... Credit Copyright: ESA / Rosetta /MPS for OSIRIS Team ; MPS /UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA Explanation: Why does this comet's nucleus have two components? The surprising discovery that Comet 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko has a double nucleus came late last week as ESA 's robotic interplanetary spacecraft Rosetta continued its approach toward the ancient comet's core. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Comet 67P from Spacecraft Rosetta . ...

... 2014 July 21 . Spacecraft Rosetta Shows Comet has Two Components . Image Credit: ESA / Rosetta /MPS for OSIRIS Team ; MPS /UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA . Explanation: Why does this comet's nucleus have two components? The surprising discovery that Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has a double nucleus came late last week as ESA 's robotic interplanetary spacecraft Rosetta continued its approach toward the ancient comet's core. ... About APOD | ...

... OEM COMPONENTS . ... OEM OPTICAL COMPONENTS . ... Objective, Plan Achromatic, 4 X 0.12, BF . ... Objective, Flatfield Achromatic, 20 X 0.40, BF . ... Objective, Flatfield Achromatic, 60 X 1.00-0.70, Oil, Iris, BF . ... Objective, Flatfield Achromatic, 100 X 1.25, Oil, BF . ... Q-Plan™ Achromat Objective, 2.5 X 0.08, BF . ... Q-Plan™ Achromat Objective, 50 X 1.0-0.70, oil, iris, BF/DF . ... Q-Plan™ Achromat Objective, 100 X 1.25, oil, BF . ... Q-Plan™ Achromat Objective, 100 X 1.30, oil, iris, BF/DF ...

Design and Construction of the GHRS . ... The locations of important elements are shown. Figure 6.2: - The focal plane of HST and the definitions of the V2, V3, U2, and U3 axes in the coordinate system of the spacecraft. Figure 6.3: - Locations of GHRS apertures relative to spacecraft axes. Note that the sense of the x and y motions are shown by the arrows, but that the zero point for each aperture (LSA and SSA) is located at its center. ... Figure 6.4: - Optical Schematic of the GHRS. ...

HIGH RESOLUTION IONOSPHERIC MASS SPECTROMETER P-11 . ... Onboard mass-spectrometric equipment for study of neutral and ionized components of Earth upper atmosphere. Mass-spectrometer P-11 is one of P-series modifications of the on board radio-frequency monopole spectrometers. ... The instruments of P-series have passed successful approbation in space experiments aboard geophysical rockets MP-12, launched for investigation of Earth upper atmosphere (Ref. ... Measured mass number range, AMU - 1.. ...

... The HST uses an onboard model of its orbit to perform in real-time various control functions relating to spacecraft operations and observation support. ... New coefficients for the ephemeris are updated every other day, and are archived as FITS keywords for each HST observation data set. Using these coefficients,an observer can perform a variety of calibration and characterization calculations relating to the orbital position and velocity of the telescope. ...

... Among the objectives of Principal Components Analysis are the following. dimensionality reduction; љ . the determining of linear combinations of variables; љ . ... identification of groups of objects or of outliers. ... Finding a set of principal axes allows the objects to be adequately characterised on a smaller number of (artificial) variables. ... Reduction of dimensionality is practicable if the first new axes account for approximately 75 % or more of the variance. ...

Next: CAL_getBoresightMatrix Up: Routines of the Calibration Previous: List of CCF Components Contents . ... The CAL functions CAL_getBadPixelList & CAL_getBadPixelMap use the CAL state variable temperature only to check that the current operating temperature is consistent with the CCF constituent BadPix . ... Used CAL State Variables . List of CCF Components used . ... Next: CAL_getBoresightMatrix Up: Routines of the Calibration Previous: List of CCF Components Contents Michael Smith 2011-09-20 ...

... The spacecraft of Magion type have been selected as the subsatellites of the Interball project: Magion-4 (C2-X) for the Tail Probe and Magion-5 (C2-A) for the Auroral Probe. ... Magion-4 was produced in the Czech Republic in collaboratrion with Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Austria and has onboard scientific instruments and sensors designed and built in Czech Republic, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovak Republic. ... Plasma flow detector VDP-S (Czech Republic, Russia) . ...

... The first domestic liquid-propellant rocket engine with afterburning of generated gas in a combustion chamber allowed to achieve a specific impulse of up to 340 kgf s/kg in vacuum when using main components. ... Fuel components: . ... fuel . ... The engine has a more heat-intensive combustion chamber, therefore, RG-1 is used as fuel. When launching heavy-lift spacecraft, synthine can be used in the capacity of fuel without re-designing the engine. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Archives . ... The PCA and ICA is used for separating mixed components with some assumptions. ... The need of source separation methods in astronomy has led various adaptations of decomposition methods available. ... I rarely come up with a paper which gathered and summarized component separation methods applicable to astronomical data. In that regards, the following paper seems useful to overview methods of reducing dimensionality for astronomers. [arxiv:0805.0269] . ... Chandra Blog . ...

... Minute Values of Geomagnetic Field Components . ... AA 1868 - Present (3 hourly and daily) (monthly) (yearly) (Lists and histograms of geomagnetic disturbance and Solar Sunspots) KP_AP 1932 - Present (3 hourly and daily) (Lists and histograms of geomagnetic disturbance and Solar Sunspots) AE_HV 1957-75, 78-88 (hourly) AE_MIN 1978-881-6;198903;1990-94 (minute) DST 1957 - Present (hourly) PC 1975 - Present (15-minute) AMANAS 1959 - Present (3 hourly and daily) KMKNKS 1983 - Present (3 hourly) . ...

... User Guide ] Task: odnh3 Purpose: Ammonia analysis program Categories: map combination, map manipulation ODNH3 is a MIRIAD task that creates optical depth and rotational temperature maps from ammonia maps. Ammonia J,K=(1,1) emission has five hyperfine components, one main hyperfine component, two inner hyperfine components, and two outer hyperfine components. ... Key: map1 Input map, main hyperfine component map of the J,K=(1,1) level. No default. ... Key: region Standard keyword region. ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . ... Listed Since October 22, 1998 . ... 203) 484-7705 . ... 203) 484-9016 . Web Site . ... Web . www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Polar Cap Potential . ... The solar wind propagation delay time calculation used here is conceptually similar to the T(IMF) calculation in Kelly, et al. ... The older continuous data are from key parameter data files. ... Note: Very high values of Solar Wind Speed, Solar Wind Pressure, IMF Magnitude and Bz, and Polar Cap Potential are likely indications that WIND has reentered the Earth's magnetosphere; such data is not indicative of solar wind conditions or impending severe geomagnetic disruption. ...

CIMA is more than just the observing tool - in fact, the observing tool is just a part of a bigger package called the CIMA software package. ... There is also a another package called the CIMA WAPP software which contains the WAPP software, the special Tcl/Tk interpreter used by CIMA and support libraries. ... All CIMA software components recognize the following general options that are part of the CIMA version selection system: . ... The select_cima script can be used to set up a default version. ...

OptInt PmWiki : MROI Fast Tip Tilt / Tech Meet 11 . ... This meeting is intended as an initial brainstorm on how we will perform the component and integrated tests in the PDR phase. ... How to measure movement of mount versus movement of optic in mount? ... Most tests should be conducted here in the lab but we could use COAST for some tests, particularly a system level test using a pin-hole at one end of the tables and the base-plate, optics and camera arrangement at the other end. ...

... Equipment . ... The scientific-methodical work is an important component of the LSR work, which should satisfy the needs of employees of other laboratories of the ISSP RAS both in structure investigations and in interpretation of the obtained results. ... X-ray works: . ... the equipment for of X-ray topography: a spectrometer on the base of D4C source and the goniometer A-4 (Rigaku firm), a spectrometer on the base of RU-200 , the two-crystal spectrometer URT-2 (Russia), . ... LSR ISSP RAS . ...

... DpmkSpace (part of SAS) . Cdb server (part of calibDB, in Garching only . Dpserver (part of SA, in Garching only) More about P2PP checks to be performed when installing/configuring it. Go to top of page . More about OT-tcl/tk checks to be performed when installing/configuring it. ... More about Java-OT checks to be performed when installing/configuring it. ...

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