... 2011 September 7 . SDSS J102915+172927: A Star That Should Not Exist . ... Explanation: Why does this star have so few heavy elements? Stars born in the generation of our Sun have an expected abundance of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium mixed into their atmospheres. Stars born in the generation before our Sun, Population II stars , the stars that created most of the heavy elements around us today, are seen to have some, although fewer, elements heavier than H and He. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . J102815: A Star That Should Not Exist . ... 7.09.2011 . ... September 2011 . ... 2011 2012 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ... U. Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day . Publications with keywords: star - lithium - Population III . Publications with words: star - lithium - Population III . ... Supergiant Star Gamma Cygni . Star Size Comparisons . ...

God Science Forum Message . ... God and Science ћ SETI ћ Software ћ UFO ћ XEphem . ... God and Science | ... Does God Exist? ... Firstly, in Scientific Proof of God's Existence, Marco Biagini states, "The existence of these mathematical equations implies the existence of a personal, conscious and intelligent Creator." Put simply, "Why?" I see no connection between the existence of mathematical equations, no matter how profound, implies the existence of God. ... www.astronomy.net . ...

The rates of build-up in the atmosphere of human-made compounds that deplete the ozone layer (e.g., chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and halons) have slowed in recent years as a direct result of reductions in global emissions of these compounds. ... The peak global ozone depletions are expected to occur during the next several years. ... Methyl bromide continues to be viewed as a significant ozone- depleting chemical. ...

Jupiter's Europa Harbors Possible "Warm Ice" or Liquid Water . Tantalizing new images of Jupiter's moon Europa from NASA's Galileo spacecraft indicate that "warm ice" or even liquid water may have existed, and perhaps still exists today beneath Europa's cracked icy crust. ... This shows the ice crust has been or still is lubricated from below by warm ice or maybe even liquid water." ... We are interested in identifying the time and places on Europa where liquid water might exist. ...

... AstroGrid Registry . ... 3.Get/Find New Registries . ... Below you will find sections about information about eXist and how it works with the Registry. eXist embedded (Moving your Data Out) . ... You could of course make backups of the data directory and after doing an upgrade or deploy simply copy back over the data directory and restart your servlet/j2ee container. ... Change the JNDI property of "reg.custom.exist.configuration" and point to this directory plus conf.xml ex: /exist/db/conf.xml. ...

html> <center><h1>LRP Glossary</h1></center> This is a list of terms frequently used in LRPG <pre> CWV Verify Constraint Windows. ... Commonly referring to the SOGS database SOGS... or the vms calendar building operations side. SPIKE Lisp program which generates LRP scheduling information SPIKE-GUI The Tcl/Tk interface to SPIKE. ... PW Plan Windows. ... A SOGS BWD window. ... SPSS Science Planning and Scheduling System SPST Science Planning & Scheduling Team BWD SOGS-determined constraint windows. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . ... Earth Satellites . ... By admin October 4, 2012 Posted in: Moon . A tiny second moon.This is Phobos (27 km across) seen over Mars by ESA's Mars Express (Image credit:ESA) . ... They concluded that at any given time Earth probably has a second moon. ... But, just perhaps, briefly the Earth had a second natural satellite seen by thousands of people.Remember the spectacular fireball witnessed over the UK and Ireland on 21 September 2012 ? ...

Function: irds_exist Purpose: To test whether a gipsy set is a legal irds. Category: IR File: irds_basic.c Author: P.R. Roelfsema Use: INTEGER IRDS_EXIST( IRDS , Input character*(*) ERROR ) Output integer IRDS_EXIST Returns code to indicate what IRDS is" 0 - irds is a legal IR data structure. -1 - irds does not exist. -2 - irds exists but has wrong dimension -3 - irds has no sample axis -4 - irds has no tick axis -5 - irds has no detector axis -6 - irds has no snip axis IRDS name of irds. ...

... I normally begin by asking the class what they think would be different if the Moon didn't exist, or if the Sun were closer to Earth, or if a star exploded nearby. ... The winds would be much stronger. ... In using what-if questions in the classroom, it is worth bearing in mind that students extrapolating the effects of new scenarios will encounter two different situations: direct changes to the new version of Earth and indirect changes resulting from the direct changes. ...

... A Meeting in Honor of the 65th Birthday of Carl Heiles . ... GENERAL MEETING INFORMATION . Diffuse interstellar material (ISM) occupies the vast majority of space in our Galaxy and in others. ... Therefore, it was most fitting to honor Carl, a distinguished researcher and an inspiring professor, with a meeting dedicated to observational and theoretical studies of the diffuse ISM. Along with this symposium, the 3rd Galactic ALFA (GALFA) Consortium meeting was held on August 29, 2004. ...

OptInt PmWiki . Pm Wiki / . ... This page gives suggestions for upgrading an existing PmWiki 1.x installation to use PmWiki 2.0. In this page we assume that a site administrator already has a site running using PmWiki version 1.x or earlier in a somewhat standard configuration, and wants to upgrade to the 2.0 software. ... The approach given here allows the administrator to install, configure, and test PmWiki 2.0 on an existing set of pages without risking an existing 1.x installation. ...

... Astronomy index . ... This tour, of the world of astronomy, physics and spaceflight, may just as well end with a light-hearted 1878 poem by the Czech poet Jan Neruda . ... Do Frogs Exist there Too ?" . ... Like moles they dig for learning. ... They call one foot, that's all. ... Do frogs exist there too?" ... star? jim ?ab?k u?en? . ... teprv jim loket jeden. ... Foot" as used here, in Czech "loket," actually means "cubit," the distance from elbow to stretched fingertips, about a foot and a half. ...

. You may want to open an existing file to change its contents. To do this type: ue filename . So to open the file called letter you would type: ue letter . Tip ...

XMM­Newton CCF Release Note XMM­CCF­REL­92 EPIC MOS Spectral Response Distribution D Lumb September 24, 2001 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE List of Blocks changed CAL VERSION XSCS flag EMOS1 QUANTUMEF 0008.CCF 2000­01­01 QE CCDn NO EMOS2 QUANTUMEF 0008.CCF 2000­01­01 QE CCDn NO 2 Changes In the previous version of these files, the MOS detection efficiencies were changed to match those used in the existing Leicester­supplied on­axis response matrices. ...

Variations of total ozone content and lower ozone stratosphere temperature in Antarctic Region during winter-spring period A.V. Grytsai National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv Astronomy and Space Physics Department assen@univ.kiev.ua Data, used in the work work Total ozone: Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) measurements during 1979 - 2005 and Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) ones for 2006, for http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftpdata.html. ... A long-term TOC decrease is significant. ...

The run progress pages document the execution of Service Mode and Visitor Mode observing runs carried out at the Paranal Observatory. A summary of the run's characteristics is given, as well as a time-stamped list of all Observation Blocks (OB) that were executed until now. ... If reduced data for the given run exist, those are also reported in both the OB Summary table and in the details. ... Reduced : information shown only if pipeline-processed reduced data exist for the OB . ... OB ID . ...

... Around fifty first-year PhD students from all over the UK and Ireland are attending a summer school An Overview of the Coupled Earth-Sun System organized by Professor Gerry Doyle of the Armagh Observatory. ... The aim of the meeting is to train young scientists in plasma physics research, both to strengthen the UK s scientific and technical capacity and to provide critical insight into key solar system science problems. ...

There are various kinds of generic information you can retrieve about an XPA access point by using the xpaget command. ... Each XPA access point supports a number of reserved sub-commands that provide access to different kinds of information, e.g. the access control for that access point. ... acl get (set) the access control list [options: host type acl, for set] . ... This access point is available only on the server machine. -env get (set) an environment variable [options: name (value, for set)] . ...

lsst.tcc љ 1.2.2-3-g89ecb63 . ... Files . ... python . ... axis . checkAxesForSlew.py . ... 17 љ @param[in] perfect if True, all existing axes must be able to move, else badAxis and sigBad are set true . ... 37 љ - sigBad: set True if badAxis is true for a "significant" axis. ... 82 љ elif ( not desObj.targetMount[axis].isfinite()) and (desObj.axisErrCode[axis] == tcc.base.AxisErr_OK): . ... 86 љ badAxis[axis] = (desObj.axisErrCode[axis] != tcc.base.AxisErr_OK) . ... 94 љ badAxis[axis] = True . ...