Mathilde . ... On June 27, 1997 the Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft flew flew past asteroid 253 Mathilde. ... On June 27, 1997 NEAR made a spectatular 25 minute flyby of Mathilde which resulted in more than 500 images of a dark, crater-battered little world that dates to the beginning of the solar system. ... This first image of asteroid 253 Mathilde, returned by the NEAR spacecraft just before 10:00 AM EDT on June 27, 1997, was taken from a distance of 1800 kilometers (1120 miles). ...

... 22 Miles From Eros . ... Credit: NEAR Project , JHU APL , NASA Explanation: Last month the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft swooped closer to Eros, orbiting only 22 miles (36 kilometers) from the center of the asteroid. These two images taken on July 19 (left) and July 24 (right) reveal the diminutive world's pocked and mottled surface in amazing detail, showing features as small as 19 feet (6 meters) across. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... 2000 August 03 . 22 Miles From Eros . Credit: NEAR Project , JHU APL , NASA . ... These two images taken on July 19 (left) and July 24 (right) reveal the diminutive world's pocked and mottled surface in amazing detail, showing features as small as 19 feet (6 meters) across. ... On July 31, NEAR Shoemaker returned to its familiar 31 mile (50 kilometer) orbit, circling Eros serenely at about 6 miles per hour. ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...

... Comet Tutorial . ... On July 1, 1993 an image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that clearly shows at least 15 individual fragments in one image frame of the train. ... This made an accurate orbit (or orbits) difficult to determine; however, after numerous observations of the comet, astronmers determined that the comet had passed within 96,000 kilometers (60,000 miles) of the center of Jupiter or 25,000 kilometers (16,000 miles) from the cloud tops during the July 8, 1992, approach. ...

These images show Pluto in the latest series of New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) photos, taken May 8-12, 2015, compared to LORRI images taken one month earlier. In the month between these image sets, New Horizons' distance to Pluto decreased from 68 million miles (110 million kilometers) to 47 million miles (75 million kilometers), as the spacecraft speeds toward a close encounter with the Pluto system in mid-July. ...

I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

. Album : Фотоальбом Сергея Аюкова :: Travels to distant places and countries :: 1996/05 Greece, Chalkidiki :: Boat trip to Mount Athos. Peninsula governed by monks. Up . << Prev . We've closing to Ouranopolis (hope I spelled it right). The city (is it city?) is very small. Next >> . Photo album generated by album a Marginal Hack written by David Ljung on Wed Jun 5 20:38:30 2013 .

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on December 3, 2015 | ... Continue Reading.. ... No Comments A spectacular multi-coloured fireball was witnessed in Ireland and Scotland by dozens of people on the evening of 29 November 2015. ... 1 Comment Is this a new dawn for suborbital travel? ... Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... Click on an image for a larger version . ... At the bottom of the photograph we see the met. enclosure with the square raingauge (S2) on the right. ... This photograph taken in the 1930s from near the Armstrong School shows the cup anemometer on the roof of the main building and the sunshine tower between the Robinson and the Calver Telescope Domes (photo courtesy of P. Corvan). ... You can see the new sunshine tower to the right and the old sunshine tower (removed later that year) to the left. ...

Images by Rob McNaught from ~20km west of Siding Spring Observatory . Copyright 2011 Robert H. McNaught . Canon 5D, 50mm f/1.4, 20sec exposure ISO 400. ... Canon 5D, 135mm f/2.0, 20sec exposure ISO 400. ... ANU 2.3-m at far left. Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) on horizon to left of comet and ANU 0.6-m to the immediate right of the comet. ... ANU/Uni of Arizona/NASA/Robert H. McNaught . Uppsala Schmidt/Siding Spring Survey. ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... Submitted by Robert Halstead on 10/07/2010 10:51:16 . Comet 103P/Hartley animation, evening Oct. 6, 2010 . The images in this animation were taken using the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics MicroObservatory remote-controlled telescope in Arizona and processed using the MicroObservatory Image 2.1 software. The comet is shown wending its way across the constellation Perseus. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Р?С?С?С?Р?Р?Р?Р?РеС?Р?С?Р?РеР? ... Launched on February 17, 1996, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission is to be the first of NASA's Discovery missions, a series of small-scale spacecraft designed to proceed from development to flight in under three years for a cost of less than $150 million. ... The ultimate goal of the mission is to rendezvous with and achieve orbit around the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros in February, 1999, and study the asteroid for approximately one year. ...

Asteroid 2005 YU55 was listed on NASA's "Sentry Risk Page" as having as small (about one in 10 million) chance of hitting the Earth in the next century. We observed this asteroid with the Arecibo Planetary Radar system on April 19-23 2010. ... We obtained radar images of asteroid 2005 YU55 at 11 PM local time on 2011 Nov 9 using the Arecibo Observatory Planetary Radar System in Puerto Rico and the Robert W. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. ... Last modified 2011 November 14 . ...

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... Materials needed: Ъ At least 1 meter of paper tape per person, such as adding machine paper Ъ Pen or pencil each Just to review, the order of the planets and large objects going out from the Sun and their average distances are: Object Distance in kilometers Distance in AUе Mercury 58 million 0.39 Venus 108 million 0.72 Earth 150 million 1 Mars 228 million 1.52 Asteroid Belt (including Ceres г) 416 million 2.77 Jupiter 778 ... Fold the Sun to the Asteroid Belt mark and crease it. ...

... A full set of flatfield frames was taken with the NICMOS arrays during the System Level Thermal Vacuum test, conducted on the ground in August 1996. ... Users are encouraged to recalibrate their data with on-orbit flatfields if the pipeline calibration used thermal vacuum flatfields. Preliminary results from SMOV indicate that variations in the large scale structure of the on-orbit flatfields relative to the thermal vacuum flatfields are of the order of 1-2% in Camera 2, and up to 5% in Camera 1. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

... Deriving sines cosines . ... Let the sides of the triangle be named ( a,b,c ), each matching the name of the angle across from it. ... a / c = sin A -- "the sine (or sinus) of A" . ... This statement is usually written with the square written sin 2 A (not sinA 2 , which might be taken to mean the sine of an angle equal to A 2 ): . ... The length of side a then approaches that of c , while the length of b becomes very small: therefore as A approaches 90њ, sinA approaches 1 and cosA approaches zero. ...

Construction Punch List: December 27, 1999 . ... Cold temperatures aloft and warm temperatures at the Basin's surface left the lovely cloud cover. ... Above: close gap between door and cowling . Above right: clean up terminatinon . Right: seal door guard . ... Left: interior trim around dorr missing . Below left: seal around shroud; close gap between cowling and door . Below: patch hole from old cable reel . Right: remove old cable rel bracket and extra conduit . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... The Astrophysics Group is now based in the new Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics, which is located close to the Institute of Astronomy off the Madingley Road to the west of Cambridge city centre. ... The Cavendish Laboratory itself is on J.J. Thomson Avenue on the University West Cambridge site across the Madingley Road. ... If eastbound towards the city, look for a long traffic island with a right-turn break through signposted J.J. Thomson Avenue . ...