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... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Mars . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Comet to make close flyby of Red Planet in October 2014 . ... COMETS | ... Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) will make a close approach to Mars in October 2014. ... During the close Mars approach, the comet likely will achieve a total visual magnitude of 0 or brighter, as seen from Mars-based assets. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... Posts tagged ?close? ... For a discipline that relies so heavily on images, it is rather surprising how little use astronomy makes of the vast body of work on image analysis carried out by mathematicians and computer scientists. ... images. ... 1 Comment . ... Entries RSS . Comments RSS . ... General comments . ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . upvc windows on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... Alfred Inselberg on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . The ATMoB is a group of about 300 individuals in the greater Boston area. In addition to telescope making, our club members are involved in star, comet, and planetary observing. ... Web Site . ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... The newly discovered ?mega-Earth? ... Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background (the two planets? proximity is grossly exaggerated) .€а Kepler-10c has a diameter of about 29 000 km, 2.3 times as large as Earth, and weighs 17 times as much. ... The first mega-earth to be discovered is Kepler-10c which orbits a star lying about 560 light years from the Sun in the constellation Draco. ... Astronomers Find a New Type of Planet: The ?Mega-Earth? ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Asteroid 2010 SO16 and the Earth follow similar orbits around . the Sun. ... out a horseshoe shape in space, taking 175 years to go from . ... Asteroid 2010 SO16 takes 175 years to make the trip from one end of the horseshoe to the other. ... Currently, three other horseshoe companions of the Earth are known to exist but, unlike 2010 SO16, these linger for a few thousand years at most before moving on to different orbits. ...

... Our Earth is not at rest. ... The Sun orbits the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way Galaxy orbits in the Local Group. ... What's the closest galaxy to our Milky Way? For many years astronomers thought it was the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). ... Stellar motions indicate there is much more mass than just stars and gas. ... What is the shape and composition of our Milky Way Galaxy? ... The large majestic Lagoon Nebula is home for many young stars and hot gas. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Book Store . ... My book has been getting a fair share of positive reviews , but it has now garnered a negative one. I should have expected it: it's from a mailing list about UFOs. ... Note added May 21, 2002 : It was brought to my attention by several people that in the article below, I say that amateur astronomers "never" report UFOs. ... My point remains: if amateurs watch the sky far more than laymen, then they should see far more UFOs. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO Acronyms . ... TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope . ... This artistтАЩs impression shows an event in the early history of the Solar System that may explain how the unusual asteroid Lutetia came to now be located in the main asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter. Lutetia is seen passing close to one of the very young rocky planets about four billion years ago and having its orbit drastically altered. ... Asteroid (21) Lutetia . ...

... 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. ...

... 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. ...

... Launch Date: 1968-09-14 . ... Zond 5 was launched from a Tyazheliy Sputnik in Earth parking orbit to make scientific probes during a lunar flyby and to return to Earth. ... The closest distance was 1,950 kilometers (1,212 miles). High-quality photographs of the Earth were taken at a distance of 90,000 kilometers (56,000 miles). ... On September 21, 1968, the re-entry capsule entered the Earth's atmosphere, braked aerodynamically, and deployed parachutes at 7 kilometers (4.35 miles) . ...

ACTIONS · EPIC_10/1 on Munoz. ... EPIC_9/2 on Altieri: to provide new CCFs reflecting the current MOS bad pixels. ... Commitment to maintenance. · new portal for calibration : · Capella cross- calibration with Chandra: GRB021004 killed first effort second attempt it went ahead with simultaneous observations EPIC : · See specific calibration talks and Cooling report RGS : · · RGS IDT believes great improvements of wavelength ...

... A plot macro is a set of commands that you can execute together by invoking the name of the macro; in effect, it is a plot subroutine. ... You can make a macro in 4 ways: . ... The rule to remember if you do this is that the name of the macro must be the first thing on a line of the file, and should be followed by SM commands. ... Similarly, the right and left arrows advance the cursor one character right and left, respectively. within a line, keys will work just like the history editor . ...

NASA Press Release Text - June 24, 1996 GALILEO READY FOR CLOSE FLYBY OF JUPITER'S BIGGEST MOON Now residing in orbit around Jupiter, NASA's Galileo spacecraft is primed for its first close flyby of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, at 2:29 a.m. EDT on June 27, 1996. ... In the days just before and after the Ganymede flyby, Galileo's other studies will include a search for auroral activity on Jupiter's nightside and observations of other Jovian moons: Io, Europa and Callisto. ...

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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. ...

Laboratory of Stellar Physics . ... A study of close binaries with black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. ... A study of SS433 - the massive close binary with a black hole in the regime of supercritical accretion . ... A search for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBH). The black holes which are not supermassive black holes observed in quasars, and which were formed not in massive stars. ... A search for new magnetic stars, new CP stars, measurements of magnetic fields in stars . ...

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