... A new exhibition - 'Planet Earth: Our Place In Space' - was recently opened at the National Museum of Ireland in Co. ... These specimens will be used to explain what meteorites tell us about the early solar system and also what we know about the earth as a planet. Minerals and rocks will further illustrate what the earth is made of and its nature as a planet. ... For more information about the exhibition see National Museum of Ireland . ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on March 26, 2013 | 4 Comments Many of us may recall captivating images of an enormous glass and steel superstructure making the headlines in the 90тАЩs, along with the tale of eight human test subjects who [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... Posted on May 1, 2012 | ... Posted on February 24, 2012 | ... 10 Comments Where does space begin? ... Posted on January 17, 2012 | ... Part of [ ] . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... The last conjunction of Moon and bright planets in 2008 featured a young crescent Moon and brilliant Venus in the west after sunset on December 31st. ... Welcome to the International Year of Astronomy . ... This year was picked by the International Astronomical Union and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization because it occurs 400 years after Galileo turned one of the first telescopes toward the heavens. ... First page ] Prev. ...

ASTRONOMICAL YEARBOOK (in Russian) . ... It contains the ephemerides of the Sun, the Moon, major planets, and stars computed with the maximum precision in the accordance with the resolutions approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). From AY-2016 the ephemerides EPM2011 developed at IAA RAS was used as a ephemerical basis for the calculation of ephemerides of the Sun, the Moon and major planets with accuracy adequate to DE ephemerides. ... ASTRONOMICAL YEARBOOK . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Last week, our tour outwards made a stop at our own home planet. Permit me to hold our tour a bit longer, to linger and gaze upon the Moon. ... Complex molecules floated in the water, but the concentration of these compounds wasn't high enough for them to get any further along than making amino acids and the like. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Subscribe to the Bad Astronomy Newsletter! ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . This page contains brief information on recent astronomical discoveries as reported in the International Astronomical Union Circulars (IAUCs)and the Minor Planet Electronic Circulars (MPECs) . ... Web Site . ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... 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). ...

... Satellites of the planets are assigned a provisional designation (indicating year of discovery) by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams ( CBAT ) upon satisfactory demonstration of the existence of a new object. ... In the past, Comets were first given a provisional designation, consisting of the year and a lowercase letter indicating the order of discovery in the year (e.g., 1994a was the first comet discovered or recovered in 1994, 1994b the second, etc.) ... Names .. ...

New Moons of Uranus . Brent Gladman's Home Page . ... The discovery of two probable distant satellites of Uranus was reported by B. Gladman, P. Nicholson, J. Burns and J. Kavelaars. ... This discovery was reported in the IAU Circular 6764 . ... Discovery image of S/1997 U 2 . This shows the discovery image of brighter of the two new moons of Uranus. ... This shows the discovery image of faint new moons of Uranus. ... This shows another discovery image of faint new moons of Uranus. ... Uranus . ...

... User Guide ] Task: planets Purpose: Print ephemerides of planets and the Sun. Categories: utility PLANETS is a MIRIAD task to report some parameters on solar system objects. ... Key: source This can be "sun" or the name of a major planet (excluding the Earth). ... No default. Key: epoch The time (UTC) for which information is required, in standard Miriad time format (yymmmdd.ddd or yymmmdd:hh:mm:ss.s). ... Key: telescop The name of an observatory used in computing rise and set times. ...

... Shevchenko Vladislav Vladimirovich . ... Position: Head of Department of Lunar and Planetary Research, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics. ... L. Johnson Space Center - Lunar and Planetary Institute. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Universitetsky 13, Moscow, 119899 , Russia, . ... V.I.Chikmachev, S.G.Pugacheva and V.V.Shevchenko, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, chik@sai.msu.ru ...

... Basic Conceptions and Tasks of Ephemeris Astronomy. ... Construction and Orientation of Frame of Reference in Space. ... Planetary, Stellar, Extragalactic Frame of Reference. Inertial, Fundamental, International Celestial, Dynamic Frames of Reference. ... Stellar, Solar, Universal, Coordinated Universal, Quasi-uniform, Ephemerid, Atomic, Terrestrial Dynamic Time. ... Theories of Solar System Bodies Motion. Kinematic and Dynamic Principles of Planetary and Satellites Motion Theories. ...

... Someday, when people have begun to live on other planets or their moons, these worlds might develop their own flags. In this activity, you get to design a flag for your favorite world. ... The flag can just have colors and symbols, like many Earth flags do, or it might highlight some of your planet's most interesting places to visit. For example, a Mars flag might have a red background, because the rusty sands of Mars look red from space. ... Flags of the World: http://www.fotw.net/flags/ . ...

... Pashkevich V.V., Eroshkin G.I., 'Construction of the numerical and semi-analytical solutions of the Moon rotation', Book of abstracts of the 'Journees 2011 "Systemes de reference spatio-temporels"', (Vienna, 19-21 September 2011), pp. ... Чубей М.С., Львов В.Н., Ерошкин Г.И., Куприянов В.В., Ягудин Л.И., Толчельникова С.А., Цекмейстер С.Д., Абалакин В.К., Артамонов Б.П.,Цуканова Г.И., Бахолдин А.В. Орбитальная Звездная Стереоскопическая Обсерватория. ... Ерошкин Г.И. Физическая либрация Луны. ...

... The apparent path of the Sun across the sky. ... Like the planets, the Sun, too, moves around the zodiac, making one complete circuit each year. ... In one year, as the Earth completes a full circuit around the Sun (drawing above), the Earth-Sun line and its continuation past Earth sweep the entire plane. ... Since the Sun and Earth are in the plane of the ecliptic, the line is automatically in that plane too; if the moon is also on the same line, it must be in the plane of the ecliptic as well. ...

. [ Go back to Comet WWW site ] . Andrew A. Martis . martis @ sai.msu.ru .

Международный астрономический союз (МАС) . Астрономические общества . Институты и обсерватории США . ... Международный астрономический союз . ... National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA). ... Главная астрономическая обсерватория Академии наук Украины . Николаевская астрономическая обсерватория (Украина) . ... Астрономическая обсерватория Киевского университета . ... Национальная оптическая астрономическая обсерватория (National Optical Astronomical Observatory) (NOAO) . ...

... Home Links International Sidewalk Astronomy Night . ... Saturday night, April 12, 2008, is the 2nd International Sidewalk Astronomy Night.€а We call on all amateur astronomers to take their telescopes and binoculars out for the public to enjoy the wonders of the night sky.€а A first-quarter Moon will be visible, as will the planets Saturn and Mars.€а More information can be found at http://www.sidewalkastronomynight.com /, where you can register so people will know where to find you. ...

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