Enceladus . ... Enceladus [en-SELL-ah-dus] is one of the innermost moons of Saturn. ... Parts of Enceladus shows craters no larger than 35 km in diameter. ... This Voyager 2 mosaic of Enceladus was made from images taken through the clear, violet and green filters on August 25, 1981, from a distance of 119,000 kilometers (74,000 miles). ... This image was created by projecting a digital map of Enceladus onto an orthographic view and then replacing the color channels by low resoultion color images. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Site Info . ... It is from from Voyager 1 and shows a whopping big impact crater dominating the profile of the moon. Note that Mimas is about 400 kilometers across (about 250 miles). ... The wall around the crater is 5 kilometers high, and that central peak rises 6 kilometers above the surface (many impact craters have a large central peak which is caused by a pressure rebound from the impact). ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Dione's icy surface includes heavily cratered terrain, moderately cratered plains, lightly cratered plains, and whispy material. The heavily cratered terrain has numerous craters greater than 100 kilometers in diameter. ... Much of the heavily cratered terrain is located on the trailing hemisphere , with the less cratered plains area existing on the leading hemisphere . ... Because Dione is relatively small, an impact causing a 35 kilometer (21 mile) crater could have spun the satellite. ...

Microsymposium 34, MS058, 2001 ANOMALIES OF THE MOON'S THERMAL EMISSION IN THE IR SPECTRAL RANGE (10.5 - 12.5 micron). ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, 119899, Russia, pugach@sai.msu.ru Summary: New satellite measurements of the lunar-surface radiation temperature were used to construct the spatial angular function of thermal radiation of the Moon in the infrared (10.5-12.5 micron) spectral range. ... These thermal anomalies are observed only in the limited range of phase angles. ...

... Solar System . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Vision of Vesta: a dark feature with a diameter of approximately 100 kim near the asteroid's equator can be seen in this image from Dawn (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA) . Between Mars and Jupiter lies the Asteroid Belt. ... The Dawn space probe is expected to go into orbit around Vesta on 16 July, from there it will return some detailed images and other data, staying at the asteroid for about a year before setting off to visit Ceres. ...

... Kepler's 3rd Law . 21a.Applying 3rd Law . ... Besides the Moon, Earth now has many artificial satellites, put up by us earthlings for a variety of purposes. ... where for a satellite orbiting Earth at distance of one Earth radius R E , the constant k equals k=gR E 2 . ... The velocity for a circular Earth orbit at any other distance r is similarly calculated, but one must take into account that the force of gravity is weaker at greater distances, by a factor (R E / r) 2 . ...

... Credit Copyright: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA Explanation: Small, icy, inner moon of Saturn , Enceladus is only about 500 kilometers in diameter. ... Since Enceladus orbits within the outer E ring of Saturn , the moon's surface may be kept snow-bright as it is continuously bombarded with icy ring particles. ... Interplanetary ski bums take note: tiny Enceladus has only about 1/100th the surface gravity of planet Earth and a surface temperature of -200 degrees C (-330 degrees F). ...

Authors: V.A. Marsakov , Yu.G. Shevelev , . Journal: 1988, Astron Zh. ... Absolute magnitudes, metallicities, effective temperatures, surface gravities, distances, and tangential velocities are calculated for 5498 F stars with homogeneous data on uvby photometry and proper motion, and placed within 80 pc from the Sun. Components of space velocities, eccentricities of galactic orbits, perigalactic and apogalactic distances, and maximal remotness from galactic plane are presented for 1787 stars. ...

Outer Natural Satellites Orbits Ephemerides. ... Choose type of the ephemeride: . ... Values of the orbital elements [ output e sin( ), e cos( ), sin(i) sin( ), sin(i) cos( ) ] . Distances between the osculating orbits . ... Choose Second Satellite (for the distances) N9 Halimede N10 Psamathe N11 Sao N12 Laomedeia N13 Neso . ... Enter initial date (years) . Enter final date (years) . ... inclination deg. pericenter deg. node deg. Enter upper limit of frequency deg/year . ...

Ganymede is the largest moon in our solar system, larger even than the planets Pluto and Mercury. ... Ganymede's surface consists of two main types of terrain: old, dark polygonal units, and young, bright valleys and ridges (see figure 11 ). ... In a similar way, hitting a large block of ice with a hammer makes white marks. ... Ganymede as seen by Voyager 2. ... Because Voyager couldn't spot any large impact craters, scientists have concluded that the moon's surface is young. ... Moon . ... Europa . ...

A Prototype Luneburg Lens Antenna Peter Hall*, Sergei Kutuzov** and Rustam Dagkesamanskii** *CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility **Pushchino Radio Astronomy Obser vator y E-mail: Peter.Hall@atnf.csiro.au Enter Konkur Konkur Ltd is a Moscow-based company producing, among other products, a line of Luneburg Lenses suitable for satellite TV and other communications applications. ... This Multisat 1M lens is shown in Figure 3 and has the specifications listed in Table 1. ... Figure 3. ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... Two micro-spacecraft constellation with solar sails partially compensating the solar gravity allow their placement in the points along the Sun-Earth line behind the standard L1 point, i.e. further out from the Earth and closer to the Sun. The distances of the placement from the Earth and the base distances between such satellites depend on the ratios of their mass to the sail area. ...

IRREGULAR SATELLITES . ... Planetary satellites in the solar system are divided into two types: Regular satellites orbit in circular, equatorial orbits close to the planet. ... Irregular satellites orbit the planet much further out. ... Examples of irregular satellite orbits . ... Unlike the regular satellites which formed with the planet, irregulars originally formed in heliocentric space (eg the asteroid belt) and were later captured in a closed orbit around the planet. ... Nature, 2004). ...

... The Main Problems of the Course. ... Some Knoleges from Mechanics, the Main Dynamics Equations for Bodies of Variable Mass, Meshchersky Equation. ... Rocket Motion on Powered Trajectory. ... The Law of Attracting Centre Distance Change. ... The Main Integrals of Motion. Satellite Orbit Equation, Motion Velocity, Orbital Period. ... Forces Affecting on the Artificial Satellites of the Earth. ... Influence of Planet Oblateness on Satellite Motion, Influence of Atmospheric Braking on Satellite Orbit. ...

SYSTEM COMPOSITION . ... RADIATION AND ECOLOGICAL MONITORING . THE COMPOSITION OF AUTOMATIC SYSTEM . ... Weather hardware to measure wind velocity distribution in the near-earth layer and at altitudes up to 300 m. Satellite data transmission stations. RSC Energia communication satellite; . ... Automatic radiation and ecological station. ... Control and monitoring of the automatic continuous measurement system. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

This composite shows the alignment of the satellite galaxies of Andromeda in relation to the view that we see from Earth (the top left panel shows a true-color image of the center of the Andromeda Galaxy taken with the CFH Telescope). New distance measurements allow us to ascertain the 3-D positions of the satellite galaxies, which together with new velocity measurements, reveal their true nature as part of a gigantic rotating structure (side view: bottom left panel; front view: top right panel). ...

... The sample of the Local Volume galaxies (distance smaller than 10 Mpc) gives a unique opportunity to study the properties of galaxies including the weakest objects: the absolute magnitude M B -10 and the virial mass M vir 10 9 M x263C;. ... Luminosity function of the Local Volume galaxies. ... The luminosity functions for galaxies are presented: red dashed line - from the 2dFGRS survey (Norberg et al. 2002); blue dash-dotted line - from the SDSS survey (Blanton et al. ...

Системные исследования и разработка спутниковых систем ДЗЗ; . Разработка и создание бортовых радиометрических средств в СВЧ-диапазоне; . Разработка методов дистанционной диагностики процессов в системе океан-атмосфера с помощью спутниковых средств СВЧ-радиометрии (синоптические океанические вихри, фронтальные зоны, течения, волны Россби, тайфуны и ураганы, явление Эль-Ниньо). ... Директор . ... 1-ый заместитель директора . ... 2014 НТЦ "КОСМОНИТ" ОАО "Российские космические системы" . ...

Next: Allocate/load STARTABLE Up: STARBASE Previous: Managing a calibrator catalog Contents . In this section we list some command line procedures. ... Allocate/load STARTABLE . ... Print/list information . Lists . ... Absolute visual magnitudes . Masses . ... Diameters . ... Absolute magnitudes . ... Orbital inclinations, semi-major axes, and secondary masses . ...

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