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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. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... News . ... In the following article, I used the wrong number to get the circumference of the Earth at the latitude of Cape Canaveral, which ironically is what I accuse Ms. vos Savant of as well! ... At the Equator, the Earth spins at 1000 miles per hour (the Earth is 24,000 miles around, and spins once every 24 hours). ... The math is a wee bit hairy, but not too bad, to calculate the circumference of the Earth at Cape Canaveral assuming the Earth is an ellipse with these numbers...

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... 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 ....

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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" . ...

... The beautiful Trifid Nebula (aka M20), a photogenic study in cosmic contrasts, lies about 5,000 light-years away toward the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. ... Visible are snow peaked mountains near and far, tremendous cliffs, distant plateaus, the tops of clouds, and a dark blue sky. ... Yesterday, at about 10 am Universal Time, Mars and Earth passed closer than in nearly 60,000 years. ... At about 10 am Universal Time today, Mars and Earth will pass closer than in nearly 60,000 years. ...

... 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 | ...

The Sun is our nearest star and the source of energy for life on Earth. ... For centuries astronomers wondered whether they were clouds floating in the Sun's atmosphere, but we now know that they really are huge regions of magnetic field, about as intense as the field at the poles of an iron magnet. ... Such abrupt events were named solar flares , and what made them especially interesting was that occasionally, after a prominent flare, a magnetic storm would erupt on Earth. ...

... Direct data transmission rate (Mbps) . ... the density of electron fluexs with energies in four bands from 0.04 MeV to 1.7 MeV; . ... sensor (TV, IR) data and heliogeophisical information (HGI) transmission to data receiving and processing centers at a rate of up to 2.56 Mbps; . ... 1.76 GHz - TV- and heliogeophysical information and DCLI's data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . 7.5 GHz - TV- and heliogeophisical data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . ...

... 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. ...

... Steven L. Smith . NASA International Space Station Program Liaison to the European Space Agency . ... SPECIAL HONORS: NASA Distinguished Service Medals (two), NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, NASA Space Flight Medal, NASA Exceptional Service Medal, IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award and IBM Outstanding Community Service Award. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Smith is a veteran of four space flights covering 16 million miles and seven space walks totaling 49 hours and 25 minutes. ... DECEMBER 2013 ...

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 twilight zone is not just an old television series. ... Most places on Earth pass through the twilight zone twice a day; the result is an enchanting hour at dawn and dusk of low sunlight and long shadows. ... Before assigning your students to watch a sunrise or sunset, have them try the following activities to develop their global sense. ... Armed with a global sense of our spinning planet, go out to watch the sky as your part of the Earth moves through the twilight zone. ...

... Missions . HST . ... Research . ... The key questions I would like addressed in my section include: 1) What are the remaining plausible models that explain the faint blue counts in both the field and cluster and are dwarfs necessary in these models? How much evolution is actually needed? ... 2) Showing some Keck redshift and kinematic data of very faint blue galaxies, as well as complementary HST structure and morphology that address the issue of faint blue galaxies being dwarfs. ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Connection between apparent and real orbits of a binary system P. Descamps Institut de M'ecanique C'eleste et de Calcul des ' Eph'em'erides, Paris, France In a binary system, each body describes about the other an elliptical apparent orbit which is the projection of the real orbit on the tangential plane. ... 0.5 0.0 0.5 Dacosd (arcsec) ­0.5 0.0 0.5 Dd (arcsec) E N W ­0.5 0.0 0.5 Dacosd (arcsec) ­0.5 0.0 0.5 Dd (arcsec) E N W October 2001 November 2001 Fig. ...

... Since moonshine is really reflected sunlight, the full Moon is on the average slightly brighter in mid-winter, when Earth is closest to the Sun. In addition, the distance of the full Moon also varies, due to the ellipticity ("eccentricity") of the Moon's orbit. On 22 December, 1999, the two effects combined to produce the brightest full Moon of the century. ... This year will be the first full moon to occur on the winter solstice, Dec. 22nd, commonly called the first day of winter. ...

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). ...

. European Southern Observatory . User Support Department . Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2 (Room 401) . D-85748 Garching b. M nchen . Germany . Phone: (49) 89 / 3200-6173 . e-mail: mhilker AT eso.org . Background picture: Earth at night, NASA image . Last update: 10 November 2006