Astronomy Picture of the Day . Mimas: Small Moon with A Big Crater . ... 24.09.1995 . ... Credit: NASA , Voyager 1 Explanation: Mimas is one of the smaller moons of Saturn but shows one of the largest impact craters! ... The large crater has been named Herschel after the 1789 discoverer of Mimas, Sir William Herschel . ... 2007 . ... Publications with keywords: Mimas - crater . Publications with words: Mimas - crater . ... APOD: 2007 August 1- Unusual Cratering on Saturns Dione . ...

... August 15, 1997 . Impact On Europa . Credit: Galileo Project , JPL , NASA . Explanation: This bull's-eye pattern marks the impact of a mountain-sized comet or asteroid on the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa . Recorded by the Galileo spacecraft in April of this year, the composite false color image clearly reveals the telltale concentric fractures which cover about 86 miles - roughly equivalent to the Island of Hawaii . ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

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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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... Last modified on August 19, 1996 by A. Richichi . ... Hamilton, D.P., Herbst, T.M., Richichi, A., B?hnhardt, H., Ortiz, J.L. 1995, '' Calar Alto observations of Shoemaker-Levy 9: characteristics of the H and L impacts '', Geophysical Research Letters, 22 , 2417. ... Hamilton, D. P., Herbst, T. M., B?hnhardt, H., Ortiz-Moreno, J. L., Richichi, A., Calamai, G. 1995, `` Calar Alto Observations of the A, H, L, Q1 and Q2 Impacts '', Proceedings of the XXIInd General Assembly of the IAU, den Haag 15-27...

... 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. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... August . ... Continue Reading.. Posted on August 7, 2012 | 1 Comment NASA?s Curiosity rover?s safe arrival in Gale Crater,Mars,thanks to some innovative technology,€а is still being applauded throughout the world.It is easy to forget that the one-tonne robot is not the [ ] . ... 1 Comment I had my doubts, but NASA didn?t let us down when the Agency?s Curiosity rover was successfully landed in Gale Crater, Mars at 5.14 UTC on 6 August 2012. ...

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M imas ("MY mas") is the seventh of Saturn 's known satellites: orbit : 185,520 km from Saturn diameter : 392 km mass : 3.80e19 kg T he pronounciation "MEE mas" is also acceptable. ... T he surface of Mimas is dominated by an impact crater 130 km across, known as Herschel ; it's almost 1/3 of the diameter of the entire moon. ... The impact that made this crater must have nearly disrupted Mimas. ... How big a hit can a planet or moon take before being completely disrupted? Saturn .. ...

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NIFS was assembled and readied for its first cooldown on Friday August 24 2001. The cryostat contained the cold work surface plate and the radiation shields, but not the spectrograph or the On-Instrument Wavefront Sensor. ... The center of the cold work surface plate reached a minimum temperature of ~ 46.1 K. The getter reached ~ 9.2 K. Both are well below the required final operating temperature. ... Peter Conroy lowering the cold work surface plate into the cryostat. ... Pumping the cryostat. ...

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... 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). ...

... ALMA . ... Publications list . ... M. S. Clemens, A. Bressan, B. Nikolic and R. Rampazzo, The history of star formation and mass assembly in early-type galaxies , MNRAS 392:35, astro-ph abstract , ADS entry , catalogues, materials . ... ADS entry . ... ADS entry , astro-ph abstract , PDF . ... B. Nikolic: Inference of Coefficients for Use in Phase Correction II: Using the Observed Correlation Between Phase and Sky Brightness Fluctuations , ALMA Memo 588, 2009. pdf , ADS page , supporting materials ....

Our publications in 1997 year Izotov, Yu. I.; Thuan, T. X.; Lipovetsky, V. A. Dwarf Galaxies: Probes for Galaxy Formation and Evolution, Joint Discussion 2, 21 August 1997, Kyoto, Japan. Izotov, Yuri I.; Thuan, Trinh X.; Lipovetsky, Valentin A. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 01 1997, v.108, p.1 . ... Pustil'nik, S. A.; Lipovetsky, V. A.; Izotov, Y. I.; Brinks, E.; Thuan, T. X.; Knyazev, A. Y.; Neizvestnyi, S. I.; Ugryumov, A. V. Pis'ma Astron. ... 74, August 1997, p. 536 . ...