... Read MPEC 2008-W65 Read MPEC 2008-W67 M.P.E.C. 2008-W66 Issued 2008 Nov. ... 02138, U.S.A. Prepared using the Tamkin Foundation Computer Network MPC@CFA.HARVARD.EDU URL http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html 2008 WM61 Observations: K08W61M * K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 ... Orbital elements: 2008 WM61 Epoch 2008 Nov. ...

The Russian Parliament will soon consider a bill that would restructure the Russian space program, 35 years after the launch оf Sputnik. ... But the legislation's most striking and controversial feature is a provision that would ban testing and deployment оf space weapons ? including anti-satellite weapons and space-based missile interceptors. ... A draft bill was written by a group of experts within the Moscow Space Club, several of whom now work on space issues with the Russian Parliament. ...

... The ST-ECF consisted, until its closure in December 2010, of a small group of astronomers, software scientists and media specialists who support Hubble science in Europe and collaborate internationally on HST science, instrument, archive and outreach activities. provided detailed technical information about the HST and its science instruments, . supported European astronomers in the preparation of HST observing proposals . ... acted as a European centre for associated meetings and workshops, . ...

This page is devoted to information on supernova 1999ee and 1999ex in IC 5179 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main supernova page. Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. ... Use this 1999ee VSNet data query and this 1999ex VSNet data query to see what information has been reported so far. ... vsnet-alert 3714 ] SNe 1999ex and 1999ee in IC 5179 . ...

PROTOCOL OF THE INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON "WARNING" MISSION . ... According to the National Space Program of Ukraine on 1998-2002 the experimental space system WARNING has to be designed and launched in 2001. ... Composition of scientific payload is implemented in the international cooperation. ... Lviv Center of Space Research Institute (LC SRC), Ukraine. ... Space Research Institute NASU-NSAU (SRI), Kiev, UKRAINE; . ... Lviv Center of Space Research Institute (LC SRI), Lviv, UKRAINE; . ...

... Acronyms and Abbreviations AMOS Advanced Mechanical and Optical Systems (UTM vendor) EIE FTT FLC ICD ISS European Industrial Engineering (UTE vendor) Fast Tip-Tilt First Light Camera Interface Control Document Interferometer Supervisory System NAS NMT NOT TBC TBD UT UTE UTM Narrow-field Acquisition System New Mexico Tech Nasmyth Optical ... Interface design description 2.5 FTT/NAS to ISS ICD This ICD describes the software interfaces of the FTT/NA system to the ISS. ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... Fw: Let's plan activities in Ukraine to celebrate IYL2015 ! ... Subject: Let's plan activities in Ukraine to celebrate IYL2015 ! ... national planning of activities in Ukraine to celebrate the International . ... is global awareness of the International Year. ... be the International Year of Light and Light-based technologies (IYL2015) on . ... activities that will be coordinated and run internationally. ... test.mao.kiev.ua/images/postbyemail/IYL2015_documents.zip...

... This method is based on putting space modules, vehicles and EVA-suit donned cosmonauts in the swimming pool under conditions of neutral buoyancy, indifferent equilibrium and unsupported state. ... You can also dive into the swimming pool with the SCUBA equipment in order to examine the mock-ups of space stations and vehicles and pass a course of rehabilitation in a hyperbaric oxygenation complex. ... Services / Hydrospace: General description Technical description "Orlan" suit Photo gallery Price . ...

... 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 . ...

... In the context of the autonomous TAROT observatory we have developed an automatic scheduling software. ... With the advent of automatic telescopes and the use in service mode of large facilities, the problem of efficient night scheduling is becoming more important. ... However, we encountered some difficulties handling periodic or constrained requests with a large time interval, and it is unable to give to the telescope users and operators the visibility over the schedule. ...

... RSC Energy General Designer . ... The possibility of continuing the exploitation of the complex in the conditions of the inevitable obsolescence and depreciation of the on-board equipment providing the achievement of the necessary level of safety has been one of the most important and always controlled problems during all the term of exploitation of the complex Mir. ... The technical condition of the complex Mir gives the opportunity to continue its exploitation in a piloted mode till 2002 and more....

21.10 news 887 MH 19/10/04 2:15 pm Page 887 news Russians fear privatization of state labs Bryon MacWilliams, Moscow Senior officials in Moscow are attempting to reassure Russian scientists about details of a planned reform, under which many hundreds of the country's state research institutes could lose their government funding. ... We agree that Russian science does need reform," says Boris Stern, a particle physicist at the academy's Institute for Nuclear Research in Moscow. ...

... Formation of a unified information system on the Great Oceans situation" is a subprogram of Federal Target Program "The Great Oceans", approved by The Government of the Russian Federation. ... development and integration of departmental information systems and data centers, reliability increase of state information resources on the Great Oceans situation, . ... introduction of the unified information-technological on the system data domain; . ...

... Email: chaos@mail.cplire.ru . ... We investigate phenomena on the edge of spatially homogeneous chaotic mode and spatiotemporal chaos in a lattice of chaotic 1-D maps with local connections. We show that spatially homogeneous chaotic mode cannot exist in a lattice with local connections if the Lyapunov exponent of the isolated chaotic map is greater than some critical positive value. We propose a few schemes that make spatial synchronization possible in large lattices. ...

THE SUN DEFINES THE CLIMATE Habibullo Abdussamatov, Dr. Sc. ... Until 1978, precise measurements of the value of the total solar irradiance (TSI) were not available. ... Thus, not 11-year, but bicentennial cycles of solar variation are the dominant factor in climate variations that last for decades: temperatures in the ocean-atmosphere system, the physical parameters of the earth's surface and its albedo, concentrations of greenhouse gases (primarily water vapor and carbon dioxide) in the atmosphere. ...

General Information . ... Local Information . ... The city represents great cultural value because in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Kislovodsk as a fashionable spa attracted many musicians, artists, and members of the Russian aristocracy. ... Double room with full pension (breakfast, lunch, dinner) - 2620 rubles per person per night. solnechniy . ... Citizens of most countries need visa to enter the Russian Federation. ... Victor Kornilov, Sternberg Astronomical Institute (chair) . ...

The direct detection of gravitational waves is one of those events long-expected by physicists that are nevertheless a significant occurrence which excites the world scientific community as if something unexpected has happened. ... Many rumors leaked ahead of the conference, and the fact that something (that is, a signal corresponding to gravitational waves) was discovered by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) was discussed on the sidelines. ... arXiv:1602.03868 . ...

... Heracles Triplane and Aerospace Systems . The key characteristics of two-stage aerospace systems are determined according to speed and carrying capacity of the aircraft-carrier used . ... So the SPIRAL system hypersonic carrier was expected to launch the second stage by weight 63 tons at a speed corresponding to 6M; whereas launching weight of the MAKS system orbital stage with the use of the An-225 MRIYA heavy subsonic aircraft reaches 275 tons, and the HERACLES aircraft - 450 tons. ...

... COMPUTER SIMULATION OF RADIOWAVE MULTIPLE SCATTERING EFFECTS IN IONOSPHERE USING MONTE-CARLO METHOD . ... Distribution of reflected radiation on the ground is computed. ... Such influence can be remarkable if the scattering is multiple, i.e. the optical thickness for the scattering process is considerably greater than a unit. ... Radiation energy transfer in the slab is modeled by distribution of some particles carring small portions of radiation energy. ... The isotropic plasma approximation is...

DISCLAIMER: The larger the aperture, the more light a telescope will gather and the fainter the object you can see. Here is a range of magnitudes you might expect to see. Given excellent sky conditions and good optics, a well trained eye can sometimes add up to 0.8 magnitude to these values. Limiting Magnitude depends on much more than the instruments aperture. ... One formula is for aperture in inches the other is for aperture in millimeters. ... Aperture (inches) . ... 15.2 . ...