This lecture is based on the end of chapter 2 in the text . You will be introduced to this in labs, but feel free to install and play with it yourself: link is http://www.vpython.org/ .

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... Andrew S. W. Thomas (Ph.D.) . nasa Astronaut (FORMER) . ... NASA EXPERIENCE:б  Dr. Thomas was selected by NASA in March 1992 and reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1992.б  In August 1993, following one year of training, he was appointed a member of the astronaut corps and was qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on space shuttle flight crews.б  . ... MARCH 2014 . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... December 2006 . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... The highlight of the month is the total eclipse of the Moon during the night of December 20/21. ... Listed below are some of the key events, and the times they will occur, during December's total lunar eclipse. ... The eclipse is also visible in its entirety from Alaska (local time is UT тАУ 9 hours) and Hawaii (UT тАУ 10 hours), but be aware that most of the eclipse occurs on the 20th in these two regions. ... Penumbral Eclipse Begins . ... Partial Eclipse Begins . ... Total Eclipse Begins . ...

... Follow , follow the musical horn Sing follow , hark follow , the innocent hare The huntsman blows his joyful sound Tally ho, me boys, all over the down The huntsman blows his joyful sound Tally ho, me boys, all over the down From the woods to the valleys, see how she creeps From the woods to the valleys, see how she creeps Follow , follow the musical horn Sing follow , hark follow , the ...

... WISE is achieving 5sigma point source sensitivities better than 0.08, 0.11, 1, and 6 mJy in unconfused regions on the ecliptic in bands centered at wavelengths of 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 mum. ... The WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog is available in compressed (gzip or bzip2) ascii form. ... Users should be aware that the Catalog table is extremely large. ... For complete documentation of the WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog and the All-Sky Data Release, please see the Explanatory Supplement . ...

Note: this is an archived version which has been superseded. The current SNR catalogue is at http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/surveys/snrs/ . 2001 December version . ... Please cite this supernova remnant catalogue as follows. Green D.A., 2001, `A Catalogue of Galactic Supernova Remnants (2001 December version)' , Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom (available on the World-Wide-Web at "http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/surveys/snrs/" ). ...

... To overlay the sourcelist srclist.ds generated previously by eboxdetect on an image image.ds the following command can be used: . srcdisplay imageset=image.ds boxlistset=srclist.ds . ... To overlay circles of radius 0.01 degrees, use the following: . srcdisplay imageset=image.ds boxlistset=srclist.ds sourceradius=0.01 . ... srcdisplay imageset=image.ds boxlistset=srclist.ds sourceradius=0.01 withregionfile=true regionfile=regions.txt . ...

Space VLBI Mission RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity -- 1 for the period July 2013 ­ 30 June 2014 Key Science Program ( KSP ) Final Notes Proposals Due: 8 February 2013, 23:59 UT 1 RadioAstron KSP meeting follow-up Based on the fruitful discussions, questions and suggestions from the RadioAstron Key Science program meeting in Bonn (December 3-4, 2012), we would like to emphasize the following specific aspects for the preparation of the AO-1 ...

... Research Innovation . ... University history . ... V.љN. Karazin . ... Karazin university . ... up until December 31, 2012 . Bilateral competition of fundamental research . Fundamental Research State Foundation (FRSF) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) announce a bilateral competition of fundamental research. The competition coverts the following areas of research: . ... July, 2016 . ... up until April 2016 . ... April 18-23, 2016 . ... Phone: +380 (57) 7051248 . ...

... The 2 nd Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad will held in Vladivostok, Far East part of Russian Federation on December 4-11, 2006, just the same dates as the 1 st APAO took place in 2005. ... Saturday December 2 Possible delegations arrive . ... Main day for delegations arrive . ... Monday December 11 Main day for delegations depart . ... The Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad 2006 - results . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (APAO) . ...

The most recent leap second was added on 2012 June 30: The protocol files in this version have been updated to UTC1-TAI = -35. The following IAU Circular describes prior leap seconds. As announced by the IAU Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams in Circular No. 9004 on 11 December 2008, Bulletin C36 of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service announced that a positive leap second will be added on 1 January 2009. ...

INTEGRAL observations of SS433 : new results Anatol Cherepashchuk Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia In collaboration with: Rashid Sunyaev ... Eleonora Antokhina, Nikolai Shakura, Darja Kosenko, Elena Seifina,Sergey Molkov (IKI) 1 Overview · Introduction · · · · Observations Analysis of hard X-ray spectra Analysis of hard X-ray eclipses Discussion and conclusions December 26, 2007 ...

Публикации 2012 . ... Note: xyz velocities are ITRF2005; neu are WGS84. http://sopac.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/refinedModelVelocities.cgi (http://sopac NULL .ucsd NULL .edu/cgi-bin/refinedModelVelocities NULL .cgi) . This entry was posted on Friday, December 7th, 2012 at 9:12 pm and is filed under Uncategorized . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. ... Лаборатория лазерной интерферометрии is proudly powered by WordPress . Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

... 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. ...

... What is an intelligence or an intelligent life? ... Various particular cases, new regimes, original approaches etc. being attractive as they could, all this is a pale shade of a real process of cognition. ... May an infinitely complicated object be indeed so simple? ... An intelligence could not arise in an infinitely complicated universe! ... There are two possibilities: whether our imagination of infinitely complicated object is incorrect or the surrounding world is not infinitely complicated. ...

THE RELATIVE MONTHLY MEAN SUNSPOT NUMBER ON DECEMBER 2013 HAS MADE Wdec.= 61.4, THAT GIVES FOR 42 MONTH (2012, JUNE) DEVELOPMENT CURRENT 24 CYCLES OF SOLAR ACTIVITY THE SMOOTHED MONTHLY MEAN SUNSPOT NUMBER W*june= 61.7 THE BEGINNING 24 CYCLES OF SOLAR ACTIVITY - I 2009 with W*=1.8 THE MOST PROBABLE TIME OF THE MAXIMUM OF THE CURRENT CYCLE- XI.2012 - III 2013 THE MOST PROBABLE HEIGHT OF THE MAXIMUM - Wmax = 66 - 75. ... NEXT WEEK THE LEVEL OF SUNSPOT ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE THE HIGH AND AVERAGE. ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... December Issue: World Changing Ideas . ... Тема: December Issue: World Changing Ideas . To view this email as a web page, go here. links.email.scientificamerican.com/servl.. ODAyMzY2Njk2S0 =0 . ... World Changing Ideas . ... Since 1845, Scientific American has chronicled ideas and inventions that have changed the world. ... Board Categories MAO main - Info - MAO - news - Flame Technical - Technical Support(Forum)(Техподдержка(Форум)) . ... MAO NASU . ...

The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...