... Une note trє¦s prєµcise, contenant des questions spєµciales, fut donc rєµdigєµe et adressєµe єђ l'Observatoire de Cambridge, dans le Massachusetts. ... L'Observatoire de Cambridge. ... л1€ђ Est-il possible d'envoyer un projectile dans la Lune? . ... л3€ђ Quelle sera la durєµe du trajet du projectile auquel aura єµtєµ imprimєµe une vitesse initiale suffisante, et, par consєµquent, єђ quel moment devra-t-on le lancer pour qu'il rencontre la Lune en un point dєµterminєµ? . ...

... C'est avec beaucoup d'?motion que je me souviens des nombreuses rencontres avec M.M. Molodensky, que nous avions pris l'habitude d'appeler affectueusement, parmi quelques intimes, Misha, et qui nous a toujours fait le privil?ge de l'appr?cier. ... Ce f?t le d?but d'une longue collaboration que nous avons poursuivie a l'occasion de plusieurs s?jours qu'il p?t r?aliser en France bien plus tard, gr?ce a des actions d'ailleurs pas toujours tr?s orthodoxes. ... Il nous manque. ...

... About ATMoB . ... The ATMoB has established an email list server with various mailing lists for use by our members. ... This list has been established for use by ATMoB members, friends of members, and anyone interested in astronomy with a focus on things of interest to those in the greater Boston area. ... Notice: The owners of this server, the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, and any other sentient beings that happen to be involved assume no responsibility for any messages posted via this system...

... Discussion of Declination Drive Design . ... It is held in my personal stock of parts to replace a drive that might go out of service for some reason on one of the two LX200 telescopes that I am responsible for keeping in good repair.  ... The photocells detect light from a pair of small lights through the encoder mask and encoder wheel encased in the gear box housing. ... In one case of declination drive runaway, the cause was breaking of one of the leads to one of the photocells.  ... All fixed!! ...

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Venus under the clouds. ... Venus is the second from the Sun and the nearest to the Earth planet of solar system. ... As for Venus, it has the densest atmosphere, the smallest rotation around the axis and the least eccentricity of the orbit Venus is the only planet whose own rotation is opposite it’s rotation around the Sun. ... The radiolocation survey of Venus by the soviet station "Venera - 15" and "Venera - 16" brought out in 1984 in the planets satellite`s orbit shoued the tarces of long walls. ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

. The briefing on the Defence Trade Control Act will be about the Act itself and how it may potentially impact research activity in RSAA (20 mins). Following this discussion, researchers who consider their work has no exposure to Act are free to leave. The second 40 minutes will explore more closely those areas where researchers believe their work may have potential exposure.

PENTICTON SOLAR RADIO FLUX VALUES (from SGD Explanation of Data Reports) Daily Solar Flux Values - Penticton -- Daily measurements of the integrated emission from the solar disc at 2800MHz (10.7cm wavelength) have been made by the National Research Council of Canada since 1947. ... The data are tabulated in two forms: the "observed flux" (S), and the "adjusted flux" (Sa). ... The "observed flux" values are useful in ionospheric physics and other terrestrial consequences of solar activity. ...

A very important stage in a story of formation of any new science is the shift from discussion of situation which are possible but do not occur in practice due to some reason to recognition of real phenomena of interest. ... We suggest to consider computer viruses as this new specific form of life which is coming in the contact with our form of life. ... Computer life has been created by human being, the role of independent evolution of computer viruses seems to be still negligible. ...

... Eugene A. Cernan (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... Cernan subsequently served as backup pilot for Gemini 12 and as backup lunar module pilot for Apollo 7. On his second space flight, he was lunar module pilot of Apollo 10, May 18-26, 1969, the first comprehensive lunar-orbital qualification and verification flight test of an Apollo lunar module. ... Captain Cernan has logged 566 hours and 15 minutes in space-of which more than 73 hours were spent on the surface of the moon. ...

Course : Social media for civil society Lecturer: Olga Guzhva, Assistant Professor, Vice dean of International cooperation department of sociology, general editor of SCS Journal( www.scsjournal.org) The course consist of main thematic chapter as I theory and practise of e-Democracy, overview of channel of communication and social media , social media tools ( practical cases)) Theme /Modules Theme 1 Introduction to the course ... Discussion involves participants in active learning. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Asteroid . ... Site . ... The evening of October 26, 2011, Mark Trueblood, Robert Crawford, and Larry Lebofsky used the Kitt Peak 2.1-m telescope to observe Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) 2008 QT3. ... single still jpeg frame . ... The National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) issued a press release concerning Morgan's work on Monday, November 21, 2011 and posted it on the home page of their web site . ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

... Old World First Asteroid Radar Echo. ... It testifies that 4179 Toutatis is a double object like asteroid 4769 Castalia. ... Interference of Radar Echo from the Binary Asteroid 4179 Toutatis. ... An analysis of the 6-cm radar data revealed quasi-harmonic oscillation of the echo’s “central” Doppler frequency with a period of about 14 sec and a deviation of about (0.7*B) Hz, where B is the echo bandwidth, which for 4179 Toutatis was equal to 2.1 Hz and 1.9 Hz for 1992 Dec 8 and 9, respectively. ...

The direct detection of gravitational waves is one of those events long-expected by physicists that are nevertheless a significant occurrence which excites the world scientific community as if something unexpected has happened. ... Many rumors leaked ahead of the conference, and the fact that something (that is, a signal corresponding to gravitational waves) was discovered by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) was discussed on the sidelines. ... arXiv:1602.03868 . ...

. General Information . Media Files . Participants . Timetable . Local Information . Photos . October 5, 15:00 15:30 . Victor Kornilov (SAI) . PDF [2.4б MB] October 5, 15:30 16:10 . Florian Kerber (ESO) . PDF [2.0б MB] October 5, 16:10 16:35 . Boris Safonov (SAI) . PDF [704.7б KB] October 5, 16:35 17:05 . October 5, 17:05 17:45 . Pavel Kovadlo (ISZF), Olga Kochetkova (ISZF) . PDF [4.0б MB] October 5, 18:20 19:00 .

Asteroids, Comets, Meteors (2008) 8010.pdf SPECTRAL SIGNS OF CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITIC MATERIAL ON (21) LUTETIA V.V. Busarev, Sternberg Astronomical Institute (SAI), Moscow University, Universitetskij pr., ... We have discovered considerable variations in the continuum slope and shape of the visible-range reflectance spectra of the asteroid with rotation in November 2004 (4/5, 5/6 and 7/8) and March 2006 (3/4). ... Resulting normalized (at 0.55 m) and smoothed reflectance spectra are shown in Fig. ...

... VoilГ un beau sujet de discussion pour vos veillГїes sous les Гїtoiles : devons-nous hurler Г la Lune que nous sommes tous seuls dans l'Univers - histoire d'attirer l'attention d'autres civilisations cosmiques - ou, au contraire, nous taire et faire profil bas en attendant d'en savoir plus ? ... Il est relayГї depuis peu par des astrophysiciens comme Stephen Hawking, pour qui un contact signerait Г coup sГ'r la disparition de notre civilisation.. ...

... Copyrightї1997 Bob Yen (byen@ix.netcom.com) (http://www.comet-track.com/hb/hb.html) . ... Information on Comet Hale-Bopp for the Non-Astronomer Hale-Bopp rotates about twice a day (3/14/97) . ... The Comet Observation Home Page was been selected to receive the Griffith Observatory Star Award for the week of February 2 - 8, 1997 for excellence in promoting astronomy to the public through the World Wide Web. ... Typically, about 1,000 individual users/computers access this page every day. ...

... After the completion of the docking of Progress M-44 logistics vehicle with the international space station , the Blue Room of the Mission Control Center - Moscow (MCC-M) became the venue for an earnest discussion between Rosaviacosmos Director ... MCC-M Deputies of State Duma of the Russian Federation Federal Assembly, cosmonauts, journalists and specialist of the industry. photo-report ... Baikonur launch site . ... Integration of the Soyuz TM space craft with the launch vehicle . ...