... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

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STSCI Python Introduction Class 3 Jim Hare Today's Agenda · · · · · · Functions Passing Arguments to Modules File I/O User Defined Objects Variable Scopes System Commands and Controls 1 Functions · Function template · Consists of def statement, parameters and return def test1(x,y,j=`testcase1') j=`testcase1' is the default · Example update_default_db.py isql' % (account,database)) os.system('printf "select db_name()\\ngo" | ...

... Classes . ... gTime Class Reference . This class implements time calculations. ... gTime (double ai_jDays=0) . ... gTime (const gTime &timeSrc) . ... Set the time value of the time object to the julian day of year, day. ... operator= (const gTime &timeSrc) . ... Returns the time GMT value in Julian days. ... Returns the time_t value of the gTime Object. ... Returns a gTime object setted with the actual machine time. ... gTime Object assigned with real machine time. double gTime::getGmtTm . ...

. While not entering text you use vi in command mode and enter editing commands consisting of one or more characters. The syntax of an editing command is: operator object . The operator is a character - such as d for delete - that describes the action to be carried out on the object; a word, sentence, paragraph or section. To return to command mode from insert mode press the ESC key. If you are already in command mode the terminal will beep at you (or make some similar sound).

These routines are meant to provide high level definition and processing of command lines. ... Create a control panel object. panel_create_group . Create a panel to contain a group. panel_add_item . ... Pop last pushed control panel object from control panel stack. panel_process_command_with_stack . ... Register a function to be called when a panel item changes. panel_PROTO_decode_func . ... This routine will create a control panel object which is a container for a group of items. ... flag . ...

Chapter 11. Specifying OpenGL Environment Variable Settings . ... Several antialiasing methods are available and you can select between them by setting the __GL_FSAA_MODE environment variable appropriately. ... To see the available values for __GL_FSAA_MODE along with their descriptions, run: nvidia-settings --query=fsaa --verbose . The __GL_FSAA_MODE environment variable uses the same integer values that are used to configure FSAA through nvidia-settings and the NV-CONTROL X extension. ...

... FIELD | ... public class Menus . ... ImageJ . ... static char . ... static int . ... Returns the size (in points) used for the fonts in ImageJ menus. static java.lang.String . ... Returns a list of the plugins in the plugins menu. static java.lang.String . ... Field Detail public static final char PLUGINS_MENU . ... public static final char IMPORT_MENU . ... public static int installPlugin (java.lang.String plugin, char menuCode, java.lang.String command, java.lang.String shortcut, ImageJ ij) . ...

... The Boolean object is an object wrapper for a boolean value. ... JavaScript 1.3: added toSource method . ... If value is omitted or is 0, -0, null, false, NaN , undefined, or the empty string ( "" ), the object has an initial value of false. All other values, including any object or the string "false" , create an object with an initial value of true. ... For Boolean objects and values, the built-in toString method returns the string "true" or "false" depending on the value of the boolean object. ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... The Primary Expedition 7 crew International Space Station (ISS) - Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko (ISS-7 commander, Soyuz TMA-2 commander), American astronaut Edward Lu (ISS-7 flight engineer, Soyuz TMA-2 flight engineer-1) - and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, Visiting Expedition 5 (VE-5) flight engineer, Soyuz TMA-2 flight engineer-2 Pedro Duquer of Spain have returned to Earth in the Descent Module (DM) of the Soyuz TMA-2 spacecraft. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Venus Returns to the Evening Sky . ... For casual skygazers, this month marks Venus' return to the evening sky as the brilliant 'star' , shining low in the west-northwest shortly after sunset. ... On June 8, 2004 , Venus crossed the Sun's disk, the first transit of Venus since 1882. Late this week Venus shares the evening sky with the young crescent Moon, and will next transit the Sun on June 6, 2012 . ... June . ... Publications with keywords: Venus - sky . ...

... 2005 June 9 . Venus Returns to the Evening Sky . ... For casual skygazers, this month marks Venus' return to the evening sky as the brilliant 'star' , shining low in the west-northwest shortly after sunset. In the picture, astrophotographer and APOD translator Laurent Laveder notes that Venus is easily mistaken for a light atop a sailboat's tall mast, giving the otherwise stunning celestial beacon an unremarkable appearance. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

... Doug's Home Page . ... In the examples below we show a number of ways that data can be moved back and forth between S-Lang and Perl . ... Source code typeof : "undef"; __END__ __SLang__ variable foo = Any_Type [3]; foo[0] = "a string"; foo[1] = 23; define getfoo(x) { return foo[x]; } message( "In S-Lang:" ); vmessage( "typeof(foo[0]) = %s", string(typeof(foo[0])) ); vmessage( "typeof(foo[1]) = %s", string(typeof(foo[1])) ); vmessage( "typeof(foo[2]) = %s", string(typeof(foo[2])) ); . ...

... Progress bars are used to show the status of an operation. ... This code also shows you how to reset the Progress Bar . #include gtk/gtk.h typedef struct _ProgressData { GtkWidget *window; GtkWidget * pbar ; int timer; gboolean activity_mode; } ProgressData; /* Update the value of the progress bar so that we get * some movement */ gint progress _timeout( gpointer data ) { ProgressData * pdata = (ProgressData *)data; gdouble new_val; if ( pdata - activity_mode) gtk_ progress _ ...

Turning the Camera Skyward . A reconfigured camera can take wide-field exposures of astronomical objects (constellations, the Milky Way, zodiacal light, moving artificial satellites, meteor showers, variable stars, etc.) to reveal much fainter objects and structures than seen by naked eye. ... This picture reveals objects more than 2.5 times fainter than can be seen by the naked eye, including not only stars but also the Orion nebula (M42), where new stars are being born. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Autostar Computer Controllers . 497 Autostar . ... One of the most important advances in telescope control in the past 25 years, the Meade #497 Autostar Computer Controller turns the ETX into an automatic celestial object locating system. ... The #497 Autostar Computer Controller plugs into the control panel of ETX-90EC, ETX-105EC, and ETX-125EC telescopes and enables automatic location of more than 30,000 celestial objects. ... about meade | ... Meade 4M | ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

Next: SAOTk: Tcl/Tk Widgets for Imaging and Data Visualization . ... Xguiphot is a new GUI driven interactive aperture photometry tool being developed to run under the IRAF environment. Xguiphot as a new aperture photometry tool being developed to run under the IRAF environment. ... On task startup Xguiphot requests a list of images, a list of objects files, a list of output files, initial values for the algorithm parameters, and the name of the GUI definition file. ...

... Requires a handle to the object and the name of the attribute. units Returns a string describing the units of an attribute, given a handle to the object and the name of the attribute. label Returns the comment string of an attribute, given a handle to the object and the name of the attribute. setAttribute Sets the value of an attribute. In the case of a numeric attribute, requires the handle of the object, the name of the attribute, the value, the units and a comment. ...

... The space station Mir is the most complex and unique vehicle of the twentieth century. ... It is in proposing to UNESCO the procedure of giving to the space station Mir a status of the object of the World cultural heritage of the mankind as a very valuable unique object of the technical culture of the 20th century, and realization of the special project of its preservation. ... Proactive organization work to get in UNESCO the status of the object of the World cultural heritage for the station Mir; ....