... 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 . ...

... 14.05.2015 . ... Credit Copyright: Damian Peach / SEN Explanation: In this sharp snapshot, the Solar System's largest moon Ganymede poses next to Jupiter, the largest planet. Captured on March 10 with a small telescope from our fair planet Earth, the scene also includes Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the Solar System's largest storm. In fact, Ganymede is about 5,260 kilometers in diameter. ... Though its been shrinking lately , the Great Red Spot's diameter is still around 16,500 kilometers. ...

... Earth is the tiny spot between Jupiter and the Sun). ... Distance Radius Mass Name Orbits (000 km) (km) (kg) --------- ------- -------- ------- ------- Sun 697000 1.99e30 Jupiter Sun 778000 71492 1.90e27 Saturn Sun 1429000 60268 5.69e26 Uranus Sun 2870990 25559 8.69e25 * Neptune Sun 4504300 24764 1.02e26 * Earth Sun 149600 6378 5.98e24 Venus Sun 108200 6052 4.87e24 Mars Sun 227940 3398 6.42e23 Ganymede Jupiter 1070 2631 1.48e23 + Titan ... Extrema .. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... October . ... By admin October 8, 2010 Posted in: Monthly Sky Notes . A giant from close up: an image made using data from the Cassini probe which flew past Jupiter in 2000. ... As it is so far from us, it takes JupiterтАЩs light a significant time to reach us тАУso when you see Jupiter tonight you are seeing it as it was 35€а minutes in the past. ... Posted October 12, 2010 at 11:15 PM . ... Astronotes . ...

... 2010 August 3 . The Planet and the Radio Dish . ... Although seemingly something out of The Little Prince , the planet is actually Earth. ... The central fisheye image points down, while the surrounding wide-angle images were taken at a 30 degree tilt and added digitally later. ... At the image top ("noon" if the planet were a clock) is the well-lit Parkes Radio Telescop e dish in New South Wales , Australia . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

Jupiter is the largest of the nine planets, more than 10 times the diameter of Earth and more than 300 times its mass. ... The mean density of Earth is 5.245 times that of water. The pull of gravity on Jupiter at the top of the clouds at the equator is 2.4 times as great as gravity's pull at the surface of Earth at the equator. ... It is tipped about 11њ to Jupiter's axis of rotation, similar to Earth's, but it is also offset from the center of Jupiter by about 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles). ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Slacker Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Life Under the Moon . ... Seeing Jupiter's Moons . ... Time Zones and the Spherical Earth . A Companion to the Earth? ... December 19, 1999) . ... Big Moon, Little Moon . ... How Big is the Moon? ... 14, 2000) . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Subscribe to the Bad Astronomy Newsletter! Talk about Bad Astronomy on the BA Bulletin Board! ...

... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... The Real Reality Show: Would aliens be anything like us? ... Do other planets have meteor showers like Earth has? ... If so, can we learn anything about the planet's atmosphere by looking at the light as meteors burn? ... RELATED TOPICS: METEOR SHOWER . All planets in our solar system that have atmospheres also have meteor showers. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Formation and migration of trans -- Neptunian objects S. I. Ipatov 1;2 1 Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia 2 NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, USA We support the Eneev's idea [1] that the largest (with diameter d?100 km) trans ­ Neptunian objects ( TNOs ) moving now in not very eccentric orbits ... The total amount of water delivered to the Earth during the formation of the giant planets was about the mass of water in the Earth's oceans. ...

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. ...

Class 1 Introduction, Background History of Modern Astronomy The Night Sky, Eclipses and the Seasons Kepler's Laws Newtonian Gravity General Relativity Matter and Light Telescopes Class 2 Solar System Characteristics Formation Exosolar Planets Class 3 Stars The Sun Stellar Evolution of Low and High Mass Stars Deaths of Stars Exotic Stars Class 4 Galaxies Galaxy Classification Formation of Galaxies Galactic Evolution ... So far, one planet has been studied by this method. ...

... As then we removed from the Earth, we dived into a sky deeper and deeper. ... We saw immense red-hot spheres, liked suns, in illuminator of our spaceship. ... We saw our Earth, Mars, Mercury, and planets-giants, such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and other. ... Also we saw a comet. ... The planet Upsilon was on our way. ... If we could speak the language of these two peoples, we could explain them what the war did on our home planet "the Earth", how many people were killed because of war conflicts. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Survey Telescopes . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... Window on the Universe . ... SL-9 and Jupiter - 1994 . ... An excerpt from "From Earth to the Universe" тАФ€а the worldтАЩs first full-length fulldome planetarium movie freely available for planetarium use тАФ shows an animation of the planet Jupiter and its Great Red Spot in€а high-resolution 4k fulldome format. ...

What will happen when the fragments hit Jupiter? ... All the fragments will enter Jupiter's atmosphere at an angle of 42 degrees from the vertical and impact near a latitude of 44 degrees south, but on the back side of the planet as seen from Earth (about 10 degrees in longitude behind the edge of Jupiter, as seen from Earth). ... Any body moving through an atmosphere is slowed by atmospheric drag, by having to push the molecules of that atmosphere out of the way. ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... ISC Kosmotras announces signing of a launch contract with T B?TAK Space Technologies Research Institute (T B?TAK UZAY) for injection of RASAT spacecraft - the first Earth observation satellite designed and manufactured in Turkey by Dnepr LV in 2010. ... Dnepr LV Performance . ...

... Advantages of a Larger Aperture for TPF-C Can Search More Stars to Greater Distances (~D3 ) Faster Survey, More Time for Follow-Up Sensitive to Planets in Habitable Zone of More/Fainter Stars Smaller Inner Working Angle (at Fixed Wavelength) Lower Mass Stars , Fewer Visits /Star for Significant Null Result, Improved Orbits, Efficient Recovery on Future Visits TPF-C Observability of ...

... Listed below are questions submitted by users of "The Great Magnet, the Earth" and the answers given to them. ... In "The Exploration of the Earth's magnetosphere" on the magnetic environment of the Earth in space (a few Q duplicated here) . ... 11) Magnetic Shielding . ... 51) Can electricity be generated from the Earth's magnetic field? ... 9) Measuring Earth's magnetic field . ... 6) Reversals of the Earth's field (4 queries) . ... 42) Could generated electricity affect Earth's magnetic field? ...

... Visibility of Small Solar-System Bodies . Asteroids) in 2009 : . ... Distance (AU) . ... Jan. 12, 2009 . ... 8.8 m . ... is at opposition on July 4, 2009 . ... Apparent . ... from Sun (AU) . ... is at opposition on September 21, 2009 . ... middle distance between Earth and Sun, equal 149.6 millions km. ... Mean Distance: . ... a configuration of the Sun, Earth and a planet in which the apparent geocentric longitude of the planet differs by 180 from the apparent geocentric longitude of the Sun. ...

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