... 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 . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 5.08.2013 . ... Credit Copyright: NASA / JHU Applied Physics Lab / Carnegie Inst. Washington 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 . ... August . ... August 2013 . ... Publications with keywords: Earth . Publications with words: Earth . ... Full Earth, Full Moon . ...

For circular orbits around Earth, we found . ... The distance of a satellite from the center of Earth in meters is an inconveniently big number, even before we raise it to the 3rd power. ... SQRT (25 638 838) = 5063.5 From this . ... T= 5063.5 seconds SQRT(r') 3 = 5063 sec r'SQRT=(r') . This is the practical form of Kepler's 3rd law for Earth satellites. ... International communication satellites are in the equatorial plane of the Earth and have orbits with a 24-hour period. ...

433 Eros is an S-type asteroid orbiting the Sun mostly between the orbits of Earth and Mars. orbit: 172,800,000 km from the Sun (average) size: 33x13x13 km . ... Eros has a giant gouge which was of interest. Here's a close-up image. ... NEAR, then renamed NEAR-Shoemaker (after Gene Shoemaker) On Monday, 12 February 2001, the NEAR spacecraft touched down (yes, landed) on asteroid Eros, after transmitting 69 close-up images of the surface during its final descent. ... Eros images from NEAR . ...

... Kepler's 3rd Law . 21a.Applying 3rd Law . 21b. Fly to Mars! (1) . 21c. Fly to Mars! (2) . ... For circular orbits around Earth, we found . ... The distance of a satellite from the center of Earth in meters is an inconveniently big number, even before we raise it to the 3rd power. ... The ratio r' = (r / R E ) is the orbital distance measured in units of the Earth's radius. ... 25 638 838) = 5063.5 From this . ... This is the practical form of Kepler's 3rd law for Earth satellites. ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . ... A small spacecraft Aist-2D , developed by the scientists of Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) and the experts of the Rocket and Space Centre Progress will see from outer space what is hidden under the thick top of trees and below the Earth's surface. The radar equipment was installed on Aist-2D , which was delivered to the space launcher complex Vostochniy on January 22. ... Tomography of the Earth's ionosphere will also be carried out. ...

... 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 . ...

... NASA Asteroid Orbiter . ... Launched on February 17, 1996, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission is to be the first of NASA's Discovery missions, a series of small-scale spacecraft designed to proceed from development to flight in under three years for a cost of less than $150 million. ... The ultimate goal of the mission is to rendezvous with and achieve orbit around the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros in February, 1999, and study the asteroid for approximately one year. ...

... 13th European VLBI Network Symposium . and Users Meeting . on September 20-23, 2016. ... 13th European VLBI Network Symposium and Users Meeting on September 20-23, 2016. ... Year book "Ephemerides of Minor Planets for 2016" on-line . ...

... 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 . ...

... Р?С?С?С?Р?Р?Р?Р?РеС?Р?С?Р?РеР? ... Launched on February 17, 1996, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission is to be the first of NASA's Discovery missions, a series of small-scale spacecraft designed to proceed from development to flight in under three years for a cost of less than $150 million. ... The ultimate goal of the mission is to rendezvous with and achieve orbit around the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros in February, 1999, and study the asteroid for approximately one year. ...

... Reconstruction of peculiar velocities of galaxies from large-scale redshift catalogues provides an exemplary application of optimal transport. ... U Frisch, S. Matarrese, R. Mohayaee, A. Sobolevsky, A reconstruction of the initial conditions of the Universe by optimal mass transportation , Nature, 417 (2002) 260-262 ( arXiv:astro-ph/0109483 ) . ... R. Mohayaee, A. Sobolevskii, The Monge Amp re Kantorovich approach to reconstruction in cosmology , Physica D (2008) accepted ( arXiv:0712.2561 ) . ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... A most promising problem is to investigate the interaction of two VHF powerful radiowave beams in the ionosphere, whose difference frequency is equal to the plasma frequency in some ionospheric area (that is, the difference frequency is taken in the range 1-8 MHz). ... Two-frequency interaction effects are based on radiowave non-linear mixing, which is rather complicated when describing and modelling the experiment. ...

... Asteroids are awkward to photograph. Can you imagine how hard it is to spot one of these tiny, dark lumps of rock against the blackness of our night sky? ... Like Earth, asteroids move around the Sun. ... But astronomers don t give up easily, and asteroids are something they really want to study. ... The asteroid in this photograph is called Itokawa. It became famous in 2005 when a Japanese spacecraft called Hayabusa visited it and took some photographs including this one! ...

... Astronomy news . ... Earth Seen By NASA's Moon Mapper On India's Chandrayaan-1 Spacecraft . A new image of Earth taken from 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the lunar surface was taken by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, one of two NASA instruments onboard the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. ... NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., designed and built the Moon Mineralogy Mapper and is home to its project manager, Mary White. ...

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. ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on February 24, 2012 | 4 Comments Beautiful colour images of nebulae grace astronomy books and websites and have spread to mainstream culture. ... Continue Reading.. ... Hearing news like this certainly makes one sit up and pay attention, but is it is correct? ... This rock is about 9m (30ft) across, meaning that it [ ] . ... Posted on January 30, 2012 | ... Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. ...

... Telescopes . ... The time requests are accepted in an electronic version with on-line form in Russian or English. ... Unregistered request will be disregarded by the Large Telescopes Programm Committee. In exclusive cases the secreatry of the Committee is entitled to accept an observational time request given permission of the Chairman of the Committee or the director of the SAO RAS. The Program Committee considers generally one time request submitted by the principal applicant. ...

... Институт прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша . БАЛЛИСТИЧЕСКИЙ ЦЕНТР . О Центре . ... Баллистический Центр Института прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша РАН . Баллистический центр (БЦ) ИПМ им. М.В. Келдыша создан по предложению С.П. Королева и М.В. Келдыша в 1965 году. На него были возложены работы по баллистико-навигационному обеспечению (БНО) управления полетом пилотируемых кораблей и автоматических космических аппаратов научного и народно-хозяйственного назначения. ...

Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders . ... Archives . ... There is a special issue on Atmospheric Science from the Annals of Applied Statistics , offering me intriguing discussions for finding a common ground between atmospheric science and astronomy. ... Here, provided are some interesting ones from my judegment with their [arXiv] links. ... As I write, the astrostat articles are all there. 03-24-2009, 3:25 pm . ...