... NASA Astronaut (former) . ... Graduated from East Detroit High School, Eastpointe, Michigan, in 1973; received a bachelor of science degree in bioscience from the U.S . Naval Academy in 1977; a doctorate in medicine from Wayne State University in 1981; a master of science degree in systems management from University of Southern California in 1988; a master of public health degree in health policy from the ... Top graduate, Naval Flight Surgeon Training and Naval Safety Officer's School. ...

... 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. ...

... Events . ... Pre-university education . ... Web of Science database ( http://webofknowledge.com ) is available since 2 October. This database is the most competent analytic and citation database of journal articles, including 3 bases: Science/Social Sciences/Arts&Humanities Citation Index. To rate citation index, impact-factor, Hirsch index scientists and specialists of all subject areas are recommended to use Web of Science database since it is the most important one for the researchers. ...

... SHORT TERM PREDICTION OF POWER SOLAR FLARES FROM SSRT DATA . The algorithm for short term prediction of powerful solar flares, based on SSRT data, includes microwave emission characteristics in total and polarized flux, the structure of active region (AR) magnetic field at the photospheric level, and H a patrol data. ... During this period, 7 AR's crossed the solar disk, in which 20 flares of importance ? ... Data on AR's and magnetic fields were received from the Sayan observatory by teletype. ...

... 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...

... Научная панорама ? миссия arxiv:0709.4288 Космический аппарат The New Horizons . ... миссия arxiv:0709.4288 Космический аппарат The New Horizons (The New Horizons Spacecraft) . ... Здесь мы объединяем их, начиная со статьи с описанием самого аппарата. ... Еще одно описание миссии, но с несколько другой точки зрения. arxiv:0709.4428 - The Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation (PEPSSI) on the New Horizons Mission. http://xray.sai.msu.ru/~polar/sci_rev/169.html#arxiv/0709.4288 . ...

ASTRONOMY IN UKRAINE - 2000 AND BEYOND . ... Kyiv, Ukraine, 5-8 June 2000 . ... The primary objective of the conference is to consider the integration of astronomical research in Ukraine into the international astronomy. ... VLBI for Astronomy and Geodynamics Convenors: Kees van't Klooster (The Netherlands), Leonid M. Litvinenko (Ukraine), Chopo Ma (USA). ... Planetary Astronomy Convenors: Teodor Kostiuk (USA), Robert Nelson (USA), Yuri Shkuratov (Ukraine). ... The "general" registration fee: 100 USD. ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

Educational program of the project is intended for training of specialists in different fields of space physics, astronomy and the Earth sciences. ... Special space-physics lab exercises are intended for the students of the senior courses of the Institutions, specialized in the field of space engineering and space physics. Its main task is to teach them some methods of satellites scientific and engineering data processing. ...

... It is reasonable to expect that UV part of the irradiating spectrum is most influenced by the grain evolution (growth and sedimentation ) which marks the very initial stage of planet formation. 2 log J [erg s­1 cm­2] 1 0 -1 -2 -3 1000 BB 40 0 0 (A5 ) BB 20 0 00 (A5) Drai ne (A5 ) BP Ta u (A5) BB 40 0 0 (GS) BB 20 0 00 (GS) Drai ne (GS) BP Ta u (GS) Disk Model Density distribution is based on a 1+1D disk ... Green lines are used for a model with dust growth and sedimentation. ...

. N orilsk N eutron M onitor . Cosmic rays variation . Atmospheric pressure . Year . Month . Day . Hour . Minute . From . To . Resolution . Type of Data . 1 year 1 month 27 days 1 day 12 hours 6 hours 1 hour 15 min 10 min 5 min 1 min . Corrected for Pressure Atmospheric Pressure Uncorrected for Pressure . Data are also available by FTP . All Data for all Station are available by FTP . Links . Irkutsk .

... With the beginning term of a new Board of Trustees, AAAP would like to thank Michele Novatski (past Program Chair) and Mark Jaworsky (past Secretary) for their dedicated work for the club in 2004-05. ... The AAAP Observatory is in top gear now, with public star watch sessions held the first and last Friday of each month throughout the spring and summer at the AAAP's Washington Crossing Observatory. ... Newly elected program chair Ken Kramer requested member suggestions on future programs for the...

... Многоапертурный детектор атмосферных мерцаний (MASS) разработан для продолжительного мониторинга параметров оптической турбулентности в свободной атмосфере на существующих обсерваториях и при выборе мест для новых обсерваторий. ... The Multi-Aperture Scintillation Sensor (MASS) is intended for continuous monitoring of free atmosphere parameters at different observatories and potential observational sites. ... Mainly, the site is designed for Sternberg Astronomical institute MASS group itself. ...

... 86, No. 12, pp. 1163­1178. i Structure of the Galaxies of the NGC 80 Group : Two-Tiered Disks M. A. Startseva1 , O. K. Sil'chenko1 , and A. V. Moiseev 1 2 Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Moscow, ... photometric data obtained on the 6-m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory are used to analyze the structure of 13 large disk galaxies in the NGC 80 group ... All the large lenticular galaxies have two-tiered exponential disks and exponential ґ...

... The paper surveys status of the Russian space activity in terms of budget, operati atellistems workforce and industrial capabilities. Shown, that the situation is uneven between the companies and particularly between various tiers of production cooperation. In the current situation international cooperation, both in form of joint non-commercial ventures and integration into global space market, is considered vital for sustenance of the national space capabilities. ... number of R&D programs . ...

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Molniya Triplane Aircraft . At present NPO MOLNIYA is working not only in the space field but also on aircraft engineering. ... Considering this NPO MOLNIYA has chosen a "triplane" aerodynamic scheme stipulating in comparison with traditional schemes the essential increase of flying safety and fuel economy of its aircraft. The triplanes have advantages of canard and classical schemes, but are free from their faults. ... Molniya-1 . ... Heracles Triplane and Aerospace Systems . ...

... They are an indicator of accuracy of the CCD positional observations for a given observatory. ... Planetary and Space Science 56 (2008) 1847 ­1850 Table 4 The best results of CCD asteroid observations from MPC database for some professional observatories MPC Observatory Code Professionals 673 Telescope 000 :07 0.07 0.08 0.06 000 :06 0.06 0.04 0.05 Year Total asteroids Total positions s a 1849 sd Type USA, table Mountain, D ј 0:61 m, FL ј 9:0 m, FOV ј 22 б ...

... Contact A Problem of an estimation of accuracy of the asteroid CCD observations . The Minor Planet Center supported by the Interntional Astronomical Union is the main office for keeping observational data of the small Solar System bodies and their investigations. ... At Pulkovo Observatory we are estimating an accuracy of the CCD asteroid observations obtained by amateurs and professional astronomers all over the World using the MPC database. ...

... The accuracy of the RESIK measurements allows photospheric and coronal abundance sets, important for the free­bound continuum, to be discriminated. ... The FB emission depends on the set of abundances used in the calculations, a coronal set (Feldman 1992; Fludra & Schmelz 1999) giving rise to greater emission than a photospheric set (Grevesse et al. ... Right panel: continuum fluxes compared for coronal (Feldman 1992) and photospheric (Grevesse et al. 2007) abundances for Te = 15 MK. ...