... 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 . ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Visits to ESO Sites . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... Educational Material . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope . ... Particles in the dust ring are kept inside the ring by gravitational interactions with planets. The faster-moving inner planet transfers energy to dust particles, moving them outward, deeper into the ring. ... Fomalhaut . ...

home education > activities . ... This activity is mostly just calculations, but students will enjoy figuring out the angle by which an asteroid headed for Earth needs to be deflected to miss our planet.[h] . ... Students are encouraged to play out the motion and positions of a comet and the Earth, relative to the Sun. ... Cute little activity in which younger students "interview" the Sun as a way of encouraging them to research various topics on the Stanford Solar Center web site. [e] . ...

Luna and Io - A Comparison Study . ... They will construct paper scale models of Io , Luna , Earth and Jupiter and use these models to explain the differences between the two moons. ... Explain to the students that the picture is not to scale, but that it represents Jupiter and one of its moons. ... Have the students divide into groups of three or four and construct scale models of the Earth/Luna system, and the Jupiter/Io system, using the facts on the data sheets. ... Jupiter, Io, Earth, and Luna . ...

... Search . ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes | ... A Search for Bright Kuiper Belt Objects . ... Since 1992, 60 large Kuiper belt objects have been detected by ground-based telescopes. ... The detection of brighter objects would improve our ability to determine the Kuiper belt objects' surface composition and provide constraints on the population statistics of different formation mechanisms. ...

... The Australian National University] [Department of Physics] [Paul Francis] [Main Roleplay Page] . These exercises are my attempt to adapt the technique of Problem Based Learning to the context of introductory astronomy and astrophysics classes. ... As students grapple with the puzzle, they are forced to learn the subject matter of the course. ... This exercise is designed for 1st year University students with a reasonable high-school background in Maths and Physics. ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

... a) As source material for the high-school or college curriculum, especially in physics. astronomy and their history. (b) As a source of supplemental projects by high school students or by undergraduates. (c) As material for independent studies, In particular by motivated students who seek to know more about space . ... Those wishing to look up specific topics are advised to use the index file, accessible from the end of any "Exploration" file. ... files not listed and at other resource material. ...

... a) As source material for the high-school or college curriculum, especially in physics. astronomy and their history. (b) As a source of supplemental projects by high school students or by undergraduates. (c) As material for independent studies, In particular by motivated students who seek to know more about space . ... Those wishing to look up specific topics are advised to use the index file, accessible from the end of any "Exploration" file. ... files not listed and at other resource material. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Moon . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... What changed our view of Chariklo is the discovery of a ring system around it, the first such feature found around a Solar System body smaller than a gas giant planet. ... Almost certainly the rings were born when a collision with a smaller asteroid blasted millions of tonnes of debris off CharikloтАЩs surface. ... A ring system detected around the Centaur (10199) Chariklo (Braga-Rigas et al.) ...

... M27: Not A Comet . ... Jupiter s Great X Ray Spot . ... The Solar System's largest planet, gas giant Jupiter, is famous for its swirling Great Red Spot. In the right hand panel above, the familiar giant planet with storm system and cloud bands is shown in an optical image from the passing Cassini spacecraft. ... Such a ray was caught in spectacular fashion above the Florida Everglades two years ago. ... Although the phase of this moon might appear familiar, the moon itself might not. ...

Chair of solid state physics . ... Students and postgraduate students . ... Curriculum and courses' programs . ... The Chair of solid state physics of MIPT was created on the basis of Institute of solis state physics (ISSP) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) in 1964. ... From the very beginning the training of specialists with profound knowledge of fundamental bases of solid state physics, and both structural, and its electronic aspects was the main objective of the Chair. ...

... Folklore Mythology . ... Zini's Activities - Some fun lessons on shapes and sizes with pages to print out for teachers to photocopy. Shapes Around the World - An Internet collaborative for teachers and students regarding the shapes of the world, simple and complex. ... Math Shapes Game - A fun game for younger students to learn to differentiate between size and shape. ... Grandfather Tang's Story - A page describing a great book about folklore and shapes. ... Guess My Shape | ...

The main task of the multimedia lectures "Life of the Earth in the Solar Atmosphere" is to introduce wide range of users to the basic physical characteristics of the Earth, the near-Earth space and the Sun, which mainly forms the properties of the mentioned objects and is responsible for their variations (so-called "space weather"). ... Middle atmosphere of the Earth. ... Radiowaves' passing and spreading in the Earth atmosphere. ... Space radiation passing through the Earth atmosphere. ...

In 1950 Jan Oort noticed that . no comet has been observed with an orbit that indicates that it came from interstellar space, . ... From this he proposed that comets reside in a vast cloud at the outer reaches of the solar system. ... Unfortunately, since the individual comets are so small and at such large distances, we have no direct evidence about the Oort Cloud. ... Its orbit is intermediate between the Kuiper Belt and what was previously thought to be the inner part of the Oort Cloud. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... Research . ... GPI Data Pipeline . ... GPI . ... My research focuses on high contrast imaging of circumstellar material: disks, envelopes, jets, and substellar companions. ... The second, harder challenge is achieving sufficiently high contrast: scattered light from circumstellar dust is faint, usually less than a percent of the total flux, sometimes far less. ... In addition to planet detection, GPI will also feature a polarimetric imaging mode for studies of circumstellar dust disks. ...

... Observatory has four telescopes: . ... Zeiss-300 (D=300mm F=4500mm), visual . AVR-1 (D=200mm F=3000mm), visual . ... AZT-7 (D=200mm F=900mm), photometer . ... Zhujko Sergey V. Burlak Alexander N. Volod'ko Dmitry G. Pakhomov Yuriy V. Objects of research: . ... Variable stars . ... Moon . Covers stars by Moon . Field of research: . ... Questions and comments please mail to pakhomov@sai.msu.su . Yury V. Pakhomov . pakhomov@sai.msu.su . ...

... In typical nightly use, the wide field and planetary telescope and cameras record images of favorably placed objects in the sky, including constellations, bright variable stars, nebulae through narrow-band filters, comets, the Moon, and planets. ... Shared Skies telescopes are available for use by students at the University of Louisville and the University of Southern Queensland, and by teachers and students in middle and high schools mentored by faculty at the universities. ...

... Research . ... NASA's "follow the water" philosophy has led me to study atmosphere-regolith interactions on Mars in search for locations and times where liquid water is available. ... Transient liquid water and water activity at Gale crater Mars. ... Rivera-Valentin, E. G. , Chevrier, V. F., 2015. ... Icarus , 253, 156-158. Lopez Garcia, E. J., Rivera-Valentin, E. G. , Schenk, P. M., Hammond, N. P., Barr, A. C., 2014. ... Icarus , 237, 419-421. ... Chevrier, V. F., Rivera-Valentin, E. G. , 2012. ...