... 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 . ...

... The research activity of the Group is mainly on the theoretical side, although our work plays an important role in the planning of scientific objectives of experiments and telescopes aimed at investigating the high energy universe, as well as being used to interpret the wealth of data that shed light on the violent universe from Earth and from Space. ... This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ...

The night after the John Glenn program, I pitched the terraforming idea to my students. I asked them if they'd like to terraform Mars as a big class project; I wanted to throw the idea to them and see how they would react. Already I had a vision of splitting the class into several groups and having each group take charge of a portion of the project. ... Following my initial idea on how to conduct the project, I split the class into six groups, each student choosing his or her group. ...

... a) As source material for the high-school or college curriculum, especially in physics. astronomy and their history. (b) As a source of supplemental projects by high school students or by undergraduates. (c) As material for independent studies, In particular by motivated students who seek to know more about space . ... Those wishing to look up specific topics are advised to use the index file, accessible from the end of any "Exploration" file. ... files not listed and at other resource material. ...

... a) As source material for the high-school or college curriculum, especially in physics. astronomy and their history. (b) As a source of supplemental projects by high school students or by undergraduates. (c) As material for independent studies, In particular by motivated students who seek to know more about space . ... Those wishing to look up specific topics are advised to use the index file, accessible from the end of any "Exploration" file. ... files not listed and at other resource material. ...

The main task of the multimedia lectures "Life of the Earth in the Solar Atmosphere" is to introduce wide range of users to the basic physical characteristics of the Earth, the near-Earth space and the Sun, which mainly forms the properties of the mentioned objects and is responsible for their variations (so-called "space weather"). ... Middle atmosphere of the Earth. ... Radiowaves' passing and spreading in the Earth atmosphere. ... Space radiation passing through the Earth atmosphere. ...

Internet Sites | ... Latitude and Longitude - A very beautiful page describing and diagraming the concepts of latitude and longitude. This would be a good place to show the bird's eye view of the latitude world to older students, especially 2nd-4th graders. ... Sunrise/Sunset Generator - A tremendous site designed for movie producers so they can schedule when to shoot scenes in various countries and cities around the world. ... The World Right Now - Live Internet-linked cameras around the world. ...

the Terrarium: Campus News: Student's summer project used to detect asteroids 11/30/11 3:34 PM Search Beloit You are here: Beloit College > the Terrarium > Campus News > Student's summer project used to detect asteroids Search the Terrarium Go the Terrarium Home Campus News Master Calendar bBay Campus Billboard Campus News Student's summer project used to detect asteroids November 29, 2011 at 5:26 pm No need to take shelter or stockpile food. ... Return to Campus News Copyright 2011 Beloit College | ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Many of the topics studied will have a local perspective, helping learners become better equipped to meet the needs of Northern IrelandтАЩs economy in an international context. ... Learners in the Space Science Technology qualification will build upon their existing skills in science, maths, engineering and ICT, and will use their new-found knowledge to solve real-life problems. ... Northern IrelandтАЩs New Space Science Technology Course | ...

For the 2004/2005 summer vacation program the ATNF received almost 200 applications and accepted six students. ... Four of the students were based in Sydney, and two at the Parkes Observatory. ... Nadia wanted to play with a telescope; Joris was looking for an entry into real astronomy after completing his masters in radio astronomy in Sweden; Jamil was keen to network. ... Figure 1: ATNF 2004/2005 summer vacation students. Back row: Peter Hansen, Nadia Davidson, Jamil Zaman, Joris Verbiest. ...

... Pre-university education . ... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Student clubs . ... XI International Summer Space School Advanced Space Technologies and Experiments in Space. From Mission Idea to Project of Nanosatellite took place in Samara State Aerospace University from June 22, 2015 to July 3, 2015. ... For the first week of lectures and practical exercises the participants studied the design theory of nanosatellites: flight mechanics, peculiarities of motion control and on-board systems. ...

... Information for Students on the Womens Science Forum . ... Events . ... Summer Student . ... The Women's Science Forum wants to help you to meet other young women with the same questions, as well as meet women that have built successful careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. At WSF events you will be given opportunities to speak directly to women scientists and engineers about what they do, and how they made their decision to go into their respective fields. ...

... Stars and Planets ? A project in Astronomy . ... During the first few months of 2001 year, students at our teacher training institutes (six in St. Petersburg, ten in Amsterdam, three in Stockholm and one student in Vietnam) have been working together in an international project in Astronomy. ... In this paper, we report on the project. ... While studying their topics, students in each country had regular contact with their tutor (at least once a week during the ten-week period of the project). ...

Participants about project . ... makes the world a welcoming place. ... we see it shared by those who love it. ... us more aware of our own community when we shared it . with the schools around the world. ... pleased my students chose to share the feelings of . ... Our town cannot grow much as it is like an island with . other communities growning around it. ... diverse, with many Mexican people recently adding to . ... Our town is old and the new City Building looked a bit . ... city. ...

Фонд поддержки научных образовательных и культурных инициатив "Траектория" и Специальная астрофизическая обсерватория РАН проводят Первую астрофизическую школу "Траектория" с 8-го по 21-е августа 2016 года. ... ведущий науч. сотрудник докт.физ.-мат. наук Григорий Меерович Бескин, . ведущий науч. сотрудник докт.физ.-мат. наук Олег Васильевич Верходанов, . ведущий науч. сотрудник докт.физ.-мат. наук Евгений Леонидович Ченцов . ...

... 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. ...

... DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY TAKEN TO NEW HEIGHTS By Catherine E. BorschИ magine having the power to control a digital camera aboard the International Space Station. ... Thanks to an innovative project called Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle School Students (EarthKAM), a special Space Station payload enables students to photograph and examine the Earth from a space crew's perspective. ... Astronaut Leroy Chiao will serve as commander and NASA Space Station science officer for the Expedition 10 crew. ...

Next: Survey Simulations Up: Minutes of the 1st Previous: RFI at Arecibo . GALFA is really a consortium of 3 separate sub-consortia centered around different science topics: Galactic HI, Continuum and Recombination lines. ... Continuum survey . ... Recombination lines . 12 H lines are found in the ALFA band, from n=163 to 174. ... At the same time, you could make an L-band map of SNR in OTF mode, basketweaving scans in RA and in Dec (the HI map would require more time than the continuum data). ...

... The submission of a formal application to the Board of Graduate Studies for admission as a graduate student in the University of Cambridge in Physics. ... Your application must be completed and submitted to the Board of Graduate Studies as soon as possible; students who are applying for admission in October 2016 should make sure it arrives sufficiently early that we can assess it at the same time as we receive our internal Astrophysics Group application form (i.e. by March 2016, see below). ...

... Be Edwin Hubble and determine the expansion of the Universe using the simulation of The Hubble Expansion Law and answer the questions therein. (you probably need to be using Internet Explorer version 5.5 or above for the simulation to run). ... Suppose you were arguing with someone about the Age of the Earth and your foe had an intrinsic distrust of science and its methods and so therefore would not believe anything to do with radioactive age dating. ...