... 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 . ...

... Indeed, one alteration of orbits can be the outright ejection of a planet. When several big planets are orbiting a star under each other's influence, the system is inherently unstable. ... We know of no good reason why the smallest objects with fusion should have the same mass as the smallest objects that can form by themselves. ... 6) Mission Definition . ... I don't think this mission is impossible, and will suggest a definition in a future article in Mercury. ... Good luck! . ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Formation and migration of trans -- Neptunian objects S. I. Ipatov 1;2 1 Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia 2 NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, USA We support the Eneev's idea [1] that the largest (with diameter d?100 km) trans ­ Neptunian objects ( TNOs ) moving now in not very eccentric orbits ... The total amount of water delivered to the Earth during the formation of the giant planets was about the mass of water in the Earth's oceans. ...

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... Ever wonder how solar-mass stars form?. ... In order for material to accrete onto a protostar it has to lose angular momentum. The angular momentum of a large natal cloud leads to the formation of a circumstellar disk and inner accretion disk as the cloud collapses. ... Winds generated in the inner disk or close to the stellar surface (we don't know which) expel material along the disk rotation axis. ... This provides the highest resolution observational data on nearby young stars. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... This activity is believed to be promoting the unusually high rate of star formation seen in M82. ... Radio image of M82 made with the MERLIN and VLA telescopes. Insets show MERLIN images from April 25th and May 3rd 2009 demonstrating the sudden appearance of the mystery object.€а All images are at a frequency of 5 GHz. ... Mystery object in Starburst Galaxy M82 . ...

In 1950 Jan Oort noticed that . no comet has been observed with an orbit that indicates that it came from interstellar space, . ... From this he proposed that comets reside in a vast cloud at the outer reaches of the solar system. ... Unfortunately, since the individual comets are so small and at such large distances, we have no direct evidence about the Oort Cloud. ... Its orbit is intermediate between the Kuiper Belt and what was previously thought to be the inner part of the Oort Cloud. ...

Geotimes -- November 2005 -- Two more moons for "planet" Pluto http://www.geotimes.org/nov05/WebExtra110305.html Web Extra Thursday, November 3, 2005 Two more moons for Pluto When the New Horizons spacecraft finally reaches Pluto in July 2015, researchers will have more objects to study than previously thought. In addition to Pluto's confirmed moon Charon, astronomers have detected two more orbiting celestial bodies, which could help reveal how the planet and moon system formed. ...

... Mars . ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... Scientists predict that rocky planets formed from т??pebblesт?? ... Conventional solar system formation models generate good analogs to Earth and Venus but predict that Mars should be of similar-size or even larger than Earth. ... Using a new process in planetary formation modeling, where planets grow from tiny bodies called "pebbles," Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists can explain why Mars is so much smaller than Earth. ...

... no comet has been observed with an orbit that indicates that it came from interstellar space, . ... From this he proposed that comets reside in a vast cloud at the outer reaches of the solar system. ... Unfortunately, since the individual comets are so small and at such large distances, we have no direct evidence about the Oort Cloud. ... T he Kuiper Belt is a disk-shaped region past the orbit of Neptune roughly 30 to 100 AU from the Sun containing many small icy bodies. ... Small Bodies .. ...

... Up: Data Analysis and Processing Techniques . ... Also, a method for quality control of CCD observations is suggested. ... Everyone who observes a celestial object using a CCD detects moving celestial objects as a ``by product''. ... We hope that our investigations may be useful for near-Earth space control and also for searches of the moving celestial objects through analysis of old and new CCD frames obtained at any amateur or professional astronomical observatory. ...

... Poitiers, 23 January 2007 Science Vision for European Astronomy in the Next 20 Years 2 Is the initial mass function universal? ... High Poitiers, 23 January 2007 Science Vision for European Astronomy in the Next 20 Years 4 Do we understand stellar structure and evolution? ... Interferometry in near infrared and radio: measuring radii and resolving stellar surface Science Vision for European Astronomy in the Next 20 Years Poitiers, 23 January 2007 5 What is the life-cycle of the ISM and Stars? ...

... Here a very distant QSO happened to be placed right behind a massive galaxy. ... Our Solar System from Voyager . ... Four of the galaxies show essentially the same redshift suggesting that they are at the same distance from us. ... There are more than a few stars in our Galaxy. ... Sometimes, however, a burst of star formation can occur with unusual geometry. Nearby galaxy NGC 1317 shows such an unusual ring of star formation surrounding its barred nucleus. Comet Halley's Nucleus . ...

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... part 2 | ... Part 1 . The new concept of formation and development of the Solar system. ... Thus, the initial pulse of the rotation of a protosolar cloud of the solar system was determined as a result of the diversion of a part of the moment of the rotational pulse of the Galaxy. ... Besides this new approach to the pre-solar system as a system of the destroyed vortex structure, we can understand now a number of other peculiarities of the Solar system's structure. ...

... Intuitive model Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Predictions This simple theory leads to a number of, potentially, observable predictions (1) The ejection speed of the flow increases as one approaches the star (2) Stellar rotation period may be a fundamental period of the flow (3) The flow starts at Rt and ends at Ro when the transfield current runs out Current balance equation Predictions Mass ejection is proportional to mass accretion ... Inner disk dust ~ 90% crystalline silicate. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... The Nine Planets . ... Hey, it's either this or one of those really irritating PayPal donation buttons here. ... I have a snack from April 1998 that gives a brief intro to these peculiar objects , but briefly, brown dwarfs (or BDs for short) are objects that are a little less massive than "normal" stars, but bigger than any planets we currently know about. ... A star forms from a collapsing gas cloud. ... One more point: is a BD a star? ... 2008 Phil...

... Research . ... NASA's "follow the water" philosophy has led me to study atmosphere-regolith interactions on Mars in search for locations and times where liquid water is available. ... Transient liquid water and water activity at Gale crater Mars. ... Rivera-Valentin, E. G. , Chevrier, V. F., 2015. ... Icarus , 253, 156-158. Lopez Garcia, E. J., Rivera-Valentin, E. G. , Schenk, P. M., Hammond, N. P., Barr, A. C., 2014. ... Icarus , 237, 419-421. ... Chevrier, V. F., Rivera-Valentin, E. G. , 2012. ...

... Triggered Star Formation . ... It is now well established that massive stars in star forming regions can trigger next generation of star formation. ... The young stellar objects (YSOs) in star forming regions have been identified using the near-infrared (NIR) and mid-infrared (MIR) observations. ... The age of YSOs, the morphology of the regions and the global distribution of YSOs indicate that the star formation can be triggered by either (RDI/ CC) of the processes. ...

... Механизмы излучения космических объектов: классика и современность . ... Studies of radiation mechanisms and processes of spectra formation in astrophysical objects are among the fundamental tasks of modern astrophysics. ... On this occasion the Saint-Petersburg State University organizes an international conference Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today , which will be held in St. Petersburg from September, 21 to September, 25, 2015. ... radiative transfer theory, . ...