... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Soyuz is a series of spacecraft designed for the Soviet space program by the Korolyov Design Bureau during the 1960s. In fact Soyuz is still the workhorse of the Russian space program today bringing cosmonauts and astronauts to the International Space Station. ... The Soviets had launched the worldБЂ™s first space station, Salyut 1, on 19 April 1971. ... But when Soyuz 10 reached the space station and was unable to dock with it, the plans were put in place to launch Soyuz 11 on June 7, 1971. ...

Jimmy Whelan Come all you ladies and gentlemen, I pray you lend an ear; 'Tis of a terrible accident You are about to hear. ... The fierce and the raging main, The waters they ran high, And the foreman said to Whelan: "This jam you will have to try." ... No earthly man could ever live In such a raging main. ... From Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs, Fowke Note: No apparent connection to Lost Jimmy Whelan @work @logging @death @Canada filename[ JMMYWHEL play.exe JMMYWHEL RG ===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY=== ...

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... 18941904; Bespalov P.A. Effective saturation of absorption in a plasma magnetospheric maser. In book: Nonlinear Space Plasma Physics, R.Z. Sagdeev -Editor-in-Chief, American Institute of Physics, 1993, p.339-346]. Magnetospheric plasma maser [Bespalov P.A, Trakhtengerts V.Yu., ... In a magnetospheric plasma maser (MPM) the relatively dense magnetised plasma and the conjugate ends of a magnetic trap form a quasioptical resonator for electromagnetic waves. ...

... Active Skepsis . ... Probably, one should know the results from any actions. ... As a result, a sceptic, who discredits, for example, the tales of Christian wonders, has to follow the practical recommendations of Christianity or any other belief knowing how to act. ... As a result, scepticism restricts itself with discrediting secondary wonders, permanently replacing one doubtful interpretation with another and telling nothing of life and action. ... Yuri Tikhonravov, Ph.D. Translated from Russian ....

... 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. ...

... I.A.Dynnikov, Three-page approach to knot theory. ... Universal semigroup, Funktsional'nyi Analiz I Prilozhenija, 34 (2000), no.1, 29-40 (Russian); English translation in Functional Analysis and Its Appl. 34 (2000), no.1, 24-32. I.A.Dynnikov, Finitely presented groups and semigroups in knot theory. ... Math. 2000, no. ... English translation: Russian Math. ... A.Vershik, Numerical invariants of exponential groups, and a locally free approximation of braid groups (in Russian), Zapiski Nauchn. ...

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Key Abbreviation (Click on the key for the list of scientists with this affiliation) . N of Sci Number of Scientists from main and active lists affiliated in this institute . CI 86 Main citation index (total number of citations made after 1986.) ... Landau Institute for Theoretica l Physics RAS . ... Lebedev Physical Institute RAS . ... MSU Chem . ... Steklov Mathematical Institute RAS . ... B.P.Konstantinov Petersburg Nuclear P hysics Institute RAS . ... Institute of Solid State Physics RAS . ...

... public class WindowManager . ... This class consists of static methods used to manage ImageJ's windows. ... static void . ... Adds the specified window to the Window menu. static boolean . ... Returns a reference to the active image or null if there isn't one. static ImageWindow . ... Makes the image contained in the specified window the active image. static void . ... Returns the first image that has the specified title or null if it is not found. public static void addWindow (java.awt.Frame win) ....

... Josephson junctions with ferromagnetic barriers were fabricated and studied [1] for their ground state change from 0 to : IS=ICsin() to IS = ICsin(+), where IS is superconducting current, IC critical current, is the phase difference of pair potential between superconducting electrodes. ... To investigate the origin of the zero voltage current for our hybrid heterostructures we applied microwave radiation and studied the ac Josephson effect. ... Fig. ... Both junctions are 50 µm in size. ...

The Russian Parliament will soon consider a bill that would restructure the Russian space program, 35 years after the launch оf Sputnik. ... But the legislation's most striking and controversial feature is a provision that would ban testing and deployment оf space weapons ? including anti-satellite weapons and space-based missile interceptors. ... A draft bill was written by a group of experts within the Moscow Space Club, several of whom now work on space issues with the Russian Parliament. ...

... They are known: active quantum frequency standards on the ammonia molecules beams (molecular generator) on the hydrogen generator (hydrogen generator) passive quantum frequency standards on the Cs atoms’ beam (cerium atomic beam tube); active and passive quantum frequency standards with an optical pumping of Cs or Rb steams. The stability of atomic beam quantum frequency standard achieves 10^ - 14. ...

RADIO EMISSION OF THE MOON BEFORE AND AFTER THE LUNAR PROSPECTOR IMPACT Berezhnoi A.A.*, Gusev S.G.**, Khavroshkin O.B.***, Poperechenko B.A.**, Shevchenko V.V.*, Tzyplakov V.A.*** * Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Universitetskij pr., ... For the registration of lunar RSR after the Lunar Prospector impact radio observations of the Moon on the two 64-m radio telescopes of the SDO MEI at Medvezh'i Ozera and Kaliazin were conducted during July 30 - August 2, 1999. ...

If you can see this, it means that the installation of the Russian Apache web server software on this system was successful. ... This page is here because the site administrator has changed the configuration of this web server. ... The Apache Software Foundation, which wrote the web server software this site administrator is using, has nothing to do with maintaining this site and cannot help resolve configuration issues. ... You are free to use the image below on an Apache-powered web server. ...

... M.M.Katsova, M.A.Livshits "The Sun among active late-type stars: new results" in: Solar activity as a space weather factor. ... M.A.Livshits, M.M.Katsova "Modern Concept of Large Solar Events and Stellar Flares" in: Cool Stars, Stellar System and the Sun, The 13th Cambrige Workshop held in Hamburg, Germany, July 5-9, 2004 Eds. F.Favata, G.A.J.Hussain, B.Battrick ESA Publ.Div. ... M.M.Katsova "Two kinds of stellar activity on late-type stars" in: The Sun and Cool Stars: activity, magnetism, dynamos. ...

Lessons learned from the Thirty Meter Telescope site testing Tony Travouillon Sebastian Els, Angel Otarola, Reed Riddle, Matthias Schoeck, Warren Skidmore TMT.XXX.PRE.05.0XX.DRF01 1 Introduction TMT and its Site testing. Important choice before going on site. ... Considerations during analysis of the data. TMT.XXX.PRE.05.0XX.DRF01 2 Some Background about the TMT Site Testing TMT is a 30m, segmented, RitcheyChretien telescope design. ... ASCA Cloud Cover Analysis So how do we do it in practice? ...

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. ...

... A group of children sang Russian folk songs. The songs were different: one was about the celebration of "Masleniza", another one was about our Motherland. Our guests really liked a young boy who played "balalaika". ... It helped British girls to learn more about our country, our traditions and culture. ... We also saw Russian Ballet. A nice beautiful girl was dancing for our guests. ... Last year when another group of British teenagers came to our school she also danced for them. ...