... 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 . ...

... Mark E. Kelly (CAPTAIN, USN) . NASA Astronaut . ... AWARDS:€а Defense Superior Service Medal (with one bronze oak leaf cluster); Distinguished Flying Cross; Air Medal (with valor device and three bronze service stars); Navy Commendation Medal (with valor device and one bronze service star); Navy Achievement Medal ; Southwest Asia Service Medal (with one bronze service star); Navy Expeditionary Medal ; National Defense Service Medal (with one ... JULY 2011 ...

... PROGRESS M-49 CARGO VEHICLE . ... Russian unmanned logistics spacecraft Progress M-49 launched from Baikonur on May 25, 2004, has docked today with the International Space Station (ISS) after two days of free flight in low Earth orbit. ... In compliance with the International Space Station (ISS) flight program and obligations of the Russian Party under the ISS Project rocket and space complex Soyuz-U/Progress M-49 was launched at 16:34:23 Moscow summer time from Baikonur cosmodrome. ...

... APOD: 2008 April 1- New Space Station Robot Asks to be Called Dextre the Magnificent . ... 1.04.2008 . ... Credit: Expedition 16 Crew, NASA Explanation: In a surprising and potentially troubling request, the new space station robot known as Dextre demanded that astronauts refer to it in the future at "Dextre the Magnificent." ... Happy April Fools Day from the f o l k s at APOD . ... Dextre was deployed last month to help build and service the International Space Station . ... April . April 2008 . ...

... IAA VLBI Analysis Center . ... First IAA SLR EOP submission to IERS Annual Report . ... Beginning of operational processing of SLR observations . ... We use several program packages for analysis mostly developed at the IAA: GROSS for processing of the SLR observations and analysis of EOP and coordinates time series, OCCAM/GROSS for computation of EOP, station coordinates, and troposphere parameters time series from the VLBI observations, GRAPE for processing of GPS observations. ...

... The one year crew. (image credit: NASA/Bill Stafford) . The тАЬOne Year CrewтАЭ has specific objectives to their mission all in a bid to find out if the human body and mind is capable of long missions to an asteroid, back to the Moon or even to Mars in the future. ... On-board the Russian space station Mir four cosmonauts clocked up more than a year in space in the 1980s and 1990s.€а (1942-) has the record for the longest single space flight of 437 days or 14 months in space in 1995. ...

... Time service of RATAN-600 outputs sideral seconds and impulses of minutes with time codes for feed-cabines. These signals are coincided with local sideral time, recalculated from coordinate time UTC, using of sideral time program (stm) having accuracy of 0.0001s. DeltaUTC can be received from Time service or from Astronomical Annuals. The program stm calculates mean sideral time on any date with high accuracy (usage: stm hh [dd/mm/yy] ). ...

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... SRC "Planeta" is executing operative control and guidance management of ground system for receiving and processing satellite data that includes three regional centers: European Center (SRC "Planeta", Moscow, with branch offices in Obninsk and Dolgoprudny), Siberian Center (regional department in Novosibirsk) €а& Far-Eastern Center (regional department in Khabarovsk). ... Catalogues of received and processed satellite data are available on€а SRC "Planeta" web-sites: . SRC "Planeta" . ...

... Created: 22 January 2001 . ... SERVICE AND CALIBRATION MANUAL . ... Draft Document Outline. ... 4 Preparing NIFS for Use or Storage . ... The purpose of this Service and Calibration Manual is describe the procedures used to service, maintain, and calibrate the operation of the Gemini Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph. ... Section 19.4.2 of the document “Programmatic Requirements for Gemini Instrumentation Development” states the requirements for the Service and Calibration Manual . ...

National Research Institute for Physical-Technical and Radio Engineering Measurements IMPROVEMENT OF THE SOFTWARE BERNESE FOR CALCULATION OF THE EARTH ROTATION PARAMETERS ACCORDING TO THE DATA OF SATELLITE LASER RANGING (LAGEOS 1, LAGEOS 2) IN THE MAIN METROLOGICAL CENTRE OF THE STATE TIME AND FREQUENCY SERVICE Tsyba E. N., Kaufman M. B. 141570, Mendeleevo, Moscow region, Russia tel. +7-903-194-7575; tsyba_e_n@mail.ru ABSTRACT Preparatory ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... On 9 September 2009, a contract was signed between ISC Kosmotras and SSTL for the launch of Nigeria-2 and NigeriaSat- у satellites on Dnepr rocket as part of 2010 cluster launch from Yasny Launch Base. According to information provided by SSTL the NigeriaSat-2 satellite is being built for the Nigerian government (NASRDA) as a follow-on to the NigeriaSat-1 satellite that was launched in 2003. ... E-mail: info@kosmotras.ru . ...

Find Similar Abstracts . ... Quantum creation of a universe with nontrivial topology . ... 10, May 1984, p. 323-328) Soviet Astronomy Letters (ISSN 0360-0327), vol. 10, May-June 1984, p. 135-137. ... The quantum creation of a universe with a flat comoving 3-space is noted to be possible in nontrivial topology. ... Use: Authors Title Abstract Text Text Query with Keywords Return: Query Results Query Form Database: Astronomy Instrumentation Physics and Geophysics ABSTRACT QUERY USER FEEDBACK HELP ...

Abstract for the 9 th Workshop and Symposium on Space and the Arts “ Space: Planetary Consciousness and the Arts ”, May 19-21, 2005, Ch teau d'Yverdon Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland . ... Similar to SETI – the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Search for ETI), where one listens for messages sent to Earth – METI means "Messaging to ETI": Sending both scientific and artistic messages to the stars. ... There are at least two peculiar features of METI Art. ...

... Global WWW Starting Point and Compilations . ... HTML Manuals and Tutorials . ... ESA/Estec/SAI Home Page . ... Centre de Donn es astronomique de Strasbourg (CDS) Home Page. ... Bibliographical Engine ( xxx forms) - Italian mirror . ... The NASA Home page. An Web Resource Collection by Masters Degree Online . ... The local TCSH . ... The Web Anti-Spam page. ... Apple Italian Home Page . ... Walnut Creek CDRom Home Page and the Italian Mirror . ... A good hotlist of HTML resources around the Web. ...

... We have developed a web site using HTML, Php, Python, and MySQL that extracts, processes, and displays data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Two-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS). The goal is to locate brown dwarf candidates in the SDSS database by looking at color cuts; however, this site could also be useful for targeted searches of other databases as well. MySQL databases are created from broad searches of SDSS and 2MASS data. ... 2002). ... 2002, AJ, 123, 3409 . ...

Human Spaceflight - NASA's Space Shuttle and Space Station web page . Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt MD ( map ) . ... National Air and Space Museum , Washington, D.C. Center for Earth and Planetary Studies . Mars Missions from JPL . ... Space Weather Now from the NOAA Space Environment Center . ... Servicing Mission 1: STS-61 . ... Servicing Mission 3A STS-103 , . ... Official U.S. Time . ... Dimension 4 - excellent time synchronization software for your PC . ...

... 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. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Creating unresolved stars . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine ...

... 2012 January 30 . Blue Marble Earth from Suomi NPP . Image Credit: NASA / NOAA / GSFC / Suomi NPP / VIIRS / Norman Kuring . ... This Blue Marble Earth montage shown above -- created from photographs taken by the Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument on board the new Suomi NPP satellite -- shows many stunning details of our home planet. ... Previously, several other Blue Marble Earth images have been created, some at even higher resolution . ... About APOD | ...