The nasa.gov site requires that JavaScripts be enabled in your browser. ... Contact NASA . ... The term "astronaut" derives from the Greek words meaning "space sailor," and refers to all who have been launched as crew members aboard NASA spacecraft bound for orbit and beyond. Since the inception of NASA's human space flight program, we have also maintained the term "astronaut" as the title for those selected to join the NASA corps of astronauts who make "space sailing" their career profession. ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

... 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 . ...

... September 21, 1997 . Looking Down on Saturn . Credit: Voyager Project , JPL , NASA . Explanation: This picture of Saturn could not have been taken from Earth . No Earth based picture could possibly view the night side of Saturn and the corresponding shadow cast across Saturn's rings . Since Earth is much closer to the Sun than Saturn , only the day side of the planet is visible from the Earth . ... Tomorrow's picture: Antares and Rho Ophiuchi . ... About APOD > . ...

... Up: Science Software Applications . ... It has extensions for creating GUI (Tk) and object-oriented ([incr tcl]) applications. Several Tcl-based tools that may be used for astronomical and other scientific applications have been created and are discussed. One example is ptcl , which registers PGPLOT functions as Tcl commands, creating a powerful interactive plotting package. ... Both programs use the same C code, Tcl commands, and [incr tcl] classes; only the GUIs are different. ...

... Credit Copyright: J. Vilinga (Angola, IAP ), LASCO , NRL , SOHO , ESA , NASA ; . Processing: R. Wittich ; Composition Copyright: S. Koutchmy ( IAP , CNRS ) Explanation: Sometimes, a total eclipse is a good time to eye the Sun. Taking advantage of an unusual juxtaposition of Earth, Moon and Sun , the featured image depicts the total solar eclipse that occurred last month as it appeared -- nearly simultaneously -- from both Earth and space. ... Earth During a Total Eclipse of the Sun . ...

Motif and X-Windows . The applications described in this section are some of the many applications available. ... A DECterm session can be created by choosing the DECterm submenu item the Session Manager's Application menu or by using the CREATE/TERMINAL command at the system prompt. ... The CDA Viewer application displays the contents of compound documents consisting of graphics, images, and text. ... Ghostview is an application that displays PostScript documents using ghostscript. ... DECterm . ...

... Northern Eurasian GOFC/GOLD Fire Network Workshop in support of the Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative ( NEESPI ) . Satellite-based fire monitoring network in Northern Eurasia: Methods, Data Products, Applications . ... Operational systems of fire monitoring and fire situation in Northern Eurasia (Issues of system building and functioning, fire situation, available data and problems) . ... Marchenko N., Landscape-ecology methods for forest fires monitoring in Northern Eurasia. ...

... Often it is convenient to edit one visibility dataset (``the template''), and then to apply the flagging from this to another. For example, forming and flagging a ``channel-0'' dataset might be less painful than flagging a huge spectral line dataset. ... The task that can do these sorts of operations if uvaflag - it matches visibilities in the template and the input, and flags those visibilities in the input that are flagged in the template. ... Dataset to be flagged. tvis=multi.chan0 . ...

... Planets . ... The planets were found using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6m telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory. ... A planet in orbit around a star causes the star to regularly move towards and away from observers on Earth. ... One newly discovered planet, HD 85512 b, is best hope found so far for a habitable exoplanet. ... The HARPS team so far have found that about 40% of stars similar to own Sun have at least one planet smaller than Saturn (which is 95 times more massive than Earth). ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... ISC Kosmotras announces signing of a launch contract with T B?TAK Space Technologies Research Institute (T B?TAK UZAY) for injection of RASAT spacecraft - the first Earth observation satellite designed and manufactured in Turkey by Dnepr LV in 2010. ... Dnepr LV Performance . ...

... August 30, 1999 . Looking Back on an Eclipsed Earth . ... Explanation: Here is what the Earth looks like during a solar eclipse. ... Only observers near the center of the dark circle see a total solar eclipse - others see a partial eclipse where only part of the Sun appears blocked by the Moon . This spectacular picture of the 1999 August 11 solar eclipse was one of the last ever taken from the Mir space station , as Mir is being decommissioned after more than ten years of productive use. ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Parameterization of the Solar Radiation Pressure model for GPS satellites I. S. Gayazov Institute of Applied Astronomy, St. Petersburg, Russia The treatment of solar radiation pressure (SRP) effect until now is the main problem in precise modeling of GPS satellite orbits. ... In practice, however, all seven parameters of the empirical model cannot be confidently determined from phase observations. ... Bar­Sever Y. E. A new model for GPS yaw attitude. ...

... Posts tagged ?model based? ... arXiv:stat.ME:0910.2585] . Variable Selection and Updating In Model-Based Discriminant Analysis for High Dimensional Data with Food Authenticity Applications . ... Category: Algorithms , arXiv , Cross-Cultural , Data Processing , Jargon , Methods , Spectral , Stat | ... Tags: bimodality , chi-square minimization , Classification , CMD , Estimation , machine learning , massive data , model based , PCA , spectral analysis , spectroscopic , survey , VO . ...

... The Australian National University] [Department of Physics] [Paul Francis] [Main Roleplay Page] . These exercises are my attempt to adapt the technique of Problem Based Learning to the context of introductory astronomy and astrophysics classes. ... As students grapple with the puzzle, they are forced to learn the subject matter of the course. ... This exercise is designed for 1st year University students with a reasonable high-school background in Maths and Physics. ...

Catastrophism : . ... During the late 18th and early 19th century, a German mineralogist, Abraham Gottlob Werner, proposed that all of the Earth's rocks were formed by rapid chemical precipitation from a "world ocean," which he then summarily disposed of in catastrophic fashion. Though not directed toward the genesis of landforms in any coherent fashion, his catastrophic philosophy of changes of the Earth had two major consequences of geomorphic significance. ... Thermal Plate Tectonics : . ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Although their determination is based on the scattering process model, independent check-ups by rocket experiments have shown their correctness in experimental applications. ... Ionospheric data analysis, especially during strong disturbances, cannot be without some other kinds of diagnostic tools. ... The lack of data has always been a challange in this case. ...

... Listed below are questions submitted by users of "The Great Magnet, the Earth" and the answers given to them. ... In "The Exploration of the Earth's magnetosphere" on the magnetic environment of the Earth in space (a few Q duplicated here) . ... 11) Magnetic Shielding . ... 51) Can electricity be generated from the Earth's magnetic field? ... 9) Measuring Earth's magnetic field . ... 6) Reversals of the Earth's field (4 queries) . ... 42) Could generated electricity affect Earth's magnetic field? ...

... Upper stage Block DM design is based on Block D, which was originally developed under lunar program N1-L3 and the first time it successfully operated in flight was as a part of L1 complex (with Proton launch vehicle) on March 10, 1967. Upper stage Block DM features high reliability proven by more than 30 years of its operational history, and capacity for multiple burns of the main engine, which allows it to perform the required orbital maneuvers. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... G., Filippova A.S. Presented by: Filippova A.S Achievements · Refined model based on the celestial-mechanics methods is presented that is a generalized version of the previously developed basic model · Subtle effects are qualitatively explained based on the amplitude-frequency analysis and the computer numerical modelling of the oscillatory pole motion, where the key feature is the Chandler wobble 2 Basic Model of the Polar Oscillations ...