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... Subject: G.08 How are stars named? Can I name/buy one? ... The Supernova of 1987 (Supernova 1987A), one of the major astronomical events of this century, was identified with the star named SK -69 202 in the very specialized catalog, the _Deep Objective Prism Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud_, published by the Warner and Swasey Observatory. These procedures and catalogs accepted by the International Astronomical Union are the only means by which stars receive long-lasting names. ...

Albert A.Galeev is the director of the Russian Academy of Sciences Space Research Institute (IKI RAN in Russian), Moscow, Russia. ... Prior to his promotion to the present position, for fifteen years (1973-1988), A.Galeev headed the Space Plasma Physics Department and together with his scientific team contributed to a number of successful international space projects. ... Postal Address Space Research Institute (IKI) . ... e-mail agaleev@iki.rssi.ru ...

... I am developing an Informed Prefetching and Caching system as part of the kernel in which it is very important that the memory assigned to hold the data does not get swapped to disk. Without any thought to swapping I used vmalloc() to assign memory to the data structures of the Informed prefetching system. ... I later realized that most probably the pages assigned using vmalloc() were getting swapped to the disk and when I referenced them, they were brought from the disk rather than memory. ...

... The choice of which type of electricity is called "positive" and which "negative" was made around 1750 by Ben Franklin, early American scientist and man of many talents (the stamp on the left commemorates his role as first US postmaster--and colonial postmaster before that). ... Franklin knew of two types of electric charge, depending on the material one rubbed. ... Later, when electric batteries were discovered, scientists naturally assigned the direction of the flow of current to be from (+) to (-...

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... Return that file's handle, to be used by other SPK routines to refer to the file. ... Particulars Loading an SPK file make the file's data accessible to the CSPICE SPK readers spkezr_c and spkez_c . The maximum number of SPK files that may be loaded at any time is given by the parameter FTSIZE, which is defined in the header file cspicelimits.h. After this limit it reached, it is necessary to unload an SPK file before another can be loaded. ... Load the spk file./ spklef_c ( SPK, &handle ); /. ...