... 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. ...

... It is found that the correlation coefficients between these two parameters calculated separately inside and outside the sunspot formation zone ±30 have cyclic variation and occur in anti-phase. This suggests different mechanisms of formation of the corona in the fields of small, medium, and large scales. ... The relationship between the coronal green line brightness (CGLB) and the magnetic field strength (MFS) has been investigated by constructing the corresponding synoptic maps for the 1977-2001. ...

High-sensitivity Receivers for Heterodyne Submillimeter Spectroscopy WOLFGANG WILD1 , ANDREY BARYSHEV2 , JIAN RONG GAO1 , TEUN KLAPWIJK3 , VALERY KOSHELETS4 , GERT DE LANGE1 , PAVEL YAGOUBOV1 1 SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research 2 Kapteyn Astronomical Institute , University of Groningen 3 Kavli Institute of NanoScience, Delft University of Technology 4 ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Loren W. Acton (Ph.D.) . Payload Specialist . ... ORGANIZATIONS: American Astronomical Society, International Astronomical Union, Sigma Chi, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Tau Beta Pi. ... In 1985, he was a payload specialist on STS-51F/ Spacelab-2. At mission conclusion, Dr. Acton had traveled over 2.8 million miles in 126 Earth orbits, logging over 190 hours in space. ...

... The described algorithm is suitable for measurements of complex images of stars. ... a) the zero-based number of stars in the complex (multicentric) image, . b) set of preliminary coordinates - x i , y i , for all stars, index i is number of a star, . ... i - index of a star in the complex image; . ... These parameters are calculated by a nonlinear method of a least squares.The main output parameters of this algorithm are x i , y i ; where the index i is number of a star in the multicentric image. ...

A LINE OF PROSTHETIC APPLIANCES . ... Drawing upon a high scientific and technological potential of prosthetic research institutions of Moscow and St.-Petersburg, using new materials and processes, with support from the Russian Federation Ministries of Economics and Labor, over a 10-year period RSC Energia has managed to set up production of a wide range of advanced modules, assembly units and components for prosthetic appliances. ... NEWS ARCHIVE | ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Academics . Research Innovation . ... University Psychological Counseling . ... Center for International Education . ... Research Institutions . Research Institute of Astronomy . ... About the Department . ... http://www.univer.kharkov.ua/en/departments/physics/chair/astronomy . The Research Institute of Astronomy at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University was established in January 2002 on the basis of the University Astronomical Observatory founded as far back as 1808. ...

. Please enter the lightcurve FITS file name: . Lightcurve file: . Please note, the output dates are Barycentric-corrected Julian Dates expressed in Terrestial Time - BJD(TT). A similar FITS-to-ASCII lightcurve converter is available for SuperWASP data. If you have questions, bug reports or suggestions how to improve this service, please fell free to contact the author (Kirill Sokolovsky) via e-mail: kirx[at]scan.sai.msu.ru .

... Read MPEC 2008-W65 Read MPEC 2008-W67 M.P.E.C. 2008-W66 Issued 2008 Nov. ... 02138, U.S.A. Prepared using the Tamkin Foundation Computer Network MPC@CFA.HARVARD.EDU URL http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html 2008 WM61 Observations: K08W61M * K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 ... Orbital elements: 2008 WM61 Epoch 2008 Nov. ...

The new view on the population of Galactic open clusters A.E.Piskunov1, N.V.Kharchenko2, S.RЖser3, E.Schilbach3, R.-D.Scholz4 1 2 3 4 Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia Main Astronomical ... Observatory, Kiev, Ukraine Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Heidelberg, Germany Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany What are open clusters and what do they teach us Groups of Population I ... Cluster complexes: OCC-1 = Gould's Belt cluster complex? ...

... Книги на астрономическую тему . ... Российская астрономическая сеть . ... Астрономическая картинка дня (русское зеркало APOD) . Anglo-Australian Observatory Astronomical Images . ... ESO Photo Gallery . GIF Farm (Bill Keel) . ... JPL NASA Archive . NOAO Image Gallery . ... Cook, Mike . Fera, Bob and Janice . ...