LIPSKIY-RODIONOVA' LUNAR ANTIPODES AS PRECURSORS OF A REGULAR WAVE PLANETOLOGY G.G.Kochemasov IGEM of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia kochem@igem.ru / Fax: (009)(095)230 21 79 The first observations of the lunar far side allowed to compare it with the near side and draw very important conclusions in the very beginning of planetary studies based on spacecrafts. ... Celestial bodies are dichotomic. ... The concept of celestial bodies includes Sun (a star) as one of them. ...

Saturn: The beauty of the rings. Saturn . ... Belongs to the giant planets . It has no definite solid surface. ... The free fall acceleration at the Saturn surface near equator is 9,06 m/s^2 . ... In the centre of the planet the temperature is about 20000K. The satellites . ... The rings of Saturn . ... It is proved that Saturn's rings (as well as the other planet's) are the fragments of the great cloud being near the planet with million kilometres length (see how the rings were formed ). ...

... 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. ...

... Given the observing time and frequency, task plplt plots the expected visibility function for a planet. You will most likely want to check this visibility function before observing and discovering that the planet is resolved out! NOTE that mfboot and plplt do not include the effect of the ATCA's primary beam - the planet is implicitly (and silently) assumed to be small compared with the primary beam. ... Information on using the ATCA to observe a planet is available on-line . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Earth Satellites . ... According to Velikovsky, about 4000 years ago a giant volcano on Jupiter erupted and spewed a vast glob of debris into space, leaving the Great Red Spot behind as a permanent scar. The red hot lump ejected from Jupiter (referred to as a comet by Velikovsky) wandered into the inner Solar System, repeatedly crossing the Earth?s orbit and in fact often passing close to our helpless planet in the following millennia. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Credit: Rick Scott and Joe Orman Explanation: OK, it's a picture of the Sun (duh!), but can you spot the planet ? Of course, most of the spots you've spotted are sunspots, as large or larger than planet Earth itself. ... But also visible in this photograph from November 15, is planet Mercury. ... Publications with keywords: planet - Mercury - transit - sunspot . Publications with words: planet - Mercury - transit - sunspot . ... 3D Mercury Transit . ...

... A homogeneous chemical analysis of the inner Galactic disk from the first data release of Gaia-ESO . ... Gaia-ESO is a public spectroscopic survey designed with this goal in mind. ... These first results highlight the potential of the Gaia-ESO survey to explore areas of the Milky Way still poorly studied, such as the inner disk, and to give new constraints on Galactic chemical evolution models. ... Map of observed targets of the first data release of the Gaia-ESO Survey. ...

... 2005 April 5 . Light From A Distant Planet . Illustration Credit: R. Hurt ( SSC-Caltech ), JPL-Caltech , NASA . Explanation: Light emitted by a planet far beyond our Solar System has been identified for the first time. The planet, illustrated in the above drawing , had its light detected by comparing the brightness of only the parent star, when the planet was behind the star, to the light emitted when both the planet and its parent star were visible. ... About APOD | ...

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 AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . Directory of astronomy web sites. ... Listed Since October 25, 2004 . ... Web Site . http://123world.com/astronomy/index.html . ... Web . www.astronomy.net . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . are trademarks of John Huggins ...

A fascinating survey of the diversityяand the surprising similarities to Earthяof our planetary neighbors, this Electronic PictureBook compares and contrasts Earth features with those of other bodies in our solar system, including aspects of atmosphere, surface detail, and subsurface dynamics. ... Click on this icon if you would like to see a collection of snapshots of actual pages from the"Comparing Earth and Its Planetary Neighbors" Electronic PictureBook. ...

... Astronomy . ... Requires various plug-ins to your browser to work right. [m,h] (A simpler version of this activity, to be done with printed paper versions of the image, can be found at: www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/sepo/educaton/europa/puzzle.html ) . ... Interesting activity, in which students use an inexpensive "stream tray" to simulate the flow of water on sandy terrain, compare their results to features seen in martian images, and then try to replicate some of the features seen on Mars. ...

As in the last years, the Ephemerides of Minor Planets for 2015 are prepared by the IAA RAS only in the electronic form. ... Orbital elements of all numbered planets have been determined in IAA all over again on the ground of available observations in the catalog of the Minor Planet Center. ... More detailed information on orbital elements used in the present volume of EMP and their accuracy is given in section "Information on new orbital elements". ... a) information on new orbital elements; . ...

... 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. ...

... Archives . ... Astronomers confront with various censored and truncated data. ... This area is called survival analysis . If your library has The American Statistician subscription and you are an astronomer handles censored or truncated data sets, this primer would be useful for briefly conceptualizing statistics jargon in survival analysis and for characterizing uncertainties residing in your data. Survival Analysis: A Primer by David A. Freedman . ... Chandra Blog . ... SAMSI AstroStat Prog. ...

Address: ESO Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2 D-85748 Garching (Germany) Telephone: +49 89 32006343 Fax: +49 89 3202362 Email: msarazin@eso.org Expected absences from office. Weather forecasting - forecasting of seeing, fuzzy logic ; . Astroclimatology , - meteorology, telescope environment, atmospheric turbulence, and related topics; . ... ESPAS Working Group Homepage . ... IAUS 288: Astrophysics from Antarctica 20-24 August 2012, Beijing, China Nanjing . ...

Neptunes in the Noise: Improved Precision in Exoplanet Transit Detection AimИe Hall , Simon Hodgkin , Gabor Kovacs and Don Pollacco 1 1 1 1 2 Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge 2 Department of Physics, University of Warwick Figure 2 (right): Distribution of radii of all known exoplanets (grey), with those from Kepler (green) and SuperWASP (blue) also shown. We present early results from a new analysis of raw data taken with the SuperWASP telescope[1]. ...

... 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 .. ...

Taking the opportunity of the Gaia reference star catalogue for observing the Solar system in the past D. Hestroffer , J.-E. Arlot , V. Lainey , V. Robert 1 1 1 1,2 1 - IMCCE ... Institut Polytechnique des Sciences AvancИes (IPSA), 7-9 rue Maurice Grandcoing, F-94200 Ivry-s/-Seine, France Abstract The Gaia astrometric catalogue of reference stars will provide proper motions of stars until mag 18 with an accuracy better than 6 mas over one century ...

... 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 . ...