Next: The Plan Up: No Title Previous: No Title . On the afternoon of 19 October 1999, it was discovered by John Briggs that the secondary mirror in the 2.5m SDSS telescope had developed a series of circular cracks around its axis of symmetry. As the telescope had not been in use since the early morning of 16 October 1999, there was a great deal of concern and consternation as to what caused these fractures in the glass. ... 11/24/1999 ...

... Laboratory for atmosphere optics was found in 2000. The main directions of activity of the laboratory . ... The most actual and significant - research of chemical composition of a ground atmospheric slice in conditions of a large industrial center. ... Scientific and industrial optical instrument making. ... Dr. Mikhail G .Sosonkin, senior researcher - head of the laboratory . Yuri S. Ivanov - senior researcher . ... Laboratory for atmosphere optics МАО NANU . ... 380(44)5264539 . ...

Rosebud (Robert Burns) A rosebud, by my early walk Adown a corn-inclosed bawk, Sae gently bent its thorny stalk, All on a-dewy morning. ... So thou, dear bird, young Jeany fair, On trembling string or vocal air, Shall sweetly pay the tender care That tents thy early morning! So thou, sweet rosebud, young and gay, Shall beauteous blaze upon the day, And bless the parent's evening ray That watch'd thy early morning! ...

JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight . ... JSC Turns 40 Home | ... The Lunar Samples Office, a Planetary and Earth Sciences Division and a separate Earth Observations Aircraft Program Office sprung up across the center. ... From the first moon rocks of the late 1960s to today's Martian meteorites, JSC scientists have led the way in the study of fascinating rocks to better understand how our solar system, and perhaps life itself, came into being. ... Curator: JSC Web Team | ...

... The NATO "Science for Peace" Program , Project number SfP 973559 . ... Receiver devices based on superconducting Josephson junction dynamics provide easy and extremely sensitive way for measurements of contents of these molecules. ... Fast development of SQUIDs resulted in fabrication of number of devices for supersensitive physical experiments and production of sophisticated multichannel measurement systems used in medicine for magnetocardiography and neural investigations. ...

Next: Future Work Up: CCD Scientific Performance Previous: Modes of Operation . ... However, the first experiments with Co-60 irradiation showed loss of charge transfer performance at doses of 10krads [Lumb and Holland 1988b]. ... These studies showed that the charge transfer degradation was a more severe problem than conventional integrated circuit damage mechanisms. ... Another manifestation of radiation damage is that of dark current spike generation. ...

... 3 ­ Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, :jeanna@sai.msu.ru The graphic method of the analysis of an arrangement of linear structural elements on geographical and geological maps of continents (A.V.Dolitsky, [1]) has allowed to find out global stress fields of the past and among them one which directions (the main normal and maximal tangents) describe more than 80 % of all linear elements of a relief. ... The found poles share program way on density of an arrangement on 3-4 groups. ...

... Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) . ... Searching for SZ clusters . ... Baryon content of galaxy clusters and cosmology . ... 3 sigma peaks: Observational Signatures of High Redshift Galaxies and Low Redshift Clusters . CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES . ... Clusters of galaxies seen in X-rays: war and peace . ... Chandra X-ray Observations of Clusters/Groups/Galaxies . ... Common timing features in neutron stars and black holes . ... X-ray luminosity function of low-mass X-ray binaries in galaxies . ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

... NGC 281 (Sharpless 184) is a bustling cradle of star formation about 10,000 light years away. ... The central stars are being formed from the surrounding gas, which emits a large amount of hydrogen alpha (Ha) light after being excited by stellar radiation. ... The dark areas overlaying the brighter ones in the middle of the image are dense clouds of gas known as Bok Globules. ... 4) Image registration . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Dmitry Stepanovich (VIDEO of March 2011) . Olga Silchenko, a soloist of the Early Music Theatre . ... Anna and Olga Silchenko have presented the duets by Rubinstein and Chaikovsky (VIDEO) . ... Two Russian romances - duets by Olga Silchenko and Dmitry Stepanovich (VIDEO) . ... N. Rimsky-Korsakov "The Tsar's Bride", the duet of Lubasha and Gryaznoy - by Olga Silchenko and Dmitry Stepanovich (VIDEO) . ... Vivaldi "Magnificat", 6th part, duet by Anna and Olga Silchenko (VIDEO) . ... Olga Silchenko . ...

... Continuous Wavelet Transform in Quantum Field Theory: An application to the Casimir effect . ... Nuclear structure effects in light muonic atoms . A.A. Dzyuba on behalf of the LHCb collaboration . Overview of LHCb results . ... Korzinin, S.G. Karshenboim . The relativistic two-loop electronic-vacuum-polarization contributions to Lamb shift in muonic hydrogen . ... Problems in determination of the Planck constant and redefinition of the SI units in terms of fundamental constants . ...

NOTE: The storm sudden commencement data file was updated on 18 Feb 1998. o Revised data for 1968-1975 were taken from IAGA Bulletin No. ... Indices aa and storm sudden commencements"; see also IAGA Bulletin 39: " Supplementary Geomagnetic Data 1957-1975", including a new list of ssc's 1968-1975). ... From the monthly reports of Rapid Variations prepared by 43 magnetic observatories (see list page 121), a combined list of all events is compiled. ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Dronino . ... New iron meteorite shower found! Meteorite Encyclopedia . ... About laboratory . ... Dronino iron meteorite . ... Mr. Gus'kov felt that further efforts by Milanovsky were likely to be unsuccessful, so he searched further and found our Meteorites Laboratory. The Laboratory's analysis showed that the Dronino Iron has a meteorite origin. ... Dronino is the 111th meteorite and only the third iron-meteorite shower found in Russia in the last 250 years. ...

... The Organizing Committee will help the participants to book the accommodation in several 3-star hotels and students' hostels. The price varies starting from 25 euro per person per day (single room with shared wc/shower, university hostel). Accommodation in other hotels or under other conditions is to be organized by the participants on their own. ...

... We publish 16 Doppler imaging temperature maps for the years 1994-2002 of the active RS CVn star II Peg. ... Through Doppler imaging we want to study the spot evolution of the star and in particular compare this with previous results showing a cyclic spot behaviour and persistent active longitudes. ... The derived temperature maps are quite similar to the ones obtained earlier with a different methods, the main differences occurring in the spot latitudes and relative strength of the spot structures....

... This glossary is not meant to be an exhaustive list of techno-definitions. ... Is there a term you don't see here? ... Do you know how to pronounce the CONSTELLATIONS , STARS , or the PLANETS and their MOONS ? ... First Law - the orbit of each planet is an ellipse with the sun at a focus . ... LIGHT BUCKET: A common slang term for a large apertures . ... LIGHT POLLUTION: The illumination of the night sky caused by artificial light sources on the ground (streetlights, billboards, etc.) ...

... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...

... Space Res., 12, 265, 1992 planetary magnetic dipole: Mizutani, H., et al., ... Astrobiology, 7, 167, 2007 CME induced H+ ion pick-up loss at 0.05 AU for ` Hot Jupiters ' HD209458 b Mass loss ~1011 g/s even for weak CMEs Mmax strong magn. protection in reality Exoplanet magnetospheres - importance of magnetodisk Relatively large amount of observed Hot Jupiters (27%): survival of close-in giants indicates their efficient protection against of extreme plasma and radiation conditions ...

John Kielkopf entered the University of Louisville as an early-admissions student in 1963 before finishing high school. ... Currently also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, he has been an Associate Research Scientist at Hopkins, a Visiting Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Astronomer at the Observatory of Paris - Meudon. ... Bradley Carter and Rhodes Hart of the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. ...