... 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 . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Alien Life . ... Space Flight . ... Prof. Pinklepot and the Aliens (Image credit: D-Signs and Displays ) . ... A sing-song concludes our visit to Planet Alien and the time-machine begins to start up again.€а We make our way back to Planet Earth and Professor Pinklepot thanks us for coming on this massive journey with him.€а The images used during the fly through space are stunning and we get a real sense of moving through the Cosmos. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . The Highs and Lows of Earth . ... 25.09.2001 . ... Pictured above is the best digital elevation map yet created for our home planet , a map it took over ten years to make that incorporates data provided by many different countries around the world . The relief map is color coded with sea level shown in black, relatively low areas shown in green, higher areas shown in brown, and the highest areas shown in white. ... Publications with keywords: Earth . ...

... This paper describes the main algorithms used by the Einstein Level One processing to create the exposure masks and the background maps for Einstein IPC images, and how these algorithms were recreated in the IRAF environment. Our goal was to recreate the algorithms used by the Level One Processing to create exposure masks and background maps for Einstein Image Proportional Counter (IPC) data (cf. sections 2.5 and 2.7 of Harnden et al. ...

... 2013 August 5 . Leaving Earth . ... Explanation: What it would look like to leave planet Earth? Such an event was recorded visually in great detail by the MESSENGER spacecraft as it swung back past the Earth, eight years ago, on its way in toward the planet Mercury . ... MESSENGER is one of the few things created on the Earth that has left and will never return -- at the end of its mission MESSENGER will be crashed into Mercury's surface . ... About APOD | ...

Projectile Motion: In Aristotle's view, objects moved parallel to the Earth's surface until it was time (i.e. it was their destiny) to fall back to the earth . Aristotle believed that the "natural" state of massive objects was to seek the center of the Earth. When a stone is launched, an impetus is given to it to disturb it from its natural condition. ... Archimedes' catapults lobbed quarter-ton stones at the attacking Roman ships, quickly destroying the clumsy Roman siege engine. ...

... Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place . ... black holes . ... Chandra suggests rare explosion created our galaxyт??s youngest black hole . ... BLACK HOLES | ... The lack of such evidence implies a black hole may have formed. т??Itт??s a bit circumstantial, but we have intriguing evidence the W49B supernova also created a black hole,т?? said Daniel Castro from MIT. т??If that is the case, we have a rare opportunity to study a supernova responsible for creating a young black hole.т?? ...

... Subscribe Contact Site Map . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... VLT/Paranal . ... Survey Telescopes . ... ESO's Very Large Telescope has been used to create the first ever map of the weather on the surface of the nearest brown dwarf to Earth. An international team has made a chart of the dark and light features on WISE J104915.57-531906.1B, which is informally known as Luhman 16B and is one of two recently discovered brown dwarfs forming a pair only six light-years from the Sun. ...

... The twilight zone is not just an old television series. ... Most places on Earth pass through the twilight zone twice a day; the result is an enchanting hour at dawn and dusk of low sunlight and long shadows. ... Before assigning your students to watch a sunrise or sunset, have them try the following activities to develop their global sense. ... Armed with a global sense of our spinning planet, go out to watch the sky as your part of the Earth moves through the twilight zone. ...

... 3 ­ Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, :jeanna@sai.msu.ru The graphic method of the analysis of an arrangement of linear structural elements on geographical and geological maps of continents (A.V.Dolitsky, [1]) has allowed to find out global stress fields of the past and among them one which directions (the main normal and maximal tangents) describe more than 80 % of all linear elements of a relief. ... The found poles share program way on density of an arrangement on 3-4 groups. ...

Full-Color Mosaic Pictures for CDF-S and HDF-N . ... Here we present full-color images for the first 3 epochs of both the CDF-S and HDF-N, based on the combined mosaic fits files for the b,v,i and z bands. ... The process of producing combined mosaics for each epoch begins with the fully reduced single-epoch tiles, as produced by Anton's MultiDrizzle script running in Harry's automated GOODS pipeline. These are the tiles that are currently available as the GOODS v0.5 science products. ...

... 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 . ...

... Creation of Space transportation system on the base of large length rope utilization . ... A given address contains the proposal to equip the International Space Station with the long rope and to create on that base a Space transportation system. ... A given system has the multifunctional purpose. ... The rope system could be the base for creating of alternative system of station angular orientation. To utilize the rope system to launch small satellites from the station and to return them back. ...

... 2003, ApJL, in press . ... 2003, A , in press . HST/STIS observations of rotation of T Tauri jets . ... 2003, Proceedings of "JENAM 2002: The early stages if star formation", in press . ... 2003, ApJ, in press . ... S. Hotzel, J. Harju, C.M. Walmsley . ... E. Habart, A. Abergel, C.M. Walmsley, D. Teyssier . ... Codella, C., Bachiller R., Benedettini M., Caselli P. MNRAS, 2003, in press . ... Bianchi S., Goncalves J., Albrecht M., Caselli P., Chini R., Galli D., Walmsley M. 2003, A 399, L43 . ...

... Seidewand created the event FREE WEEKLY TELESCOPE VIEWING AT STRASENBURGH PLANETARIUM: 4/2 cancelled for clouds, snow, . ... Free! ... Call Jim at 703-9876 for more info. 1 week ago . ... Seidewand created the event FREE TELESCOPE VIEWING AT STRASENBURGH PLANETARIUM . ... Seidewand created the event FREE TELESCOPE VIEWING AT STRASENBURGH PLANETARIUM: 3/26 outlook is hopeful . ... Seidewand created the event FREE TELESCOPE VIEWING AT STRASENBURGH PLANETARIUM: 3/19 outlook is excellent . ...

... The project assumes creation of an international space observatory - the interferometer "Earth - Space - Space" in order to perform of astronomical investigations in millimeter, submillimeter and infrared regions with extremely high sensitivity (to a few nanoJanskies units of flux density in continuum spectrum) and extremely high angular resolution (to a parts of microsecond of arc or, possibly, nanosecond). ... radio-interferometric channels of the system "Space - Space", region 0.2 - 3 mm; . ...

Laboratory of Stellar Physics . ... A study of close binaries with black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. ... A study of SS433 - the massive close binary with a black hole in the regime of supercritical accretion . ... A search for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBH). The black holes which are not supermassive black holes observed in quasars, and which were formed not in massive stars. ... A search for new magnetic stars, new CP stars, measurements of magnetic fields in stars . ...

... Listed below are questions submitted by users of "The Great Magnet, the Earth" and the answers given to them. ... In "The Exploration of the Earth's magnetosphere" on the magnetic environment of the Earth in space (a few Q duplicated here) . ... 11) Magnetic Shielding . ... 51) Can electricity be generated from the Earth's magnetic field? ... 9) Measuring Earth's magnetic field . ... 6) Reversals of the Earth's field (4 queries) . ... 42) Could generated electricity affect Earth's magnetic field? ...

... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... SUBJECT: 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... which will be held in Beijing, P.R. China, from August 25-29, 2014, hosted by Chinese Academy of Sciences . ... China), . ... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. ...

... Special Reports Giant space cloud may be powered by black holes 17:57 23 April 2007 NewScientist.com news service David Shiga An enormous cloud of roiling plasma in space may be drawing its energy from black holes, new observations suggest. Such clouds might be sources for the mysterious particles that occasionally crash into Earth's atmosphere at ultra - high speed. ... But higher energy particles in the cloud may be able to escape, he says. ...