... 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 . ...

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. Go Here for Hubble Ultra Deep Field . ___________________________________________________________________ The Electronic Universe Project e-mail: nuts@moo.uoregon.edu

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... 2000 September 30 . Titania's Trenches . Credit: The Voyager Project , NASA . ... Above is Voyager's highest resolution picture of Titania , Uranus' largest moon. The picture is a composite of two images recorded from a distance of 229,000 miles. ... A prominent system of fault valleys, some nearly 1,000 miles long, is visible as trench-like features near the terminator (shadow line). ... Titania itself is 1,000 miles in diameter. Tomorrow's picture: Centaurus A . ... About APOD | ...

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• APOD: September 6, 1996 - The Largest Impact Crater
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• APOD: January 11, 1997 - Titania's Trenches

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Titania's Trenches . ... 11.01.1997 . ... Credit: The Voyager Project , NASA Explanation: British astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered Titania and Oberon in 1787, 210 years ago today. ... On January 24, 1986 NASA's robot explorer Voyager 2 became the only spacecraft to visit the remote Uranian system. Above is Voyager's highest resolution picture of Titania , Uranus' largest moon - a composite of two images recorded from a distance of 229,000 miles. ...

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• Unusual Hollows Discovered on Planet Mercury
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... About meteorites . ... Meteoritic data . Impact Crater Smerdyachee . ... Based on Smerdyachee's depth, near circularity, and its mounded wall, and analysis by N.A. Fillin of nearby Roshal, Russia, the Estonian scientists Yu.V. Krestlane and K.H. Mella proposed in 1987 that Smerdyachee Lake is a meteorite crater. ... In 2002, the Laboratory of Meteoritics of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences explored this mysterious lake. ...

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home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... A Minor Planet's Night Out . ... Orbiting between Mars and Jupiter are thousands of rocky bodies. ... In 1804 came Juno; in 1807, Vesta. ... Most minor planets, as asteroids are sometimes affectionately called, hum in elliptical orbits between Mars and Jupiter. ... This helps us as we select the Guest Observer, and it helps readers to understand what you studied. ...

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• ASP: Contents, September/October 2006
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T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

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Now that well over 100 planets have been discovered, we no longer need to ask the question "Are there planets out there?" ... The objective of XO is to find additional hot-Jupiters (like HD 209458b) that transit stars bright enough for detailed follow-up studies to be done with existing telescopes such as HST, Keck, and the VLT. ... Transit observations by themselves provide no information about the mass of the planet and radial velocity studies can yield only minimum masses. ...

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• The Kepler Mission: A Photometric Mission to Determine the Frequency of Inner
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... Planets . ... Stars . Exoplanets . ... Most exoplanets so far discovered fall into the category of тАШhot JupitersтАЩ, these are giant planets orbiting very close to their parent star. ... Note that we have discovered so many hot Jupiters because they are the easiest type of planet to find, they are not necessarily particularly common in the galaxy. ... Subsequently several similar hot and€а fuzzy worlds have been discovered the same way, proving this that this planet is not a one-off oddball. ...

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... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, 119899, Moscow, Russia . ... 50_Kozlova_Shevchenko.pdf - 212KB . A.A. Berezhnoy (1), O.R. Baransky (2), K.I. Churyumov (2), V.V. Kleshchenok (2), E.A. Kozlova (1), V. Mangano (3), V.O. Ponomarenko (2), Yu.V. Pakhomov (4), V.V. Shevchenko (1), yu. ... Berezhnoy A.A., Kozlova E.A., Shevchenko V.V. в сборнике 36th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, серия Lunar and Planetary Institute Science Conference Abstracts, том 36, с. 1061 тезисы . ...

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• Gregory G. Michael

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

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... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... Parkes | ... Australia Telescope 20GHz Survey . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ...

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• MNRF Surface extension project
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... Voyager Spacecraft Introduction (This Page) . ... The twin Voyager spacecraft, over the course of a dozen years, drew back the curtain on nearly half of the solar system . From launch in 1977 through the spectacular parting shots in 1989 of Neptune at the outer reaches of the solar system, this pair of gangly, instrument-laden spacecraft explored four planets -- Jupiter , Saturn , Uranus and Neptune -- as well as tens of moons, and the rings and magnetic environments of those planetary systems. ...

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• Chain of Impact Craters Suggested by Spaceborne Radar Images
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A team of scientists believes they have discovered a chain of impact craters in the central African country of Chad that suggests ancient Earth may have been hit by a large, fragmented comet or asteroid similar to the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet that slammed into Jupiter in 1994. The craters were discovered in radar images of the Earth taken by the Spaceborne Imaging Radar C/X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) that flew on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in April and October of 1994. ...

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• Trapped Radiation -- History
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... Research . ... NASA's "follow the water" philosophy has led me to study atmosphere-regolith interactions on Mars in search for locations and times where liquid water is available. ... Transient liquid water and water activity at Gale crater Mars. ... Rivera-Valentin, E. G. , Chevrier, V. F., 2015. ... Icarus , 253, 156-158. Lopez Garcia, E. J., Rivera-Valentin, E. G. , Schenk, P. M., Hammond, N. P., Barr, A. C., 2014. ... Icarus , 237, 419-421. ... Chevrier, V. F., Rivera-Valentin, E. G. , 2012. ...

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• Arecibo Radar Discovers Triple Near-Earth Asteroid
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... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

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O ptimal transport : T heory and A pplications . ... Names of participants of the OTARIE project are underlined . ... That code was never made public. ... WANN (Weighted Approximate Nearest Neighbors) is a library of C++ classes for weighted nearest neighbor search: given the set P of points p 1 , p 2 , , p N endowed with weights w 1 , w 2 , , w N and a query point q , find p k such that | ... WANN is part of a multipurpose library for numerical transport optimization developed in the OTARIE project. ...

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• Research and service to community

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... Missions Archive . ... News . ... The Commission made decisions on implementing the processing and launch stages based on conclusions of the Technical Management led by V.A. Lopota, President of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, General Designer. ... Progress М-07 is the 39th Russian space vehicle intended to deliver cargo to the ISS. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

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The small solids. Asteroids or the small planetes . ... The comets. ... Ceneca the Young.Procuring about the nature.63 y. The comet is a celestial body of a great size, but a rare one... transparent. Sometimes there seen a core and the medium forms a kind of a tail, beard or dishevelled looks. ... The core is an ice body - conglomeration of frosted gas and dust. ... The comet state is variable: ones have the con tails, others the dust tails, and the third have both. ... Meteors and meteorites. ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Site Info . ... It is from from Voyager 1 and shows a whopping big impact crater dominating the profile of the moon. Note that Mimas is about 400 kilometers across (about 250 miles). ... The wall around the crater is 5 kilometers high, and that central peak rises 6 kilometers above the surface (many impact craters have a large central peak which is caused by a pressure rebound from the impact). ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Mad Science
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