... 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 ....

... The RAS Meteorite Collection: State on the 1 st of June, 1999 . ... About the laboratory . ... One mass of 41 kg . ... Chondrite . ... Find 1871. One mass of 130 g . ... One mass of 1926 g . ... One mass of about 12 kg, 300 g preserved . ... Find 1976. One mass of 2753 kg . ... Find June 1991. 2 masses totaling 783 g . ... One mass of 250 kg . ... One mass of 40543 g . ... One mass of about 6 kg . ... Find 1984. 15 masses totaling 168.4 kg . ... Find August 1983. 2 masses totaling 3660 g . ...

... 1979 A TICKET TO SPACE . ... The Volks-rocket and its designer, Robert Truax. ... We have since heard of another "private venture" space project being pursued by the veteran rocket pioneer Robert Truax in the United States. ... One need not have the advanced degrees, perfect health or the thousands of hours .of flight time this frontier has demanded to be attracted towards it. ... Robert Truax brings some forty years of experience to his private manned space flight programme. ... Flight Tests . ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . ... The solar regions . ... NOAA 11300's . ... The fine bipolar sunspots were marked at the tenth parallel of the Northern hemisphere since 11.06 to 20.06.01. ... From time to time pores of opposite magnetic polarity were observed neighbouring the sunspot, and the total region's area reached 150 m.s.h. NOAA 09502 . ... The fine bipolar sunspots were observed at the mid latitudes of the Northern hemisphere since 15.06 to 17.06.01, in the Eastern part of the Sun disc. ...

... 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. ...

astro-ph/0212099 . Обнаружение двойного активного ядра в мощной инфракрасной галактике NGC 6240 (Discovery of a binary AGN in the ultraluminous infrared galaxy NGC 6240 using Chandra) . Authors: Stefanie Komossa et al. astro-ph/0212499 . ... astro-ph/0212507 . Наблюдения гигантских всплесков от Cygnus X-1 (Observations of giant outbursts from Cygnus X-1) . ... Излучение нейтронных звезд, порождаемое сверхтекучим ядром (Radiation of Neutron Stars Produced by Superfluid Core) . ...

... A.Tsivilev (Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory) "Investigation of Orion A nebula by radio recombination lines". ... T.D.Dorokhova (Astronomical observatory of Odessa national university) «Researches of rapidly oscillating Ap stars». ... N.V.Grabko (Odessa State Ecological University), M.I.Ryabov (Odessa Observatory of IRA NANU) "Space Weather and us: influence of change of a condition of solar and geophysical activity on reaction of various systems of an organism of the person". ...

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION . Space technologies - to serve the society" Kyiv, Khreschatik street, 2 24-28 August 2001 . ... About exhibition . ... NAME: International Exhibition "Space Technologies to Serve the Society". ... REASONS: International Exhibition "Space Technologies to Serve the Society" is being carried out according to the President of Ukraine Decree ? ... strengthen of the space industry enterprises' positions and ptoducts' manufacturing for domestic market needs, . ...

... In space, therefore, we should choose technologies carefully. ... For instance, the solar-photon sail--pushed through space by linear-momentum transfer from reflected solar photons--could carry water mined on comets or hydrated asteroids towards human habitats in dry solar systems. ... Article Highlights New Type Of Astronomy ,,Clubs: Online Amateur astronomers "are beginning to look very different from what they did only a few years ago," an article in last months Sky & Telescope observed. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Site Info . ... I worked with the SInS group from 1990 to 1994 while I did my research for my PhD, and the people I work with now on STIS still collaborate with SINers. ... The observations include imaging and spectra using several instruments on board HST. ... Recently, I was awarded a small grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute that will allow me to do some ongoing work on SN1987A using a personal computer at home. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

The low aspect ratio, or spherical tokamak Globus-M [1] has recently been built in a support of international spherical tokamak plasma investigation program. ... The survey to determine the work scope in diagnostic design for Globus-M is given in the paper. ... The next one is an advanced diagnostic set intended to supply the data on basic plasma parameters: electron temperature and density profiles, ion temperature, plasma composition, radiation profile, Zeffective. ... Magnetic Diagnostics. ...

The direct detection of gravitational waves is one of those events long-expected by physicists that are nevertheless a significant occurrence which excites the world scientific community as if something unexpected has happened. ... Many rumors leaked ahead of the conference, and the fact that something (that is, a signal corresponding to gravitational waves) was discovered by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) was discussed on the sidelines. ... arXiv:1602.03868 . ...

M obile A stronomical Sy stem of TE lescope- R obots MASTER-II Kislovodsk Lomonosov Moscow State University, Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow Union "Optic" , Kislovodsk Solar Station Latitude = 43 o љ44'.767љN; Longitude = 42 o љ31'.417љE; Altitude = 2067љm MASTERљIIљ(8љsquareљdegress) + MASTERљVWF(VeryљWideљFieldљCameras (FOV=800 square degrees, Timeљresolutionљupљtoљ150љms, with unfiltered m_lim=14m on 5 sec. exposure, and ~10.5m with 0.15 sec) . ... 11h 38m 38.0s , -09d 59m 59s) . ...