... Another Comet LINEAR Breaks Up . ... 21.05.2001 . ... VLT YEPUN, ESO Explanation: Last year, a different comet LINEAR (C/1999 S4) broke up. This year, a comet first imaged by the Lincoln Near Asteroid Research (LINEAR) telescope in New Mexico on 2001 January 3, is also breaking up. This new Comet LINEAR (C/2001 A2) unexpectedly brightened to the edge of naked-eye visiblilty a few weeks ago when its nucleus broke in two. ... May 2001 . ... Publications with keywords: comet linear - C/2001 A2 . ...

... 2001 May 21 . Another Comet LINEAR Breaks Up . ... Explanation: Last year, a different comet LINEAR (C/1999 S4) broke up. This year, a comet first imaged by the Lincoln Near Asteroid Research (LINEAR) telescope in New Mexico on 2001 January 3, is also breaking up. This new Comet LINEAR (C/2001 A2) unexpectedly brightened to the edge of naked-eye visiblilty a few weeks ago when its nucleus broke in two. ... About APOD | ...

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home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Making Model Comets: Has it really been 20 Years? ... Colin and I had labored the past hour, trying to find the perfect combination of water, dry ice, and dirt, so that our model comet would look like a dirty snowball -- the classic description for a comet. Was it better to use hot water, cold water, or ice cubes mixed in water? ... publications . ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Solar System . ... Planets . ... Space Flight . ... Neptune, which is not visible with the naked eye, was discovered by mathematical prediction in 1846 before being observed through a telescope. ... Tidal interactions between Neptune and Triton mean that in 100 million years these two bodies may come too close to one another causing Triton to be torn apart leaving Neptune with a ring system more spectacular than SaturnтАЩs. ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

Our publications in 2001 year Kniazev, A. Y.; Engels, D.; Pustilnik, S. A.; Ugryumov, A. V.; Kniazeva, T. F.; Pramsky, A. G.; Brosch, N.; Hagen, H.-J.; Hopp, U.; Izotov, Y. I.; Lipovetsky, V. A.; Masegosa, J.; Marquez, I.; Martin, J.-M. Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.366, p.771-787 (02/2001) . ... Pustilnik, S.; Kniazev, A.; Lipovetsky, V.; Ugryumov, A. Astronomische Gesellschaft Abstract Series, Vol. ... N.; Soboleva, N. S.; Temirova, A. V. Astronomische Gesellschaft Abstract Series, Vol. ...

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Lectures . ... 100 Years of Cosmology: From Spiral Nebulae to the Cosmic Microwave Background.тАЭ ? ... Michael Way, astronomer/computer scientist at NASAтАЩs Ames Research Center and its Goddard Institute of Space Studies, will give the first lecture of the AAAтАЩs 2009-10 lecture series Friday, October 2 when he discusses тАЬ100 Years of Cosmology: From Spiral Nebulae to the Cosmic Microwave Background.тАЭ The free public lecture is at 6:15 p. m. at the Kaufmann Theater of the AMNH. by . ...

Publications by members of the optical interferometry team relevant to the theory and practice of Adaptive Optics (AO) are listed below. ... SPIE require us to publish the following statement: . ... In D. Bonaccini Calia, B. L. Ellerbroek, and R. Ragazzoni, editors, Advancements in Adaptive Optics , volume 5490 of Proc. SPIE , pages 1315+. ... In D. Bonaccini Calia, B. L. Ellerbroek, and R. Ragazzoni, editors, Advancements in Adaptive Optics , volume 5490 of Proc. SPIE , pages 966+. ...

In 1995 Eugene set an annual rainfall record by recording, officially, 65.56 inches of rain. ... The mean annual rainfall for Eugene from the 25 year period 1970-1994 was 51.5 inches with a dispersion of 8 inches. ... Wettest Years: . ... Below are the official NWS corrected rain totals for the year 1996. Although these are now "official", I go on record here by saying there is no way I believe that Eugene, Oregon received 101 inches of rain in 1996. ... January: Old = 14.74; corrected = 14.48 . ...

... SSAU History . ... On Wednesday, March 18, marks the 50th anniversary of the first human spacewalk. The first astronaut in the world, who walked out into space, Aleksey Arkhipovich Leonov was born on May 30, 1934 in the village Listvyanka of Tisulskiy District in Kemerovo Region, RSFSR. In 1957 he graduated from Chuguev Military Aviation School for Pilots (MASP) and three years later he was enrolled in the first team of Soviet astronauts. ... Aleksey Leonov and Pavel Belyaev decided to fly. ...

... For the first time I was in the Observatory (Crimea) . ... The University - my dream! ... 1995 October. ... Soros's fellowship for post-grads for the first time . ... 1998 April. ... I am included into the first list of ten prominent russian young scientists by the magazine "What is new in science and technology". ... Prize for young scientists of the Moscow State University. ... 2015 Short-listed for the national prize "For fidelity to science" as the best science popularizer (the 2nd at the end) ....

JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight . America's Nerve Center for Mission Operations . ... Astronaut Edward H. White II, pilot of the Gemini IV space mission, is photographed during his extravehicular activity, the first ever by an American. ... For the first time, flight controllers performed their jobs from the new Mission Control Center at the Manned Spacecraft Center. Gemini IV became the first flight controlled from Houston and the longest duration mission to that date. ...

... COMETS . In 2001 the 21 periodical comets will return to perihelions. ... Perihelion Time . ... 11.0 m . ... June 6 . ... a.u. - astronomical unit: middle distance from Earth to Sun, equal 149.6 millions km. Jupiter comet family . ... a parameter that specifies the shape of a conic section; one of the standard elements used to describe an elliptic orbit. ... the interval of time required to complete one revolution in an orbit or one cycle of a periodic phenomenon, such as a cycle of phases. ...

I n 1705 Edmond Halley predicted, using Newton's newly formulated laws of motion, that the comet seen in 1531, 1607, and 1682 would return in 1758 (which was, alas, after his death). ... T he average period of Halley's orbit is 76 years but you cannot calculate the dates of its reappearances by simply subtracting multiples of 76 years from 1986. ... T he nucleus of Comet Halley is approximately 16x8x8 kilometers. ... The Return of Halley's Comet from the ASP . ... Comets .. Halley .. ...

... The Large Telescopes Program Committee of Russian AS . ... Executive Secretary, e-mail: request@sao.ru . Telescope RATAN-600 Time Request deadline: I half-year (Jan. ... Program title .. ... Principal investigator .. ... Request status .. ... Retarded applications and ones not conforming to form will not be accepted by the Committee. ... In some exceptional cases the Program Committee Secretary can accept a request after deadline with permission of the Chairman of Committee or director of SAO RAS. ...

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