... A nasty dispute between the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) and the space-science community was narrowly averted early this year when SDI officials backed down on a planned launch of a satellite with a Russian-built nuclear reactor on board. ... Early Soviet space reactors orbited for two to three months, and two Soviet Topaz 1 experiments, one for six and one 12 months, created radiation belts that disrupted the operation of scientific satellites. ...

... Moon Phase below . ... ARTICLE: Why the moon always shows us the same face . ... Before you continue reading, you should know that this was not always the case, i.e. the Moon once was rotating with respect to the Earth, so that on every night a terrestrial observer (if there was one, because this was long, long before mankind appeared on our planet, and even before any major animals had appeared) saw another face of the Moon. ... Figure 1 (not to scale) shows how we can imagine the system Earth-Moon...

... This year's eclipse is unique in duration. ... Although, at the present time, there are 6 solar observatories belonging to leading space agencies in orbit around the Earth, the eclipse of 22 July, 2009, will only be seen by two of them: the Russian CORONAS-PHOTON satellite equipped with TESIS telescopes and Japan's HINODE satellite fitted with an XRT space telescope. ... TESIS will be the first of the two devices (and the very first on Earth) to witness the solar eclipse. ...

... Tte tables of ionosphere and plasmasphere parameters are contained in a file param.tbl. ... Latitude Longitude Numbers of tables for (degree) (degree) Month Wm=10 Wm=100 Wm= 150 80 30 March 1 - 3 397-399 793-795 80 150 March 4 - 6 400-402 796-798 80 270 March 7 - 9 403-405 799-801 60 30 March 10 - 12 406-408 802-804 60 150 March 13 - 15 409-411 805-807 60 270 March 16 - 18 412-414 808-810 40 30 March 19 - 21 415-417 811-813 40 150 March 22 - 24 418-420 814-816 40 270 ...

... click image to view discuss) . ... This is a quick shot of the near-Earth asteroid 2005 YU55 using four consecutive exposures from the Harvard MicroObservatory robotic telescope in Amado, Arizona, on the night of Nov. ... 10, 2015 . This is Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2 as it appeared at about 10:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015, from my back yard in Belmont, MA, about 5 miles west of downtown Boston. ... Main image: 0.6 second exposure. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... You will need a formal letter of invitation to get Russian visa and we will provide it to you. ... First, we will need a copy of first two pages of your passport. The best way to do it is to find a scaner, open the passport, put it on the scaner, scan it with 300 dpi resolution in grayscale mode, save as JPEG file and then send the file to ysc@bmstu.ru and please send a copy to coordinator Irina Yurovskikh yurovskikh.i@mail.ru . ...

StarShine-3: . ... The satellites are covered by nearly 1000 small, front-surface aluminum mirrors that are machined by technology students in Utah and polished by tens of thousands of students all over the world. ... And this is only small story about it. ... We will be able to measure the angular position of that satellite by observing sunlight flashes from small mirrors mounted on the surface of the satellite, as it passes across the starry sky before sunrise and after sunset.. ... Starshine 3 . ...

Next: NICMOS Science Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: NICMOS Software at the . ... Reference File Tools . Image Analysis and Reduction . ... These include the tasks used in the STScI pipeline, tools to generate the reference files used by the calibration pipeline tasks, and general image analysis, manipulation, and arithmetic tasks. ... Calnica is used to apply instrumental calibrations to individual datasets, while calnicb is used to process associated sets of NICMOS images. ...

... VAK Russian Federation . Keldysh institute of applied mathematics . ... Unitied Institute of Physics of the Earth named for O.Yu. Schmidt see also another site of this Institute . ... Moscow Meriya . Institute of Nutrition of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences . MSU, Physics Department . ... Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics of MSU , see also another site . P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute Russian Academy of Sciences . ... M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University . ...

The scientific program of UISS-97 will include morning plenary talks, seminars and workshops in the afternoon and educational lectures in the evening. ... V.D.Ivashchuk Multidimentional gravity and cosmology. ... Generalized Emden-Fowler equation in d-demensional 2-factor spaces cosmological models. ... The models of an elastic universe. ... Cosmology of the Early Universe.( ... On properties of the spatial distribution of matter in the inhomogeneous mixmaster model of the early universe. ...

... Project page . ... Project workpage . Turbulence in the Multiphase Interstellar Medium . Project I | ... Project highlight | ... Towards simulating turbulence with adaptive meshes . ... A. Kritsuk, P. Padoan, M. Norman . ... A. Kritsuk M. Norman . ... A. Kritsuk, M. Norman, P. Padoan . astro-ph/0411626 | ... P. Padoan, A. Kritsuk, M. Norman, A. Nordlund . ... Introducing Enzo, an AMR Cosmology Application . B. O'Shea, G. Bryan, J. Bordner, M. Norman, T. Abel, R. Harkness, A. Kritsuk . ...

Date : Fri , 27 Feb 2009 01:19:03 . ... the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science which will be . ... UK).. - the Abstract and Early Registration deadline is 9th March 2009 ; . ... for those wishing to become member of the EAS/RAS and as a result . ... http://www.jenam2009.eu/ . ... Registration now open for the "European Week of Astronomy and Space Science" (JENAM2009) . ... The LOC of the "European Week of Astronomy and Space Science" . ... The "European Week of Astronomy and Space Science" . ...

... 4 November 1994 . orbit . ... 0.0128 . ... orbit period . ... satellite mass . 1950 kg . scientific payload mass . 550 kg . ... For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . 1997-2002 SMIS IKI RAN and SRC "PLANETA" Moscow, Russia. ...

R.A.S. Online Application . Form Updated on September 17, 2008 . ... Type in requested information on form. ... Print form (ctrl-p) and mail form & check (or money order) to RAS. ... Hit submit form button, then mail in your check to RAS . RAS Membership is $40.00 per year. ... Email RAS president for details. First name: Last name: . Email: . ... Any additional information: . Send check/money order (made out to RAS) to: . ... Email Tammy Plotner . ...

Main Program Travel Where to go in Moscow Information . ... Monday 28.04.2014 is the last day when LOC can help you to arrange an official invitation letter for business visa if you concern about this type of visa to enter Russia. ... After this dead line it will only be possible to make a tourist visa. ... Passport number: 9. ... Most people travel to Russia on tourist visas. ... International Conference: Cosmology and High Energy Astrophysics (Zeldovich-90) 20-24 Dec 2004, Moscow, Russia . ...

History of an outer space exploration . ... The first space rockets . ... In space where there is no air, the engine which is not using air, i.e. the rocket installation is necessary for a flight vehicle. ... The Tsiolkovsky has understood, that firm kinds of fuel are not suit for space flights and has offered to use rocket engines on liquid fuel. ... Tsiolkovsky made a great contribution to the theory of rocket flight. ... From a satellite of the Earth before lunar landing . ...

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Asteroid 2055 YU55 passes close by Earth; how close did it get? ... As Elizabeth Flock reported: An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier missed Earth by only 200,000 miles as it flew by Tuesday night the closest an asteroid has been to Earth in 200 years Asteroid 2005 YU55, as it has been dubbed, streaked by at about 30,000 mph, but some scientists and lucky amateur astronomers caught a glimpse in their telescopes, where they saw strange structures on the asteroid\u2019s dark-colored surface. ...

... part 1 | ... The Basic Stages in Earth's Pre-geological Development . ... After fragments of the Vortex sleeves separated, whirlwinds of second and third orders ("NC" - new micro-vortex) were generated- future planet cores and their satellites - all of them developing independently, governed by the common laws of development of cosmogenic vortexes. ... Our planet's core today is comprised of considerably deteriorated cosmogenic vortex; consequently, the Earth has a moderated magnetic field. ...

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