A team of U.S. and German astrophysicists have made the first ever detection of X-rays coming from a comet. ... Following the initial detection, the team reported repeated X-ray emissions from the comet over the next 24 hours. ... One preliminary theory is that X-ray emission from the Sun was absorbed by a cloud of gaseous water molecules surrounding the nucleus of the comet, and then were re-emitted by the molecules in a process physicists call "fluorescence." ... Comets . ...

... Complete content for online Mercury is available to ASP members and institutional subscribers . ... You can retrieve the latest issue of Mercury here . ... The 2012 Transit of Venus , Paul Deans . Only six Venus transits have ever been observed; the one in 2012 will be the 7th. ... STEM at the College and University Level , Michael G. Gibbs . ... Astronomy in the News . ... Editorial, Paul Deans . ... Armchair Astrophysics, Christopher Wanjek . ... ASP Award Winners . ... Sky Sights, Paul Deans . ...

Image credit: Michael Nolan, Arecibo Observatory. These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2001 SN263 were obtained on 2008 Feb 12 and 13. ... Image from Feb 12 . ... First near-Earth triple asteroid discovered by Arecibo Observatory . ... was discovered this week by astronomers at the sensitive radar telescope at Cornell University?s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. ... For example, Arecibo has discovered more than half of the near-Earth binary asteroid systems discovered since 1999. ...

... June 9, 1999 . NGC 4414: A Telling Spiral . ... the Hubble Heritage Team ( AURA / STScI / NASA ) . Explanation: How far away is this galaxy? ... Spiral galaxy NGC 4414 contains many Cepheid variable stars that oscillate in a way that allows astronomers to estimate their distance. ... NGC 4414 shows many classic spiral galaxy features, including thick dust lanes , a central region rich in old red stars, and winding spiral arms glowing with young blue stars. ... About APOD > . ...

Numbering Procedures for APO 2.5m and 3.5m Drawings and Engineering/Drafting Documents . ... Document part numbers are to consist of a 7 character long "base numbe,r" which is coded to provide information about the part's intended first use. The part number becomes complete and unique only with the addition of a revision number. ... Example of a "base number": 25CSA01 . ... PART NUMBER CONVENTION . ... For Example: . ... R = "Revision" . ... Questions contact Larry Carey/University of Washington ...

... Science Users Information > Observing Facilities > La Silla Facilities > La Silla Science Operations . ... La Silla News . ... Internal Pages . La Silla Science Operations Department (LSO) is part of the La Silla Paranal Observatory and is in charge of the operations of the telescopes on La Silla. ... In the La Silla Science Operation pages, you should find all the information you need for your observations from the time you have an idea of observations until when you finish processing your data. ...

... Space Research Institute . Main . ... Main results of the experimental and theoretical research completed in 2011 . An automated method for mapping of vegetation cover over Russia using Earth observation data . ... The Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences . ... P.285-302. (in Russian) . ... P.103-116. (in Russian) . ... Main results of the experimental and theoretical research completed in 2010 . Main results of the experimental and theoretical research completed in 2009 ...

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... JSC Oral History . NASA History . History-NASA Centers . ... NASA Oral History Project: "Herstory" . This NASA Oral History Project captures the experiences of some of the women who contributed to the success of the Space Agency. ... Computer (Mathematician) , Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA . ... Programmer , Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA . ... Computer , Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA . Engineer , Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA . ...

... The essence of the solution is to generate a virtual PC on your desktop PC and install an old Linux distribution, circa 2006, in that. ... There are two major free virtual machines available for Linux, these are VirtualBox and KVM. ... Boot the virtual machine. ... Install a Linux 2.6 kernel if it isn't installed by default (you'll need to reboot the virtual machine after this step): . ... Printable View of http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/projects/OAS/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MROIDelayLine/TrolleySoftware) ...

The small solids. Asteroids or the small planetes . ... The comets. ... Ceneca the Young.Procuring about the nature.63 y. The comet is a celestial body of a great size, but a rare one... transparent. Sometimes there seen a core and the medium forms a kind of a tail, beard or dishevelled looks. ... The core is an ice body - conglomeration of frosted gas and dust. ... The comet state is variable: ones have the con tails, others the dust tails, and the third have both. ... Meteors and meteorites. ...

... Telescopes . ... Creation of the distributed net of control (DCN) of the 6 m telescope has been completed, which is based on the use of digital tracking drives and the means of commercial automatization to ensure the real-time processes of control and data acquisition. With changing to DCN, computer diagnostics of the majority of units of the telescope has been implemented, the reliability of its operation in the whole has been increased, its performance characteristics have been improved. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . ... ISS 45/46 . ... Missions Archive . ... Sea Launch . ... News . ... News archive . Contribution of RSC Energia to the Russian Rocket-Space Technology . ... RSC Energia: Progress MS-02 docked with the ISS.' ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... Title : dodead.wad (Dawn of the dead - beta 2) Date Finished : 06/15/1997 Author : Jan Van der Veken Email Address : ogre@death-star.com Other Files By Author : none (none released, that is) Misc. ... Type of DOOM file * New level WAD : Yes Sound PWAD : No Music PWAD Only : No Graphic Addon Only : No Dehack Patch Only : No .LMP Only : No * Play Information * Episode and Level # : E1M1-E1M9 Single Player : Yes Cooperative 2-4 Player : Yes (Multiplayer is not tested. ... What's new since beta 1 ? ...

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Natural Satellites Data Center NSDC . ... Natural Satellites Ephemerides Server MULTI-SAT. ... OF NATURAL PLANETARY SATELLITES. ... A light movement of your arm ... and all necessary data are instantly available on your computer screen. ... New orbital models for all the new faint satellites of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were determined independently from other authors on the basis of all published observations using numerical integration method applied to the equations of satellites motions. ...

Estimating the NEO Population and Impact Risk: Past, Present and Future . ... Since most of the risk resides in the largest impactors, finding that fraction of the largest bodies, and that none of them has a significant chance of impacting in the next century or so, "retires" more than 90 % of the impact risk, including most of the risk of a globally catastrophic impact event. ... In the mid-size range, from ~150 m to ~1 km, the main risk is from tsunami generated by an ocean impact. ...

... Sun's commitment to open systems and quality products means that I can have confidence in running my entire company on their architecture, from technical applications that empower our engineers and scientists to enterprise-wide solutions that keep the business running!' ... Open systems open new possibilities. ... And because Sun systems are already the popular choice of the petroleum industry, software vendors typically develop new applications for our platform first. ...

Filename completion is only available if the the environment variables EDITOR and/or VISUAL are set to either emacs , gmacs or vi . For example: EDITOR=emacs . ... To complete a file or directory name with emacs or gmacs set press the ESC key twice. ls -l on<ESC><ESC> line_help . If the filename is not completed enter more characters until the filename can be uniquely identified. ... To complete a file or directory name with vi set press the \ (backward slash) key. ls -l on\ line_help . ...