The nasa.gov site requires that JavaScripts be enabled in your browser. ... Contact NASA . ... The term "astronaut" derives from the Greek words meaning "space sailor," and refers to all who have been launched as crew members aboard NASA spacecraft bound for orbit and beyond. Since the inception of NASA's human space flight program, we have also maintained the term "astronaut" as the title for those selected to join the NASA corps of astronauts who make "space sailing" their career profession. ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

Motif and X-Windows . The applications described in this section are some of the many applications available. ... A DECterm session can be created by choosing the DECterm submenu item the Session Manager's Application menu or by using the CREATE/TERMINAL command at the system prompt. ... The CDA Viewer application displays the contents of compound documents consisting of graphics, images, and text. ... Ghostview is an application that displays PostScript documents using ghostscript. ... DECterm . ...

... Credit Copyright: NASA , JPL-Caltech , UCLA , MPS,DLR,IDA - Composition: Justin Cowart Explanation: Dwarf planet Ceres is the largest object in the Solar System's main asteroid belt , with a diameter of about 950 kilometers (590 miles). ... Two of Ceres' famous mysterious bright spots at Oxo crater and Haulani crater are near center and center right of this view. ... Bright Spots Resolved in Occator Crater on Ceres . ... Dark Craters and Bright Spots Revealed on Asteroid Ceres . ...

... Up: Science Software Applications . ... It has extensions for creating GUI (Tk) and object-oriented ([incr tcl]) applications. Several Tcl-based tools that may be used for astronomical and other scientific applications have been created and are discussed. One example is ptcl , which registers PGPLOT functions as Tcl commands, creating a powerful interactive plotting package. ... Both programs use the same C code, Tcl commands, and [incr tcl] classes; only the GUIs are different. ...

NAUTICAL ASTRONOMICAL ALMANAC for 2011-2012 (in Russian-English) . Preface . The Institute of Applied Astronomy of the RAS (IAA RAS) submits the next issue of ?The Nautical Astronomical Almanac for the years 2011-2012? biennial (NAA-2). ... There are some auxiliary tables for interpolation and calculation of altitude and azimuth in NAA-2. Calculations of ephemerides in NAA-2 for 2011-2012 have been executed by the following researchers of Laboratory of Astronomical Yearbooks of IAA RAS: . ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Next: Step 3: Postprocessing to Up: How Pieflag works Previous: Step 1: Amplitude-based flagging . ...

... The Australian National University] [Department of Physics] [Paul Francis] [Main Roleplay Page] . These exercises are my attempt to adapt the technique of Problem Based Learning to the context of introductory astronomy and astrophysics classes. ... As students grapple with the puzzle, they are forced to learn the subject matter of the course. ... This exercise is designed for 1st year University students with a reasonable high-school background in Maths and Physics. ...

... Dr. Denis Bulaev . ... Talks . ... Invited Talks . Anomalous spin relaxation in nanotubes (in Russian) . ITP Seminar , Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems RAS , Moscow, Russia, September 6, 2007. Spin qubits based on quantum dots in III-V semiconductors and graphene (in Russian) . ... Spin properties of electrons and holes in quantum dots (in Russian) . ... Electric dipole spin resonance and spin decoherence for heavy holes in quantum dots . ... Spin qubits in graphene quantum dots . ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Dnepr LV (a converted SS-18 ICBM) with THEOS SC aboard was successfully launched from Yasny Launch Base several minutes ago. ... A new fuelling station and clean room 2 were used during the THEOS launch campaign at Yasny Launch Base. ... ISC Kosmotras' stock of orders contains signed contracts for five more launches scheduled for up to 2011 both from Baikonur Cosmodrome and Yasny Launch Base. ... 01.10.2008 . ... Dnepr Program...

... Public . Science . ... Science Users Information > Observing with ESO Telescopes > Policies and Procedures > Publications with ESO Data . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Public Surveys . Publications with ESO Data . ... Large Programmes . ... ESO/GTC Programmes . Public Surveys Programmes . ... Phase 1 Proposals . ... Public Surveys Phase 2 . ... Publications making use of ESO observational data must include the following statement in a footnote or in the acknowledgement: . ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.4 > Virtual Hosts . ... IP-based virtual hosting is a method to apply different directives based on the IP address and port a request is received on. ... As the term IP-based indicates, the server must have a different IP address/port combination for each IP-based virtual host . ... In the terminology of Apache HTTP Server, using a single IP address but multiple TCP ports, is also IP-based virtual hosting. ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

... 2012 December 1 . Northern Mercury . ... But new results based on data from the Mercury orbiting MESSENGER spacecraft indicate that it does have substantial water ice in permanently shadowed regions within craters near its north pole. The possibility of ice on Mercury has been entertained for years, inspired by the discovery of radar bright, hence highly reflective, regions near the north pole. ... Farther from the pole the regions are concentrated on the north facing crater walls. ...

... Posts tagged ?model based? ... arXiv:stat.ME:0910.2585] . Variable Selection and Updating In Model-Based Discriminant Analysis for High Dimensional Data with Food Authenticity Applications . ... Category: Algorithms , arXiv , Cross-Cultural , Data Processing , Jargon , Methods , Spectral , Stat | ... Tags: bimodality , chi-square minimization , Classification , CMD , Estimation , machine learning , massive data , model based , PCA , spectral analysis , spectroscopic , survey , VO . ...

... Planets . ... The planets were found using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6m telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory. ... A planet in orbit around a star causes the star to regularly move towards and away from observers on Earth. ... One newly discovered planet, HD 85512 b, is best hope found so far for a habitable exoplanet. ... The HARPS team so far have found that about 40% of stars similar to own Sun have at least one planet smaller than Saturn (which is 95 times more massive than Earth). ...

... Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 103907, Russia . ... Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology . ... 9, Dolgoprudny, Moscow region, Russia. ... 1999, Vol. ... In this report, we discuss an approach to construction of information searching systems based on dynamic chaos and intended to operate in computer networks, local area or Internet. Also we discuss an application of this technology to the problems of searching for information in unstructured text databases with natural-language requests. ...

... International relations . ... Samara State Aerospace University Staff Erisov Yaroslav Aleksandrovich . ... Erisov Ya.A. , Grechnikov F.V. The Research of Influence of Cold Rolling Conditions on Mechanical Properties Anisotropy of Sheets from Aluminum Alloy 8011A // 4th International Conference for Young Scientists High Technology: Research and Applications, HTRA 2015, 21 April - 24 April 2015, Tomsk, , 2016, P. 385-388 . ... 2015. ... Ya.A. Erisov . ...

... Future seminars . P a s t seminars . ... V.A. Pilipenko (IKI) . ... Professor T. Owen (Hawaii University, USA) . ... I.V. Khalzov (RRC Kurchatov Institute) . ... Abstract . ... June , 28 (Wednesday) . Supriya Chakrabarti (Director of Center for Space Physics Boston University, USA ) . ... Professor K. Papadopulos; Professor, Academic R.Z. Sagdeev; Professor C.S. Liu and others ( Maryland University, USA ) . ... Professor Mike Gruntman ( University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA ) . ...

... Research . ... Past and present projects and other research activities . ... These projects range from: the end-to-end systems modelling, design and commissioning of an optical to near-infra-red stellar coronagraph at the William Herschel Telescope, a European Space Agency design study into fold-out large aperture space telescopes, prototyping 'Smart' X-ray mirrors for next generation X-ray telescopes and R into future adaptive optics. ... OSCA - an Optimised Stellar Coronagraph for Adaptive optics ...