... In addition to the planets and their satellites the solar system contains a large number of smaller but interesting objects. T here are thousands of known asteroids and comets and undoubtedly many more unknown ones. ... There are also some asteroids whose orbits carry them closer to the Sun than the Earth (Aten, Icarus, Hephaistos). Most comets have highly elliptical orbits which spend most of their time in the outer reaches of the solar system with only brief passages close to the Sun. ...

... In addition to the planets and their satellites the solar system contains a large number of smaller but interesting objects. There are thousands of known asteroids and comets and undoubtedly many more unknown ones. ... There are also some asteroids whose orbits carry them closer to the Sun than the Earth (Aten, Icarus, Hephaistos). Most comets have highly elliptical orbits which spend most of their time in the outer reaches of the solar system with only brief passages close to the Sun. ...

... Spacecraft that will search for planetary systems around 40 million stars and observe the largest explosions in the universe have been chosen as the next two missions in NASA's medium-class Explorer (MIDEX) program. ... The first mission, to be launched in 2003, is the Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer, a three-telescope space observatory for studying gamma ray bursts. ... During its three-year mission, Swift will also survey the sky for new black holes and other sources of cosmic gamma rays. ...

... Hardware Platform Hardware Platform IBM Cyclops System: · Very Dense Multi- Node HPC system · 3D grid configuration · Max size 24X24X24 nodes · Each node consisting of one multi-processor Cyclops chip · Each Cyclops Device contains 80 Dual Thread Unit Processing Elements, Dual ALU single FPMAC unit The Cyclops Processor Device Simplified Cyclops Diagram Cyclops Capabilities · 500 MHz system clock frequency · 80 GFLOPS peak ...

. Computer Ephemeris. Lunar eclipse numerical map. Explanations. First portion of the page contains coordinates of sub-lunar points during the eclipse. Every point is represented with two numbers: geodetic longitude and geodetic latitude, both in degrees. Second portion of the page contains coordinates of the points at terminator line for the moments of contacts. There are 360 points on the lines, tens of them per line. The starting angle is indicated in the leftmost column.

... adass@eso.org . ... c/o Britt Sj?berg . ST-ECF/ESO . ... European Southern Observatory . ... The ADASS '97 Program Organizing Committee is comprised of the following members: Rudi Albrecht (ST-ECF/ESO), Roger Brissenden (SAO), Tim Cornwell (NRAO), R. Crutcher (Uni. of Illinois), F. Rick Harnden - Chair (SAO), George Jacoby (NOAO), Jonathan McDowell (SAO), Jan Noordam (NFRA), Dick Shaw (STScI), Richard Simon (NRAO), Britt Sj?berg (ST-ECF), Doug Tody (NOAO), and Dave Van Buren (IPAC). ...

... of some asteroids are known with insufficient accuracy, so in reality the described line indicates a wider region. h m ° ° ° ° 2016 April 1 12 21.3 117.4 44.3 58 59 140 Siwa; 14.4;109.8 km; 3.8; 8.5s 12 22.3 127.2 41.9 72 53 U2 040170481 ; 10.6; 6h55m37.731s;+23°34'50.61 2016 April 1 17 11.3 43.9 43.4 39 67 1481 Tubingia; 16.0; 33.3 km; 4.0; 3.5s 17 12.3 49.6 40.8 53 66 U2 040343475 ; 12.0 ; 7h43m34.252s;+24°00'23.04 2016 ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Irvin M. Winer . ... Site Map . ... Hint : Find and stay on Arizona State Route 83, which bounds our property). Use the interactive map below or use our GPS position N31 39' 56.08" W110 36' 06.42" (or 31.665578N, 110.601783W). ... From Tucson, take I-10 east about 20 miles to Exit 281, which is marked "State Route 83 Sonoita/Patagonia". ... Go three miles, staying on the paved road of State Route 83. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... Visual indices of solar activity . ... n - number of spot groups . A - Waldmeier class of unipolar spot groups without penumbra . B - class of bipolar spot groups without penumbra . C - class of bipolar spot groups with one penumbra pole . D - class of small bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . E - class of middle bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . ... H - class of unipolar penumbrated spot groups . ...

. Currently . student of the 5th course of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology . Field of research interest . Network software developing, Image processing. Position . Laboratory assistant of Space Research Institute . Department Number . 902 (Space Monitoring Information Support) . Postal Address . Space Research Institute . Russian Academy of Sciences . Profsoyuznaya St. 84/32 . Moscow, RUSSIA . Postal Code . 117810 . Telephone Number . +7(095) 333-53-13 . E-mail . ugine@d902.iki.rssi.ru .

Launch Vehicle Energia . ... In 1989, NPO Energia in cooperation with related organizations worked up a catalog "Scientific ad Technological Achievements Implemented in Energia-Buran Space System - to National Economy" containing about 600 proposals which could bring economic effect of around 6 milliards of rubles ( at prices of 1989). Development of LV Energia offered a promise for a number of global projects of a large international importance. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

The deferred photometric pipeline of SNLS uses only photometry to detect and classify type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). The advantages of a photometric sample include larger number of events classified as type Ia, larger redshift coverage and no need for spectroscopic observations. ... First, a subtracted image stack treatment was developed to reduce the number of non SN-like events using morphological component analysis. ... Second, a new classification using photometric SN redshifts is introduced. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Ceres, the largest asteroid in the solar system is about 900 kilometers in diameter. ... How many asteroids do you think there are larger than 100 meters across (0.1 kilometers)? ... Using the numbers he supplied, I calculated how many asteroids there are larger than 100 meters in diameter. ... A billion asteroids 100 meters across would occupy the same space as a single asteroid with a radius of the cube root of one billion times 100 meters. ...

December 16, 1997 . ... An example of the EUV chain revealed by the modified SOHO/EIT images. A complex EUV (195 A) chain or thread of December 16, 1997, consisting of several quasi-straight-line fragments between points 1-2-3-4-5 and covering a large part of the solar disk. ... A comparison of the large-scale chains and threads on two pairs of the modified SOHO/EIT (195 A; inverted) and He I (10830 A; normal) images. ... SOHO/EIT, 195 A, December 15-17, 1997 GIF Animation (1.07 MB) . ...

... Sky surveys and deep fields of ground-based and space telescopes History · William Herschel (1738-1822) was the first to formulate the problem of global sky surveys to study the structure and evolution of the world outside the solar system. ... The VVDS (VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey) is a photometric and spectroscopic survey of 100,000 galaxies within several deep fields covering 16 sq. deg. with the VIsible Multi-Object Spectrograph (VIMOS) on the ESO VLT telescope. ...

... This year SSAU provides 1429 state-funded places for admission in all kinds and directions of educational programs. ... In addition, SSAU Admission Committee notes the substantial increase in interest from the foreign applicants this year. The number of applications from foreign countries has already surpassed last year's totals - 76 applications. Based on the experience of admission campaigns of previous years, SSAU expects summer 2014 to enrol about 150 foreign students in the university. ...

There are six possible ways of object description: . a) by number(s) . ... d) by list . e) by orbital elements . ... They should be introduced as year, month, day with tenth (e.g. 20021104.1). d) Computations are performed for all objects listed in the file whose path and name should be introduced into assigned data field. ... On pressing Edit file button user has a possibility to look through the list of object elements or their coordinates and velocities to add or to change it. ...

... Gravity data reflect changes, related to the groundwater redistribution, ice melting, and precipitation accumulation. ... We apply Multichannel Singular Spectrum Analysis (MSSA, or extended EOF) technique to filter GRACE data and separate the principal components (PCs) of different periods. We performed data averaging over the large river basins of Russia. ... Fig 1. ... MSSA is a promising method for GRACE data processing, de-striping, filtering, and Principal Components (PCs) separation. ...

... Another significant contribution to the crystal energy of metals is the electron-ion interaction or the electron bandstructure energy (E BS ) which is defined by the interaction of valence electrons and the Brillouin zone (BZ) planes. ... The program BRIZ has been developed for 3D visualization of Brillouin zone configurations and intersections of BZ planes with a Fermi sphere[4]. ... 1.75 (electrons/atom). ... 4] Degtyareva V.F., Smirnova I.S.: BRIZ: a vizualization program for Brillouin zone ? ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... for 1-5 bytes is number of a numbered minor planet, . ... Positions 1-80 file "mpcreportiz.txt" are similar to positions of file "mpcreport.txt". 83-95 – errors of unit weight, . ... If this tag is " 1 0 " , this record contains results of measurements of an image of object (approximation by "PSF"),  . ... 57-66 – error in X (pixels), for first star in a multicentric image, for subsequent it is error in (distance between first star in the image and this), . ...