... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

... 2000 November 27 . Earth at Night . Credit: C. Mayhew R. Simmon ( NASA / GSFC ), NOAA / NGDC , DMSP Digital Archive . ... Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas of the Earth's surface, including the seaboards of Europe , the eastern United States , and Japan . ... However, a high-resolution digital version of the image is available ( click here or here ) and an Earth at Night poster similar to this image can be ordered ( click here ) from other web sites. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Meteors and Meteorites . ... Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... This famous depiction of the Leonids was based on a first hand account of a meteor storm by a minister, Joseph Harvey Waggoner. ... In the autumn the Great Square of Pegasus is visible in the southern night sky. ... I hope this guide to the November night sky is helpful and have fun star sight-seeing! ... Tweets that mention The Leonid meteors: highlights of the November night sky | ...

... For a timeline of the exploration of the magnetic environment of the Earth, Sun and Planets, see here . ... Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) builds the first astronomical telescope and observes for the first time craters on the Moon, satellites around Jupiter, and the way Venus goes through phases like the Moon (crescent, etc.) ... 17 December--First successful flight by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. ... 16 March--Goddard launches his first liquid-fuel rocket. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... RSC Energia after S.P. Korolev is the leading enterprise of Russian rocket and space industry in the filed of manned space flight programs; responsible for building the ISS Russian Segment, its being integrated into the station and operational use, including building and operation of the main segment modules (Zvezda, Pirs, Poisk, Rassvet, etc.), as well as manufacture, commissioning and operational use of Soyuz TMA, Progress-M space vehicles. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Earth at Night . ... 26.11.2000 . ... Credit Copyright: C. Mayhew R. Simmon ( NASA / GSFC ), NOAA / NGDC , DMSP Digital Archive Explanation: This is what the Earth looks like at night. ... Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas of the Earth's surface, including the seaboards of Europe , the eastern United States , and Japan . ... 1999 2000 . ... Publications with keywords: Earth - light pollution . ... Hurricane Paths on Planet Earth . ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . 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. ... ISC Kosmotras announces signing of a launch contract with T B?TAK Space Technologies Research Institute (T B?TAK UZAY) for injection of RASAT spacecraft - the first Earth observation satellite designed and manufactured in Turkey by Dnepr LV in 2010. ... Dnepr LV Performance . ...

... CURRENT ASPECTS OF REMOTE SENSING OF EARTH FROM SPACE . ... For developing of the scientific concept and the programs of global monitoring of the Earth from space and pursuant to the disposal of Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences # 10310-717 (August 11, 2004 ) Space Research Institute RAS and Center of Space Observations of the Russian Space Agency during November 16-18, 2004 conduct the Second Opened All-Russia conference ' Current Aspects of Remote ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Visits to ESO Sites . ... Architecture at ESO . Collaborations with ESO . ESO Acronyms . ... Green ESO . ... ESO . ESO Brazil . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Fulldome . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... This visualization was a prototype affiliated with 'Dynamic Earth', a proposed Earth science planetarium show. ...

... JSC Oral History . NASA History . ... NASA Oral History Project: Earth System Science at 20 . This NASA Oral History Project features recollections from those who significantly contributed to the launch and evolution of Earth System Science. These interviews were gathered as part of the 20th anniversary of the Earth System Science Program. ... NASA Headquarters, Washington D.C. Program Manager , Stratospheric Theory and Data Analysis, Earth Science and Applications Division . ...

Asteroid 2055 YU55 passes close by Earth; how close did it get? ... As Elizabeth Flock reported: An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier missed Earth by only 200,000 miles as it flew by Tuesday night the closest an asteroid has been to Earth in 200 years Asteroid 2005 YU55, as it has been dubbed, streaked by at about 30,000 mph, but some scientists and lucky amateur astronomers caught a glimpse in their telescopes, where they saw strange structures on the asteroid\u2019s dark-colored surface. ...

Image credit: Michael Nolan, Arecibo Observatory. These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2001 SN263 were obtained on 2008 Feb 12 and 13. ... Image from Feb 12 . ... First near-Earth triple asteroid discovered by Arecibo Observatory . ... was discovered this week by astronomers at the sensitive radar telescope at Cornell University?s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. ... For example, Arecibo has discovered more than half of the near-Earth binary asteroid systems discovered since 1999. ...

Internet Sites | ... Latitude and Longitude - A very beautiful page describing and diagraming the concepts of latitude and longitude. This would be a good place to show the bird's eye view of the latitude world to older students, especially 2nd-4th graders. ... Sunrise/Sunset Generator - A tremendous site designed for movie producers so they can schedule when to shoot scenes in various countries and cities around the world. ... The World Right Now - Live Internet-linked cameras around the world. ...

home education > family astro . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Astronomy from the Ground Up . ... Family ASTRO . About Family ASTRO . ... Family ASTRO Resource Guides . The Night Sky . ... The Moon . ... Lunar Science . ... Foust, J. "NASA's New Moon" in Sky & Telescope, Sep. 1998, p. 48. ... Redfern, Greg "Lunar Fireworks" in Sky & Telescope , June 2009, p. 20. ... Wood, Charles "The Moon's Far Side: Nearly a New World" in Sky & Telescope , Jan. 2007, p. 48. ...

... HST . ... HST Peer Review Process . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... Cycle 24 Announcement . ... The list of HRC Earth Flats by filter is shown below. ... UNCONFIRMED FWOF file_name det useafter pedigree lphearthsm02f775w-aft.fits HRC Aug 13 2002 INFLIGHT 13/08/ 2002 15/09/ 2005 lphearthsm03f606w-aft.fits HRC Aug 13 2002 INFLIGHT 13/08/ 2002 15/09/ 2005 lphearthsm03f660n-aft.fits HRC Aug 13 2002 INFLIGHT 13/08/ 2002 15/09/ 2005 lphearthsm03f814w-aft.fits ...

... 2000 March 25 . The Earth Also Rises . Credit: The Lunar Orbiter Project , NASA . Explanation: The Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft was launched in 1966 to map the lunar surface in preparation for the Apollo moon landings . NASA's plucky robotic explorer performed its job well and pioneered this classic view of the Earth poised above the lunar horizon. The first humans to directly witness a similar scene were the Apollo 8 astronauts . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

Lectures . ... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2010-2011 Lecture Series 2010-2011 ? Greening the Earth Using Space Resources? by Greg Matloff . ... Lecture Series 2010-2011 . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Amateur Astronomers Medal . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes | ... Cosmic engine for senior students . ... The Sun . The Sun is vital for life on Earth. ... The Sun is a typical star, emitting electromagnetic radiation and particles that influence the Earth . ... In the meantime you can view material on the Sun and its influence on Earth written for the first version of the new syllabus here . ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Since the Irkutsk IS radar is based on station "Dnepr", which was not intended for IS measurements, we made a serios effort to modernize this station in order to carry out ionospheric observations. Four main directions of the development of the radar experimental base: . modernization of the radar receiving system; . development of primary processing and measurement control methods; . ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Asteroid . ... Site . ... The evening of October 26, 2011, Mark Trueblood, Robert Crawford, and Larry Lebofsky used the Kitt Peak 2.1-m telescope to observe Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) 2008 QT3. ... single still jpeg frame . ... The National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) issued a press release concerning Morgan's work on Monday, November 21, 2011 and posted it on the home page of their web site . ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...