Dione's Lagrange Moon Helene . ... Credit Copyright: NASA , Voyager 2 Explanation: Saturn 's moon Helene is very unusual in that it circles Saturn near the orbit of a bigger moon: Dione . Helene is situated in what is called a "Lagrange point" of Dione - a place of stability created by Dione's gravity. Were Helene to stray slightly from its orbit 1/6 ahead of Dione, the larger moon's gravity would cause Helene to move back toward the Lagrange point. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... A lightweight stick with two balls of equal weight at its end obviously has its CG in the middle. When one ball is twice the weight of the other, the CG divides the distance between them by a ratio 1:2, in a way that makes it closer to the heavier mass ( see figure ). ... Even though the balls are separate, one can speak of their common center of gravity, on the line connecting their centers, 1/3 of the distance from the center of the heavier ball. ...

... Mass . 17a. Measuring Mass . ... A medium-size (1.25 inch wide) binder clip, as is used in offices to hold papers together--the type made of flat blue steel, with two wire handles. ... The theory predicts that the oscillation period should be proportional to the square root of the oscillating mass, including the mass of the clip. Note that gravity plays no part here: the oscillation period would be the same on the Moon or in zero-g. Denoting square root by SQRT, we have . ...

Lunar Orbiter 4 . Courtesy of NASA's National Space Science Data Center . ... The Lunar Orbiter 4 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. ... This experiment consisted of a dual-lens camera system designed to satisfy the primary mission objective of providing photogaphic information for mapping and for the evaluation of Apollo and Surveyor landing sites. ...

... To shed new light on these mysteries, we combine the gravitational lensing power of 25 massive galaxy clusters with HST's enhanced panchromatic imaging capabilities (WFC3 and the restored ACS) to test structure formation models with unprecedented precision. We have dubbed our program CLASH, which stands for: . ... CLASH: An Innovative Survey to Place New Constraints on the Fundamental Components of the Cosmos using the Hubble Space Telescope . ...

... How big are the Lagrangian points? I hear of telescopes orbiting at a certain Lagrangian point, but for these crafts to not interfere with one another, aren't these points more like "Lagrangian areas"? ... RELATED TOPICS: LAGRANGIAN POINTS . ... When you hear about a spacecraft orbiting at a certain Lagrangian point, it really means the probe is traveling within or near one of these extended, three-dimensional islands of orbits. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

N-BODY SIMULATIONS OF PLANET FORMATION: VARYING THE NUMBER OF PLANETARY EMBRYOS J.E. CHAMBERS Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh, Northern Ireland, BT61 9DG, UK. ... These gained mass until they became large enough to gravitationally per- turb other objects in the nebula. ... Their simulations started with a few tens of planetary embryos, moving on circular nearly-coplanar orbits in the region now occupied by the terrestrial planets. ... Rev. Earth Planet. ... 4 J.E. CHAMBERS Figure 2. ...

... It should be recalled that most (99.99 percent) of the energy is dissipated by single radiopulsars in the form of relativistic particles and low-frequency electromagnetic waves which are not observable. ... This gives rise to an interesting analog of the classical reflection or heating effect (Lipunov, 1980[ 97 ]; Lipunov and Prokhorov, 1984[ 110 ]; Harding, 1991[ 64 ]; Lipunov and Nazin, 1994[ 119 ]). ... For close binary systems, -0.3 and the transformation coefficient may be several percent. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Planets . ... This bizarrely shrunken planetary system was found by NASAтАЩs Kepler mission, hence the parent star has been named Kepler-11. ... Planetary scientist and Kepler science team member Jack Lissauer said ?These six planets are mixtures of rock and gases, possibly including water.тАЭ €аNone of these strange new worlds are likely to be home to any form of life; their surface conditions are simply too extreme. ...

... October 10, 1995 . Dione's Lagrange Moon Helene . Credit: NASA , Voyager 2 . Explanation: Saturn 's moon Helene is very unusual in that it circles Saturn near the orbit of a bigger moon: Dione . Helene is situated in what is called a "Lagrange point" of Dione - a place of stability created by Dione's gravity. Were Helene to stray slightly from its orbit 1/6 ahead of Dione, the larger moon's gravity would cause Helene to move back toward the Lagrange point. ... About APOD | ...

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LIPSKIY-RODIONOVA' LUNAR ANTIPODES AS PRECURSORS OF A REGULAR WAVE PLANETOLOGY G.G.Kochemasov IGEM of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia kochem@igem.ru / Fax: (009)(095)230 21 79 The first observations of the lunar far side allowed to compare it with the near side and draw very important conclusions in the very beginning of planetary studies based on spacecrafts. ... Celestial bodies are dichotomic. ... The concept of celestial bodies includes Sun (a star) as one of them. ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. ... The Sych-2 satellite is being developed as a part of the space optical-range Earth observation system by the State Design Office of Yuzhnoye and built by the Industrial Association Yuzhny Machine Building Plant in cooperation w ith other space industry entities upon the state order of the National Space Agency of Ukraine . ...

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... QSO spectra in the ROSAT band are steeper than the background at harder energies, and furthermore at fluxes below 1E-14 ergs/(s cmќ) the quasar source counts flatten off and are replaced by more numerous populations of relatively low red-shift objects, apparently Narrow Emission Line Galaxies (NELG). ... We extracted the luminosity function from ROSAT Deep Survey results, and extrapolated by a factor of 2 - 3 to account for changes expected in the harder XMM band. ...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Point: Where Is the Best Place to View a Solar Eclipse? ... As viewers venture away from the center line of the eclipse path, the eclipse lasts for a shorter time (smooth line), but edge effects such as Baily's beads persist for longer (spiked line). ... The eclipse is longest on the center line of the path; the rare view of the Sun's beautiful white outer atmosphere, the corona, which can be seen only during eclipses, is also longest there. ...

The azimuth has an encoder on each side of the encoder rack gear. encoder 1 is on the dome side and is used for pointing the telescope. encoder 2 is on the ch side and is used to measure the bending of the azimuth arm. A reference scribe mark has been placed at 270 degrees on the ring girder. ... The correct position for the pointer on the reference mark is whereever it was when the last pointing model was made. ... az encoder error . ... new encoder in position (.jpg) .3 mm left of center mark . ...

Next: GOCG Post-Observation Products . ... Reconstructed Orbit . JPL MMNAV Reconstructed Orbit . ... The JPL MMNAV files will be made available on the JPL MMNAV FTP site in directory [RAstron.ODDATA.JPLICV.TRACK] (note the capital letters). back to top . ... What: X-band Doppler tracking data will be transmitted in near real-time from the DSN GTS to the JPL MMNAV team and from the Pushchino GTS to the ASC navigation team, and post-pass (via FTP) from the GBTS to the JPL MMNAV team. ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Orbits with osculation of higher orders and their use in celestial mechanics Yu. V. Batrakov Institute of Applied Astronomy, St. Petersburg, Russia The idea of the generalized or intermediate orbits with osculation of the second and third order was proposed and considered rigorously in 1981 [1]. ... The equations of the perturbed motion in the elements of the generalized (intermediate) orbits were derived for the first time in [5,6]. ... Batrakov Yu. ...

Launch Vehicle Soyuz . To give the ability of launching manned space vehicles "Soyuz" of a greater mass comparing to "Vostok" (initially 5.8 t and then 6.5 t instead of 4.8 t.), the "Vostok" had to be modified. ... Further modifications of launch vehicles derived from rocket R-7 were made by the Central Specialized Design Office (D. I. Kozlov) to which all documentation on the R-7 derived rockets was passed on. ... SEA LAUNCH . LAND LAUNCH | ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...