGARIN continues. 9 hours 52 minutes . According to data received from onboard Vostok spacecraft at 9 hours 52 minutes, Moscow Time, cosmonaut pilot major Gagarin flying over South America sent the following message: "The mission progresses smoothly, I feel well". 10 hours 15 minutes . ...

After some period of quiet Sun the exciting Sun-Earth connections event as the big magnetic storm was observed at January 10-11, 1997 by various satellites and ground-based instruments. Scientist meet this challenge with unprecedented activity and a few data bases was created in relation with solar event/magnetic storm on a few WEB-sites. ... According the Moscow observatory data the sudden storm commencement (SSC) take place at 01:08 Universal Time of January 10, 1997. ...

NASA launches 2005 Explorer Schools by Amiko Nevills ALONG with about 300 students and educators across the country, NASA rolled out to launch another 50 schools to explore new ways of learning math, science and technology. ... Roundup 08 Roundup 09 Spaceflight Meteorology Group Keeping an eye on the sky by Brad Thomas NASA/DeHoyos JSC2005E19509 Silverman said the constant state of change in weather and SMG's global view is what he likes most about being a meteorologist. ... SMG forecaster, said. ...

... Samara region . SSAU History . ... An alignment meeting on data mining, storage and processing of very large data amounts on the basis of hardware and software complex Big Data took place in Samara State Aerospace University. ... The laboratory for processing of very large data amounts on the basis of the hardware and software complex was made in the University and the necessary equipment was purchased. ... Data processing requires powerful processors and advanced computer programs. ... Big Data. ...

... A rough estimation is that in the United States there is one planetarium per 100,000 population, ranging in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 20-meter dome seating 430 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. ... Together dblo associates make a huge impact in the architecture, interior design and development arena in London. ... With the holidays around the corner what better way to spoil your family than with your very own private home cinema. ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 High orbit for the RadioAstron project N. S. Kardashev, B. B. Kreisman, Yu. N. Ponomarev Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia RadioAstron project is an international collaborative mission to launch a free flying satellite carrying a 10­meter radio telescope in elliptic orbit around the Earth [1,2]. ... For RadioAstron mission it is proposed to use one K­band circular polarized chan­ nel at fixed frequency 22.232 GHz. ...

FEATURES OF THE HYDROGEN DISTRIBUTION AROUND LUNAR CRATERS PROCLUS AND KEPLER. ... In result of analysis of the data Lawrence and Feldman constructed the hydrogen distribution on the lunar surface [1]. ... However, the authors shown, that EN flux data features may be explained by other element abundance in the lunar soils, namely: Si, Ca, Gadolinium (Gd), Samarium (Sm) and Fe. ... Using of the Feldman's interpretation of the Lunar Prospector data [8], we constructed hydrogen distribution map (Fig.1). ...

... redirect an entire server or directory to a single URL . ... stop/restrict robots . proxy SSL requests through your non-SSL server . There are two chief ways to redirect all requests for an entire server to a single location: one which requires the use of mod_rewrite , and another which uses a CGI script. First: if all you need to do is migrate a server from one name to another, simply use the Redirect directive, as supplied by mod_alias : Redirect / http://www.apache.org/ . ...

... Precisely one month ago, on 11 July 2009, the last active area of the new solar cycle disappeared from the surface of the Sun. Over the 30 days following this, neither observers on Earth nor devices in space have been able to detect the emergence of any sunspots. ... Therefore, it seems that our star has once again returned to a state of deep solar "winter", following several sparks of activity in May-June 2009. ... To date, this period has lasted 30 days. ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... Space camp . ... acquiring practical habits and skills of performing all the flight operations envisaged for a flight participant; . maintaining and honing professionally required qualities and skills for a successful activity in conditions of effect of adverse factors of a space flight, as well . ... preparing for the activity outside the spacecraft; . ... preparing for professional activity in conditions of effect of the space flight factors; . ...

Piloted complex Mir has been functioning in orbit more than 12 years. ... We propose to consider piloted complex Mir as an international one and to call the states of the space association for share financing and its joint exploitation according to the international treaty. ... The Russian side is ready for the constructive negotiations on setting up the International space station on the basis of share participating of the countries (owners) in the exploitation of the complex Mir. ...

A FIFO ("First In, First Out", pronounced "Fy-Foh") is sometimes known as a named pipe . ... In this case, the name is that of a file that multiple processes can open() and read and write to. ... With FIFOs, though, each unrelated process can simply open() the pipe and transfer data through it. ... Once the FIFO has been created, a process can start up and open it for reading or writing using the standard open() system call. ... Lets say you have a pipe with one reader and one writer connected to it. ...

... Schaaff, A. 2003, in ASP Conf. ... Started at CDS in 2002, the work around Web Services is in a full exploitation phase. ... A portal is available to publish all information about how to use CDS XML Webservices and also hints on how to start to use XML Web Services (tutorial, links, etc.) ... Figure: The CDS Web Service Portal at http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cdsws.gml . ... Note that it is not necessary to deal with the contents of a SOAP file to have client access to the CDS XML Web Services. ...

Journal of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York July 2010 Volume 58 Number 7, ISSN 0146-7662 EYEPIECE every week since, except for a break during the winter months of December through March, and the inevitable cancellations due to overcast skies. ... It's not the dark surroundings--other AAA observing sites are much darker. ... We're neither at the center nor the edge of anything, be it solar system, galaxy, local group, galactic cluster or universe. ... So, why does time go only one way? ...

The support for Apogee cameras offered here is built on an Open Source library provided by The Random Factory. ... At this time XmCCD supports the Alta series of Apogee cameras. Contact us if you would like to have another series included. ... The Ascent series of cameras may work with this driver but we do not have one to test. ... This driver will issue a request to a system script "set_camera_filter #" which is expected to send the request to an external filter wheel. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Pulsars . ... Stars ? ... The array was designed to detect compact radio sources such as these by virtue of the fact that they would scintillate (twinkle) when observed from the Earth through the interplanetary medium ? ... One of Antony Hewish?s research students, Jocelyn Bell, was set the task of operating the telescope and inspecting the daily charts for the kind deflections in the trace which occurred when a scintillating source passed over the array. ...

... astro-ph/0303500 . ... В Архиве электронных препринтов появилась интересная и важная обзорная работа с юбилейным номером 0303500. Космический телескоп им. Хаббла . ... Благодаря столь широкому охвату читатель может узнать о множестве открытий последнего десятилетия в астрономии. Существенно и то, что Ливио не просто перечисляет открытия, он много рассказывает о физике явлений. ... Список ссылок занимает 15 страниц. ... Галактики на больших красных смещениях глазами Космического телескопа . ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Encyclopedia . ... About laboratory . ... On the night of September 24-25, in the north of Irkutsk Oblast, local residents saw a brightly glowing space object draw a line across the sky and fall into the taiga. ... But scientists learned of the heavenly visitor only on October 3, when a fax arrived at the Institute of Sun And Earth Physics from Bodaibo. ... The first thing we did was to interview residents of villages located along the meteor's flight path. ...

traxy -- Transform an X,Y position from input to output pixel position using the same conventions as drizzle traxy xin yin . xin = 400 [real] . ... The X dimension of the input image (this is used to determine the centre which is the origin of the transformations). (nyin = 800) [real] . ... So, if an object on an input image at a certain position is drizzled with a given set of parameters then the position of that object on the output can be predicted using traxy with the same parameter values. ...