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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" . ...

... 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 . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... October . ... By admin October 8, 2010 Posted in: Monthly Sky Notes . A giant from close up: an image made using data from the Cassini probe which flew past Jupiter in 2000. ... As it is so far from us, it takes JupiterтАЩs light a significant time to reach us тАУso when you see Jupiter tonight you are seeing it as it was 35€а minutes in the past. ... Posted October 12, 2010 at 11:15 PM . ... Astronotes . ...

... 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. ...

... 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 . ...

MAKE ME AN ISLAND Different eyes, different size, different girls every day. Different names, different games took my breath clean away. But I'm changed, rearranged, I'm enlightened and how you have caught me, you have taught me and I'm different now. Take me and break me and close all your windows and doors. Shut me off, cut me off, make me an island, I'm yours. Take me away from the world, take me away from the girls. Take me and break me and make me an island, I'm yours. ...

The planets Jupiter and Venus will make an apparent close approach to each other on the early morning of Friday, 5th November. When Jupiter rises above the eastern horizon at 4.07 a.m. for Northern Ireland viewers, it will be just about one Moon-width away from the much more brilliant Venus. ... In reality, a vast distance will separate the planets. ... FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John McFarland at the Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh, BT61 9DG. ...

... The proper procedure to set up the wind baffle and enclosure to be powered by the emergency generator in the event that both commercial and site emergency generator power is lost. ... The enclosure should be open with telescope in an un-stowed position. ... Wind baffle (WB) control power switch ; Location : ?; ... Enclosure power switch box ; Location : ?; ... Change the WB manual pendent connector in WB control box to ALT Axis Brundy, make sure the "pot" is at "000" and the palm switch is depressed...

... Version 1.21.1 : - 2002-01-27 (CB) Fixed configuration file (SPR 2723). ... Code also tidied up. ... Version 1.8: 18 September 1998 Used correct syntax for parameter lists in .par file SPR 517: Version 1.7: 14 August 1998 parse call removed SPR 500 closed : removed cal from test/Makefile Version 1.6: 17 June 1998 SPR 441 closed : test harness now checks some values SPR 440 closed : .par file changed SPR 439 closed : file permissions changed Version 1.5: 21 May 1998...

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... Looking Down on Saturn . ... This picture of Saturn could not have been taken from Earth. No Earth based picture could possibly view the night side of Saturn and the corresponding shadow cast across Saturn's rings. ... The Clouds of Jupiter . ... What makes the colors in Jupiter's clouds? ... Of the over 200 globular star clusters that orbit the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, 47 Tucanae is the second brightest globular cluster (behind Omega Centauri). ... Kepler Discovers How Planets Move . ...

... 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. ...

... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

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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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