... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

Since the days of Sputnik and Explorer 1, thousands of spacecraft have gone into space, some of them carrying human passengers. The first person to orbit the Earth was the Russian Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The first American to do so was John Glenn, who completed three orbits on February 20, 1962; more than 26 years later, at age 77, Glenn returned to space aboard the space shuttle. ... in orbit. ... Manned satellites include various " space stations " intended for long-term residence. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Март 1998 . ... Дата: 26 марта 1998 (1998-03-26) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: STARDUST Update - March 20, 1998 Привет всем! ... TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov Galileo Europa Mission Status March 25, 1998 NASA's Galileo spacecraft is sending to Earth the final pictures and science information stored on its onboard tape recorder during the December 1997 flyby of Jupiter's moon Europa. ...

... Press release for Jan. 28, 2001 a.m. (Moscow time) . The Station "Mir" and cargo ship "ProgressM1-5"operations scheduled for Jan. 27-28 completed. ... The MCS (motion control system) is in free drift. ... The Station "Mir" and cargo ship "ProgressM1-5" onboard systems checkout is shceduled for 28-29 Jan. On Jan 25"Progress M-43' undocked the Station at 08.20 a.m. (Moscow time), its de-orbit is scheduled for Jan.29.The calculated time of jets firing for breaking - 05,12 a.m. (Moscow time) . ...

... 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. ...

... Telescopes . ... Creation of the distributed net of control (DCN) of the 6 m telescope has been completed, which is based on the use of digital tracking drives and the means of commercial automatization to ensure the real-time processes of control and data acquisition. With changing to DCN, computer diagnostics of the majority of units of the telescope has been implemented, the reliability of its operation in the whole has been increased, its performance characteristics have been improved. ...

... Formation of Galactic Subsystems in Light of the Magnesium Abundance in Field Stars. ... The Thin Disk(2006) . ... I. The Thick Disk. ... A Compiled Catalog of Spectroscopically Determined Elemental Abundances for Stars with Accurate Parallaxws. I Magnesium. ... Stars of extragalactic origin in the solar neighborhood.( ... Evidence for age delay between the formation of the old halo and the thick disk(2000) . ... Tel:work(8632)433985 . home(8632)333178 . Fax:(8632)434044 . ...

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Директор . ... доктор техн.наук, профессор . e-mail ipatov@ipa.nw.ru . тел: 275-10-04 . ... директора по научной работе . ... кандидат физ.- мат. наук . e-mail igen@ipa.nw.ru . ... e-mail dvi@ipa.nw.ru . ... Зам.директора по . ... e-mail lysenkov@ipa.nw.ru . тел: 579-06-03 . ... e-mail nvf@ipa.nw.ru . ... Татьяна Анатольевна Андреева . e-mail andreeva@ipa.nw.ru . ... e-mail dretova@ipa.nw.ru . ... Секретарь директора . Анна Анатольевна Кодисова . e-mail ipa@ipa.nw.ru . ...