... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomers recently discovered that Scholz's star passed close to the Sun 70,000 years ago. Wouldn't its gravity have sent Oort Cloud comets raining into the inner planets? ... COMETS | OORT CLOUD . Based on the number of long-period comets that enter the inner solar system, astronomers estimate there are probably trillions of them in the Oort Cloud. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Discover | ...

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... APOD: 2004 August 30- Announcing Comet C 2003 K4 LINEAR . ... Designated Comet C/2003 K4 (LINEAR), the comet was discovered in 2003 May by project LINEAR. ... As the Moon orbits the Earth, the half illuminated by the Sun first becomes increasingly visible, then decreasingly visible. ... APOD: 2004 August 28- M17: A Hubble Close-Up . ... APOD: 2004 August 27- The Sedna Scenario . ... APOD: 2004 August 26- Cassiopeia A in a Million . ... APOD: 2004 August 24- Supply Ship Approaches the Space Station ....

... Space Research Institute . Main . ... Main research and development work completed in 2010 and ready for implementation . Elaboration of automatic technology for analysis of abnormal changes of vegetation status based on satellite data . ... Satellite MODIS-Terra image, obtained on May, 17 2010. ... Main research and development work completed in 2009 and ready for implementation . Main research and development work completed in 2008 and ready for implementation ...

... February 8, 1996 . Hyakutake: The Great Comet of 1996? ... Unknown before its discovery by Yuji Hyakutake on 30 January 1996, the fuzzy spot in the above photograph is a comet now predicted to become bright enough to see without a telescope. ... Optimistic predictions include that Comet Hyakutake will change physically, develop a larger coma and tail , brighten dramatically, move noticeably in the sky during a single night, and may ultimately become known as the "The Great Comet of 1996." ...

Pulsar - the neutrone star. ... Its physical properties are greatly changed. ... Naturally after the discovery of pulsar connection with the remains of the supernew star outbursts it was supposed that the pulsars and the neutron stars are the same objects. ... In the external layer of a neutron star, where the substance dense is not so great to break the cores; they may from the hard chip structure, which at the pulsar rotation decreasing is broken the starquake. ...

The HyperNews Linux KHG Discussion Pages . Forum: The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide . Keywords: KHG should reflect current changes in the linux kernel . ... I have read version 0.6 completely but so much has changed in the 1.3.xx kernels that for experienced linux kernel hackers KHG no longer is all that useful. I thinks this is high time we should do a complete overhaul of KHG so that it reflects current changes in the linux kernel especially in the areas such as memory management. ...

... I decided that I don't need another script to synch duplicates between ldap and Active Directory after looking at the records on both. ... I got a connector for Active Directory set up in Zope, got the COI over https problem resolved with Alex, and worked on fixing up the broken ldap reports. ... I updated the manager selection code in the photo gallery so it will work with active directory and started developing a fix for the problem with LDAPSearch that prevented the delivery. ... Archive for 2014...

... epproc (epicproc-2.9.10) [xmmsas_20050815_1803-6.5.0] . ... Version 2.9.7 - 2005-06-06 . Document new parameter: runepreject . Document new parameter: runepexposure . Some of the default values for the parameters were changed. ... Document new parameter: analyzingSciSimdata . ... Document new parameters: removeintermediategtis , removeintermediateeventlists , createunfilteredeventlists . ... Version 1.0.7 - 2000-11-25 : some of the default values for the parameters were changed. ...

... Two new LBV stars have been discovered in the Andromeda Galaxy. ... In Figure 1 the spectral energy distributions for six stars are shown: upper row - the newly discovered LBV stars, middle row - two well-known LBV stars Var A-1 and AE And, the lower row - two new B[e]-supergiant stars in Andromeda. ... Infrared spectra of the stars in the Andromeda Galaxy: two classical LBVs Var A-1 and AE And, two new LBVs J004526.62 and J004051.59, and two new B[e]-supergiants J004417.10 and J004444.52. ...

... Forum . ... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... Special Issue Invitation: Climate Change . ... Отправленные: Вторник, 8 Июль 2014 г 13:11:55 . Тема: Special Issue Invitation: Climate Change . ... I wish to invite you to share your opinion/perspective on "Climate Change". Since you have a great experience in this precinct, I'd love to have a contribution from you for our special issue on "Climate Change" for Journal of Climatology and Weather Forecasting. ... MAO NASU . 2014 ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

Newton's Many Accomplishments . ... By the time Isaac Newton entered college, the scientific revolution of the 17th century was well underway. ... Men like Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Descartes had all helped develop a new view of nature. ... He was one of the most creative geniuses the world has ever seen and to many people the greatest scientist who ever lived. ... Principia Mathematica is still considered by many to be the greatest scientific book ever written. ...

Monday, March 30, 2015 ARCTIC Telecon Attending: Joe, Bill, Alysha, Suzanne, Conor, Russet - Optics · Optics are completely machined and at the coater. ... The main housing looks great. Off for anodizing next week. ... The shutter housing is done. ... Change of internal heater · ARCTIC is running too cold. ... This secondary heater will be added to the cold tip/block. ... ICC · I have received no update. Conor needs a few days to a week further work on the ICC then another week for shutter. ...

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . THE CHANGING UNIVERSE: EVOLUTION HAPPENS! . b) Changes in Stars . One of the great discoveries of modern science is that stars (like people) live only a measurable life-time and then die. Although the lives of the stars are enormously longer than the span of a human life, we can learn about the life story of the stars by studying them at many different stages in their life cycle, from birth to death. ...

... The following document provides a short instruction on the reduction of synthesis observations with the WSRT using AIPS. ... The aim of the instructions below is to provide a check list of reduction steps to be taken and of the important parameters to be set in each task. ... Please consult the AIPS Cookbook for detailed information about data reduction with AIPS (and various Banana recipes). TASK 'FITLD' . ... GETN n . ... TGET 'INDXR' . ... DOCAL 1 . ... GAINU 2 . ... IMAGRPRM 0 . ...

... Archives . ... X-ray summer school is on going. ... Recently I went to JSM 2007 and tried to attend talks about (bayesian) change point problems, which frequently appears in time series models, often found in economics. ... Tags: ARCH , Bayesian Block , challenges , change point problem , GARCH , light curves , summer school , X-ray . ... I received another type of changing point problem, defining a peak precisely, from a x-ray school student, who tried bayesian block but said it didn?t work. ...

... The model for each receiver differs from the sband narrow model by an offset in azimuth (great circle) and zenith angle .These offsets are computed by tracking the above source (or sources) rise to set and computing the difference in pointing errors between sband narrow and the new receiver. ... The table below has the rms pointing error for each receiver on CTA21 and the rms of the difference in pointing error between the receiver and sband narrow: . receiver . Rms azErr . Rms zaErr . ...

... In principle, two observers on the ground can tell, by comparing the position of the same auroral arc against the background stars. ... The display stretches across Canada; just below it, in the middle of the picture, are the lights of Chicago, next to Lake Michigan. ... The Canadian scientific satellite Isis-2 (1971) carried an auroral imaging camera and discovered the diffuse aurora, a broad ribbon around the auroral oval, too spread-out to be noticed from the ground. ... Auroral Acceleration . ...

... Over the 2.5 kernel development series, the USB driver api has changed a lot. As LWN has graciously allowed me to write a kernel article this week, and I know a bit about the USB kernel code, I thought I would discuss a short summary of the major changes that have happened with it for anyone wanting to port a 2.4 USB driver to 2.5. ... The biggest change in the USB api between the 2.4 and 2.5 kernels is much improved documentation. ... Changes to the USB driver API for the 2.5 series kernel . ...