... 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 . ...

... Happy People Dancing on Planet Earth . ... Many humans on Earth exhibit periods of happiness, and one method of displaying happiness is dancing. Happiness and dancing transcend political boundaries and occur in practically every human society. ... The video is perhaps a dramatic example that humans from all over planet Earth feel a common bond as part of a single species . ... Publications with keywords: Earth . Publications with words: Earth . ... A Large Space Station Over Earth . ...

... 2010 July 25 . Happy People Dancing on Planet Earth . ... Many humans on Earth exhibit periods of happiness, and one method of displaying happiness is dancing. Happiness and dancing transcend political boundaries and occur in practically every human society. ... The video is perhaps a dramatic example that humans from all over planet Earth feel a common bond as part of a single species . Happiness is frequently contagious -- few people are able to watch the above video without smiling . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Area of science: Astronomy . ... The answer depends on the shape of the path the Earth takes around the Sun. ... But really the Earth goes around the Sun, and the path it takes is called its orbit . After people figured out the Earth went around the Sun, they thought the Earth's orbit was a big circle. ... But the temperature does not depend much on how far we are from the Sun, but instead how the Earth is tilted as it goes around the Sun. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... 2000 October 28 . Moonrise, Planet Earth . Credit: STS-35 Crew, NASA . ... In the foreground, towering clouds of condensing water vapor mark the extent of the troposphere, the lowest layer of the planet's life-sustaining atmosphere . ... Moon and clouds are strong visual elements of many well known portraits of planet Earth , including Ansel Adams' famous "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" , photographed in 1941. ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... The Future . ... By admin August 20, 2014 Posted in: Concept Spacecraft . The XS-1 booster descending to Earth after releasing its upper stage. The expendable upper stage was carried on the spaceplane?s back. ... Northrop GrummanтАЩs proposed XS-1 is a reusable spaceplane which acts as a booster for an expendable upper stage that could place a 3000 lb (1360 kg) satellite into low Earth orbit. ...

... 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 . ...

... 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! ...

... Do you know why we have seasons on Earth? ... Even if you offer students the great activities developed by the Harvard researchers, or the great activities in ASP's teacher resource book, The Universe at Your Fingertips , your students still won't learn anything unless they work hard and think about their work. ... But none of these are worth a hoot unless they are also accompanied by hard work on students' part. ... The key to success in astronomy is the same as it is in everything else: hard work....

Why do people want to explore Mars? At the present time Mars topography is known sufficiently well to make a Martian map; we cannot distinguish yet the settlements of the inhabitants of this planet, but sooner or later we probably will be able to achieve this as well.. ... US spacecraft "Mariner-4" performed the first successful flyby and transmitted to the Earth twenty one photos of Mars' surface. ... It is supposed that large subsurface ice reservoirs or liquid water exist on Mars. ...

... This year's eclipse is unique in duration. ... Although, at the present time, there are 6 solar observatories belonging to leading space agencies in orbit around the Earth, the eclipse of 22 July, 2009, will only be seen by two of them: the Russian CORONAS-PHOTON satellite equipped with TESIS telescopes and Japan's HINODE satellite fitted with an XRT space telescope. ... TESIS will be the first of the two devices (and the very first on Earth) to witness the solar eclipse. ...

... It s sometimes hard to grasp the length of time involved in events in the Universe. But the Universe is huge and it has been around for a very long time 13.7 billion years! ... These big time scales mean that astronomers can t study something like the lifetime of a star by studying one star, as that would take millions or billions of years! ... Sometimes, though, things that are far away in deep space change in the night sky during our lifetime. Take this new space photo, for example. ...

... Space Telescope Science Institute and Johns Hopkins University . A multidisciplinary course exploring the origins of life, planetary formation, Earth's evolution, extrasolar planets, habitable zones, life in extreme environments, the search for life in the Universe, and space missions. DiRuggiero, Norman, and others, 3 credit hours. ... The JHU Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences also offers courses that may be of interest to students interested in astrobiology: . ...

Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders . ... Archives . ... Title : How Astronomers, Computer Scientists and Statisticians are working together to tackle hard problems in astronomy . ... The IIC has established an inter-disciplinary Center for Time Series with an immediate focus on astronomy. ... Chandra Blog . ... SAMSI AstroStat Prog. ...

... Not aliens from another planet, but life forms which may have a very different, or completely different, origin than the life that we're familiar with," he said. ... Since this time, the field has expanded as scientists probe the origin of life - how life on Earth began some 4 billion years ago. ... Imagine the surface of the Earth, and imagine if you had only explored 1 per cent of it," Dr Lineweaver said. ... But, Dr Lineweaver said, Darwin was not able to show how life got started on Earth. ...

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... Back in the labs on Kemois, there is a management meeting to decide who will be worthy of test piloting the new IFTIF (Inter-Flux Time Integration Facility) or in simple terms, the time machine. Seeing as you have single handedly kicked out the Hell spawn from Mars 17 Earth Years ago, (Earth time has become the new standard around which, all other planet time is aranged, a bit like GMT on Earth.) you are one of the canidates for the task. ... Construction * Base : New level from scratch. ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . Located in the middle of Hard Labor Creek State Park in Rutledge, Georgia (~50 miles east of downtown Atlanta), the observatory is a resource for professional and amateur astronomers. However, an additional service of HLCO has been to the public - bringing the wonders of the Universe to Georgia residents. ... Web Site . ... Web . ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...