... Reconstruction of peculiar velocities of galaxies from large-scale redshift catalogues provides an exemplary application of optimal transport. ... U Frisch, S. Matarrese, R. Mohayaee, A. Sobolevsky, A reconstruction of the initial conditions of the Universe by optimal mass transportation , Nature, 417 (2002) 260-262 ( arXiv:astro-ph/0109483 ) . ... R. Mohayaee, A. Sobolevskii, The Monge Amp re Kantorovich approach to reconstruction in cosmology , Physica D (2008) accepted ( arXiv:0712.2561 ) . ...

... Институт прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша . БАЛЛИСТИЧЕСКИЙ ЦЕНТР . О Центре . ... Баллистический Центр Института прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша РАН . Баллистический центр (БЦ) ИПМ им. М.В. Келдыша создан по предложению С.П. Королева и М.В. Келдыша в 1965 году. На него были возложены работы по баллистико-навигационному обеспечению (БНО) управления полетом пилотируемых кораблей и автоматических космических аппаратов научного и народно-хозяйственного назначения. ...

... Baikonour Cosmodrome – RSC Energia after S.P. Korolev, . the city of Korolev . ... Putting this SC into the orbit was performed by Upper Stage (US) DM-SLB from low earth transfer orbit, where the SC/US had been delivered by launch vehicle (LV) Zenit-2SB. ... Mission analysis was performed by the specialists from RSC Energia after S.P. Korolev within the Lead Operational Control Team operating at Mission Control Center for Upper Stages DM-SLB (RSC Energia, the city of Korolev). ...

... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

HST Call for Proposals and HST Primer for Cycle 24 . ... Hubble Space Telescope Primer for Cycle 24 > Chapter 2: System Overview > 2.2 Orbital Constraints . ... Orbital Constraints . ... HST is in a relatively low orbit (less than 600 km above Earth), which imposes a number of constraints upon its observations. ... As the HST orbit precesses and the Earth rotates, the southern part of the HST orbit intersects the SAA each day for seven to nine orbits in a row (so-called ?SAA-impacted? orbits). ...

Valentina Klochkova .

The Astronomical Society of Australia has been asked by STANDARDS AUSTRALIA to compile a list of "designated" optical observatories that are valuable resources for (i) research, (ii) education and (iii) community use. The ASA is the final arbiter of whether any particular observatory is so designated. ... Upon receipt of your application form, your observatory will be entered on a list of "Pending Designated Observatories" on the ASA Home Page. ... It will be emailed for you. ... Email . ...

... Not so long ago, Space Scoop explained that right this moment you re hurtling through space at hundreds of thousands of kilometres per hour! ... We call the time it takes Earth to complete one full rotation a day . ... But the length of one rotation and one orbit can be different on other planets. For example, one orbit (or year ) on Mercury takes just 87 Earth days. ... The length of day is also different on other planets. For example, one day on Jupiter lasts just 10 Earth hours. ...

... Volodymyr Kuzkov, Sergii Kuzkov, Zoran Sodnik - Direct measurements of laser light aberration from the ARTEMIS geostationary satellite through thin clouds // arXiv.org - New resalts to paper at Conference ICSOS-2014, Kobe, Japan, May 7-9 (2014), S4-4, [view pdf file] . ... Kuz'kov V., Volovyk D., Kuzkov S., Sodnik Z., Pukha S. - Realization of Laser Experiments with ESA'S Geostationary Satellite ARTEMIS. ... Preparation to Optical Communication Experiments With ARTEMIS Satellite. ... V.P. Kuz`kov. ...

... The experience of determination of the link between radio sources and dynamical reference frames is presented. To obtain this connection we used a series of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of the spacecraft Phobos-2 and angularly nearby quasars. ... The dynamical reference frame is determined by equator and equinox of these ephemerides. ... References . ... The relative orientation of the radio and dynamical reference frames can be described by a sequence of three rotations . ...

... Status of the numerical solutions and validation 2. ... Coupling of "solid" Earth components, e.g. core ­ mantle (Dehant et al.) ... Consistent relativistic formulation of Earth rotation (Gerlach, Klioner, Soffel) Status of the numerical solutions - 2 · The results from numerical solutions suffer from ­ Simplified solid Earth models ­ Incomplete Earth system models or neglecting of certain parts or neglecting of certain coupling mechanisms ­ Methodological limitations of computations...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... des actualit†йs . ... des interviews, des portraits . les plus belles images de l'Univers d†йcrypt†йes pour vous . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil Macrocosme a son application, MC2 . ... La version num†йrique ipad du premier num†йro de Macrocosme, l'application MC2, est disponible sur l'App Store. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Atm ћ Astrophotography ћ Blackholes ћ Blackholes2 ћ CCD ћ Celestron ћ Domes ћ Education . ... Moon Phases - Interactive Application . ... Post Message | ... I've done an interactive application for understanding the phases of the Moon. ... Thanks. http://ilovemedia.es/en/resources/moon_phases.html . ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... The Large Telescopes Program Committee of Russian AS . ... Executive Secretary, e-mail: request@sao.ru . Telescope RATAN-600 Time Request deadline: I half-year (Jan. ... Program title .. ... Principal investigator .. ... Request status .. ... Retarded applications and ones not conforming to form will not be accepted by the Committee. ... In some exceptional cases the Program Committee Secretary can accept a request after deadline with permission of the Chairman of Committee or director of SAO RAS. ...

КОСМИЧЕСКИЙ КАЛЕНДАРЬ ЯНВАРЯ 2000 ГОДА . ... Jan 01 - Year 2000 . Jan ?? ... Jan 01 - Asteroid 1996 AX1 Closest Approach To Earth (0.702 AU) . ... Jan 03 - Asteroid 3745 Petaev Closest Approach To Earth (1.862 AU) . ... Jan 05 - Asteroid 1999 VO11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.218 AU) . ... Jan 08 - Comet P/1998 VS24 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (2.915 AU) . ... Jan 12 -[Image][Dec 02] Asteroid 1999 WA2 Closest Approach To Earth (1.100 AU) . ... Jan 14 - Mercury Occults 53 Sgr (6.9 Magnitude Star) . ...

... Microstructure RAS; Nizhny Novgorod; Russia 4 National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba 3050047, Japan A Superconducting Integrated Receiver ( SIR ) [1] comprises on one chip a low-noise SIS mixer with quasioptical antenna, an Flux-Flow Oscillator ( FFO ) acting as a Local Oscillator (LO) and a second SIS harmonic mixer (HM) for the FFO phase locking ... Continuous tuning of the phaselocked local oscillator has been realized at any frequency in the range 300-750 GHz. ...

... Р?С?С?С?Р?Р?Р?Р?РеС?Р?С?Р?РеР? ... Launched on February 17, 1996, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission is to be the first of NASA's Discovery missions, a series of small-scale spacecraft designed to proceed from development to flight in under three years for a cost of less than $150 million. ... The ultimate goal of the mission is to rendezvous with and achieve orbit around the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros in February, 1999, and study the asteroid for approximately one year. ...

GTK+ / Gnome Application Development . ... Use the Gnome autoconf macros, or the gnome-config script, to reliably locate the Gnome libraries and header files. ... Include the standard INSTALL file describing how to compile and install the package; change the standard file to reflect anything specific to your application. ... Install a .desktop file so your application will appear on the Gnome desktop's menus. Install help files along with topic.dat files so the Gnome help browser can locate them. ...

Johann Kepler - a Legislator of the Sky. The laws of the planets movements put by Johann Kepler destroyed the thousand year old dogmas about the circles and spheres and opened the way to scientific understanding of celestial occurrences. ... The best object for observation was Mars - its orbit unlike the Earth's one has a noticeable eccentricity, the rotation period in comparison with Jupiter and Saturn is not too long and observation conditions are better than for Mercury and Venus. ...

... Up: Web Services and Publications . ... This is being done natively in new Java-based applications while older applications are being wrapped to provide Web Service interfaces. ... Data access is via the network enabled NDF data access layer for the older, non-Java applications and via the new HDX layer (Giaretta et al. 2003) for the pure-Java application. ... Use of Web Services as a new messaging system will allow Starlink applications increased flexibility. ...