Birthday Traditions in Ireland. St. Oliver Plunkett National School Blackrock, Ireland . If a child is having a party, he/she sends invitations to their friends and relatives inviting them to their party. ... When the children come in, they would hand the birthday child the presents. ... We also have a decorated birthday cake . ... On my ninth birthday when I woke up I was very happy. ... She said, "Happy . ... birthday party. ... When I got to school my principal wished me a "Happy Birthday". ...

... GRB 990510: Another Unusual Gamma Ray Burst . ... Two weeks ago, the BATSE instrument on the orbiting NASA Great Observatory Compton detected unusually bright flashes of gamma-rays from a point deep in the southern sky. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Публикации с ключевыми словами: gamma-ray burst - unusual - optical transient - gamma ray - гамма-всплески - гамма-излучение . Публикации со словами: gamma-ray burst - unusual - optical transient - gamma ray - гамма-всплески - гамма-излучение . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. May 26, 1999 . GRB 990510: Another Unusual Gamma Ray Burst . ... The type of powerful explosion that caused this gamma-ray burst is not only still unknown, but found to be fading in an unusual way . Tomorrow's picture: The Expanding Universe . ... About APOD > . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Apple have recently made it possible for you to БЂњgiftБЂќ one of their applications to someone as a present, and how amazing would it be for you astronomy loving friend to be able to use their ipod or ipad as a personal star chart to identify everything you see in the sky at any given time? ... If you love the idea of this for yourself, but are feeling the pinch with Christmas coming, there are also theб  free apps Pocket Sky and Space Brains . ...

Next] [GHRS ISR Index] . ... This is a report on an unusual phenomenon seen in a long series of ACCUM observations of a star and of the wavelength calibration lamp. The phenomenon is described, our initial hypotheses are explained and rejected, and further investigations are presented. Our current best hypothesis is that the changes seen in the lamp and star are independent of one another and are due to known effects. ... Spectrum Drift within the Detector . Lyman-alpha Background . ...

Changing a World . What did the students learn from all this? ... The students found this unsatisfactory -- some of them would not be able to fit another astronomy class into their schedules, but they wanted to know about our planetary neighbors, and this project gave them the opportunity to find out without spending valuable class time on the subject. ... The students also learned to learn for themselves, perhaps one of the most important milestones during formal education. ...

... A hundred years later, a handful of Tunguska-sized asteroids have been spotted by telescopes, but most remain unseen. The asteroid designated 2008 TC3 , which made the news on October 6th before colliding with the Earth on October 7th was too small to constitute a part of the "Earth impact hazard". ... 2008 TC3, for example, finally exploded in the atmosphere above Sudan . ... Wednesday, 8 October 2008 01:15 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Its optical telescopes – the Europe's largest telescope of the mirror diameter 6 m BTA (Big Telescope Azimuthal) Medium-Size telescope of the mirror diameter 1 m ( Zeiss-1000 ) and the small telescope of the mirror diameter 0.6 m (Zeiss-600) – are at the altitude 2100 m above sea level 17 km away from the settlement Nizhnij Arkhyz. ... Nizhnij Arkhyz . SAO staff members live in the settlement Nizhnij Arkhyz at a distance of 25 km to the southward of stanitsa Zelenchukskaya. ...

Extended ephemerides of NEAs and some unusual minor planets listed in the Table on p. 5731 (Jupiter-crossers, Jupiter-approachers, some unusual Mars-crossers) are presented on p. 23099 – 23489. At the end of the Table special index is placed which indicates page numbers where the ephemerides of different planets are given. ...

... Christmas is a home and family celebration, and therefore those who live away try to get back home. Everyone is buying Christmas presents for friends and relatives; parents try to present their children with everything they want. A Christmas tree stands in the everybody's living-room at Christmas. ... On Christmas Eve, when children are asleep, their parents come into their bedrooms and leave the presents near their beds or under the Christmas tree. ...

All teams have to inform the Olympic Coordinating Council (OCC) and the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) about their participation not later than the dates determined by the Acting Statutes/Regulations on the International Astronomy Olympiad . ... Leaders of official teams of states have to present to the OCC necessary personal information about every leader, participant and observer (if any) not later than 10 weeks before the beginning of the Olympiad. ... Passport data: 8.1.( Passport no . ...

... The visibility datasets possibly contain correlations for different polarizations and Stokes parameters. There are two basic ways that polarization characteristics can be measured: firstly, two orthogonal feeds can be present on the antennas, and the four different polarization correlations from a baseline can be taken and recorded. ... There are two ways the user can determine which polarizations he or she wants to process, either with the select parameter, or with the stokes parameter. ...

REFEREE REPORT: %% %% %% As made clear by the title of the paper and the observational %% evidence presented, the authors believe that the correct %% identification of HS1216+5032 is as a physical quasar pair, albeit %% with one component showing the rather unusual combination of %% BAL troughs and significant radio luminosity. ... Removed most of the discussion of dark lenses and cosmology, and deleted the section on BALQSOs. ... The paper now totals 5.5 pages, down from 10. ...

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Next: Case Study 1: The Up: Problem Based Learning in Previous: Problem Based Learning in . In most astronomy courses, we present the students with information about some topic, and then test their understanding of this topic using problem sheets. Problem Based Learning (PBL) is a teaching method that reverses this sequence. Students are presented with a problem first. ... Next: Case Study 1: The Up: Problem Based Learning in Previous: Problem Based Learning in Paul Francis 2001-06-21 ...

The following page provides access to several SVM codes developed by us. ... Several our codes realizing some other exact and approximate methods are also available. The codes are provided by rather small (sorry) comments and test run results. ... Another page contains links to other collections of light scattering software (under construction). Our overview of the ranges of applicability of different codes is under preparation. ... Created by V.I. Last modified: 10/05/03, V.I. ...

. To login to another account use the command su - username . and enter your password when prompted. You are then logged into this account just like when you do your usual login. To stop using this account enter the command logout or exit . Example .

Hipparchus (and possibly Aristarchus before him) also derived the Moon's distance from the duration of a lunar eclipse . Because the Earth casts a much larger shadow than the Moon, such an eclipse usually darkens the entire Moon, for several hours. ... If the Sun is assumed to be very distant, and if the Moon crosses the middle of the shadow (if not, corrections must be made), the width of the shadow is expected to be about 2r , twice the Earth's radius r . ... Last updated 4 February 1999 Moon. ...

... Home Gallery Club Events AAA president Marcelo Cabrera presents AAA Amateur Astronomers Medal to Al Nagler of TeleVue Optics with AAA vice-president Susan Andreoli. ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... AAA president Marcelo Cabrera presents AAA Amateur Astronomers Medal to Al Nagler of TeleVue Optics with AAA vice-president Susan Andreoli. by . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Here we present the ionospheric parameters variations for quiet conditions. ...