... About meteorites . ... Meteoritic data . Impact Crater Smerdyachee . ... Based on Smerdyachee's depth, near circularity, and its mounded wall, and analysis by N.A. Fillin of nearby Roshal, Russia, the Estonian scientists Yu.V. Krestlane and K.H. Mella proposed in 1987 that Smerdyachee Lake is a meteorite crater. ... In 2002, the Laboratory of Meteoritics of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences explored this mysterious lake. ...

... Up: Real-Time Systems . ... The Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer ( RXTE ) spacecraft contains a large Proportional Counter Array (PCA) experiment which produces high count rates for many X-ray sources. ... This allows opportunity for some serious real time interpretation and decision making by the experiment controller, duty scientist, and Guest Observer (GO), if present. ... This paper briefly describes the available Science Monitoring subsystem display options. ...

... Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Moscow Union "Optic" . ... Ural State University, Kourovka . ... Irkutsk State University . ... The 2 first images in different polarizatios (Eeast-telescope and West-telescope) . ... West Time GRB Mag Error (hour) 1.02097639 17.93 0.22 1.07643278 17.43 0.09 1.13188834 17.78 0.14 1.18734417 18.03 0.19 1.24280056 17.87 0.15 1.29825584 17.58 0.10 1.35371584 17.94 0.12 . ... GCN 10076) . ... GCN 10048) by internet 3422 s after the GRB time. ...

Cosmology - Science of the Universe in General. ... Cosmological Paradoxes of Classical Cosmology. ... Classical Theory of Gravitation. Space-Time of Special Theory of Relativity. Incompatibility of Special Theory of Relativity and Classical Theory of Gravitation. ... Space-Time of General Theory of Relativity. ... Tensor Algebra. ... Effects of General Theory of Relativity in Solar System (Motion of Planet Perihelion, Deflection of Light Rays, Gravitation Red Shift, Delay of Radar Echo). ...

Orbit . ... The orbit of the RadioAstron provides four types of study: . rough images of radio sources with ultra-high angular resolution, using all baselines up to the radius of the apogee, that is much larger than Earth diameter; . ... high quality imaging of radio sources, with moderate resolution, by observing either with small projected base lines Earth-spacecraft, i.e. close to the orbital plane, or near the perigee. ... high accuracy orbit determination. ... Space Radio Telescope . ...

... October 6, 09:00 09:40 . Jorge Melnick (ESO) . ... We present a statistical and temporal analysis of the ground meteorological properties recorded at the five selected sites for hosting the European Extremely Large Telescope (EELT). ... Marc Sarazin (ESO) . The organization and development of the E-ELT site testing campaign by ESO are described. ... The E-ELT Site Testing activities in northern Chile and Argentina are reviewed, and pioneering explorative campaigns are illustrated. ...

... Steven L. Smith . NASA International Space Station Program Liaison to the European Space Agency . ... SPECIAL HONORS: NASA Distinguished Service Medals (two), NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, NASA Space Flight Medal, NASA Exceptional Service Medal, IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award and IBM Outstanding Community Service Award. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Smith is a veteran of four space flights covering 16 million miles and seven space walks totaling 49 hours and 25 minutes. ... DECEMBER 2013 ...

... A Day in the Life of a 32 Inch Telescope Mirror . Mario Motta . Thursday, Sep 12, 2013 at 8:00 PM . ... Please join us for his interesting account of the life of his first 32" mirror - past, present and future. Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. ... Sep . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... 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 . ...

... 9) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Optical-radio time delays in Q0957+561", Odessa Astronomical Publ., ... 11) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Connection between X-ray and optical variability in NGC4151", in Proceedings of Int. Conf. ... 1994. 12) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Connection between X-ray and optical variability in NGC4151", Astrophys. and Space Science, 222, p.157. ... 14) Oknyanskij V.L., van Groningen E., 1997, "Optical spectral variability of NGC4151 in 1990", Astronomical and Astrophys. ...

Extended time series of Solar Activity Indices (ESAI) is database including observational, synthetic and simulated sets to study Solar magnetic field variations and their influence on the Earth. ESAI extend the ordinary lengths of some traditional indices of solar activity: sunspot areas, Wolf numbers (equatorial component of magnetic field of the Sun), polar faculae numbers (polar component), mean latitudes, N-S asymmetry of hemispheres (location of activity). Series . ...

... www.chjaa.org or http:/ / /chjaa.bao.ac.cn ) Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics A Check on the Variations of Earth's Rotation with an Ancient Solar Eclipse Yan-Ben Han and Qi-Yuan Qiao National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100012; hyb@bao.ac.cn Received 2003 May 13; accepted 2003 September 29 Abstract We address the relation between an ancient total The total eclipse was recorded in some ancient Chinese books, especially in local chronicles. ...

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. ...

... 2006 . ... A.F.Kholtygin . ... Abstract . ... text in Russian . ... text in pdf (0.55Mb) . ... Kholtygin A.F., Shneiwais A.B. Stochastic Data in Astronomy: Fourier Analasis of Strongly Uneven Time Series , Astrophysics, 48 , 87-100 ( 2005 ) . ... Kholtygin A.F. UV lines in spectra of Planetary Nebulae (in russian) , Ultravililet Universe II , Proc. of the Conference, held in Instititute of Astronomy, May 19-20, 2006, Moscow, Eds: B.M.Shustov, M.E.Sachkov, E.A.Kilpio, M., Yanus-K, pp. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... A few months ago, I wrote about how we know the Earth is round . ... As the Earth rotates, different parts of it face the Sun. ... A funny thing happens if you move west across a single time zone: the Sun will set at a different time at different locations! ... The Earth is a rotating ball, and people that live on different longitudes see the sun set at different times. ...

MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...

... G. A Leikin, A. N. Sanovich. Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow 119899, Russia. Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 34, October 8-9, 2001, Moscow, Russia . ... G. A. Leikin and A. N. Sanovich, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, . ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 38, October 27-29, 2003, Moscow, Russia . ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, State University, 119992, Moscow, Universitetskij prosp. ...

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... Catalog . Publications . ... Koposov, S., Glushkova, E., Zolotukhin, I. 2008: Automated search for Galactic star clusters in large multiband surveys. ... BibTeX entry ] . ... Glushkova, E.V., Zabolotskikh, M.V., Koposov, S.E., Spiridonova, O.I, Vlasyuk, V.V., Rastorguev, A. S. 2010: Photometry of the poorly studied galactic open star clusters King 13, King 18, King 19, King 20, NGC 136, and NGC 7245 , Astronomy Letters, 36, 75 . ...

A Large Programme 171.A-3045 (PI: Cesarsky) has been approved in period 71 to carry out a spectroscopic survey in the CDF-S with VIMOS, now installed on UT3. ... MOS (LR_Blue/MR grisms) . ... The VIMOS coverage of the GOODS field (right). ... With an average integration time of 4h per mask and 30% overheads, this makes a total of 125h. The VIMOS spectroscopic campaign is designed to complement the FORS2 spectroscopic program. ... OII],Hbeta,[OIII],(Halpha),CaII H . ... OII],CaII H CIV,AlIII . ...