... 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 . ...

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... 2003 November 25 . A Late Leonid from a Sparse Shower . Credit: Mauna Kea CONCAM , The Night Sky Live Project . Explanation: The 2003 Leonids Meteor Shower contained relatively few meteors. ... Pictured above is one of the brighter Leonids of 2003, caught by one of the continuously operating night sky web cameras (CONCAMs) of the global Night Sky Live project. ... Although the peak of the Leonids this year was on November 19, this meteor flashed through the sky the next night. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . El Nino Earth . ... Credit: TOPEX/Poseidon Team , CNES , NASA Explanation: El Ni?o is a temporary global climate change resulting from unusually warm water in the central Pacific Ocean. ... Warm water is shown in white in the above false-color picture taken by the orbiting TOPEX/Poseidon satellite in late October. ... Publications with keywords: Earth - weather - climate - El Nino . Publications with words: Earth - weather - climate - El Nino . ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "That's as remote as the dark side of the Moon!" ... As the tired, hackneyed refrains went on, one in particular caught my ear: " Fly me away to the bright side of the moon, and meet me on the other side." ... As the Moon orbits the Earth, different parts of it get illuminated by the Sun. ... Bad Addendum : At the end of the album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd, there is a voiceover that actually says "There is no dark side of the moon. ...

... For a timeline of the exploration of the magnetic environment of the Earth, Sun and Planets, see here . ... Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) builds the first astronomical telescope and observes for the first time craters on the Moon, satellites around Jupiter, and the way Venus goes through phases like the Moon (crescent, etc.) ... 17 December--First successful flight by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. ... 16 March--Goddard launches his first liquid-fuel rocket. ...

... 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. ...

... Comets and Asteroids . ... Space Flight . ... By admin October 14, 2010 Posted in: Comets and Asteroids . ... No one on Earth noticed this cataclysm until January 2010, almost a year later, when the LINEAR survey discovered something odd , initially thought to be a comet. ... For details of observations at this time, see Crash of the Asteroids by Sinead McNicholl in the March 2010 issue of Astronotes . Colliding asteroid P/2010 A2 as seen by Rosetta (Image credit: ESA) . ...

... 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 . ...

... CURRENT ASPECTS OF REMOTE SENSING OF EARTH FROM SPACE . ... For developing of the scientific concept and the programs of global monitoring of the Earth from space and pursuant to the disposal of Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences # 10310-717 (August 11, 2004 ) Space Research Institute RAS and Center of Space Observations of the Russian Space Agency during November 16-18, 2004 conduct the Second Opened All-Russia conference ' Current Aspects of Remote ...

... Classes . ... Earth . ... tcc::Earth Class Reference . ... std::tr1::array < double, 3 >љ . ... std::tr1::array <double, 2> tcc::Earth::poleInterceptX . ... std::tr1::array <double, 2> tcc::Earth::poleInterceptY . ... std::tr1::array <double, 2> tcc::Earth::poleSlopeX . ... std::tr1::array <double, 2> tcc::Earth::poleSlopeY . ... std::tr1::array <double, 3> tcc::Earth::startTAI . ... std::tr1::array <double, 2> tcc::Earth::ut1_taiIntercept . ... std::tr1::array <double, 2> tcc::Earth::ut1_taiSlope ....