... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... 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 . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Posted on November 5, 2015 | ... Continue Reading.. Posted on July 1, 2014 | ... 1 Comment There are thought be thousands of satellites in working order in orbit around the Earth. If the count was to include all Earth satellites including broken parts and discarded pieces, [ ] . ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... Early Mars bombardment likely enhanced life-supporting habitat . ... Asteroid DayУ?т??т??s Don Yeomans: Will asteroid 2013 TX68 strike Earth? ... When a really big rock (or a huge chunk of iron) hits Earth, why does it explode instead of just making a lot of rubble? ... Just make sure you're registered with the website. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... In fact, Mirach's Ghost is just a faint, fuzzy galaxy, well known to astronomers, that happens to be seen nearly along the line-of-sight to Mirach, a bright star. ... The North America Nebula . ... The North America Nebula in the sky can do what most North Americans on Earth cannot -- form stars. Specifically, in analogy to the Earth-confined continent, the bright part that appears as Central America and Mexico is actually a hot bed of gas, dust, and newly formed stars known as the Cygnus Wall. ...

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Educator's Guide to Micrometeorites . ... They are actually small bits of rock and metal that collide with Earth's upper atmosphere and, because of friction, burn up. On rare occasions, man-made satellites and spacecraft parts fall into the atmosphere and burn up the same way. ... That is what is happening to the particles in the upper atmosphere. ... Most meteorites fall into Earth's oceans. ... There is an easy way to collect meteorites, but we must be satisfied with finding small metal ones. ...

UFO Forum Message . Forums: . ... Post . ... It Really Is Relative . ... Post Message | ... If you are on the Earth the moon does not rotate around its own axis. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... 2014 February 10 . Falling to Earth . ... Explanation: What would it be like to fall to Earth from really high up? ... Surpassing the previous record of 31.3 kilometer plummet , Baumgartner, in a commercial venture , jumped off a floating balloon platform 39.0 kilometers above New Mexico, USA and had his entire fall recorded on video. Baumgartner wore a pressurized suit able to provide breathable air and warmth while up in the balloon and during his fall. ... About APOD | ...

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . ... d) The Age of the Chemical Elements . ... Some isotopes (forms of the element with different numbers of neutrons in the nucleus) of these elements are radioactive; they change into other isotopes at a rate that can be measured accurately in the laboratory. ... The Ancient Universe - The Age of the Expanding Universe - The Age of the Oldest Stars - The Age of Light From Distant Galaxies - The Age of the Chemical Elements | ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The real-time radiosignals characteristics calculation algorithm from current VS data is carried out according to the following scheme (V.P.Grozov ,G.V.Kotovitch,V.E.Nosov,S.N.Ponomartvhuk, S.V.Pushkarev,L.P.Sergeeva,V.V.Khakhinov. Real time decameters radio systems characteristics calculation by ionosphere vertical sounding data. ... ionogram and calculation results display on monitor; . ...

... The remote area was formed very early, at a time when the Universe was a fifth of its present age and the presence of the galaxy string defies existing models, which can not explain how a string this big could have formed so long ago. ... The simulations tell us that you cannot take the matter in the early Universe and line it up in strings this large," Dr Francis said. ... But in the early Universe, most galaxies had not yet formed, and most dark matter clouds will not yet contain a galaxy. ...

... Space flight . ... Space camp . ... And now it's a high time for everyone not only to take use of the satellite communication, but also to fly into the real space without being a professional cosmonaut. ... My flight into space is not a walk, it is fulfillment of my life-long dream", - said Dennis Tito prior to take-off. ... ATLAS aerospace company is privileged to offer you a real flight into space - the most unbelievable and challenging adventure. ... Services / Space flight: General description ....

A very important stage in a story of formation of any new science is the shift from discussion of situation which are possible but do not occur in practice due to some reason to recognition of real phenomena of interest. ... We suggest to consider computer viruses as this new specific form of life which is coming in the contact with our form of life. ... Computer life has been created by human being, the role of independent evolution of computer viruses seems to be still negligible. ...

... Deutsch . ... The Milky Way is the galaxy in which we live, a collection of billions of hot burning stars, planets and cosmic gas. If you re lucky enough to have enjoyed a really dark sky, far from the light pollution in cities and towns, you might have seen the Milky Way arching majestically across the night sky. ... This star cluster lies in the Carina-Sagittarius arm, named after the two constellations we find it in (the Carina constellation and the Sagittarius constellation). ...

... In more detail, the task requires as main input a table in a data set which contains a column with times in XMM MET (Mission Elapsed Time) frame[1]. ... Parameter Mand Type Default Constraints withtable yes boolean true Whether to convert ta- ble in a dataset should be set to true if a table containing events to correct has been speci ed and to false otherwise. table yes string name of existing table a speci er which must point to a table in a data set. ...

Computer Ephemeris. Lunar orbital data. Explanations. ... mean longitude of the Moon (degrees) . ... mean longitude of lunar node (degrees) . inclination of mean lunar equator to real equator of the Earth (degrees) . angular distance from ascending node of mean lunar equator on real equator of the Earth to ascending node of mean lunar equator on ecliptic (degrees) . angular distance from real equinox to ascending node of mean lunar equator on real equator of the Earth (degrees). ...

Image credit: Michael Nolan, Arecibo Observatory. These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2001 SN263 were obtained on 2008 Feb 12 and 13. ... Image from Feb 12 . ... First near-Earth triple asteroid discovered by Arecibo Observatory . ... was discovered this week by astronomers at the sensitive radar telescope at Cornell University?s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. ... For example, Arecibo has discovered more than half of the near-Earth binary asteroid systems discovered since 1999. ...

... GMT Monday, October 25, 1999 at 14:56:07) Swatch sells a watch that tells "Internet Time", and in my opinion they are only preying on the ignorance of the masses, to make a buck. ... The 24 hours of a day are divided into 1000 beats: 1 beat = 1 minute 26.4 seconds. ... One world - one time. ... It's been around for years and is also known as Greenwich Mean Time, and also Zulu Time. ... Further, conventional time is based on a basic understanding of the natural world around us. ...