Halley's Comet . Spacecraft that have visited Halley's Comet . ... Then in 1984 and 1985, five spacecraft from the USSR, Japan and Europe were launched to make a rendezvous with Halley's Comet in 1986. ... This image is a mosaic of 8 images taken by the Giotto spacecraft during the Halley encounter on March 13, 1986. ... Courtesy NASA/JPL) . ... Halley's Comets in 1986 . This image of Halley's Comets was taken during its 1986 appearance. ... Cylindrical Map of the Nucleus of Comet Halley . ...

Yu.V. Milanova, A.F. Kholtygin . He, C, N, and O Abundances in an Ensemble of Galactic PNe (in russian) Astronomy Letters,, 35 , 518-533 ( 2006 ) Original Russian Text are published in Pis'ma v Astronomicheskii Zhurnal , 35 , No. 8, pp. 563-573 ( 2009 ) . ... The He abundance is determined with an accuracy of 0.06 dex, while the errors in the C, N, and O abundances are 0.1-0.2 dex. ... The elemental abundances in PNe of various Galactic subsystems and the Magellanic Clouds have been analyzed. ...

... Comet Tutorial . ... On July 1, 1993 an image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that clearly shows at least 15 individual fragments in one image frame of the train. ... This made an accurate orbit (or orbits) difficult to determine; however, after numerous observations of the comet, astronmers determined that the comet had passed within 96,000 kilometers (60,000 miles) of the center of Jupiter or 25,000 kilometers (16,000 miles) from the cloud tops during the July 8, 1992, approach. ...

... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Using a database view Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), containing almost a million spectra created 15,000 sample galaxies with active star formation, which is used for various studies and physical state of evolution of galaxies. ... Star clusters of the Galaxy . The project MWSC (Milky Way Star Clusters) directory using 2MASS, which includes nearly 500 million vision to the limit Ks = 15.3, analyzed more than 4,000 cluster-like objects in the galaxy. ...

The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) . ... Before jumping into all the finer details of teh survey, a brief non-astronomer's guide to redshift surveys is available. ... The primary scientific aims of the QSO survey are: (1) to obtain the primordial fluctuation power spectrum out to COBE scales, (2) to determine the rate of QSO clustering evolution in the non-linear and linear regimes and hence obtain new limits on the value of and the bias parameter, (3) to apply a powerful geometric method to measure . ...

... 365­368, ISSN 1055-6796, Photo copying p ermitted by license only, c Cambridge Scientific Publishers Distance scale calibration from kinematic analysis of an ensemble of the galactic planetary nebulae V.V. Akimkin1, I.I. Nikiforov2, A.F. Kholtygin 1 2 2 Astronomical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Sobolev Astronomical Institute of St. Petersburg State University, Russia Received 1 February, 2012 We study the kinematics of ensembles of planetary ...

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... Subject and Problems of Stellar Astronomy. ... Plane of Galaxy, Methods of Its Location Determination. ... Stars Distances. ... Other Methods of Stars Distances Determination. ... Tangential Velocities, Their Determination by Self-Motions. ... Determination of Solar Apex and Spatial Velocity by Radial and Spatial Velocities of Stars. ... Features of Orientation and Parameters of Peculiar Stellar Velocities Ellipsoid. ... General and Selective Light Absorption in Galaxy. ... Darc Clouds in Galaxy. ...

... We show the analysis of low-hard and intermediate states of sources XTE J1550-564, H 1743-322, GX 339-4, XTE J1859-226, XTE J1650-500 and GRS 1915+105. ... Directly applying the scaling technique we also obtain that a ratio of the BH masses in XTE J1859-226 and in XTE J1550-564 is , and the corresponding ratio for XTE J1650-500 and XTE J1550-564 is . These values of scaling factors r implies that BH masses are ; solar masses in XTE J1859-226 and XTE J1650-500 respectively. ...

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LARGE-SCALE MUTUAL RELATIONS OF SPOT GROUPS IN PROTON COMPLEX L. KRIVSK~ and V. OBRIDKO* Astronomical Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Ondfejov (Received 20 May, 1968; revision received 1 August, 1968) Abstract. ... The probability of occurrence of accompanying spot groups (satellites) was studied according to the classification types, the direction of their occurrence, and the distance with respect to the proton spot group. ... Results A. PROTON GROUP TYPE AND SATELLrI'I.~ TYP}! ...

... Cooling and thermal control system (CTCS):an angle between normal of thermal radiator plane (Z-axis) and vector "SC-Sun" must exceed 90 deg.. ... The axes of the first two sensors are in the plane YOZ; they have an angle of 35 degrees with Y and -Y axis being inclined to the direction of -Z axis. ... 30 degrees for Sun; . ... An angle between +Z-axis and direction to the Sun center must exceed 90 degrees. ... An angle between direction "SA-Sun(center)" and XOZ plane must not exceed 30 degrees. ...

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... Space Contents 1-2 YEAR 3-4 MONTH 5-6 DAY 7-8 BLANK 9-12 N (THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE aa DAILY VALUE ) 13-15 BLANK 16-19 S (THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE aa DAILY VALUE ) 20-22 BLANK 23-26 M1 (HALF DAILY VALUE OF aa INDICES FOR THE GREENWICH DAY ) 27-29 BLANK 30-33 M2 (SECOND HALF DAILY VALUE OF aa INDICES FOR GREENWICH DAY ) 34-36 BLANK 37-38 CC_OR_K (QUIET DAYS CLASSIFICATION) 39-41 MONTHLY MEAN DATA: Loacated after the last day of the month. ...

... The polarimetric data pinpoint the illuminating star, which is not detected directly at wavelengths Й2 km, at a position well within the dark lane that bisects the nebula, 0A 5 .5 (D550 AU) southwest of the infrared peak that was previously detected at the southern tip of the northern polar lobe. ... 531 FIG. ... FIG. ... We have used the position of the polarimetric centroid combined with the vector pattern to determine the direction of the projection of the polar (major) axis of the Egg Nebula. ...

... part 2 | ... Part 1 . The new concept of formation and development of the Solar system. ... Thus, the initial pulse of the rotation of a protosolar cloud of the solar system was determined as a result of the diversion of a part of the moment of the rotational pulse of the Galaxy. ... Besides this new approach to the pre-solar system as a system of the destroyed vortex structure, we can understand now a number of other peculiarities of the Solar system's structure. ...

Contact with possible Extraterrestrial Life . Recommendation for the human Contact Team to Interact with Unknown Life Forms . Contact teams meeting an Unknown Life Form must be prepared for severe psychological impact. Extreme anxiety response will almost certainly occur. The personality traits of individuals who can withstand extreme anxiety must be determined and such individuals selected to comprise the team. ... Contact team report. ... Our Contact team continue investigation. ...

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Organisateurs: Michel Balazard (CNRS, Laboratoire Poncelet) , Michael Tsfasman (CNRS, Laboratoire Poncelet, Institut des Probl mes de Transmission de l'Information) , Alexey Zykin (Laboratoire Poncelet, Haute Ecole d'Economie) . ... Let A be an abelian surface over a finite field k. The k-isogeny class of A is uniquely determined by a Weil polynomial f_A of degree 4. We give a classification of the groups of k-rational points on varieties from this class in terms of Newton polygons of f_A(1-t). ...