Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on March 26, 2013 | 4 Comments Many of us may recall captivating images of an enormous glass and steel superstructure making the headlines in the 90тАЩs, along with the tale of eight human test subjects who [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... Posted on May 1, 2012 | ... Posted on February 24, 2012 | ... 10 Comments Where does space begin? ... Posted on January 17, 2012 | ... Part of [ ] . ...

... September 15, 1995 . Space Station Mir Over Earth . Credit: NASA , Russian Space Research Institute . Explanation: This picture of the Russian space station Mir over the Pacific Ocean was recorded by the Space Shuttle Discovery in February 1995. ... Many scientific experiments and astronomical observations were completed jointly by the American astronauts and the Russian cosmonauts. ... Some cosmonauts have spent more than a year on board Mir, the longest anyone has ever lived in space. ...

September 17, S.P.Korolev RSC Energia - MCC-M, . ... Russian logistics spacecraft Progress M-65, launched from the Baikonur launch site, after seven days in free flight, docked with the International Space Station (ISS). The spacecraft docking, originally scheduled for September 13, was postponed at the US request because operations in the primary ISS Mission Control Center in Houston were suspended due to hurricane Ike. ... The spacecraft delivered to the station about 2.5 tons of cargo. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . International Space Station in Transit . ... Credit: Tom Laskowski Explanation: A stunning telescopic image of the International Space Station crossing in front of an eight day old Moon, this picture was captured on April 11th. ... Seen below the lunar terminator at the lower left, the International Space Station appears here at a distance of just over 400 kilometers, with the Moon nearly 400,000 kilometers away. ... Publications with keywords: ISS - Moon - transit . ...

Observation data to which modern planetary ephemerides can be adjusted . Date is time of signal emission!, as contrasted to American radar ranging . where date is time of signal reception. Frequensy is 769.42875 MHz 1962-1986 . ... Coordinates of stations in Eupatoria, Crimea . ... station 8 . ... Observational Data to which DE/LE ephemerides are adjusted http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?eph_data . This page is supplied by Elena Pitjeva; please send commentaries to: evp@quasar.ipa.nw.ru . ...

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... Running Rings Around a Planet . ... Saturn's delicate rings have caught human eyes for over three centuries. ... Now we know, thanks to the Voyager space probes, that Saturn's rings consist of thousands of "ringlets," each made of chunks of ice ranging in size from dust to boulders [see "Rally Around the Ring," March/April 1995, p. 10]. ... The appearance of Saturn's rings to us ground-hugging Terrans is changing constantly. ... Saturn's diameter is 120,000 kilometers, so how large are the rings? ...

... With enough velocity, a spacecraft can break loose from the Earth's gravity and enter an orbit around the Sun, like that of a planet. If it then orbits the Sun with the same period as the Earth--one year--it may keep a fixed position relative to Earth. ... If the distance is just right--about 4 times the distance to the Moon or 1/100 the distance to the Sun--the spacecraft, too, will need just one year to go around the Sun, and will keep its position between the Sun and the Earth. ...

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... Armagh Observatory, 24th March 2009: The International Space Station ( ISS ) has recently become the second brightest object in the night sky тАФ even brighter than the planet Venus, and second only to the Moon. Evenings will provide the chance of a spectacular view, if the sky is clear, as for the next few days the orbit of the ISS around the Earth repeatedly takes it over Ireland. ... At its best, it is now the second brightest object in the night sky. ...

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... With enough velocity, a spacecraft can break loose from the Earth's gravity and enter an orbit around the Sun, like that of a planet. If it then orbits the Sun with the same period as the Earth--one year--it may keep a fixed position relative to Earth. ... If the distance is just right--about 4 times the distance to the Moon or 1/100 the distance to the Sun--the spacecraft, too, will need just one year to go around the Sun, and will keep its position between the Sun and the Earth. ...

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... Mars . ... News . ... NASA's newest Mars mission spacecraft enters orbit around the Red Planet . ... On September 21, 2014, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft entered orbit around Mars, completing an interplanetary journey of 10 months and 442 million miles (711 million kilometers). ... NASA s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft successfully entered Mars orbit at 10:24 p.m. EDT Sunday, Septempter 21, where it now will prepare to study the Red Planet s upper atmosphere as never done before...

Top] [Prev] [Next] . We describe the program for detection and characterization of extra-solar planets using the Advanced Fiber Optic Echelle (AFOE) spectrograph, developed at Mt. ... The AFOE is capable of obtaining radial velocity precision better than 10 m s-1 on relatively bright stars, and has produced data confirming the low mass companions to 51 Peg, Boo, and And. ... Dave Soderblom, soderblom@stsci.edu Copyright ї 1996, Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy. ...

... Jay Apt (Ph.D.) . NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... PUBLICATIONS: Dr. Apt shared his images and knowledge in the publication Earth in Orbit : NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth , written in conjunction with NASA scientists Michael Helfert and Justin Wilkinson and published by the National Geographic Society. ... From 1976 to 1980 he was a staff member of the Center for Earth & Planetary Physics, Harvard University, supporting NASA s Pioneer Venus Mission by making temperature maps of Venus from Mt. ...

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... 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. ...