... John Herschel Glenn, Jr. ... Glenn also holds the Navy Unit Commendation for service in Korea, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, the American Campaign Medal, the World War II Victory Medal, the China Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation, the Navy's Astronaut Wings, the Marine Corps' Astronaut Medal, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, and the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. ...

... This is the both the simplest and the most effective option for reducing the "address already in use" error. ... A situation where this might be a problem is if my program is trying to find a reserved local port ( SO_REUSADDR , then each time I run the program on my machine, I'll keep getting the same local reserved port, even if it is stuck in TIME_WAIT , and I risk getting a "connect: Address already in use" error if I go back to any place I've been to in the last few minutes. ...

... ESO Acronyms . ... Quasars and Black Holes . ... Black Hole at the Centre of our Galaxy . ... This view shows a simulation of how a gas cloud that has been observed approaching the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy may break apart over the next few years. This is the first time ever that the approach of such a doomed cloud to a supermassive black hole has been observed and it is expected to break up completely during 2013. ... Milky Way : Galaxy : Component : Central Black Hole . ...

... A small yet powerful planning and scheduling toolkit has been built for the Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite ( SWAS ) Small Explorer spacecraft. ... The simple design, minimal resource requirements and easy extensibility of the SWAS planning and scheduling toolkit should make it useful for other space astronomy missions. ... The relatively severe time and manpower constraints for the development of the SWAS Planning and Scheduling toolkit have forced it to remain small and simple. ...

... The school and the conference will be held at the Poncelet Laboratory for all days except from December 7 . ... The nearest metro station is СМОЛЕНСКАЯ (Smolenskaya), line 3 , 5 minutes by walk. ... How to reach Poncelet Laboratory from these metro stations. ... It is located within 15 minutes by feet from АКАДЕМИЧЕСКАЯ (Akademicheskaya) metro station, line 6 . ... There are a lot of exchange offices where you can exchange euro or US dollars to rubles. ...

RadioAstron - the International Ground-Space Radio Interferometer The Russian-Indian on-board 92 cm receiver The 92 cm (327 MHz) receiver (marked as --92, or P-SRT-92 device) is one of the four high frequency receivers of the RadioAstron Space Radio Telescope (SRT). ... The P-SRT-92 is a low noise receiver coupled to the feed at the focus of the parabolic dish. ... Then this LNA was integrated by Russian engineers into the P-SRT-92 receiver section. ...

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... Home Education Workshops at Adorama Astro Imaging Workshop: Planetary Astro Imaging with a DSLR ? December 7, 2014 . ... Astro Answers . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Presented by€а Adorama€а For the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

Status of EPIC operations Pedro CalderСn RiaЯo, ESAC Leicester BOC meeting 6-8 March 2012 Routine Operations Nominal observations · See the Quarterly Status report at http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_news/mission_status/index.php Eclipse season; nominal. · 21 earth eclipses, one earth + moon. ... MOS1 CCD6 periodic check: no changes Status of EPIC operations | Pedro CalderСn RiaЯo | ESAC | Status_Oper_2012.ppt | ... Pag. ... Status of EPIC operations | ...

... 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. ...

НОВОСТИ ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ ЭНЦИКЛОПЕДИЯ ИСТОРИЯ СТАНЦИЯ МИР ENGLISH . ... Мои публикации . ... ПУБЛИКАЦИИ . ... On May 28th 2003 the legendary Russian cosmonaut Oleg Grigor'evich Makarov died aged 70. ... We cannot say that Oleg dreamed of space when a child - as against many other cosmonauts. ... In 1966 Oleg Makarov became a space engineering tester. ... That modernized spacecraft was tested by cosmonauts Vasily Lazarev and Oleg Makarov in September, 1973 in Soyuz 12 commemorated by SG 4261 (above). ...

... Sun images . ... December : 2015 . ... Image of Sun's photosphere obtained 09.12.2015 at 23:40 UT with HMI instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ... Image of Sun's magnetic field obtained 09.12.2015 at 23:28 UT with HMI instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ... Image of Sun's transition region obtained 09.12.2015 at 23:39 UT with AIA instrument on board SDO spacecraft . Image of Sun's corona . Image of Sun's corona obtained 09.12.2015 at 23:39 UT with AIA instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ...

... Шариковые ручки . ... Порадуйте своего близкого человека такой великолепной игрушкой, которая станет его другом и подарит всю преданность и любовь, что хранятся в ее игрушечном сердце. ... Rosenthal Selection Jade weiss Кружка с ручкой 0,40 л - Rosenthal Classic - Rosenthal Classic . ... Развивающая игрушка-прорезыватель Божья коровка на цветочке (Bright Starts 9285) - Bright Starts - Bright Starts . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... I always like it when I can mix the Bad and Bitesize astronomy into one topic. ... There is an email circulating the 'net about the full moon that will happen at 17:00 Universal Time December 22 nd of 1999. ... It says that the full moon which occurs on December 22 is also happening when the Moon is at perigee , or closest approach to the Earth. ... This small difference doesn't add up to much change in the brightness of the Moon though.] ...

. Pulkovo NEO Page . Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo . of Russian Academy of Sciences, St.-Petersburg, Russia . Apparent Close Approaches of Near-Earth Asteroids to the Stars for April 2016 . By these observations it is possible to obtain the positions of asteroids with higher accuracy. This page includes the ephemerides of such phenomena for some observatories, namely: . Pulkovo . CrAO . Kourovskaya . Majdanak . Pulkovo Obs. Mountain Station . Mondy .

Blackholes Forum Message . Forums: . ... Discussion Forums | Blackholes I | Post . ... No There's Another Mistake . Forum List | ... Post Message | ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... The fitting routines in MIDAS were developed in close collaboration with O. Richter and later upgraded by Ph. ... The multivariate statistical package has been developed in close collaboration with F. Murtagh. ... Marguerite Pierre developed modelling commands for interstellar absorption work and contributed to the Long Slit package. ... The Wavelet package was implemented by J. L. Starck and contains both general routines for wavelet transforms and special applications e.g. for deconvolution. ...

... This is usually defined as the direction pointing toward the center of the primary body. ... NODE: The place where the plane of one orbit crosses the plane of another. ... ORBITAL PLANE: The flat surface that would result if every point on the orbit of a body was connected to the center of its primary. ... PENUMBRA: The edge of the primary body's shadow. ... PERIOD : The time required for one body to orbit the primary body. ... PROBE: A vessel designed to pass and observe an astronomical object. ...

A Brief History of the Discovery of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts - draft april 17, 1995 - J.Bonnell In October of 1963 the US Air Force launched the first in a series of satellites inspired by a recently signed nuclear test ban treaty. ... The event appeared to be a cosmic gamma-ray burst but at the time the constellation of satellites did not have sufficient timing resolution at the trigger to make a good determination of direction to the burst source. ...

NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office . ... This paper briefly presents the history, interactions and current activities of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office. The Program Office utilizes near-Earth object (NEO) astrometric data from the international community, received from the Minor Planet Center, to refine orbits and provide predictions for coming Earth close approaches. ... Recent studies of some of the issues surrounding the deflection of an Earth threatening NEO are also described. ...