... New families of high-temperature composite materials: . refsic, refsicoat and refsicut. ... In Institute of Solid State Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences (ISSP RAS) refsic, refsicoat and refsicut new families of high-temperature composite materials were invented and developed last years. ... Possible applications of refsic , refsicoat and refsicut materials . ... тАв€а orders on R&D oriented on design of new patentable technical products, using refsic , refsicoat and refsicut materials. ...

Using the Faraday Effect to Probe Magnetic Fields in HII regions Lisa Harvey-Smith Cosmic Magnetism - From Stellar to Intergalactic Scales Southern Cross Astrophysics Conference Series, Kiama, NSW Wednesday, 16 June 2010 The Big Issues > > Star formation relies on the accumulation of very diffuse material from large volumes. ... Diffuse ISM Molecular Clouds Bn в B n HII regions Crutcher (2008) 2 Wednesday, 16 June 2010 Background Questions: > What is the magnetic field strength in HII regions? ...

... Carefully measure the diameter of the craters formed by the impact without disturbing the sand. ... Crater diameter increases with increasing mass. ... Without disturbing the sand, carefully measure the crater diameter. ... Did you measure any difference in the diameters of the craters? Yes, as velocity increases, so does crater diameter. ... Impact cratering. ... Impact craters can be demonstrated with younger or less advanced students using mud instead of sand and ball bearings. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Flights Chronology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . Spaceflights Chronology . Chronology of Extravehicular Activity . ... These materials can be used as structural materials for building space platforms and using them on the ISS RS. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... Amorphous carbonaceous materials can show a great diversity of optical properties due to the variability in their microstructure. ... The differently pyrolized celluloses are representative for a suit of carbonaceous material ranging from strongly disordered (insulating) to graphitized (conducting) material. Figure: Complex refractive index of hydrogenated amorphous carbon prepared by pyrolysis (annealing) of cellulose at different temperatures. ...

... I am involved in Project Astro, a program to bring astronomers into public schools to assist with teaching students about science and astronomy. ... While there are all sorts of scale model of the Solar System type exercises ( Mitchell Charity's page has a good listing of what's available), none were really tailored towards discovering the spatial relationships of the planets, and in a way that could be done at night as part of a Star Party. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Why most supermassive black holes do not accrete material . ... Implicitly, we will also better understand why most supermassive black holes fail in accreting material. ... 1) Analyse multi-wavelength data for selected galaxies to describe and quantify the different physical phenomena in their centres, and most notably to derive their central supermassive black hole masses....

Cas A Supernova Remnant in X Rays . ... Rutgers ), NASA / CXC / SAO Explanation: The complex shell of a star seen to explode 300 years ago is helping astronomers to understand how that star exploded. The above recently released image of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) shows unprecedented detail in three X-ray colors. ... It takes light ten years to cross the gas shell of the Cas A supernova remnant , which is 10,000 light-years distant. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

This annotated artistтАЩs impression shows the Milky Way Galaxy. The blue halo of material surrounding the galaxy indicates the expected distribution of the mysterious dark matter. New measurements based on the movements of stars show that the amount of dark matter in this region around the Sun is far smaller than predicted and have indicated that there is no significant dark matter at all in our neighborhood. ...

... The TRACE images may be used without restrictions in publications of any kind. ... These two images, taken on 18 November 2000 at 15:54UT and 16:11UT, respectively, show such an event: the red circle in the image to the left shows a region where many loops are cooling, with bright loop tops (the intensity scales with the square root of the image to reduce the dynamic range). ... See also a collection of images related to the Sun, other cool stars, and solar-terrestrial effects . ... Images | ...

... In this section, we develop a physical model of the secondary as a disk that is centrifugally supported in the radial direction and hydrostatically supported in the vertical direction. We assume that the disk is vertically isothermal and well mixed. ... where is the mean molecular mass of the gas, is the orbital period at the outer edge of the disk in years, and all of the mass of the secondary has been assumed to be concentrated near its center, so the Keplerian approximation is valid. ...

TOWARDS SUPERSENSITIVE BOLOMETERS AND ELECTRON COOLERS BASED ON CARBON NANOTUBES M.TARASOV, J.SVENSSON, S.DITTMER, L.KUZMIN, AND E.CAMPBELL Chalmers University of Technology, GЖteborg SE 41294, Sweden E-mail: Mikhail.tarasov@mc2.chalmers.se Carbon nanotubes (CNT) are being intensively developed for novel electronics. Electron cooling by superconductor-insulator-nanotube (SIN) tunnel junctions could be extremely effective due to the small volume of the CNT. ...

Microsymposium 38, MS080, 2003 (A4 format) PHYSICAL AND MINERALOGY CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LUNAR REGOLITH IN THE AREAS OF THE THERMAL ANOMALIES. ... Comparison of the local cumulative number of particles N per 104 m2 and photometric roughness parameter I. In this report we research data of the IR thermal radiation, the rough structure of the lunar regolith and mineralogy characteristics upper layer of the surface. ... The spatial graphical function of the lunar-surface thermal radiation. ... Figure 3. ...

... Guider functions . ... Guide Sensor Performance . ... Guide Sensor Sky Coverage/ Star Availability . Guide Star Selection Criteria . ... Guide fiber organization and reach at plug plate . ... Plug plate holes for guide stars are identical to those for science FO . ... FOV for each of 9 guide stars is 7.4 arcsec dia. (0.45 mm FO, Sumitomo IGN-05/10) . ... Selected guide stars must have no neighbor stars within TBD (5 arcsec) radius that have a brightness within TBD (5 mag.) of guide stars . ...

... The Sun of our solar system is a typical star of intermediate size and luminosity. ... The Sun has a very complex surface magnetic field created by convective flow of the electrically conducting solar material. ... The escaping hot coronal plasma is called the solar wind . ... See the table below for the observed features above the Sun's surface. ... Chromospheric features . Coronal features . ... dense clouds of material suspended above the surface of the Sun by magnetic field line loops . ...

Orbital intersection . ... Structure of Taurid stream . ... Meteoroid swarm and Taurid fireballs . ... The following four diagrams schematically show four different Taurid orbits and the orbits of Earth and Jupiter. ... The Taurid stream contains particles (small, solid grains) at different stages of their precession cycles. ... The study of when a meteor stream can produce a meteor shower is the study of when precession brings orbits to intersection with Earth, or e.g. with Mars . ...

... Hydrates MgSO MgSO MgSO MgSO MgSO MgSO MgSO 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Sodium Sulfate Hydrates Na2SO4 · 10H2O Na2Mg(SO4)2 · 4H2O Mirabilite Bloedite · · · · · · · 1H2O 2H2O 4H2O 5H2O 6H2O 7H2O 11H2O Kieserite Sanderite Starkeyite Pentahydrite Hexahydrite Epsomite Undecahydrite ... 8H2O MgSO4 + H2O(l) Sodium Sulfide Nonahydrate Sulfuric Acid Hydrate Magnesium Sulfate Brine Galileo NIMS spectroscopy of Europan surface units 0.8 0.7 0.6 Scaled ... 2005 Wavelength (microns) The Search for Life on Europa.. ...

Wave propagation in an irregular plasma . Methods of the ionospheric plasma radio sounding . ... Program, Grant No. ... Investigation of Anomalous Attenuation Effect Caused by Radio Wave Scattering and Transformation on the Ionospheric Irregularities . ... Grant No. ... Diagnostics of Ionospheric Irregularity Spectrum Using Measurements of Radio Wave Anomalous Attenuation Under Vertical Sounding . ... Simple numerical model of radio wave multiple scattering effects in the ionospheric plasma layer. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... gSatTEME Class Reference . Sat position and velocity predictions over TEME reference system. ... Set compute epoch for prediction. ... gVector љ . ... Get the TEME satellite position Vector. ... Get the Geographic satellite subpoint Vector calculated by the method compute SubPoint. ... gVector Satellite position vector meassured in Km. x: position[0] y: position[1] z: position[2] . ... gVector Satellite Velocity Vector measured in Km/s x: Vel[0] . ...

From the Tunguska Space Body to the Evolution of the Protoplanetary Nebula . ... A model for the structure of comet nuclei is proposed based on the results of the investigations of carbonaceous substances from the epicenter of the Tunguska cosmic body (TCB) explosion. ... Editorial note: This paper suggests several new ideas about the solar nebula and the formation and composition of comet nuclei based on investigations of the Tunguska event. ...