... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on November 15, 2012 | ... Continue Reading.. ... 3 Comments Audiences flocked to see James CameronтАЩs €аepic movie Avatar, the story of a disabled human who gets a chance to live a new life as a 3m tall blue-skinned humanoid [ ] . ... Newer Entries . Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... 2000 November 5 . Jupiter Swallows Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 . Credit: H. Hammel ( SSI ), WFPC2 , HST , NASA . Explanation: What happens when a comet encounters a planet? ... A giant planet like Jupiter , however, is mostly gas . When Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 struck Jupiter in 1994, each piece was swallowed into the vast Jovian atmosphere . ... Because Jupiter is much more massive than any comet, the orbit of Jupiter around the Sun did not change noticeably. ... About APOD | ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 15.03.2013 . ... March 2013 . ... 2013 2014 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ... Publications with keywords: comet - coronal mass ejection . Publications with words: comet - coronal mass ejection . ... Comet Lovejoy over The Great Wall . ... Comet Lovejoy over a Windmill . Comet Lovejoy through Morby Castle Ruins . Comet Lovejoy Before Galaxy M63 . ...

... 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 . ...

... Figure: Children from the Armstrong Primary School, Armagh, at the Launch of the Human Orrery on 26 November 2004. The innovative `Dance of the Planets' was choreographed by dance teacher Jennifer Rooney. ... The Armagh Observatory Human Orrery is believed to be the first large outdoor exhibit designed to show with precision the elliptical orbits and changing relative positions of the planets and other solar system bodies versus time. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. November 19, 1999 . Mercury And The Sun . ... TRACE Project . Explanation: Just days before the peak of the Leonid meteor shower , skywatchers were offered another astronomical treat as planet Mercury crossed the face of the Sun on November 15. Viewed from planet Earth, a transit of Mercury is not all that rare. ... About APOD > . ...

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... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... 2010 . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... This animation shows the path of the shadow of the dwarf planet Eris cast by a faint star as it crossed the Earth during the occultation during November 2010. The regions along the path saw the star briefly disappear as its light was blocked by Eris. ...

... Our Solar System is a stellar-planetary unit consisting of the Sun ; the nine planets and their satellites; the asteroids, comets, and meteoroids; and interplanetary dust and gas. The dimensions of this system are specified in terms of the mean distance from the Earth to the Sun, called the astronomical unit (AU). ... The boundary between the solar system and interstellar space - called the heliopause - is estimated to occur somewhere beyond 120 AU. ... Earth . ...

Pulkovo Database of Observations of Minor Planets and Comets . Select an object and the time interval . Minor planets with long-term observations - - - - - - select an object - - - - - - 1 Ceres 2 Pallas 3 Juno 4 Vesta 6 Hebe 7 Iris 11 Parthenope 18 Melpomene 25 Phocaea 39 Laetitia 40 Harmonia 389 Industria 532 Herculina 704 Interamnia 762 Pulkova . ... Select database . ...

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EPHEMERIDES OF MINOR PLANETS . The yearbook "Ephemerides of minor planets" (published since 1948) contains information on orbital elements of numbered minor planets and the circumstances of their observations during the best observation periods. ... orbital elements of 430405 minor planets, numbered as of March 5, 2015 and dates of their oppositions in 2016; . ... opposition ephemerides of minor planets; . ... information on the "Updated Ephemerides of Minor Planets" service; . ...

... There has been a heated public discussion in the past few years about whether our ninth planet is really deserving of the name. Since Pluto orbits a star, and is much less luminous, it certainly satisfies the definition we have above. The problem is actually not with Pluto, but with a very large number of other bodies in our Solar System which also satisfy this definition, but which are not called planets. Perhaps the most notable of these is Ceres, the largest asteroid. ... Planet . ...

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... Prof. N.V. Voshchinnikov . ... Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement , v.128, p.187-196. PDF file ] . Voshchinnikov N.V., Mathis J.S. (1999) Calculating cross sections of composite interstellar grains. ... Voshchinnikov N.V., Kruegel E. (1999) Circumstellar disk of beta Pictoris: constraints on grain properties from polarization. Astronomy and Astrophysics , v.352, p.508-516. ... Il'in V.B., Krivova N.A., Michel B., Voshchinnikov N.V. (1999) WWW database of optical constants for astronomy. ...

Geotimes -- November 2005 -- Two more moons for "planet" Pluto http://www.geotimes.org/nov05/WebExtra110305.html Web Extra Thursday, November 3, 2005 Two more moons for Pluto When the New Horizons spacecraft finally reaches Pluto in July 2015, researchers will have more objects to study than previously thought. In addition to Pluto's confirmed moon Charon, astronomers have detected two more orbiting celestial bodies, which could help reveal how the planet and moon system formed. ...

... In contrast to movecalc, attmove creates a new Attitude History derived from an existing AHF , using a second input table which de nes the track of the object as a function of time. attmove uses selects an arbitrary reference pointing (currently calculated from the object track) and recalculates the attitude of the spacecraft (the VIEWRA and VIEWDECL entries in the AHF ) according to the following formula: V t = V ref + (V t ... Input AHF le 2. ...

... Future seminars . ... Abstract . ... A. Dyachenko (ITP RAS) . ... Professor S.I. Popel (Institute for Dynamics of Geospheres RAS) . ... Leonid Ksanfomaliti (IKI) . ... Prof. Sir Ian Axford (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau) . ... Professor Wang Chi ( China Academy of Sciences Center of Space Research ) . ... April, 21 (Thursday) . ... A.V. Gordeev (Russian Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”), T.V. Losseva (Institute of Geospheres Dynamics RAS) . ...