JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight . ... Scheduled for completion about 2006, the completed International Space Station will have a mass of about 1,040,000 pounds. ... The assembled space station will provide the first laboratory complex where gravity, a fundamental force on Earth, can be controlled for extended periods. ... Hospitals, business parks and solar electric power stations that beam clean, inexpensive energy back to Earth are likely to dot the "space-scape" 40 years from now. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... I had to lean backwards a little to make sure we didn't topple over, and as I spun her in a big circle around me I made a little circle on the floor too. ... The Earth, for example, has a mass about 81 times that of the Moon. ... It is mathematically correct to say that it is the barycenter that orbits the Sun, while the Earth and Moon circle the barycenter. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... In 1959 the Government Decree enacted OKB-1 to initiate work on the development of ballistic rockets using solid propellant RT-1 with a warhead flight range of 2 500 km, a launch mass of up to 35 t, and a combat charge mass of 500 kg. In parallel, the tasks were pursued to implement work on RT-2 assuming the development of a ballistic rocket with a warhead flight range from 10 000 to 12 000 km and a combat charge mass of up to 500 kg. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Posts tagged ?cartoon? ... 2 Comments . ... Example-wise, these books are not suitable, to my knowledge. Although I never expect astronomers to learn standard graduate (mathematical) statistics textbooks, I do wish astronomers go beyond Numerical Recipes (W. H. Press, S. A. Teukolsky, W. T. Vetterling, & B. P. Flannery) and Error Data Reduction and Analysis for the Physical Sciences (P. R. Bevington & D. K. Robinson). ... Entries RSS . Comments RSS . ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ...

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... 3.20 0051-038 00 51 35.6700 -03 50 11.000 T 3C26 9. ... 8.60 3.70 2.60 1.60 0430+052 04 30 31.6021 +05 14 59.620 A 3C120 3.40 3.60 3.30 2.50 0433+295 04 33 55.0000 +29 34 14.000 T 3C123 130. ... 3.3 1.0 1005+077 10 05 22.0200 +07 44 58.600 T 3C237 6.30 2.50 0.50 1008+066 10 08 22.7000 +06 39 12.000 T 3C238 2.9 1040+123 10 40 06.0009 +12 19 14.971 B 3C245 3.20 1.80 0.00 1111+408 11 11 53.1000 +40 53 41.000 T 3C254 13. ... 2.50 0.00 0.00 1553+202 15 53 57.1900 +20 13 00.000 T 3C326. ...

An APEX Low-redshift Legacy Survey for MOlecular Gas . ... Data . ... The first ALLSMOG datarelease is now available. Individual reduced spectra (in ascii format) can be downloaded here . The data table containing physical parameters including CO luminosities, gas masses, stellar masses, SFRs, and metallicities (Table B3) can be directly downloaded here . These data products are described in our first data release paper, б  Bothwell et al. 2014) . Page updated October 2015 . ...

Class 1 Introduction, Background History of Modern Astronomy The Night Sky, Eclipses and the Seasons Kepler's Laws Newtonian Gravity General Relativity Matter and Light Telescopes Class 2 Solar System Characteristics Formation Exosolar Planets Class 3 Stars The Sun Stellar Evolution of Low and High Mass Stars Deaths of Stars Exotic Stars Class 4 Galaxies Galaxy Classification Formation of Galaxies Galactic Evolution ... So far, one planet has been studied by this method. ...

. Draf - the star of small dimensions (1 - 0,01 of the Sun's radius) and of low luminance (from 1 to 10^-4 of the Sun's luminance) with mass M from 1 to 0,1 of solar mass. There are a lot of eruptive stars among the dwarfs. Unusual white drafs greatly differ with the usual red drafs in structure. Back .

... We show the analysis of low-hard and intermediate states of sources XTE J1550-564, H 1743-322, GX 339-4, XTE J1859-226, XTE J1650-500 and GRS 1915+105. ... Directly applying the scaling technique we also obtain that a ratio of the BH masses in XTE J1859-226 and in XTE J1550-564 is , and the corresponding ratio for XTE J1650-500 and XTE J1550-564 is . These values of scaling factors r implies that BH masses are ; solar masses in XTE J1859-226 and XTE J1650-500 respectively. ...

. Talc from Dorschner et al. (1978) . Back to paper page . Last modified: 10/09/98, V.I.

... The RAS Meteorite Collection: State on the 1 st of June, 1999 . ... About the laboratory . ... Chondrite . ... Find 1934. Several masses totaling 25 kg . ... One mass of about 320 kg . ... One mass of 510 kg . ... One mass of 2347 g . ... One mass of 331 g . ... Many masses, 12 kg collected . ... One mass of 75.75 kg . ... One mass of about 26 kg . ... Find 1962. 2 masses 22.7 kg and 9.0 kg . ... One mass of 1250 g . ... Find 1858-1964. 13 masses totaling about 505 kg . ... One mass of 150 kg . ...

... One of this year's largest mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere was recorded last Sunday by TESIS telescopes aboard the CORONAS-PHOTON satellite ( video - wmv 4.3 MB ). ... Over the course of a week, two gigantic solar prominences were simultaneously ejected from the surface of the Sun. ... Earth will not feel the Sun's influence either. ... The TESIS observatory ї TESIS: www.tesis.lebedev.ru . ... One of this year's largest mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere (movie WMV, 4.3 MB) . ...

Orbital Data and Parent Star Data for: XO-2_____ b . ... 0.000 . ... Planetary mass . ... Stellar mass . ... Stellar T_eff . Kelvin . ... Planetary T_eff . ... Stellar Radius . ... Measured Planetary Radius . ... T_circ (w/o core) . Gyr . ... T_damp (w/o core) . ... Bodenheimer, Laughlin, and Lin 2003, Astrophysical Journal, v. 592, 555-563. ... Adams and Laughlin 2006, ApJ : link . ...

Next: Binary Radiopulsars with Black Up: Black Holes in Binaries Previous: Black Holes in Binaries . Two different types of stellar BH formation exist: (1) direct core collapse   of a massive star and (2) AIC of a NS. A BH of the first type presumably will have a mass comparable to that of the collapsing star and can be born both from a single star and in a binary system. ... Next: Binary Radiopulsars with Black Up: Black Holes in Binaries Previous: Black Holes in Binaries Mike E. Prokhorov . ...

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Next: Particle Background Rejection Up: Detection Efficiency Previous: Front Illumination . ... The method requires that the CCD substrate be etched from the rear towards the depletion layer boundary. The device can be illuminated through this rear surface, which has a much thinner dead layer than the electrode side. ... The corresponding detection efficiency data are presented in Figure 7, and compared with the predicted data for a 20 m thick depletion layer. ...

Estimations of the change of the Sun s mass and the gravitation constant based on high-accuracy observations of planets and spacecraft . ... More than 635 000 positional observations of planets and spacecraft of different types have been used for estimating possible changes of the gravitation constant, the solar mass, and semi-major axes of planets. ... gravitation constant, positional observation, Sun's mass. ...

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