... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Animation of Asteroids Passing Near Earth . ... The above time-lapse animation follows the orbit of the Earth around the Sun for two months in 2002 as numerous asteroids , also known as minor planets , approach and pass by. ... Although none of the plotted objects came inside the orbit of our Moon, our Solar System is filled with objects as small as bits of sand, usually left by a comet, that appear as meteors as they streak into the Earth's atmosphere every day. ...

... With enough velocity, a spacecraft can break loose from the Earth's gravity and enter an orbit around the Sun, like that of a planet. If it then orbits the Sun with the same period as the Earth--one year--it may keep a fixed position relative to Earth. ... If the distance is just right--about 4 times the distance to the Moon or 1/100 the distance to the Sun--the spacecraft, too, will need just one year to go around the Sun, and will keep its position between the Sun and the Earth. ...

... 2006 March 28 . Animation of Asteroids Passing Near Earth . ... The above time-lapse animation follows the orbit of the Earth around the Sun for two months in 2002 as numerous asteroids , also known as minor planets , approach and pass by. ... Although none of the plotted objects came inside the orbit of our Moon, our Solar System is filled with objects as small as bits of sand, usually left by a comet, that appear as meteors as they streak into the Earth's atmosphere every day. ... About APOD | ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The real-time radiosignals characteristics calculation algorithm from current VS data is carried out according to the following scheme (V.P.Grozov ,G.V.Kotovitch,V.E.Nosov,S.N.Ponomartvhuk, S.V.Pushkarev,L.P.Sergeeva,V.V.Khakhinov. Real time decameters radio systems characteristics calculation by ionosphere vertical sounding data. ... ionogram and calculation results display on monitor; . ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Alien Life . ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . ... Earth Satellites . ... Science Fiction . ... 4 Comments There are cosmic threats to life on Earth.Hiding in the depths of space are things lethal beyond imagining.One day the End will be nigh for real.A forthcoming conference, part of [ ] . ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... These trajectories have an initial flight from the Earth to a large distance (of about 1.5 million km), the following passive flight to the Moon's orbit, an approach to the Moon with a decrease of an energy of a particle (spacecraft) selenocentric motion to a negative value and the temporary capture in an elliptic orbit of the Moon's satellite. ... Several trajectories of this type are determined. ... Ivashkin V. V. On optimal trajectories of space flight to the Moon in the Earth--Moon--Sun system. ...

... Classes . ... Earth . ... tcc::Earth Class Reference . ... std::tr1::array < double, 3 >љ . ... std::tr1::array <double, 2> tcc::Earth::poleInterceptX . ... std::tr1::array <double, 2> tcc::Earth::poleInterceptY . ... std::tr1::array <double, 2> tcc::Earth::poleSlopeX . ... std::tr1::array <double, 2> tcc::Earth::poleSlopeY . ... std::tr1::array <double, 3> tcc::Earth::startTAI . ... std::tr1::array <double, 2> tcc::Earth::ut1_taiIntercept . ... std::tr1::array <double, 2> tcc::Earth::ut1_taiSlope ....

Astronomy Discussion Forums . Forums: . ... The Protective Role Of Moon. ... Post Message | ... It seems that Moon has an important and serious role of protecting Earth from comets! When a comet falls on Earth, it digs in the ground and buries inside the earth surface; this is opposite to the meteorite, which when falls on Earth it stays upon the surface, and does not usually bury under the ground. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : The Moon only shows one face to us because it is not rotating. Better astronomy : The Moon only shows one face because it is rotating, once every time it revolves around the Earth. ... Place the Moon model on the table about 30 centimeters (one foot) away with the X facing the Earth model. ... You'll see that to keep the X facing the Earth model, you have to rotate the Moon model as it goes around the Earth model . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Научная панорама ? arxiv:0709.0752 Sky in Google Earth . ... arxiv:0709.0752 Sky in Google Earth (Sky in Google Earth: The Next Frontier in Astronomical Data Discovery and Visualization) . ... Описан проект <A HREF=" http://earth.google.com/sky/index.html ">Sky in Google Earth</A>. ... http://xray.sai.msu.ru/~polar/sci_rev/167.html#arxiv/0709.0752 . ... Еще они нам сказали, что image processing для DSS2 какие-то фонари в Гуггле делали 2 года!! ... А черт знает что там они делали два года. ...

... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... Solar eclipse travelogue: Sulawesi delivers a spectacular eclipse . ... Tune into the Asteroid Day press conference . ... Asteroid DayУ?т??т??s Don Yeomans: Will asteroid 2013 TX68 strike Earth? ... As Earth was molten early during its formation, dense metals should have sunk toward the core, yet iron is found closer to the surface. Did asteroids and comets deliver some of these materials? ...

Image credit: Michael Nolan, Arecibo Observatory. These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2001 SN263 were obtained on 2008 Feb 12 and 13. ... Image from Feb 12 . ... First near-Earth triple asteroid discovered by Arecibo Observatory . ... was discovered this week by astronomers at the sensitive radar telescope at Cornell University?s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. ... For example, Arecibo has discovered more than half of the near-Earth binary asteroid systems discovered since 1999. ...

... Peter J.K. "Jeff" Wisoff (Ph.D) . NASA Astronaut (former) . ... A veteran of four space flights, STS-57 in 1993, STS-68 in 1994, STS-81 in 1997 and STS-92 in 2000, Dr. Wisoff has logged a total of 42 days, 56 hours, 1 minute and 48 seconds in space, including , 19 hours and 53 minutes of EVA time in three space walks. ... Following 183 orbits of the Earth in 269 hours and 46 minutes, the eleven-day mission ended with Space Shuttle Endeavour landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California. ...

... The craters were caused by the impacts of comets and asteroids. ... In fact, up to a diameter of about 10 meters (33 feet), most stony meteoroids are destroyed in the atmosphere in a terminal explosion. ... The famous meteor crater in northern Arizona, some 1.2 kilometers (4,000 feet) in diameter and 183 meters (600 feet) deep, was created 50,000 years ago by a nickel-iron meteorite perhaps 60 meters (197 feet) in diameter. ... These range in diameter from a few meters to about 8 km. ...

... The Moon’s surface is covered with the great number of ring structures - ring mountain (circuses) and by shocked origin (meteoritic) (see the Moon craters and their peculiarity ). ... The temperature in the Moon surface is changing from 400 to 100K. The composition and structure of the Moon. ... There is difference in the mineralogical composition of the Moon and of the Earth: for example, the oxides of iron in the Moon basalt are 25% - more, and titan - 13% more then in the terrestrial. ...

FEATURES OF RSC ENERGIA'S MARTIAN MISSION CONCEPT . ... for the interplanetary . ... Then, using propulsion units, this vehicle is injected into the interplanetary trajectory, and over the next few months the vehicle transits to Mars. ... A special lander separates from the main section of the vehicle to take to the Martian surface the mission crew or a part of the crew. ... Key data on the interplanetary vehicle of the RSC Energia concept . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Determining the Earth-Sun Distance Using Mars . ... For more than a century, astronomers tried to measure the average Earth-Sun distance, known as the astronomical unit (AU), by observing rare transits of Venus. ... By measuring this displacement (parallax) and knowing the length of the baseline between the two observing sites, one can determine Mars?s distance. ...

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