Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... By admin February 19, 2011 Posted in: Comets and Asteroids . ... Since it was launched in 1999, the Stardust spacecraft has travelled about 5.7 billion km (3.5 billion miles) on its odyssey from Earth to comet Wild 2, back to Earth then on to comet Tempel 1. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... 2000 August 29 . The Regolith of Asteroid Eros . Credit: NEAR Project , JHU APL , NASA . Explanation: From fifty kilometers above asteroid Eros, the surface inside one of its largest craters appears covered with an unusual substance: regolith . ... In this representative-color view taken by the robot spacecraft NEAR-SHOEMAKER currently orbiting Eros , brown areas indicate regolith that has been chemically altered by exposure to the solar wind during micrometeorite impacts. ... About APOD | ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Title: A Dark-Matter Spike at the Galactic Center? Authors: Piero Ullio , HongSheng Zhao , Marc Kamionkowski . ... Title: The Galaxy Environment of Quasars in the Clowes-Campusano Large Quasar Group at z~1.3 . ... Title: The Galaxy Environment of a Quasar at z=1.226: A Possible Cluster Merger . ... 16 matches for the search pattern galaxy environment . The URL for this page is: http://xxx.itep.ru/find/astro-ph/1/galaxy+environment/0/1/0/past,all/0/0 www-admin@xxx.lanl.gov ...

... This is how Earth appeared to the passing spacecraft NEAR. The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft was launched from Florida, USA, planet Earth in 1996. ... NGC 1977: Blue Reflection Nebula in Orion . ... The Orion Nebula is visible to the unaided eye as a fuzzy patch near the famous belt of three stars in the constellation Orion. ... This evocative mosaic image of the Earth-Moon system was recorded by NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft earlier this month. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Get to Know the Night Sky . ... Rover gets movie as a Mars moon passes another . These observations of Phobos and Deimos help make researchers understanding the moons orbits even more precise. ... The larger of the two moons of Mars, Phobos, passes directly in front of the other, Deimos, in a new series of sky-watching images from NASA s Mars rover Curiosity. ... The orbit of Phobos is very slowly getting closer to Mars. ...

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... Viking Images . ... Each spacecraft consisted of an orbiter and a lander. ... The first month of orbit was devoted to imaging the surface to find appropriate landing sites for the Viking Landers. On July 20, 1976 Viking Lander 1 separated from the Orbiter and touched down at Chryse Planitia. ... The Viking Landers transmitted images of the surface, took surface samples and analyzed them for composition and signs of life, studied atmospheric composition and meteorology, and deployed seismometers. ...

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... September 02, 2009 - Solar activity hits a new low . The Sun has come all of one day away from breaking its record for the longest period of inactivity for the last decade - reaching a mid-summer low and falling into yet another state of 'hibernation'. ... Astrophysicists had to wait almost two months for this event: the group of sunspots occupying the last line of the catalogue (number 1024), vanished from the solar disk on 11 July this year. ... Solar activity hits a new low . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... The Perseid meteor shower, which this year peaked around midnight on the evening of August 12th, will continue at a low rate until around August 24th. ... Video clips in AVI and mp4 formats of some of the brightest Perseid meteors detected by the ObservatoryтАЩs cameras together with an image illustrating the parallel tracks in space of the Perseid meteors detected at Armagh can be found here . ...

... All creatures appear in all dificulty levels. ... If you get stuck and can't work out what to do, have a look at the demo file. ... How To Use this Level : doom -file NITRO2.WAD (to run the level) How to See the Demo. : doom -file NITRO2.WAD -playdemo NITRO2 (to see the demo) The demo shows ALL secret areas and I finish with 100% of everything. ... My thoughts are if they are prepared to play around with add on levels, then they should be fairly fluent and interested in DOOM. ...

... Izv. Acad. Nauk SSSR Ser Mat. ... Doclady Academii Nauk, 385 (2002), N 4, p. 443-449. ... Generating functions for modular graphs and Burgers's equation. ... Coloured graphs, Burgers equation and Jacobian conjecture. ... Coloured graphs, Burgers equation and Hessian conjecture. ...

Last modified: 17 April 1999 . ... V codes are for AO1 experiments W codes are for AO2 experiments VS experiment codes are VSOP Survey Observations VT Test/Calibration Observations ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EXPNO SOURCE FRQ Corr DOY DY: DATE UT RANGE #TEL TELESCOPES W088b1 J1229+02 L* Socr 105 Th:Apr-15 00:00 - 09:00 14 VLBA RO GO EB JB W077a W066a1 J0841+70 L Socr 107 Sa:Apr-17 13:00 - 00:00 8 NT BR OV SC HN TR NL KA W066b1 J0841+70 C ...

... Circumstellar disc of beta Pictoris: constraints on grain properties from polarization. To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics . abs , src , ps ] . ... Dust influx to Titan from Hyperion . ... abs ] . ... Characteristics of bulges and disks in interacting galaxies . ... Dust grains around Herbig Ae/Be stars: porous, cometary-like grains? ... To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement . ... Finally, Links may lead you to more options (e.g. via the LANL preprint system). ...

Phobos . Mars I . Phobos [FOH-bohs] (fear) is a moon of Mars and was named after an attendant of the Roman war god Mars. ... Phobos shows striated patterns which are probably cracks caused by the impact event of the largest crater on the moon. ... The striking feature in this image is the giant Stickney crater. ... Courtesy NASA) . ... Because Phobos is only 28 by 20 kilometers (17 by 12 miles), the moon must have been nearly shattered from the force of the impact that caused the giant crater. ...

... Cycle 20 Phase II Proposal Instructions . HST Phase II Proposal Instructions for Cycle 20 > Chapter 5: Visits, Exposures and Exposure Groups > 5.16 Exposure-level Comments [Comments] . ... Information that cannot be made to conform to the required formats may be entered as a comment. Comments are not interpreted by the software, but are maintained in the database and do appear on printouts of the programs. Comments should be used sparingly, if at all. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2014 6 November 2014. ... Mission profile SHM configuration Reliability Dnepr LV Performance Launch Sites . ... Dnepr Space Head Module integration with customers spacecraft was successfully completed in the Yasny Launch Base AITB on November 13, 2013. 14.11.2013 . ... Mission profile . ...

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012 . GTOPO30 is a global digital elevation model (DEM) with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds (approximately 1 kilometer)? (http://eros NULL .usgs NULL .gov/#/Find_Data/Products_and_Data_Available/gtopo30_info) . ... You are currently browsing the Лаборатория лазерной интерферометрии blog archives for August, 2012. ... Наши публикации . ... Публикации за 2010 . Публикации за 2011 . ... Лаборатория лазерной интерферометрии is proudly powered by WordPress . ...