... Vocational training, adult education, school of classes for special types of children, and kindergartens also form part of the program in most states. ... Many systems also preside nursery schools. ... Out of more than three million students who graduate from high school each year, about one million go on for higher education. A college at a leading university might receive applications from two percent of these high school graduates, and then accept only one out of every ten who apply. ...

... SATELLITE: An object that revolves around a planet. ... SIDEREAL DAY: The length of a planet's rotation period relative to the stars. SOLAR SYSTEM: The sun and all the objects that are held in its gravitational field and move around it. ... SUPERIOR CONJUNCTION: The position of a planet when it is on the opposite side of the Sun from Earth (thus making in invisible). ... TRANSIT: The movement of an object between the Earth and the Sun and showing on the surface of the sun as a black dot. ...

... For reliable estimation of the accuracy of asteroid CCD observations we usually consider from ten or more various NUMBERED MINOR PLANETS (NMPs) observed during several nigths per month (more then 50 positions). ... They can be considered as an indicator of accuracy of the CCD positional observations with given MPC code. ... For any NUMBERED minor planet the (O-C) values must be zero if the errors of observations and the errors of its theory are absent. ...

... 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 ....

... La nouvelle est franche et massive : Г 20 annГїes-lumiГЕre d'ici, une "super-Terre" orbite autour de son Гїtoile ! ... L'annonce est passionnante, parce qu'il est clair que l'Гїtau se resserre de plus en plus autour de la premiГЕre "vraie sЕ'ur" de la Terre. Une planГЕte de mГ?me masse, orbitant autour dв??une Гїtoile identique au Soleil, Г la mГ?me distance que nous le sommes de l'astre du jour. ... Un temps infiniment long au regard de la vitesse de la lumiГЕre dans le vide. ...

... I would like to add my voice to those who are mourning to loss of Maxim Tarasenko. ... Maxim was born in Protva, in the Kaluga Region south of Moscow on 20 June 1962. ... This was just one of many international speaking engagements of his. ... The list of papers and international places is too long to go into at this point. ... My first trip to Moscow was in 1995, and Maxim kindly made arrangements for me for transportation and access to a number of space program related facilities in the Moscow...

... 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...

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