... They were determined as a result of orbit improving on the base of all kinds of optical observations available in the catalog of observations of the Minor Planet Center on March 16, 2014 (radar observations have not been used at this stage). ... As the MPC orbits do not all were improved simultaneously with EMP orbits, only 383866 sets of elements were used for data comparison (for selected sets of elements process of improvement had started with the use of the same observations). ...

... To accomplish these goals will require pushing the current capabilities for direct detection of faint sources to a new domain of very high contrast and sensitivity, made possible only through the technology of adaptive optics. ... In this paper, we will discuss the potential of AO for discoveries from the ground, and show that a new, more advanced form of adaptive optics on large telescopes will allow direct imaging of Jupiter-like planets around nearby stars. ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... The newly discovered ?mega-Earth? ... Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background (the two planets? proximity is grossly exaggerated) .€а Kepler-10c has a diameter of about 29 000 km, 2.3 times as large as Earth, and weighs 17 times as much. ... The first mega-earth to be discovered is Kepler-10c which orbits a star lying about 560 light years from the Sun in the constellation Draco. ... Astronomers Find a New Type of Planet: The ?Mega-Earth? ...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

... Астронет | ... 2002: Possible comet around the pulsar PSR1257+12 (courtesy Daniel Fischer) . ... A possible fourth, Saturn-like, planet at ~ 40 UA (Joshi & Rasio 1996, Wolszczan 1996) . ... Planetary system around the pulsar PSR 1257+12 . ... Is there a comet cloud around PSR 1257+12? ... Are there really planets around PSR 1257+12? ... abstract . ... Implications of the PSR 1257+12 Planetary System for Isolated Millisecond Pulsars. ... On the verification of the planetary system around PSR 1257+12 ...

. [ Go back to Comet WWW site ] . Andrew A. Martis . martis @ sai.msu.ru .

... General information . ... Staff . Research staff . ... Research . ... Star formation . ... Information . ... Historical highlights . Historical research . ... Rocky accretion in a young solar-type star . ... The results found in the case of the young solar-type stars 2MASS J08095427-4721419 are presented in " The Gaia-ESO Survey: chemical signatures of rocky accretion in a young solar-type star ", by Lorenzo Spina et al, published on Astronomy and Astrophysics ( A&A 2015, 582,6 ). ...

... stars . ... Small planets don't need "heavy metal" stars to form . Planets up to four times the size of Earth can form around stars with a wide range of heavy element content, including stars with a lower metallicity than the Sun. ... This study shows that small planets do not discriminate and form around stars with a wide range of heavy metal content, including stars with only 25 percent of the Sun's metallicity." ... The metallicity of a star mirrors the metal content of the planet-forming disk. ...

In ancient times the solar system was thought to be the whole Universe, so the study of planetary motions was cosmology. ... The planets other than the Moon and Sun generally move West to East through the stars, but occasionally stop and move in the opposite direction ( retrograde motion). In order to explain the retrograde motion of the planets, the geocentric model of the Solar System shown above puts the planets on small circles called epicycles . ...

... Contact A Problem of an estimation of accuracy of the asteroid CCD observations . The Minor Planet Center supported by the Interntional Astronomical Union is the main office for keeping observational data of the small Solar System bodies and their investigations. ... At Pulkovo Observatory we are estimating an accuracy of the CCD asteroid observations obtained by amateurs and professional astronomers all over the World using the MPC database. ...

Pulkovo NEO Page . ... EPOS Software Package . ... EPOS ( E phemeris P rogram for O bjects of the S olar system) is the Windows PC application for study and ephemeris support of observations of the Solar system objects. ... It controls the part of common data and transfers the control to one of the programs that solve the restricted set of tasks. ... So with the EPOS software package one can calculate the accurate ephemerides for many objects and get the quick illustration of their motion as well. ...

... Warped passages: Thursday 16 October 2008 . ... Catch a Falling Star: Thursday 9 October . A stronomy Ireland Colm J. Cannon Memorial lecture: " Searching for Planets Around Other Stars - From Galway " by Gregg Hallinan, at 8 pm, Monday 13 October, in the Physics Building, Trinity College Dublin. ... The techniques used to detect these planets requires the use of very sensitive and expensive equipment. ... Tuesday, 7 October 2008 23:23 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... This artist's concept shows a lump of material in a swirling, planet- . ... Astronomers have witnessed odd behavior around a young star. Something, perhaps another star or a planet, appears to be pushing a clump of planet-forming material around. ... Spitzer observed infrared light coming from one such disk around a young star, called LRLL 31, over a period of five months. ... could be shoving planet-forming material together, causing its thickness to vary as it spins around the star. ...

MPEC 2010-L25 : 2010 LG14 6/7/10 9:33 AM Printer- friendly version Search MPC/CBAT IAU Minor Planet Center MPC Operations Status Processing (Info) ECS: Accessible Observer Services (NEOs) N N N N N N N EO Services Overview EO Confirmation EO Confirmation (RA order) EO Ratings EO Page EO Observation Planning Aid EOChecker MPEC 2010- L25 : 2010 LG14 The following Minor Planet Electronic Circular may be linked- to from your own Web pages, but must not otherwise be redistributed electronically . ...

Computer Ephemeris. Ephemeris for physical observations of the planets. Explanations. Each row of the table contains for date specified at 0h of Time Terrestrial Dynamical: . ... position angle of axis of planetary rotation (degrees) - 'P', . ... illumanated part of the disk - k, . ... position angle of disk point with minimal illumination (degrees), . longitude of central meridian of the disk (degrees) - 'merid1' - system I and so... phase correction (degrees). ...

... January 31, 1996 . Planets Around Sun-Like Stars . ... The above plot summarizes the four known cases of normal stars having planets. ... The later two cases were discovered by astronomers led by Geoff Marcy and Paul Butler as part of a greater project inspecting 120 stars for orbiting planets. Interestingly enough, the planets around the later two stars have temperatures in the right range to allow liquid water - and hence may have conditions ripe for the development of life . ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... From astromap version 1.5b3, the OOF software supports deconvolution of an observation of a planet to retrieve the assumed Gaussian parameters of the beam. This deconvolution can be useful for empirical monitoring of telescope beams over time over which the planets used as sources vary significantly in size. ... Bojan Nikolic <b.nikolic@mrao.cam.ac.uk> # Initial version 2005. ... Copyright 2005 -- 2016, Bojan Nikolic feedback welcome ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members . ... Science Users Information . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO astronomers often are working on scientific programmes and data sets that are suited for PhD theses. This page gives an overview over what is currently offered by Faculty astronomers. ... Thesis topic . ...

Here the ellipse is studied in polar coordinates (r,f) , requiring minimal familiarity with the function cos f in the range 0 e . It is also noted that planets actually orbit the center of gravity of the solar system, and that distant planets may be detected by motions of their central star around the centers of gravity of their planetary systems. ... This lesson plan supplements: "Ellipses Kepler's 1st Law," section #11b: on disk Skepl1sto.htm , on the web . ... A circle is also an ellipse. ...

Next: RSOG Pre-Observation Products . ... Mission Elements . ... The main mission elements (ME) are: . The RSOG, based at ASC, which is responsible for the science operation of the RadioAstron Mission. ... The Main Ballistic(Navigation) Center (MBC) belonging to Lavochkin Association coordinates preparation and exchange of orbit determination and orbit reconstraction ptoducts. ... Experiment codes of five characters are used in naming GRT related files. ... RSOG . ... Corr (GTS?) ... Corr (RSOG?) ...