... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... News . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... The Birdcage: Archive of Bad News Items . ... The email is going around again. You know which one: "Mars will look as big as the Moon!" it says. ... This is the same email that was sent around in 2003 . In fact, it's the same email that was sent around again in 2005 ! ... Whoever sent the email around this time didn't change any of the numbers. ...

... 2) get instructions for proceedings from here . ... Chris Sterken (chair), Ulli K ufl (co-chair), Mike A'Hearn, Hermann Boehnhardt, Michael Combi, Yan Fernandez, Marco Fulle, Luisa Lara, Casey Lisse, Jean Manfroid, Karen Meech, Javier Licandro, Heike Rauer, Rita Schulz, Gerhardt Schwehm, Diane Wooden . ... Ulli K ufl or Chris Sterken . ... there will be proceedings in the ESO / SPRINGER series (eds. Ulli K ufl & Chris Sterken); link to retrieve latex-kit . ... Deep Impact Specific Questions . ...

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Russian Version ( KOI-8 , Win ) . Institute of Astronomy of the RAS . ... Self-consistent simulation of chemical and dynamical evolution of protostellar clouds . Chemical evolution of galaxies . ... Soon after my birth I was moved (I was not able to move on my own in those times, you know) in Novouljanovsk, small town to the south of Uljanovsk. ... Since that time my life and work is bound to the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. ... Back to the INASAN home page . ...

... user-defined data file formats . ... better integration with a user's analysis routines To add such functionality to SAOimage, we developed the XPA Messaging System that allows X programs to define points of public access through which data and commands can be exchanged with external programs. ... We have utilized XPA to develop "SAOimage: The Next Generation" (SAOtng), an extensible image display service that can cooperate with other processes and programs. ... SAOtng help pages . ...

This page is a mirror of the ION SADS page available at http://sads.cnes.fr:8010 . Besides the information already available on this page, there you can browse the ION QuickLook images. ... The ION experiment flown on the Interball-Aurora mission performs simultaneous ion and electron measurements. Two mass spectrometers looking in opposing directions perpendicular to the satellite spin axis, which points toward the sun, measure ions in the mass and energy ranges 1-32 amu and ~ 0 to 14,000 eV. ...

... SPICE System Documentation . Comprehensive set of SPICE System documentation including tutorials, subroutines and data formats descriptions, etc. Other related home pages: . Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility at JPL . MARS-96 Space Mission . ... Please, forward comments and questions about information on this page and all descending NAIF and M96 SPICE implementation pages to NAIF group at IKI . naif@arc.iki.rssi.ru . ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

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