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... The 2 nd Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad will held in Vladivostok, Far East part of Russian Federation on December 4-11, 2006, just the same dates as the 1 st APAO took place in 2005. ... Saturday December 2 Possible delegations arrive . ... Main day for delegations arrive . ... Monday December 11 Main day for delegations depart . ... The Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad 2006 - results . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (APAO) . ...

... 2005 December 4 . Proxima Centauri: The Closest Star . ... It is Proxima Centauri , the nearest member of the Alpha Centauri triple star system . ... The brightest star in the Alpha Centauri system is quite similar to our Sun, has been known as long as recorded history, and is the third brightest star in the night sky . The Alpha Centauri system is primarily visible from Earth's Southern Hemisphere . ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Construction of International Space Station Begins . ... Credit: STS-88 Shuttle Crew , NASA Explanation: Move over Mir , here comes the International Space Station . In December 1998, the crew of Space Shuttle Endeavour started construction by joining the U.S.-built Unity node with the Russian-built Zarya module. ... Publications with keywords: international space station - space station - space - space shuttle . ... Space Station Over the Ionian Sea . ...

... I fixed the bugs that caused the map_point changes to fail tests. Then I removed the no longer needed dimensional variables from the p structure and got those changes to pass all the tests. ... I put the code under subversion control in a new branch called refactor. ... The code change which processes each drizzle kernel over an entire image rather than a line at a time now passes the unit tests and was checked in. ... I got the keywords argument changes done and got the tests to pass. ...

... The school and the conference will be held at the Poncelet Laboratory for all days except from December 7 . ... The nearest metro station is СМОЛЕНСКАЯ (Smolenskaya), line 3 , 5 minutes by walk. ... How to reach Poncelet Laboratory from these metro stations. ... It is located within 15 minutes by feet from АКАДЕМИЧЕСКАЯ (Akademicheskaya) metro station, line 6 . ... There are a lot of exchange offices where you can exchange euro or US dollars to rubles. ...