Computer Ephemeris for 2015 from DE200/LE200. ... Date Planets Time dif(delta) Phenomena Jan 3 Pluto Sun 23:33 209 Conjunction 8 Jupiter Moon 8:23 503 Conjunction 14 Mercury 20:32 1854 Maximum Western Elongation 16 Saturn Moon 11:33 -151 Conjunction 19 Pluto Moon 11:21 -254 Conjunction 19 Mars Neptune 21:27 -13 Conjunction 20 Sun Moon 13:15 -448 Conjunction 21 Mercury 3:46 Stopping 21 Mercury Moon 17:40 -258 Conjunction 22 Venus Moon 5:00 -537 Conjunction 23 Neptune Moon 0:47 -354 ...

... 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 . ...

... Is this image worth a thousand words? ... A great grouping of planets is now visible to the west just after sunset. ... Still catching the Sun's rays, the International Space Station (ISS) cruises across the early evening sky above Tomahawk, Wisconsin, USA. ... Gazing across this gorgeous skyscape, the Southern Cross and stars of the constellation Centaurus are seen above the outline of Mauna Loa (Long Mountain), planet Earth's largest volcano. ... Comet and Aurora Over Alaska . ...

... Historical Data . Orbital Data . Physical Data . ... Sun . ... Jupiter . ... Saturn . ... William Herschel . ... William Cranch Bond . ... William Henry Pickering . Uranus . ... 1986 . Voyager 2 . ... William Lassell . ... J. Christy Key: Name Name of the planet or satellite. Orbits Sun or planet about which it orbits. ...

... Go directly to the moons of: . Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto . Go directly to the surface features of Earth's Moon and Mars . Planet & Moons . Pronunciation . ... Mercury . ... Mars: . 2 moons . ... Jupiter: . ... Neptune: . ... 1 moon . ...

Next: J.G. Doyle, Research Astronomer Up: Research Previous: C.J. Butler, Research Astronomer Contents . ... Research Highlights . ... John Chambers has refined and expanded an alternative scenario for the formation of the asteroid belt in collaboration with George Wetherill, Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA. Using numerical simulations on computers, they have shown how planets may have formed in the asteroid belt. ...

... User Guide ] Task: planets Purpose: Print ephemerides of planets and the Sun. Categories: utility PLANETS is a MIRIAD task to report some parameters on solar system objects. ... Key: source This can be "sun" or the name of a major planet (excluding the Earth). ... No default. Key: epoch The time (UTC) for which information is required, in standard Miriad time format (yymmmdd.ddd or yymmmdd:hh:mm:ss.s). ... Key: telescop The name of an observatory used in computing rise and set times. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... October . ... By admin October 8, 2010 Posted in: Monthly Sky Notes . A giant from close up: an image made using data from the Cassini probe which flew past Jupiter in 2000. ... As it is so far from us, it takes JupiterтАЩs light a significant time to reach us тАУso when you see Jupiter tonight you are seeing it as it was 35€а minutes in the past. ... Posted October 12, 2010 at 11:15 PM . ... Astronotes . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Slacker Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Life Under the Moon . ... Seeing Jupiter's Moons . ... Time Zones and the Spherical Earth . A Companion to the Earth? ... December 19, 1999) . ... Big Moon, Little Moon . ... How Big is the Moon? ... 14, 2000) . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Subscribe to the Bad Astronomy Newsletter! Talk about Bad Astronomy on the BA Bulletin Board! ...

... AMPLE (Adaptable Minor Planet Ephemerides) is integrated software package to deal with a number of problems concerning minor planets with the aid of IBM-type personal computer. ... compiling a list of all numbered minor planets which can be seen at certain moment within specified sky region and visualization of their mutual positions; . ... As AMPLE is able to reproduce virtually any table of "the Ephemerides of Minor Planets" , it may be considered as computer version of the EMP. ...

The Planets . Most of the music on The Nine Planets is taken from the recording of The Planets op. 32 by Gustav Holst by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andr Previn (Telarc 80133); the Pluto piece is from a different recording (see below). ... Mars, the Bringer of War . ... Neptune, the Mystic . Pluto, the Renewer . ... By far the best piece of music on this list. ... It is available along with another recording of The Planets by The Hall Orchestra conducted by Mark Elder.. ...

... Chapman, R. and Brandt, J.: The Comet Book: A Guide for the Return of Halleys Comet (1984, Jones and Bartlett) ? ... Branley, F.: Comets (1984, T.Y. Crowell) ? good picture book for students in grades K-3. ... Schatz, D.: The Comet Cometh: An Activity Book for the Return of Comet Halley ? ... Glenn, W.: "Halley's Comet Makes a Comeback'' in The Science Teacher Jan. 1984, p. 38. ... To construct a model of an Alien Being that could exist on another planet or satellite in our solar system. ...

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... English Sun Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto Latin Sol Mercurius Venus Terra Luna Mars Jupiter Saturnus Uranus Neptunus Pluto French Soleil Mercure V nus Terre Lune Mars Jupiter Saturne Uranus Neptune Pluton Italian Sole Mercurio Venere Terra Luna Marte Giove Saturno Urano Nettuno Plutone Spanish Sol Mercurio ... See Peter Blinn's Planetary Gazetteer for more . ... Linguistics .. ... Bill Arnett ; last updated: 1999 Mar 17 . ...

... Future seminars . P a s t seminars . Seminar council . ... Computer simulations of the orbital evolution of Jupiter-family comets (JFCs), resonant asteroids, and asteroidal, trans-Neptunian, and cometary dust particles were made. ... For dust particles we also considered radiation pressure, Poynting-Robertson drag, and solar wind drag. ... The maximum probability of a collision of an asteroidal or cometary dust particle with the Earth during its lifetime was for diameter d~100 microns. ...

Giant Jupiter. Jupiter . ... Jupiter has no solid surface that is why speaking about its dimensious point the radius of the upper border line of the clouds, where the presseru is about 10 KPa; radius of Jupiter on the equator is 71400 km. ... The Jupiter satellites. ... Nowadays 16 satellites of the Jupiter are known: Adrastea, Mitis, Amaltea , Phina,then 4 Galilei satellites: Io , Europe , Hanimed , Callisto , Leda, Aimalia, Zicitea, Elara, Ananke, Carme, Pasipe and Sinope. ... Jupiter's ring. ...

... During all period of our investigations Dr. N.Sumzina from the Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS had prepared the Numbered Minor Planet positions from MPC Database for our processing with kind permission of the Director of Minor Planet Center Prof. Braian Marsden. ... Our extensive processing of the MPC data allows us to conclude that CCD observations of the Numbered and Unnumbered Minor Planets have the errors, sometimes very crude. ...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

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