... The 2 nd Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad will held in Vladivostok, Far East part of Russian Federation on December 4-11, 2006, just the same dates as the 1 st APAO took place in 2005. ... Saturday December 2 Possible delegations arrive . ... Main day for delegations arrive . ... Monday December 11 Main day for delegations depart . ... The Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad 2006 - results . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (APAO) . ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... to the International Space Station . ... Technical management is chaired by N.N. Sevastyanov, President of RSC Energia, General Director for manned space complexes and Technical Manager for flight tests. ... The vehicle and ISS Russian Segment flight is under control of the Lead Operational Control Team (LOCT) working in the Mission Control Center in Moscow (MCC-M), (Flight Director is V.A. Soloviev, Vice-President of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Deputy General Designer). ...

... Research Innovation . ... University history . ... V.љN. Karazin . ... Karazin university . ... up until December 31, 2012 . Bilateral competition of fundamental research . Fundamental Research State Foundation (FRSF) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) announce a bilateral competition of fundamental research. The competition coverts the following areas of research: . ... July, 2016 . ... up until April 2016 . ... April 18-23, 2016 . ... Phone: +380 (57) 7051248 . ...

... Astronomy Ireland's Christmas talk: Mon 14 Dec, TCD, Dublin . ... Cosmic Christmas to be launched on Friday 4 December at Blackrock Castle Observatory . The next meeting of the NIAAS takes place on Monday 7th December, starting at 8pm in Ballyclare High School lecture theatre. ... The IMOAS celebrate their 20th anniversary this year. ... Howard's topic for the night is SETI which stands for the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... 2008 December 2 . International Space Station: Find the Astronaut . Credit: STS-126 Shuttle Crew , NASA . Explanation: Where's the astronaut? Somewhere in this impressive array of International Space Station (ISS) hardware, astronaut Steve Bowen can be found upgrading and cleaning key parts of Earth's most prominent orbital outpost. ... The next space shuttle flight is scheduled for 2009 February, when Discovery will deliver elements to further expand the ISS . ... About APOD | ...

... 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 .. ...

... Team . ... V.V.Sokolov "The gamma-ray bursts, core-collapse supernovae and global star forming rate at large redshifts" . ... I.V.Sokolov, A.S.Moskvitin, Eda Sonbas, O.V.Verkhodanov, O.P.Zhelenkova "A galaxy cluster in the GRB 021004 field" . ... The monitoring of GRB afterglows and the study of their host galaxies with the SAO RAS 6-m telescope from 1997". ... A.S.Moskvitin, T.A.Fatkhullin, V.V.Sokolov and V.N.Komarova, "Spectral and photometric monitoring of CCSNe at SAO RAS" . ...

... MAO main . ... Submit a paper to the International Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Hazard Mitigation . ... Тема: Submit a paper to the International Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Hazard Mitigation (IREHM) . ... A new journal entitled as: . International Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Hazard Mitigation . ... Greeting from the International Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Hazard Mitigation (IREHM), which is a peer-reviewed journal. ...

... If you came here by a notice of this URL in some newsgroup article: Here is the toplevel of the XFree86/OS2 pages . ... The following is the list of recent file dates and sizes from the main archive at ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.3/binaries/OS2. ... Filelist of XFree86-3.3.3 The following link(s) refers to bugs known to be present in older releases. ... XFree86/OS2 3.1.2D . ... XFree86/OS2 3.3.2 Please get the following fixes, and apply them after the system is installed. SHM.DLL not found . ...

To the IUM main page . The Independent University of Moscow and the Moscow Center of Continuous Mathematical Education have organized the International Conference ``Fundamental Mathematics today'' dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Independent University of Moscow. The conference was held in Moscow from December 26 to December 29, 2001; it included the following sections: . ... Chairman: . Yu.S.Ilyashenko (IUM President) . ...

... The expansion is measured as a number called the Hubble Constant . ... Our value is about 20% lower than the one got with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994," said Dr Jim Lovell, leader of the team that made the measurement. The Hubble Constant is named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble, who in the 1920s found that other galaxies were moving away from ours. ... The Hubble Constant links the galaxy's distance with its speed." ... A short run-down on the Hubble Constant: . ...

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The most recent leap second was added on 2012 June 30: The protocol files in this version have been updated to UTC1-TAI = -35. The following IAU Circular describes prior leap seconds. As announced by the IAU Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams in Circular No. 9004 on 11 December 2008, Bulletin C36 of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service announced that a positive leap second will be added on 1 January 2009. ...

Subject: NEW YORK CITY DEPT. ISSUES VIOLATION TO STAR-NAMING COMPANY . ... Consumer Affairs Commissioner Polonetsky Warns Consumers: "Buying A Star Won't Make You One" . Commissioner Jules Polonetsky Warns Mother's Day Gift-Givers About Turning Their Mothers Into Stars; Star-Naming Company Issued a Violation for Deceptive Advertising . ... The International Astronomical Union is the only recognized star-naming organization, and it does not sell names. ...

These notes summarize an informal HDF-S session at the Joint ESO/Australia workshop ``Looking Deep in the Southern Sky,'' which was held in Sydney, Australia, on 10-12 December 1997. ... AAT: 1 night imaging in broad and narrow (20 Angstrom) bands on HDF-S + environs using the Taurus tunable filter. ... NTT: HDF-S + surrounding region to be imaged under the auspices of the ESO Imaging Survey (EIS). 15 x 15 arcminute field of view imaged in U, g, r, I, J and K. 13 nights allocated for Sept/Oct 1998? ...

... Credit: STS-126 Shuttle Crew , NASA Explanation: Where's the astronaut? Somewhere in this impressive array of International Space Station (ISS) hardware, astronaut Steve Bowen can be found upgrading and cleaning key parts of Earth's most prominent orbital outpost. Astronaut Bowen and Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (not pictured), part of the Space Shuttle Endeavour 's recently ended STS-126 mission to the ISS, spent nearly three hours on this spacewalk hovering high above planet Earth. ...

THE RELATIVE MONTHLY MEAN SUNSPOT NUMBER ON DECEMBER 2013 HAS MADE Wdec.= 61.4, THAT GIVES FOR 42 MONTH (2012, JUNE) DEVELOPMENT CURRENT 24 CYCLES OF SOLAR ACTIVITY THE SMOOTHED MONTHLY MEAN SUNSPOT NUMBER W*june= 61.7 THE BEGINNING 24 CYCLES OF SOLAR ACTIVITY - I 2009 with W*=1.8 THE MOST PROBABLE TIME OF THE MAXIMUM OF THE CURRENT CYCLE- XI.2012 - III 2013 THE MOST PROBABLE HEIGHT OF THE MAXIMUM - Wmax = 66 - 75. ... NEXT WEEK THE LEVEL OF SUNSPOT ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE THE HIGH AND AVERAGE. ...

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Main . ... About meteorites . ... What to do if you found a meteorite! ... About the laboratory . ... You may have a question: what to do if you found a stone which looks like meteorite. ... According to the Meteorite Nomenclature Committee, in order for a meteorite to be officially registered in the International Meteorite Catalog, 20% by weight of the main mass of the identification sample must be contributed to a qualified scientific organization. ... The Staff of the Laboratory of Meteoritics. ...

... News Latest News News Archive Newsletter Quarterly Status Report . ... Calibration strategy, status and factors limiting success: Chandra . ... Calibration strategy, status and factors limiting success: XMM-Newton . ... Calibration strategy, status and factors limiting success: Swift . ... Calibration strategy, status and factors limiting success: RXTE . ... Calibration strategy, status and factors limiting success: Suzaku . ... Calibration strategy, status and factors limiting success: Integral . ...