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... Events . ... Samara State Aerospace University Students life Preparatory faculty . Russian language education programmes at SSAU are provided by the Pushkin Institute Centre. The General Education Programme Centre teaches Russian to foreign students of SSAU and applicants to other Russian universities. ... During the studying at Proparatory faculty, international students will participate in various training events, where they will learn about studying in Russia and the Russian mentality. ...

This WWW form allows the user simplified access to images produced by the VLA Low-Frequency Sky Survey (VLSS, formerly 4MASS). This service determines which VLSS image is desired based on a celestial position and returns a Web page with a link to the file. ... The images from the VLSS are produced as 14 x 14 degree, overlapping images. The images use the SIN projection, have 25" cell spacing and are labeled in J2000 coordinates. ... The VLSS FITS files use J2000 coordinates. ...

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... In order for this task to compute the times successfully, the following columns must be present in the table :  FRAME column , of type 32-bit signed int  CCDID column , of type 8-bit unsigned int In the case of the PN instrument , an additional column is necessary: xmmsas 20070708 1801-7.1.0 XMM-Newton Science Analysis System Page: 2  QUADRANT column , of type 8-bit unsigned int In addition, if the OAL cannot be initialised by the input ... Create a TIME column in new table. ...

Main . ... About meteorites . ... What to do if you found a meteorite! ... About the laboratory . ... You may have a question: what to do if you found a stone which looks like meteorite. ... According to the Meteorite Nomenclature Committee, in order for a meteorite to be officially registered in the International Meteorite Catalog, 20% by weight of the main mass of the identification sample must be contributed to a qualified scientific organization. ... The Staff of the Laboratory of Meteoritics. ...

... The first two working group reports (on Extrasolar Planets and the Herschel--ALMA Synergies) were released in 2005 and 2006, and this third report covers the area of Fundamental Cosmology. The Working Group's mandate was to concentrate on fundamental issues in cosmology, as exemplified by the following questions: . What are the essential questions in fundamental cosmology? ... What are the appropriate methods with which these key questions can be answered? ...

Cover Illustration: The Visual Target Tuner (VTT) from the paper by Koratkar and Grosvenor (p. 57 ). The VTT is an interactive field-of-view visualization tool that allows the user to import images from several sources (including the NASA Extraterrestrial Database---NED, HST's Guide Star Catalogs, and the Digitized Sky Survey). Once imported the user can overlay an instrument's field-of-view positioning and orienting the target exposure visually. ... adass@ncsa.uiuc.edu ...

... You may write to me if you have questions. ... Let G be a locally compact abelian group, H be a compact open subgroup, and let f L1 (G). Fix a Haar measure µ on G to define the Fourier transform f : G C. a) If f (g ) = 0 for all g H , show f : G C is constant on H -cosets in G: f ( ) = f () if H . ... Let p be a prime. p 1 |y |2 1+1/p p a) In the topological group R в Qp , show Z (embedded diagonally) is discrete but not co-compact and Z[1/p] (embedded diagonally) is both discrete and cocompact. ...

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... Natalya V. Raguzova and Sergei B. Popov . ... We present a compilative catalogue of Be/X-ray binaries and candidates in the Galaxy and in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. This catalogue contains 160 sources and provides information on names and spectral types of optical components, distances, on spin characteristics of neutron stars, and on orbital and X-ray properties of binary systems. ... Be/X-Ray Binaries and candidates in the Galaxy . Galactic sources: comments to the Table 1 . ...

SAI 175 anniversary . ... Moscow University . Search for in SAI Moscow University Search for in Russian astronomical resources . ... SAI Astronomical Databases . ... Browse SAI Software archive(ftp.sai.msu.su) . ASTRONET.RU - Russian Astronomical Network (available in translit also) . ... SAI Supernovae Research Group . ... Department of the Galaxy and Variable Stars (in Russian) . Sternberg Astronomical Institute Seminars . ... All-Russian Astronomical Olympiad (in Russian) . ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... HELD BETWEEN THE FIRST VISITING CREW (VC-1) AND JOURNALISTS . ... question to Tito): . You stated that you intend to go into business in space tourism. ... D. Tito: . ... Question to Tito): . ... Question to the combined crew): . ... As to any new cosmonaut we should explain certain things which a person cannot feel on the ground. ... All crew members treat me well and do everything so that I feel well aboard the International Space Station. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

I. Installation . ... AMPLE package distributive (created with program InstallShield for Microsoft Visual C++) has been downloaded on FTP server of IAA RAS as archive Ample.zip. ... Note: If the window "file download" appears, select Open... switch button, then press OK button. ... The shortcut for AMPLE will be linked with this folder, and auxiliary files will be created here during AMPLE work. ... When running AMPLE all auxiliary and new configuration files are created in the WORK folder. ...

... 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. ...

Instructions for Uploading Images and Video Related to the Columbia Accident . For anyone who has recorded video or taken photos that they believe may be of aid in the investigation of the Space Shuttle Columbia accident, NASA has established a special location on the Web where Internet users may upload their media files to be reviewed by NASA. ... Image file: johndoe_020203_0415pm.jpg . ... If you have any problems uploading your files, please e-mail Mike Koester . ...

... Latest update: 15 Aug 2014) . ... Conference dinner . ... The Journ es 2014 will be organized by Pulkovo Observatory , Pulkovskoe Shosse 65, St. Petersburg, Russia; B = 59 o 46' 19", L = 30 o 19' 35". ... See an overview showing the airport, Pulkovo Observatory and the metro station "Moskovskaya" (blue/M2 line at the Metro map ) and read transportation details below. ... It is located in less than 10 min walk from metro station "Moskovskaya" and in about 15 min by bus from Pulkovo Observatory. ...

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