... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

... A dynamo is created in a magnetic field by an electric circuit, part of which is moving relative to the rest (additional conditions must also be met). ... Furthermore, the plasma between them conducts electricity very well along its magnetic field lines, which act as if they were wires connecting Io and the planet (drawing). ... The drawing is not to scale. ... The Hubble Space Telescope , using its Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, has been photographing auroras of the planet Jupiter. ...

Internet Sites | Children's Books | ... Tilt of the Earth - Beautiful site explaning the tilt of the Earth. ... Nine Planets: Planet Data - It might be fun to discover how tilted the other planets are in the Solar System! ... Bill Nye the Science Guy-Episode: Climates - Learn a bit about the Earth's climates and make a model of a weather system. Weather Links for Teachers and Parents - Nick the Weather Dude's list of useful links about weather. ... Philomel Books, 1995. ... Tilt-A-World | ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . ... A small spacecraft Aist-2D , developed by the scientists of Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) and the experts of the Rocket and Space Centre Progress will see from outer space what is hidden under the thick top of trees and below the Earth's surface. The radar equipment was installed on Aist-2D , which was delivered to the space launcher complex Vostochniy on January 22. ... Tomography of the Earth's ionosphere will also be carried out. ...

For the 2004/2005 summer vacation program the ATNF received almost 200 applications and accepted six students. ... Four of the students were based in Sydney, and two at the Parkes Observatory. ... Nadia wanted to play with a telescope; Joris was looking for an entry into real astronomy after completing his masters in radio astronomy in Sweden; Jamil was keen to network. ... Figure 1: ATNF 2004/2005 summer vacation students. Back row: Peter Hansen, Nadia Davidson, Jamil Zaman, Joris Verbiest. ...

... SATELLITE: An object that revolves around a planet. ... SIDEREAL DAY: The length of a planet's rotation period relative to the stars. SOLAR SYSTEM: The sun and all the objects that are held in its gravitational field and move around it. ... SUPERIOR CONJUNCTION: The position of a planet when it is on the opposite side of the Sun from Earth (thus making in invisible). ... TRANSIT: The movement of an object between the Earth and the Sun and showing on the surface of the sun as a black dot. ...

... As then we removed from the Earth, we dived into a sky deeper and deeper. ... We saw immense red-hot spheres, liked suns, in illuminator of our spaceship. ... We saw our Earth, Mars, Mercury, and planets-giants, such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and other. ... Also we saw a comet. ... The planet Upsilon was on our way. ... If we could speak the language of these two peoples, we could explain them what the war did on our home planet "the Earth", how many people were killed because of war conflicts. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Pulsars . ... Stars ? ... The array was designed to detect compact radio sources such as these by virtue of the fact that they would scintillate (twinkle) when observed from the Earth through the interplanetary medium ? ... One of Antony Hewish?s research students, Jocelyn Bell, was set the task of operating the telescope and inspecting the daily charts for the kind deflections in the trace which occurred when a scintillating source passed over the array. ...

Computer Ephemeris. Ephemeris for physical observations of the planets. Explanations. Each row of the table contains for date specified at 0h of Time Terrestrial Dynamical: . ... position angle of axis of planetary rotation (degrees) - 'P', . ... illumanated part of the disk - k, . ... position angle of disk point with minimal illumination (degrees), . longitude of central meridian of the disk (degrees) - 'merid1' - system I and so... phase correction (degrees). ...

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In ancient times the solar system was thought to be the whole Universe, so the study of planetary motions was cosmology. ... The planets other than the Moon and Sun generally move West to East through the stars, but occasionally stop and move in the opposite direction ( retrograde motion). In order to explain the retrograde motion of the planets, the geocentric model of the Solar System shown above puts the planets on small circles called epicycles . ...

... Prof. N.N. Kiselev . ... Dr. V.K. Rosenbush . ... Kiselev N.N., Velichko F.P. (1998) Polarimetry and photometry of comet C/1996 B2 Hyakutake. ... PDF file ] . Kiselev N.N., K. Jockers, V.K. Rosenbush et al. ... Kiselev N.N., Jockers K., Rosenbush V.K. (2002) Comparative study of the dust polarimetric properties in split and normal comets. ... Rosenbush V.K., Kiselev N.N., Velichko S.F. (2002) Polarimetric and photometric observations of split comet C/2001 A2 (LINEAR). ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... News . ... RSC Energia is the prime manned space flight organization in the Russian rocket and space industry, responsible for the development of the ISS Russian Segment, its integration into the Space Station and its operation, including development and operation of the principal modules of the Segment (Zvezda, Pirs, Poisk, Rassvet, Nauka etc.), manufacturing, launch and operation of Soyuz TMA and Progress M...

... 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 . ...

Arecibo Observatory took radar images of asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon as the space rock sailed safely past earth. The sequence of images show a dark, cratered asteroid 3.0 kilometers across (1.9 miles) across with a companion moon about 750 meters (2500 feet) in size. Both the asteroid and its moon passed 6 million kilometers (3.8 million miles) from earth. ... Radar images of asteroid 1998 QE2 (bottom) and its satellite (top) on June 6. ... Comparisons of QE2 to the size of an ocean liner . ...

... V.V. Busarev, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, . ... V. V. Busarev1, M. N. Taran2, V. I. Fel’dman3 and V. S. Rusakov41 Lunar and Planetary Department, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Universitetskij pr., ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Universitetskij pr., ... V. V. BUSAREV, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russian Federation (RF) (E-mail: busarev@sai.msu.ru); . ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... Planet::SharedPlanetGraphics Struct Reference . ... More... #include < Planet.hpp > . ... Lazily initialize the data, using given renderer to create textures/shader. ... Shader used to draw the planet (with lighting), if lighting is used and GLSL is supported. ... Shader used to draw the planet (with lighting and shadowing). ... Lazily initialize the data, using given renderer to create textures/shader. bool Planet::SharedPlanetGraphics::loadPlanetShaders . ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Encyclopedia . ... About laboratory . ... On the night of September 24-25, in the north of Irkutsk Oblast, local residents saw a brightly glowing space object draw a line across the sky and fall into the taiga. ... But scientists learned of the heavenly visitor only on October 3, when a fax arrived at the Institute of Sun And Earth Physics from Bodaibo. ... The first thing we did was to interview residents of villages located along the meteor's flight path. ...

... But in this victory, there comes a need for revenge against the rest of the humans, in a quest to totally annialate the human race by the devil. ... New Graphics: YES (Player's face, menu bar, options menu, title screen, skull selecting tool, level names, etc.. ... OH...and the barrels are now silver with red acid) New Levels: YES...from scratch...4 so far, but already working on up to level 9 and hopes for at least 10 (but from hints from a whole game of new music, yes.. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... November 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 . December 6, 7, 8 and 9 March 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28 . ... December 3, 4 and 5 February 13, 14 and 15 . ... December 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 . Incoherent Scatter Radar ionospheric parameters measurements are carried out on coordinated days determined by the International Geophysical Calendar. ...