... About meteorites . ... The RAS Meteorite Collection: History . ... The beginning of the Russian Academy of Sciences' meteorite collection was in 1749, when a huge piece of iron rock, weighing 700 kg, was found near Krasnoyarsk. ... A wonderful collection of meteorites was formed in the Forestry Institute (now the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy). ... Analysis of meteorites is performed by the Laboratory of Meteoritics (of the Vernadsky Institute, address: 119991 Moscow, Kosygin St, 19, tel. ...

European Astronomical Society(EAS): NEWS Dear Colleagues, Please find enclosed some information of interest. ... We would also like to remind you that the time is appropriate to renew your membership for 2006 (see our Web page for procedures). ... And do'nt forget that, in between messages, the latest news can always be found on our Web page: http://www.iap.fr/eas/index.html With kind regards, Michel Dennefeld ************************************************************ Content 1. ...

... 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 . ...

Journal of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York June 2010 Volume 58 Number 6, ISSN 0146-7662 EYEPIECE If Sir Martin was optimistic about finding Earth-like planets, he was far less sanguine about going to Mars. ... No space environment is as clement as Antarctica or Mt. ... We dont know where to look for complicated life but its probably most likely on planets like Earth," Sir Martin observed. ... This is a great time to see Uranus, as it lies within a degree of Jupiter in early June. ...

Posting Observations . ... You will need to subscribe to vsnet-acc (to allow you access to post your observations). ... VSNet has several different e-mail sigs, and sub sigs. ... These list are controlled by a software package called " Majordomo ", which allows you to subscribe and unsubscribe yourself from these list with an e-mail message (automated). ... Once you have subscribed to vsnet-acc (which will only send you a welcome message back and nothing else) you can post to the other list. ...

... CERN, ESA and ESO Launch "Physics On Stage" [1] . ... Beginning in February 2000, three major European research organisations are organising a unique Europe-wide programme to raise the public awareness of physics and related sciences. Physics on Stage" is launched by the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO), with support from the European Union. ... Physics on Stage" in 22 European Countries . ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... 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 . ...

В миссии Deep Impact предполагается послать большой медный снаряд, который врежется в поверхность кометы со скоростью более 37000 километров в час. ... Разработка миссии Deep Impact началась в январе 2000 года. ... В июле 2005 года, на расстоянии 1,000,000 км от кометы P/Tempel 1, снаряд будет запущен. ... За шесть секунд до удара космический корабль начнет крупным планом снимать поверхность кометы, а затем, с расстояния 11500 км, будет записывать сам удар. ... Deep Impact home page . ...

... The Triplet Lenses are manufactured by LOMO PLC of St. Petersburg Russia, one of the world's largest and most advanced optical manufacturers. ... This day the official web site of St.Petersburg company, lomo.ru, became accessible. ... LOMO VOTING PAPERS PROCESSING COMPLEXES TESTED SUCCESSFULLY . On December 16, 2001 during elections to Legislative Assembly of Leningrad Region, Russia, pilot pieces of the new Voting Papers Processing Complex created at LOMO PLC were used for the first time. ...

... Oleg V. Verkhodanov . ... The last few years have changed our view on the evolution of galaxies: the most distant galaxies (i.e. systems having stellar population) have been found at redshift z=6.68 (Chen H.-W., Lanzetta, K. M., Pascarelle, S. 1999, Nature, 398 , 586) and radio galaxy at z=5.19 (van Breugel W., De Breuck C., Stanford S. A., Stern D., Rottgering H., Miley G. 1999. astro-ph/9904272 ). ... Redshifts and age of stellar systems of distant radio galaxies from multicolour photometry data. ...

Астрономические новости NASA на русском языке. ... Автоматические станции Deep Impact и Stardust уже выполнили свои первоначальные миссии и при этом полностью сохранили работоспособность. ... По пути зонд будет вести наблюдения за несколькими звездами, обладающими собственными планетами или планетными системами. Новое задание получит и корабль Stardust, который в январе прошлого года сбросил на Землю капсулу с частицами, которые он собрал из пылевого облака, окружающего ядро кометы Wild-2. ...