... Concerning those theories, Tycho believed that all planets revolved around the Sun, but the Sun circled Earth. ... That was when he published his first two laws of planetary motion: . ... Kepler's 3rd Law . ... Earth . ... Not only were Kepler's laws confirmed and explained by later scientists, but they apply to any orbital system of two bodies--even artificial satellites in orbit around the Earth. ... By Kepler's formula . ... More will be said about Kepler's first two laws in the next two sections...

New reduction of minor planets photographic plates obtained with Pulkovo Normal Astrograph A.A. Berezhnoy Pulkovo Observatory of RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Minor Planet observations at Pulkovo Periodical observations of 14 bright asteroids named Selected Minor Planets (SMP) were performed at Pulkovo since 1948 within the international framework started by works of B.V. Numerov and D. Brouwer. ... 108 133 113 74 124 67 97 88 14 84 64 5 20 19 Epochs (YYYY.MM) 1200 Mean values of total obs. ...

... BIRTHDATE/PLACE: . ... EDUCATION: . ... B.S., Geology, University of California-Santa Barbara, 1990 . M.S., Geology, University of Arizona, 1992 . ... Full Biographical Data . ... M.S., Ocean Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000 . ... B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of the Pacific, 1984 . ... JAXA Astronaut . ... M.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, 1997 . ... Astronaut Candidates | ... Biography Page Curator: Kim Dismukes . ...

Design Parameters and Efficiency of a Space System for Warning about Small Celestial Bodies Approaching the Earth along Collision Trajectories . ... tracking of an earlier detected hazardous celestial body (HCB) for synchronous-basic position measurements. The space telescopes (ST) would be placed at a long distance (such as 5 10 7 km) from the Earth to provide for detecting small (100 m) celestial bodies when they are moving to the Earth from the sunward direction. ...

... Analysis of in-orbit data closely follow the CSL data analysis. Stars with known astrometric positions are matched with their image centroids. ... The measured position, the expected position and the offset between the measured and expected positions are calculated and written into a file. ... select catalogued positions for different observations/pointings (e.g. positions of objects in photometric sequence) . ... The new distortion map was generated from in-flight observations of the G153 field. ...

astronomy . Astro Courses . ... IYA 2009 . ... Armagh Planetarium is proud to be associated with the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) . IYA 2009 is a global year of events celebrating all things associated with the absorbing science that is astronomy. ... IYA 2009 Autumn/Winter events . ... Here at Armagh Planetarium one of our most important objectives is to promote formal and informal science education and there will be activities celebrating IYA 2009 throughout the year. ...

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was discovered photographically by the husband and wife scientific team of Carolyn S. and Eugene M. Shoemaker and David H. Levy on March 24, 1993, using the 0.46-m (18-in.) ... Its discovery was a serendipitous product of their continuing search for near-Earth objects , and the 9 indicates that it was the ninth short-period comet (period less than 200 years) discovered by this team. ... In other words, the comet, or at least parts of it, could very well hit Jupiter. ...

Main Program Travel Where to go in Moscow Information . ... We highly recommend to make hotel reservation as early as possible due to high season in Moscow. ... Short list of convenient hotels in Moscow is presented below. ... Hotel . ... Below is the list of hotels the way from which to the conference hall at IKI will be relatively simple and shouldn't take more than 30 minutes. ... International Conference: Cosmology and High Energy Astrophysics (Zeldovich-90) 20-24 Dec 2004, Moscow, Russia . ...

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... Home Education Classes AAA Winter Astronomy Class: Measuring Distances in Space тАУ Dec 2015 тАУ Feb 2016 . ... Classes . AAA Fall Astronomy Class: Astronomy Basics тАУ October-November 2015 . AAA Winter Astronomy Class: Measuring Distances in Space тАУ Dec 2015 тАУ Feb 2016 . AAA Spring Astronomy Class: The Physics of Astronomy тАУ February - March 2016 . ... This MonthтАЩs Sky тАУ April 2016 . ... Dec. ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ...

... Impact of Covariance Information on the Orientation Parameters Between Radio Source Position Catalogs, IVS 2012 General Meeting Proceedings, p.339­341 http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications/gm2012/sokolova.pdf Impact of Covariance Information on the Orientation Parameters Between Radio Source ... IVS Analysis Centers provide these catalogs in a standard IERS format, where together with radio source positions and other relevant information, RA/DE correlations are reported. ...

ESO PR 06/96; 16 February 1996 . ... In the early morning of January 31, 1996, Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake made his second comet discovery within five weeks. ... Information about some earlier comet encounters may be found in the Appendix at the end of this Press Release. ... By a straightforward extrapolation of the current brightness, it would appear that Comet Hyakutake will reach magnitude 1 on March 25, 1996, at the time of the closest approach to the Earth. ...

Next: *wcscoord* all Up: Celestial Coordinates from Image Previous: *tvlabel, xexamine* . ... Type pixel coords in skypix . xr xspatial xs skypix .oformat = ``hours'' # to reset the default which is ``degrees''. xs skypix input coordinate system ( J2000 ): xdata$rh110267_img # the image file name output coordinate system ( J2000 ): image # to use coord conversion # in image file header or B1950 or J2000 # epoch of output can be specified input file list (STDIN): cr ...

... Opening of COSMION - 99 Chair - M.Yu.Khlopov 10.50-11.25. A.Yu.Kamenshchik, I.M.Khalatnikov, A.V.Toporensky "Dynamics of Closed Cosmological Model with a Scalar Field" 11.25-12.00. A.A. Starobinsky "A new life of the Lifshitz-Khalatnikov quasi-isotropic solution" Coffee break Chair - A.A.Starobinsky 12.20-12.55. ... M.Yu.Khlopov "Cosmological Consequence of the Particle Theory: Dark Matter, Antimatter and Mirror Matter in the Universe" Coffee break Chair - Yu.N.Parijsky 12.30-13.10. ...

Many entry fields permit sexagesimal entry (h:m:s.s or :':"). ... Sexagesimal entry is flexible in that you can specify one to three fields, as you desire. ... Position entry widgets assume that a single field is decimal hours or degrees (h.h or . ... You may specify one to three fields: . ... Note: sexagesimal offsets and durations are entered in the same fashion, but a single field is decimal arc-seconds or seconds ('.' or s.s) and two fields are (arc) minutes and seconds (':"." or m:s.s). ...

... Space flight . ... Baikonur . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... On May 5, 1957 acceptance act of the first launch complex was signed, and as early as on May 6, 1957 the first "R-7" missile was erected on the site. The cosmodrome consists of nine launch complexes with fourteen launchers, thirty-four engineering complexes, three fuelling stations for space vehicles and two aerodromes. ... Services / Baikonur: General description Technical description Shedule of launches Photo gallery Price . ...

Comment on the International Jubilee Symposium . ... The usefulness of the Internet as a method of holding international meetings without the expense of travel is also clear, but this new medium is not yet well established in this role. ... How can we move on with international cooperation in the World Wide Web era? I would like to suggest that NASA's Planetary Data System is a good model. ... At the same time, much might be done with older images, by scanning prints to create new digital files. ...

... Bachelor?s programs . ... International programs . ... On-line International courses with transferable academicљcredits . ... About Courses . ... V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University is very excited to announce we will be offering the highly demanded sociology courses during the summer of 2013. ... As another option and valuable combination for your summer program there are psychology courses to choose from. ... Psychology of International Relationships (64 hours, 8 hours per week, 4 credits). ...

... I would like to add my voice to those who are mourning to loss of Maxim Tarasenko. ... Maxim was born in Protva, in the Kaluga Region south of Moscow on 20 June 1962. ... This was just one of many international speaking engagements of his. ... The list of papers and international places is too long to go into at this point. ... My first trip to Moscow was in 1995, and Maxim kindly made arrangements for me for transportation and access to a number of space program related facilities in the Moscow...

Google doc v5.1 RadioAstron International Science Council Tsargrad Hotel (Boyarsky room) Breakfast starts at 8am Monday, June 18 ( Tsargrad hotel) 10:00 N. Kardashev: Welcome 10:15 K. Kellermann: Goals of meeting and approval of agenda 10:30 Introductions of members and guests 10:45 RISC Terms of Reference Supporting documents: RISC ToR draft 11:30 Break 12:00 M. Popov: SRT in-orbit tests and basic parameters 12:30 Y. Kovalev: Fringe Search: ...