... February 4, 1998 . A Passing Spaceship Views Earth . Credit: NEAR Spacecraft Team , JHUAPL , NASA . Explanation: This is how Earth appeared to the passing spacecraft NEAR. The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft was launched from Florida, USA, planet Earth in 1996. After a quick flyby of asteroid Mathilde in June last year, NEAR passed the Earth two weeks ago on its way to asteroid 433 Eros. ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... AGES Precursor Observations · Targeted the M74 ( NGC 628) group · Noise falls as t (to 200s) AGES Precursor Observations · Targeted the M74 ( NGC 628) group · Noise falls as t (to 200s) AGES Precursor Observations · Targeted the M74 ( NGC 628) group · Noise falls as t (to 200s) · Detected 5 galaxies in the group KDG 010 dw0137+1540 UGC 1171 AGES Precursor ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . A Passing Spaceship Views Earth . ... Credit Copyright: NEAR Spacecraft Team , JHUAPL , NASA Explanation: This is how Earth appeared to the passing spacecraft NEAR. The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft was launched from Florida, USA, planet Earth in 1996. After a quick flyby of asteroid Mathilde in June last year, NEAR passed the Earth two weeks ago on its way to asteroid 433 Eros. ... Publications with keywords: NEAR project - Earth . ...

... November 12, 1996 . Comet Hale-Bopp Passes M14 . ... Explanation : Comet Hale-Bopp continues its slow trek across the night sky, and can now be seen superposed near the bright globular cluster M14 . Will Comet Hale-Bopp become as bright in early 1997 as Comet Hyakutake did in early 1996? It is still too early to tell. ... Because of the size of coma , some speculate that the nucleus of Hale-Bopp is unusually large. ... Tomorrow's picture: Seven Jets from Comet Hale-Bopp . ... About APOD . ...

Next: READBACK TESTS Up: Tape Management Previous: TAPE LENGTHS and PASS Contents . ... The Mark III and VLBA systems make longitudinal recordings using many heads, all mounted on a head stack. ... Modes with 2 heads are MarkIV only. ... Bit rate: 64 Mbps 128 Mbps 256 Mbps 17600 All/High 20:32:00 10:16:00 5:08:00 17600 VLBA/Low 12:19:12 6:09:36 3:04:48 17600 Mark III/IV/Low 12:09:52 6:04:56 3:02:28 8800 VLBA/Low 6:09:36 3:04:48 1:32:24 8800 Mark III/IV/Low 6:04:56 3:02:28 1:31:14 2 Pass/head pos. ...

Different types of satellite orbits have different uses: while the synchronous orbit is best for communication satellites, Lagrangian point orbits help monitor the solar wind before it reaches Earth. A low altitude polar orbit is widely used for monitoring the Earth because each day, as the Earth rotates below it, the entire surface is covered. ... A different choice was made for MAGSAT, orbited 1979-80 to survey the Earth's own magnetic field near its surface. ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

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Princeton and New York University researchers have simulated the effect of a primordial black hole passing through a star. Primordial black holes are among the objects hypothesized to make up dark matter тАФ the invisible substance thought to constitute much of the universe тАФ and astronomers could use the researchers' model to finally observe the elusive black holes. ... The different colors correspond to the density of the primordial black hole and strength of the vibration. ...

... Milloins of years timescale . ... 500 million years ago (unclear) . ... Evidence from Fossil Record: 100-150 million year extinction periodicity ?? ... Climate Cycle ? ... Since the orbital period of the Sun around the center of the Galaxy is about 250 million years then every 100-150 million years the earth is in a spiral arm which is a region of high supernova density. ... Somewhere between 700 and 800 million years ago there was a 10 million year long period where the oceans were completely...

... Low Polar Orbit . ... Different types of satellite orbits have different uses: while the synchronous orbit is best for communication satellites, Lagrangian point orbits help monitor the solar wind before it reaches Earth. ... Many spacecraft use such orbits, e.g. the US Air Force surveillance satellites of the DMSP series, or the series of French Earth-resources spacecraft SPOT . ... If the satellite then starts near a noon-midnight orbit, it will always pass near noon and near midnight. ...

Designed for Rudenko mechanical pulling forearm and arm prostheses for children of 2 to 6 years old. A single-cable hand module with a passive (spring-type) grip. The module has an automatic stepless fixation of fingers in the grip position. ... Maximum hand finger opening , mm - 50; . ... Used in upper-limb prostheses with hand module 3B 021D for children of 2 to 6 years old. ... Used in upper-limb prostheses with hand module 3В 029D for children of 8 to 10 years old. ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > CRIRES+ Passes PDR and Optical FDR . ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Data Handling and Products . ... News and Updates . ... The upgrade project ( CRIRES+ ), which will significantly expand the scientific capabilities of CRIRES, recently achieved two major milestones: optical Final Design Review (FDR) in June 2015 and Preliminary Design Review (PDR) in September 2015. ...

... Participants . ... At the same time, the combinatorial description of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces and related quantization topics together with the related issues in cluster algebras continue to thrive, including generalizations to algebras of higher rank and investigating the related algebraic structures. ... The workshop will take place at three locations: the Independent University of Moscow (3 days), the Steklov Mathematical Institute (2 days) and the Higher School of Economics (1 day). ...

Wave Model for light Electromagnetic Wave What Happens to the Wave When it Encounters the Small Opening? ... Diffraction: Bending of light when it passes around a sharp obstacle or through a narrow slit. ... Constructive interference occurs when waves reinforce each other (as at point A above). ... Diffraction Grating has many narrow "slits". ... Both light waves arrive in phase. ... If light waves 1 and 2 arrive at the eye in phase (constructive interference), then you see a bright reflection. ...

... I see the stars They're mile and miles away Like our love On one of these lonely winter nights Dreaming throught winter night Memories oy you Are passing by Seems to me like yesterday I think you knew I couldn't stay I see the stars They're mile and miles away Like our love Lady starlight help me to find my love Lady starlight help me tonight help me to find my ...

... In this way, the test can be passed on Linux or Unix. ... Version 2.4 - 31-10-00 ---------------------- Updated GROUPS description and the documentation Version 2.3 - 03-10-00 ---------------------- Fix the parameter and info files Updrade the version number as required for the SAS V5 Version 2.2.1 - 27-06-00 ------------------------ SSC-SPR-1818 efftplot ( version 2.2): update documentation to remove non-existant link to powspec Version 2.2 - 22-05-00 ---------------------- -...

Shell scripts can act like standard UNIX commands and take arguments from the command line. Arguments are passed from the command line into a shell program using the positional parameters $1 through to $9 . Each parameter corresponds to the position of the argument on the command line. ... For example: cat printps # This script converts ASCII files to PostScript # and sends them to the PostScript printer ps1 # It uses a local utility "a2ps" a2ps $* | lpr -Pps1 printps elm.txt vi.ref msg . ...

... Links . ... The International Space Station ( ISS ), now the second brightest object in the night sky, is currently passing over Ireland in the very early morning (or very late evening!) - around 2 to 3 am each day - for the next couple of weeks. ... It was taken on 12 June 2009 by the Expedition 20 crew from NASA's International Space Station , when it flew just directly overhead Russia's Sarychev Peak volcano which was erupting for the first time in 20 years. ... Wednesday, 24 June 2009 23:26 . ...

... In this sound clip, we journey to the violent heart of a galaxy. We start off flying through the outskirts of a galaxy (hissing noise) passing various stars (different loud hisses) before penetrating the vast nebula surrounding the black hole that lurks in the middle. ... Sounds of Nebulae (864kb). ... Planetary Nebulae: Movie and Sounds (1Mb). ... Comet Song (664kb) Listen as a comet approaches the Sun and bursts into song, before fading back into the outer darkness. ...