... Yes, Exploding Comet 17P/Holmes is one of the strangest things ever seen by astronomers - professional and amateurs alike. ... We also had some club members who received some Astronomical League awards...and we'd like to congratulate them! ... It is again a potluck, and is being held at the Masonic Temple in Galion ( 1252 State Route 598, Galion , OH 44833) Here's a map: Map of 1252 State Route 598 Galion, OH 44833-9367, US And, along with the party come RAS elections for 2008! ... Comet 17P/Holmes ...

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. ...

... a) assembling and tuning of printing-circuit boards for the Test-set device and assembling of the Test-set device itself; . ... Engineering models of the On-board Rubidium Frequency Standard (ORFS-SRT) and Space Radio Telescope On-board Heterodyne and Clock Frequencies Synthesizer set (OHCFS-SRT) were packed and delivered to LA to be assembled with the SRT in the Device Container. ... FC                  Focal Container – hermetic package with the scientific payload; it contains receivers, . ...

... CPO AND FCN MODELS COMPARISON In -- -- -- -- -- practice, three CPO and two FCN models are available for user's choice: OPA/ IERS C04 CPO series ( IERS AR 2007 , ftp://hpiers.obspm.fr/ iers /eop/eopc04 05/) NEOS/ IERS CPO series ( IERS AR 2007 , ftp://maia.usno.navy.mil/ser7/) Pulkovo ZM2 CPO series (Malkin 2007 , http://www.gao.spb.ru/english/as/persac/index.htm) OPA/ ... All the CPO and FCN models are results of approximation of CPO time series observed by VLBI. ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Encyclopedia . ... About laboratory . ... On the night of September 24-25, in the north of Irkutsk Oblast, local residents saw a brightly glowing space object draw a line across the sky and fall into the taiga. ... But scientists learned of the heavenly visitor only on October 3, when a fax arrived at the Institute of Sun And Earth Physics from Bodaibo. ... The first thing we did was to interview residents of villages located along the meteor's flight path. ...

Альтернативный форум . Scientific.ru Все форумы . ... profan - 31.01.2004 09:08 . ... ОТО Эйнштейна или школьная физика profan, 31.01.2004 06:40 . ... Re: Ньютон и Гюйгенс Александр Кушелев, 01.02.2004 23:30 . Re: ОТО Эйнштейна или школьная физика Александр Кушелев, 31.01.2004 14:32 . Re: ОТО Эйнштейна или школьная физика Alex P, 31.01.2004 18:33 . ... Re: ОТО Эйнштейна или школьная физика Петрович, 31.01.2004 17:35 . ... Re: ОТО Эйнштейна или школьная физика Geo, 31.01.2004 07:23 . ...

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... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2014 6 November 2014. ... Mission profile SHM configuration Reliability Dnepr LV Performance Launch Sites . Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Preparations for the Dnepr-DubaiSat-1 launch are well progressing at Baikonur Cosmodrome. ...

... The kinematics, structure, and stellar population properties in the centers of two early-type spiral galaxies of the Leo Triplet, NGC 3627 and NGC 3623, are studied by means of integral-field spectroscopy. ... In the center of NGC 3627 we observe noticeable gas radial motions, and the stars and the ionized gas in the center of NGC 3623 demonstrate more or less stable rotation. ... In this work we consider two nearby early-type spiral galaxies belonging to the famous Leo Triplet, NGC 3623 and NGC...

... The metallicity distribution of disk F stars in different age ranges: the left column for the sample of stars within 80 pc around the Sun; the right column for the restored complete sample at the solar galactocentric distance with allowance made for the radial metallicity gradient. The numbers indicate the age ranges expressed in billions of years. ... next figure . ...

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... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...

SAX J2103.5 + 4545 : BRIGHT AND FAINT STATES CHARACTERIZED WITH INTEGRAL P. Blay1 , A. Camero1, S. Martґnez-Nunez1 , P. Connell1 , V. Reglero 1 , P. Reig2 , I. Negueruela3 ... Alicante, PO BOX 99, 03080 i i i ~ Alicante, Spain 4 IASF/INAF, Via Ugo La Malfa 153, 90146 Palermo, Italy 1 3 ABSTRACT The BeX system SAX J2103.5 + 4545 shows a set of peculiarities which make it different from the rest of BeXs ... Fig 5 shows the pulse period evolution of SAX J2103.5+4545 with INTEGRAL data. ...

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... Local and Regional Coordinators, and OBSERVERS are needed for Friday night's spectacular Aldebaran Occultation and Graze Aldebaran is the brightest star, other than the Sun, that can be occulted by the Moon. ... Use your camcorder (or a borrowed camcorder) to record a strong local television station. ... Encourage other amateur astronomers, and other friends and relatives in the region of visibility to record the occultation with camcorders. ... This event is called an "occultation" by astronomers. ...

... The main field of my investigations is stellar spectrophotometry. As a result of scientific activity of our group spectrophotometric catalog was created including energy distribution data on 900 stars in the range 3200-7600AA and 250 stars in the range 6000-10800AA (Voloshina et al., Spectrophotometry of Bright Stars, ed. I.N.Glushneva, 1982, Moscow, Nauka, in Russian). ...

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... 32, No. 4, pp. 295­306. i Electronic Version of the Third Volume of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars with Improved Coordinates N. N. Samus'1, 2 * , O. V. Durlevich2, A. V. Zharova2 , E. V. Kazarovets1 , N. N. Kireeva1 , E. N. Pastukhova1, D. B. Williams3 , and M. L. Hazen4 1 Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. ... If a variable star was absent in the existing positional catalogues, we measured its coordinates on original plates or available digital sky images. ... Star...

... A non-linear relationship is observed between the sky brightness on clear and overcast nights, with a change in behavior near the rural to urban landuse transition. ... The great variation in skyglow radiance observed from site-to-site and with changing meteorological conditions underlines the need for a long-term international monitoring program. he introduction of artificial light has caused an unprecedented disruption to the nighttime environment over large areas of the Earth. ... Data processing...

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