... CONTACT . ... Planned space experiments promise a considerable increase in the detections and statistical knowledge arising especially from transit and astrometric measurements over the years 2005­15, with some hundreds of terrestrial-type planets expected from transit measurements, and many thousands of Jupiter-mass planets expected from astrometric measurements. ... To request a printed copy, please contact Britt Sjoeberg (bsjoeber@eso.org) . ...

... The quickest way to learn how each observation was performed is to use the iminfo task in the STSDAS toolbox.headers package to look at the headers of the science data. ... Number of extensions . ... Given that NICMOS data files contain multiple extensions, the number of the desired extension must always be specified. ... In order to simplify access to NICMOS FITS image extensions, each extension header contains the two keywords: EXTNAME (extension name) and EXTVER (extension version number). ...

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The table of elements represents sets of elements in increasing order of minor planet numbers. ... In the column of G (slope parameter) the default value of the parameter equal to 0.15 is indicated as “X” to distinguish it from value 0.15 obtained by photometric observations (see (89) Julia, (419) Aurelia)). ... User has possibility to save the file with elements, to print it using standard means or to turn to the construction of histograms or distributions of minor planet elements. ...

... After passing degree work in MAO of NAS of of USSR Sosonkin has received the recommendation for receipt in post-graduate course of M??. ... Subjects of his scientific work were use of new receivers of radiation, in particular of electron-optical converters at observant astronomy. ... On industrial base FTI Sosonkin has created installation on base EOC UM - 92 for Cassegrain focus of a telescope ?ZT-2 and similar to it and installation with the same type EOC for focus of Newton. ...

To the Deputy Head of the Administration of Russian Federation President Mr. A.V.Ogarev . ... First the international space station (ISS) Alpha, which is under construction now, will compare to the OS Mir on the amount of information only in 5-7 years. ... Thirdly, the participation of Russian Federation in the international space projects, including work on the international space station (ISS) Alpha, is to be aimed first of all at the providing of Russian interests. ...

Next: Specifying Keywords Up: MIDAS Data Structures Previous: MIDAS Data Structures . Descriptors have been derived from the concepts used in a FITS file header and have many similarities with the FITS keywords. ... Writing values into positions beyond the current length leads to an automatic extension of the descriptor (and update of its length) just as a text file is extended by the ``editor'' when you are editing it. ... For example, WRITE/DESCR imgfile Descname/C/1/7 Anyname . ...

... How to participate in refining HTML 3.0 . HTML 3.0 Overview . ... Design Guidelines for HTML 3.0 . ... The Structure of HTML 3.0 Documents . The HEAD Element and Related Elements . The BODY Elements . ... Heading Elements . ... Hypertext Links . Overview of Character-Level Elements . Information Type Elements . Font Style Elements . The IMG (Image) Element . ... The ADDRESS Element . ... HTML 3.0 Document Type Definition . ... The Latin-1 Character Entities -- needs work . ...

Moon, Planets And Aurora, Oh My! Articles | ... Moon | ... How often do we see several planets and the Moon together? ... Then I look northeast and see more red through all the light pollution of Washington, D.C. I snapped this 15 second photo. ... What started out as a father son photographic safari for rare planet conjunctions turned into a spectacular night of memories. ... Aha, I see some red light near Orion. ... A Very Rare Red Aurora in Northern Virginia, . ... www.astronomy.net . ...

Armagh Observatory astronomers who have been using video cameras to monitor meteor activity, or shooting stars, over Armagh for the past three years, have now extended their reach to meteors on other planets as well. In work published in the European astronomy journal "Astronomy and Astrophysics", astronomer Apostolos Christou has now reported the first detected signature of a meteor shower on Mars. ... It appears to have been produced by dust from periodic comet du Toit - Hartley . ...

For the calibration of RATAN-600 data you will need to Download Nobeyama Fluxes (1, 2, 3.75, 9.4, 17 GHz): year 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 . Brief description of Work Scan . Main functions of processing, realized in the program are: . ... Correction of various (not fatal) defects of data; . ... Calculating of the lower enveloping curve or an average scan from observations data for a few days; . ... COMMENT This table contains the set (TFIELDS) of 1-dimensional (TFORM# . ... AZIMUTH = 'float' / . ...

... Working in Space . ... The machine, in this potentially touching story, is the Hubble Space Telescope , which is not in the picture. The human is Astronaut Steven L. Smith , and he is seen above retrieving a power tool from the handrail of the Remote Manipulator System before resuming work on HST in 1999 December. For most astronauts , space is not a place for relaxation and vacation , but rather a place for hard work. ... 1999 2000 . ... Publications with keywords: astronaut - space - HST . ...

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Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders . ... Archives . ... Title : How Astronomers, Computer Scientists and Statisticians are working together to tackle hard problems in astronomy . ... The IIC has established an inter-disciplinary Center for Time Series with an immediate focus on astronomy. ... Chandra Blog . ... SAMSI AstroStat Prog. ...

Nowadays at the Department the experimental and theoretical investigations, including astronomical and ionospheric observations, active experiments with space vehicles are taking place. ... Solar Corona physics and erruptive phenomenae. ... Stellar astronomy. ... The Department has organized and put into practice more then 50 expeditions for observation of Solar ecllipces, aurorae polaris, comets, meteor streams, controlled space experiments, and also for investigations of geophysical characteristics. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... By admin January 21, 2011 Posted in: Robot Exploration . A UFO hovers in the Martian sky (Image credit:NASA/JPL) . The car-sized Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity is too heavy to slam into the rocky plains of Mars encased in airbags like its predecessors, so this imaginative and complex system was devised instead. ... Is there a video anywhere on the internet of a test of the ?sky crane? rockets? ...

NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER ORAL HISTORY PROJECT BIOGRAPHICAL DATA SHEET NAME: James W. "Jim" Head III O RAL H ISTORY: 2 June 2002 EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: B.S., Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, 1964 Ph.D. in Geology, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1969 NASA EXPERIENCE: Bellcomm, Inc., ... The Global Topography of Mars and Implications for Surface Evolution," Science, 284, 1495-1503, 1999. ... Res. ... A. Basilevsky and J. Head, "The Geologic History of Venus: A Stratigraphic View," Jour. ...

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... The post-flight reconstruction of the INTERBALL Auroral probe (Interball 2) orbit has been recently finished in the Ballistic Center of the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics (KIAM) of Russian Academy of Sciences. ... We shall name these new orbital elements as "Version 3" contrary to the former orbital elements "Version 1" and "Version 2" distributed earlier. All orbital elements are presented in the IKI WEB server in the F1 format . ... of the INTERBALL Project . ...

... 2004 May 23 . Working in Space . Credit: STS-103 Crew , NASA . Explanation: High above planet Earth, a human helps an ailing machine. ... The human is Astronaut Steven L. Smith , and he is seen above retrieving a power tool from the handrail of the Remote Manipulator System before resuming work on HST in 1999 December. For most astronauts , space is not a place for relaxation and vacation , but rather a place for hard work. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...