... 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 . ...

... Cities at Night . ... Credit Copyright: NASA , Scott Kelly . Explanation: Looking toward the south from an altitude of 400 kilometers, this stunning snapshot from orbit finds bright lights of Tokyo and cities across central and southern Japan, planet Earth shining upward through broken clouds. The spacefaring perspective was captured last July by astronaut Scott Kelly during his stay on board the International Space Station. ... International Space Station Transits Saturn . ... Planet Aurora . ...

... 2013 April 12 . Yuri's Planet . Image Credit: ISS Expedition 30 , NASA . Explanation: On another April 12th , in 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alexseyevich Gagarin became the first human to see planet Earth from space. ... On yet another April 12th, in 1981 NASA launched the first space shuttle . To celebrate in 2013 , consider this image from the orbiting International Space Station , a stunning view of the planet at night from low Earth orbit . ... About APOD | ...

... Baikonour Cosmodrome – RSC Energia after S.P. Korolev, . the city of Korolev . ... Putting this SC into the orbit was performed by Upper Stage (US) DM-SLB from low earth transfer orbit, where the SC/US had been delivered by launch vehicle (LV) Zenit-2SB. ... Mission analysis was performed by the specialists from RSC Energia after S.P. Korolev within the Lead Operational Control Team operating at Mission Control Center for Upper Stages DM-SLB (RSC Energia, the city of Korolev). ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on March 26, 2013 | 4 Comments Many of us may recall captivating images of an enormous glass and steel superstructure making the headlines in the 90тАЩs, along with the tale of eight human test subjects who [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... Posted on May 1, 2012 | ... Posted on February 24, 2012 | ... 10 Comments Where does space begin? ... Posted on January 17, 2012 | ... Part of [ ] . ...

... Jay Apt (Ph.D.) . NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... PUBLICATIONS: Dr. Apt shared his images and knowledge in the publication Earth in Orbit : NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth , written in conjunction with NASA scientists Michael Helfert and Justin Wilkinson and published by the National Geographic Society. ... From 1976 to 1980 he was a staff member of the Center for Earth & Planetary Physics, Harvard University, supporting NASA s Pioneer Venus Mission by making temperature maps of Venus from Mt. ...

... With enough velocity, a spacecraft can break loose from the Earth's gravity and enter an orbit around the Sun, like that of a planet. If it then orbits the Sun with the same period as the Earth--one year--it may keep a fixed position relative to Earth. ... If the distance is just right--about 4 times the distance to the Moon or 1/100 the distance to the Sun--the spacecraft, too, will need just one year to go around the Sun, and will keep its position between the Sun and the Earth. ...

... 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. ... The Sych-2 satellite is being developed as a part of the space optical-range Earth observation system by the State Design Office of Yuzhnoye and built by the Industrial Association Yuzhny Machine Building Plant in cooperation w ith other space industry entities upon the state order of the National Space Agency of Ukraine . ...

... With enough velocity, a spacecraft can break loose from the Earth's gravity and enter an orbit around the Sun, like that of a planet. If it then orbits the Sun with the same period as the Earth--one year--it may keep a fixed position relative to Earth. ... If the distance is just right--about 4 times the distance to the Moon or 1/100 the distance to the Sun--the spacecraft, too, will need just one year to go around the Sun, and will keep its position between the Sun and the Earth. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... People always have felt the lure of the Moon, as shown by the lunar rites practiced 5,000 years ago in northeast Scotland and the contemporary myth that people go wild during full Moons. ... One day, Earth smacked into one of those other agglomerating worlds, a wandering object the size of Mars. ... For additional information, visit our World Wide Web site at http://www.physics.sfsu.edu/asp/mercury/observer.html. ...

... 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! ...

... 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. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Member States . ... United Kingdom . ... Survey Telescopes . ... VLT Unit Telescopes Names . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... Artist's impression of the five-Earth mass planet, Gliese 581 c, found in the habitable zone around the red dwarf Gliese 581, with the instrument HARPS on the ESO 3.6-m telescope. ... Gliese 581 . ...

Michele Bannister . Other research . ... The mutual events of Haumea . The dwarf planet Haumea is the parent of a collisional family that includes its two moons, Hi'iaka and Namaka. ... The arid and windswept McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica are carpeted with the polygons of patterned ground , a geological formation that is also seen on the northern plains of the planet Mars. ... I worked to understand the influence that buried masses of ice have on the development of patterned ground. ...

... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

... comet nucleus. ... Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), Near Earth Objects (NEOs), cometary families , terrestrial type planets, collidings, transition of a comet nucleus , initial heliocentric parabolic orbit, heliocentric elliptical trajectory, a pairwise three dimensional two-body problem, the Sun - comet nucleus , terrestrial planet - comet nucleus , orbital parameters of a nucleus , sphere of influence of a ...

... 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. ...

Venus under the clouds. ... Venus is the second from the Sun and the nearest to the Earth planet of solar system. ... As for Venus, it has the densest atmosphere, the smallest rotation around the axis and the least eccentricity of the orbit Venus is the only planet whose own rotation is opposite it’s rotation around the Sun. ... The radiolocation survey of Venus by the soviet station "Venera - 15" and "Venera - 16" brought out in 1984 in the planets satellite`s orbit shoued the tarces of long walls. ...

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