... 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. ...

... What is an intelligence or an intelligent life? ... Various particular cases, new regimes, original approaches etc. being attractive as they could, all this is a pale shade of a real process of cognition. ... May an infinitely complicated object be indeed so simple? ... An intelligence could not arise in an infinitely complicated universe! ... There are two possibilities: whether our imagination of infinitely complicated object is incorrect or the surrounding world is not infinitely complicated. ...

... After hearing and discussing Rocket-Space Corporation Energy General Designer U.P.Semevov's report on the fulfilling the flight program of the orbital complex Mir and proposals on its further exploitation, the Council draws attention to: . ... According to the Russian Government Resolution No. 76 of January 21, 1999 a large amount of work to find and attract Russian and foreign investments to provide the further exploitation of the orbital station Mir was carried out. ...

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Chair of solid state physics . ... Defects in crystals . ... Lectures program for the undergraduate students of the Faculty of general and applied physics of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) . The defect-free and unlimited solid is though a useful ideal construction, but it is quite far from reality. ... At the beginning, the 0-dimensional defects like vacancies, interstitials, dislocation kinks and kinks of surface steps are discussed. ... Grain boundary dislocations. ...

Development and Application of Logical Actors Mathematical Apparatus for Logic Programming of Web Agents Alexei A. Morozov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics RAS Mokhovaya 11, Moscow 125009, Russia AlexeiMorozov@netscape.net, morozov@mail.cplire.ru One of the most interesting and promising approaches to programming Internet agents is logic programming of agents. ... One of the first control strategies was created for the execution of sequential logic programs with logical actors [2]. ...

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MINUTES of the RadioAstron Teleconference on March 16, 2011 N. Kardashev chaired the teleconference. ... He confirmed the priority status of the mission with the launch date scheduled for late June 2011. ... N. Kardashev reminded the participants to send their willing to visit the launch site to M. Lisakov not later than March 20 2011. ... New Zeland JIVE, The Netherlands ASC, Russia NRAO, USA NRAO, USA ASC, Russia NRAO, USA ASC, Russia MPIfR, Germany ASC, Russia NRAO, USA ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . General information Main characteristics of the Radio telescope Observing programs General view of the antenna array Main research areas Principle of generation of radio images Radio telescope 's beam Receiving systems Main characteristics of the base receiving-recording complex Calibrations Data archive and databases Publication SSRT - Siberian Solar Radio Telescope . ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Autostar Computer Controllers . 497 Autostar . ... One of the most important advances in telescope control in the past 25 years, the Meade #497 Autostar Computer Controller turns the ETX into an automatic celestial object locating system. ... The #497 Autostar Computer Controller plugs into the control panel of ETX-90EC, ETX-105EC, and ETX-125EC telescopes and enables automatic location of more than 30,000 celestial objects. ... about meade | ... Meade 4M | ...

... I would several points which we faced during our everysolved for better quality of individual ACs' and EOP products · There are two main EOP products provided by two IERS Product Centers on Earth Orientation (Earth Orientation Center (EOC) and Rapid Service/ Prediction Center (RSPC)). ... However, the latter is not provided by the IERS. ... ITRF · Using ITRF in computation of EOP series produced by various ACs seems to be a necessary condition to provide the consistency between the IERS products. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Antenna system . ... The Irkutsk incoherent scatter radar is one of the world's nine active radars which give the opportunity to investigate ionosphere by the incoherent scatter method. ... Antenna gain coefficient . ... Antenna . ... Two antennas . ... To get an idea what station "Dnepr" antenna system looks like, let us consider some of the radar views which are given by the photographs General view and Side view . ...

... ASRAS HOME . ... Mees Observatory . ... Site . ... Weather forecast will be correct for the Farash Center . ... Through gracious donations from Marion and Max Farash and the Louis S. Wolk Foundation, ASRAS has been able to acquire a large piece of land well away from the city lights. ... The Marian and Max Farash Center for Observational Astronomy consists of an education center, maintenance building and 6 working observatories on a 17 acre plot of land just off route 64 in the hamlet of Ionia, NY. ...

Goals: September We introduce our countries and ourselves. November The most important event of the century in Our countries. December discussing about preparation for the Millennium. ... USA, Washington, Seattle, St. Joseph School, Leslie Boniface . ... Japan, Shotoku Elementary School, Katsumi Fujiishi . ... Denmark, Kaare Oester, Kaare Yster . ... USA, Florida, Cooper City, Embbassy Creek Elementary, Ellen Sabety ; . ... USA, Missouri, Kansas City, Maple Park Middle School, Doug Barry . ...

... Recognition of Anomalous Events S. Monai 1,2 and F.Pasian 2 1 Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera Merate, Italy 2 Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Italy Abstract. We present an original algorithm for the recognition of anomalous events in a CCD frame (i.e., cosmic hits, bad pixels etc.) ... Raw images, as read from a CCD, are often a#ected by some events which are revealed by anomalous pixel values, i.e., single saturated pixels or pixels at zero intensity (also named hot or bad pixels). ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy: The North Star, Polaris, is a very bright star. Good Astronomy: Polaris is a middling-bright star, easily missed. ... He said it was close to Polaris, the North Star, but he also said it was in the East. ... It's natural, I suppose, to think that such an important star should be bright, but really, that's a conceit, like thinking that the Earth is at the center of the Universe. If more people knew just why Polaris is the North Star, this Bad Idea would stop. ...

... REGISTRATION . ... 119991, Leninski prospekt 53, Moscow, Russia . ... From radio to gamma rays results from space and ground based solar observatories . ... The Sun with high temporal and spatial resolution new look from SDO . ... Towards the Sun: InterHelioProbe, Solar Orbiter, PROBA-3, Solar Probe + . ... The Sun as a star: solar cycle and space weather . ... Head: E. DeLuca (SAO, USA), V. Kuznetsov (IZMIRAN, Russia) . ... June 1, 2011 (Wen) . ... Online publication of the workshop's program . ...

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. ...

... 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; . ...

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