... The remote planet Pluto and its moon Charon orbit the Sun at a mean distance of almost 6,000 million kilometres, or nearly fourty times farther out than the Earth. During a recent investigation by an international group of astronomers [1], the best picture ever of Pluto and Charon [2] was secured with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera at the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). ... The new HST image was taken when Charon was near its maximum elongation from Pluto (0.9 arcseconds). ...

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• Mario van den Ancker
• First Rotation Period of Kuiper Belt Object Measured (ESO PR Photo 41/98)
• ESO - Research Area: PLANETS AND STAR FORMATION

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• ASTR1001: Mountains and Atmospheres
• Surface Gravity
• Gravity correlates with Size

home education > activities . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Astronomy . ... This classic activity by Dennis Schatz asks students to invent a more-or-less plausible life form that could survive on one of the moons and planets in our solar system. [a] . ... Good as far as it goes, but fails to point out a crucial difference with the real world: on the planets, the impacting bodies explode making craters much bigger and rounder than the ones the students will obtain. [m,h] . ...

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• ASP: Up, Up, and Away
• ASP: Star Science in the Autumn Sky
• ASP: Miranda: A Jigsaw Puzzle World

... Spacecraft . ... To space by cannon? Finally, the deep space explorers --spacecraft which break away from the Earth's gravity . ... The "Luna" series of the USSR conducted 7 soft landing of unmanned probes, two of them with wheeled robotic "Lunokhods," and two of those missions returned samples to Earth. Others spacecraft have visited the major planets of the Solar system. ... The Mariner series have explored Venus and Mars--and Mariner 10 even reached Mercury, for three separate encounters! ...

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• Polar Orbiting Satellites
• The Answer Man--arranged by subject
• FAQ: "Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere"

... 2005 June 14 . Gliese 876 System Includes Large Terrestrial Planet . ... Slight, fast, but regular wobbles of nearby small M - dwarf star Gliese 876 showed evidence for a planet with a likely mass slightly higher than a minimum six times the mass of Earth. The planet's small mass indicates that it is likely terrestrial in nature, similar in composition to the inner planets of our Solar System . ... The newly discovered terrestrial-like planet is depicted in the insert. ... About APOD | ...

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• APOD: August 15, 1995 - Venus: Earth's Sister Planet
• APOD: August 19, 1996 - Welcome to Planet Earth
• APOD: 2007 March 25 - Welcome to Planet Earth

... Abell 2218: A Galaxy Cluster Lens . ... The Milky Way in Infrared . ... Spiral Galaxy In Centaurus . ... The lovely Milky Way flows through this large constellation whose celestial wonders also include the closest star to the sun, Alpha Centauri, the largest globular star cluster in our galaxy, Omega Centauri, and the closest active galaxy, Centaurus A. A Lunar Eclipse Over Time . ... During last week's lunar eclipse, our Moon appeared to disappear. ... A Lunar Eclipse in Three Exposures . ...

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Jupiter is the largest of the nine planets, more than 10 times the diameter of Earth and more than 300 times its mass. ... The mean density of Earth is 5.245 times that of water. The pull of gravity on Jupiter at the top of the clouds at the equator is 2.4 times as great as gravity's pull at the surface of Earth at the equator. ... It is tipped about 11њ to Jupiter's axis of rotation, similar to Earth's, but it is also offset from the center of Jupiter by about 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles). ...

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• Saturn's Moon Titan
• Venus
• Luna and Io - A Comparison Study

... Low Polar Orbit . ... Different types of satellite orbits have different uses: while the synchronous orbit is best for communication satellites, Lagrangian point orbits help monitor the solar wind before it reaches Earth. ... Many spacecraft use such orbits, e.g. the US Air Force surveillance satellites of the DMSP series, or the series of French Earth-resources spacecraft SPOT . ... If the satellite then starts near a noon-midnight orbit, it will always pass near noon and near midnight. ...

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• Venus
• Earth [Oulu]
• FAQ: "The Great Magnet, the Earth"

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

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• The Three Planet System
• Potential Energy
• Venus and Mars

Giant Jupiter. Jupiter . ... Jupiter has no solid surface that is why speaking about its dimensious point the radius of the upper border line of the clouds, where the presseru is about 10 KPa; radius of Jupiter on the equator is 71400 km. ... The Jupiter satellites. ... Nowadays 16 satellites of the Jupiter are known: Adrastea, Mitis, Amaltea , Phina,then 4 Galilei satellites: Io , Europe , Hanimed , Callisto , Leda, Aimalia, Zicitea, Elara, Ananke, Carme, Pasipe and Sinope. ... Jupiter's ring. ...

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• earthe
• marse
• saturne

... Advantages of a Larger Aperture for TPF-C Can Search More Stars to Greater Distances (~D3 ) Faster Survey, More Time for Follow-Up Sensitive to Planets in Habitable Zone of More/Fainter Stars Smaller Inner Working Angle (at Fixed Wavelength) Lower Mass Stars , Fewer Visits /Star for Significant Null Result, Improved Orbits, Efficient Recovery on Future Visits TPF-C Observability of ...

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• John H. Debes
• Institute for Planets and Life
• XO Project

This section of AMPLE enables one to make ephemeris calculations in various coordinate systems (spherical, rectangular) connected with different main planes (equator, ecliptic, horizon) and having origin in different points: geocenter, any point on the Earth surface, the Sun, any major planet, any minor planet. The choice of some minor planet as a center gives possibility to find approaches of the minor planet with any set of major planets and minor planets. ... equinox . 1950 2000 true . ...

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• AY2016 (contents)
• AY2007 (contents)
• AY2014 (contents)

... The study of extra solar planets will be one of the most important areas of research in astronomy in this century. ... The first planets outside the solar system were found in 1992 around the millisecond pulsar PSR B1257+12 by Alex Wolszczan at the Arecibo Observatory . ... Three space missions based on this principle (MOST, COROT and Kepler ) have already been launched or approved, and have the last one at least has the potential to find Earth-sized planets. ... SIM ( NASA ) is one of such missions...

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• The Search for HVCs in Other Galaxies
• rotaPlatToSky
• CIMA Frequently Asked Questions

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... City: Methuen State/Province: MA . ... Area of science: Earth Sciences . ... Does water swirl in limited gravity situations such as a space station? ... If you dropped a rock from the station axis (which would no doubt get you a free ticket back to Earth from an angry commander!) it would appear to arc strongly in the anti-spin direction as it fell, and the station rotated underneath it. ...

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• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions
• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Bitesize Astronomy

... Planets . ... The planets were found using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6m telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory. ... A planet in orbit around a star causes the star to regularly move towards and away from observers on Earth. ... One newly discovered planet, HD 85512 b, is best hope found so far for a habitable exoplanet. ... The HARPS team so far have found that about 40% of stars similar to own Sun have at least one planet smaller than Saturn (which is 95 times more massive than Earth). ...

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• ESO finds weird doomed planet from another galaxy | Astronotes
• Vesta: Asteroid seen by Dawn spacecraft | Astronotes
• Exoplanet HAT-P-1b: weird, warm and fuzzy | Astronotes

The solar system probably formed about 4.5 billion years ago from a giant disk of gas, dust and ice in space. ... All forms of life on Earth require liquid water to survive, so the presence of liquid water is a good criterion for deciding whether other planets in the universe could be habitable. Earth is the only habitable planet in the solar system. Venus, closer to the Sun, is too hot to have liquid water. Planets and moons in the outer solar system are too cold for liquid water. ...

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• Armagh Observatory
• Meteors in Planetary Atmospheres
• Spread of Life Through the Galaxy

... Takuya Akahori "Faraday Rotation Measure due to the Intergalactic Magnetic Field" . Shae Brown "Cross-correlation of ATLAS and Spitzer-SWIRE Surveys: Probing intergalactic magnetic fields" . Roger Clay "Using low energy cosmic rays to investigate local galactic magnetic fields" . Roland Crocker "A new lower limit on the magnetic field around the Galactic Centre" . ... JinLin Han "Rotation measures of pulsars and radio sources for Galactic magnetic fields" . ...

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• Questions on Stars
• Sun - Earth Interactions
• Wavebands

... part 1 | ... The Basic Stages in Earth's Pre-geological Development . ... After fragments of the Vortex sleeves separated, whirlwinds of second and third orders ("NC" - new micro-vortex) were generated- future planet cores and their satellites - all of them developing independently, governed by the common laws of development of cosmogenic vortexes. ... Our planet's core today is comprised of considerably deteriorated cosmogenic vortex; consequently, the Earth has a moderated magnetic field. ...

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• The new circuit of global tectonics of the Earth, planets and satellites.
• New concept of cosmogony

... Space Res., 12, 265, 1992 planetary magnetic dipole: Mizutani, H., et al., ... Astrobiology, 7, 167, 2007 CME induced H+ ion pick-up loss at 0.05 AU for ` Hot Jupiters ' HD209458 b Mass loss ~1011 g/s even for weak CMEs Mmax strong magn. protection in reality Exoplanet magnetospheres - importance of magnetodisk Relatively large amount of observed Hot Jupiters (27%): survival of close-in giants indicates their efficient protection against of extreme plasma and radiation conditions ...

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... Search . ... Astrophysics Group . Research . ... Research and Instrumentation . ... While this seems an extraordinary endeavour, in light of what we have learnt about Solar System planets, only a handful of key ingredients are required to start characterising an exoplanet. ... The NGTS project is a partnership between the University of Cambridge, Queen?s University Belfast, University of Warwick, University of Leicester, Observatoire de Geneve, DLR (Berlin) and Universidad Catolica de Chile. ...

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