... Our everyday experience of the world around us is . ... An Inquiry-Based Classroom . I n our Everyday Classroom Tools project, we are seeking to immerse elementary school students in the Spirit of Inquiry, to help them begin to observe and learn from their experience. ... What the Everyday Classroom Tools project wishes to stress is that before there were encyclopedias, there were authors, and before there were scientific facts, there were curious people trying to explain the world around them. ...

... Space flight . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... The aim of the Space Camp program is to promote achievements of Russian manned cosmonautics and space exploration. ... One of the main tasks of the Space Camp program is to facilitate cooperation with educational institutions in Russia and abroad in proliferation and mastering of acquired knowledge in a form of space-related quizzes, contests, scientific experiments, on line- and videoconferences. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... SHANNON W. LUCID (Ph.D.) . nasa astronaut (former) . ... She is qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle flight crews. ... A veteran of five space flights, Dr. Lucid has logged 5,354 hours (223 days) in space. ... Dr. Lucid retired from NASA in January 2012. ... In completing this flight, Dr. Lucid logged 838 hours and 54 minutes in space. ... FEBRUARY 2012 ...

After a couple of visits by Steve Larson and Ed Beshore in late 2003 and early March 2004 to deal with various hardware issues and to install the new survey code, regular surveying commenced in mid-March 2004. ... However, the initial results are most satisfying and new objects have been found from the very first night. ... UA Media Release . ... Fellow Uppsala observer Rob McNaught was observing NEOs with the 1.0-m at Siding Spring as part of our regular program of follow-up observations. ...

... The cables for pixel4a and pixel6a (count from 0) from the distribution amplifiers in the receiver room to the galfa spectrometer were switched sometime in early may05 (or late apr05). ... pixel 6a spectra would be in the location of pixel4a. This occurred when the distribution amplifier chassis for polA was removed to install some fans for cooling. ... The second data set showed the cables being switched (i didn't find any data between these two dates to test). ... The wapp data was never switched....

Next: ATCA Spectral Line Correlator Up: Spectral Line Data Reduction Previous: Spectral Line Data Reduction . Because of the Doppler effect, the observed frequency of a spectral line can be related to the radial velocity between the observer and the source. ... where v is the radial velocity, the observed frequency, the rest frequency, and c is the speed of light. ... Next: ATCA Spectral Line Correlator Up: Spectral Line Data Reduction Previous: Spectral Line Data Reduction Miriad manager . ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Rotation theory of celestial bodies: dynamical relations of the pole motion and nutation Yu. ... Problem By construction Earth rotation theory the studies of the precession--nutation motion and pole motion are considered usually separately. ... The angle Q between the polar axis of inertia and axis of rotation is small (of order 10 \Gamma6 ). ... The perturbation theory of the Earth rotation has been constructed in the elastic Andoyer and angle--action variables. ...

... Main page News People . ... Master . Master net Homepage . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . ... Latest news and news archive . ... Российская роботизированная сеть космического мониторинга МАСТЕР обнаружила опасный астероид типа Челябинского за орбитой Луны . ... лаборатории Космического мониторинга ГАИШ МГУ - первым обнаружил в списках робота МАСТЕР , расположенного у Байкала, новый двигающийся объект. ... Лаборатория космического мониторинга . ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The on-line diagnostics of the SW channel characteristics operative through back-scattering ionospheric sounding (BSS) is based on adiabatic relations of diagnostic signal characteristics and channel in operation under ionospheric parameter variations (Kurkin V.I , Nosov V.E., Ponomartchuk S.N.et. al. SW radiochannel operative dignostics. ...

... ARTICLE: The Adventurous Search For The Astronomical Unit . ... Kepler himself had suggested to use the rare occasions of Venus transiting (crossing) the solar disk to measure our distance to the planet. ... Due to the orbital inclination of Venus against the ecliptic of 3.5°, a Venus transit is so rare that it happens only at intervals of 121.5 years, 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and so on. ... Crabtree witnessing the transit of Venus 1639 . ... Transits of Venus - The Quest for the Solar Parallax...

... Research . ... Contact . The Terra Hunting Experiment (Official website) . Project Share-site (members only) . ... Terra Hunting Experiment at the Isaac Newton Telescope . ... Please follow the links on this page to find out the latest information on the project. I am the Project Manager and Chief Systems Engineer on THE@INT, so please contact me if you would like any further information. ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... The third-order space-by-time relation . ... Тема: The third-order space-by-time relation . ... The mass m experiences a gravity force toward the sun and . ... will experience the Coriolis force or Coriolis acceleration. ... differentiated space-by-time twice and discovered equation2. ... If one differentiates . ... time differentiation of space-by-time. ... third-order space-by-time relation. ... understand the third-order space-by-time relation. ... MAO NASU . ...

Weekly Bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Highlights on 23 - 29.04.2012, Forecast on 30.04 - 06.05.2012, КЭРРИНГТОНОВСКИЕ ОБОРОТЫ 2122, 2123 (31,93.03, 28,19.04.2012) SUNSPOT ACTIVITY OF THE PAST PERIOD GRADUALLY CHANGEDED FROM HIGH TO AVERAGE LEVELS. ... Class E(1-8A) AR RII/IV CME X / opt. ... OVER 6 HOURS TO EARTH ONE MO- RE DISTURBANCE FROM THE UNKNOWN SOURCE CAME, RESULT WHICH BECAME MINOR MAGNETIC STORM ON APRIL 24-25 (G1, Ams=25, dur.=15 h.) ACCOR- DING TO THE SW CENTER IN BOULDER. ...

... 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 . ...

... 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. ...

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... PUL VLBI Analysis Center . ... Pulkovo EOP and Reference Systems Analysis Center (PERSAC) is located at the Pulkovo Observatory . ... Processing of VLBI , GPS, and optical observations aimed at analysis of the Earth rotation, station displacement, and celestial reference system. ... Celestial Pole Offset (CPO) and Free Core Nutation (FCN) . Four daily updated CPO and FCN series (models) are provided. ... File fcn1.dat contains the ZM1 FCN model with variable amplitude and phase. ...

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... The First (Experimental) International Astronomy Olympiad . The following olympic problems were proposed for the participants on the theoretical part: Grades 8-10 . ... Why is it sometimes better to use a small telescope in orbit around the Earth than it is to use a large telescope on a mountain top? ... What will an observer looking to the Moon through the telescope see? ... Paper with a drown circle and table of maximal elongations of Mercury and Venus had been done for participants. ...

... First Contact Moon begins to move over Sun from West Starts at ~5:44:45 AM (about 10 minutes after sunrise) Must observe sun with filter! Good time to check and adjust mount tracking and alignment Watch for sunspots 6/21/ 2001 - Zambia ( Mario Motta ) First Contact Crescent images of Sun Natural pin-holes such as leaves on trees Pin-holes in cardboard Mario Motta Watch sky and environment Gradually darkens Temperature drops 8/11/1999 Hungary (Eric Pauer) ~1 min Before Second ...