In this presentation I will recap what we know about the dwarf planet Pluto its companion moons, including some recent results from the Division of Planetary Sciences October 2014 meeting (Tucson, AZ). Next I will describe NASA s New Horizons mission, launched in January 2006, who has been traveling across the solar system and will reach the Pluto system in July 2015. ... I will end the presentation with the latest news from the New Horizons mission and its plans after the July 2015 Plutoflyby. ...

To see a Russian version of this page, click here . ... Graduated from Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Physics in 1976. Ph.D. degree - 1988, MSU. Main field of scientific activities: photometric investigations of various stars, close binary stellar systems and other astronomical objects, including research with use of fast photoelectric photometry with a high time resolution till 1 millisecond. ... New portable photometer . ... Send your mail to: tem@sai.msu.ru ...

... The TESIS is a set of solar imaging instruments developed by the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, and launched aboard the Russian spacecraft CORONAS-PHOTON on January 30, 2009. The main goal of the TESIS is to provide complex observations of solar active phenomena from the transition region to the inner and outer solar corona with high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution in the EUV and Soft X-ray spectral bands. ... Solar activity hits a new low . ...

... Partly based on observations performed with radio telescopes of IAA RAS (Federal State Budget Scientific Organization Institue of Applied Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences). c . ... Partly based on observations with the 100-m telescope of the MPIfR (Max-Planck-Institute for Radio Astronomy) at Effelsberg . ... NRAO facilities . The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. ...

... A Proposal for an International Atlas of Lunar Exploration Philip J. Stooke Department of Geography University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C2 Introduction. ... I propose the creation of an International Atlas of Lunar Exploration to tell this story in cartographic form. ... Many new products would be based primarily on spacecraft images rather than drawn maps, which will also reduce costs and help illustrate the primary data products of the principal lunar missions. ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... Constellations | ... AstroGuide Listing . Login . See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . ... Listed Since October 25, 2004 . ... Web Site . ... Web . www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . are trademarks of John Huggins ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

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Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

... International relations . Scientific Publications . ... Events International Conference "Scientific and technological experiments on automatic space vehicles and small satellites" . ... The influence of the factors of the space environment on the results of scientific and technological experiments. Lessons learned of organization and holding of piggy back launches and space experiments, problems of realization of international scientific and educational space projects. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT  INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . ... Radioastrophysical Department , Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Science. ... Head of Laboratory dr. Gubin A.V. LABORATORY of INFORMATION SUPPLY and METHODOLOGY of RESEARCH . ... Head of Observatory Kitsanov S.V. SIBERIAN SOLAR RADIO TELESCOPE . Siberian solar radio telescope data at 5.7 GHz in I SOHO EIT 171 SOHO EIT 195 SOHO EIT 304 MDI Continuum MDI Magnetogram . ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

NOTE: The storm sudden commencement data file was updated on 18 Feb 1998. o Revised data for 1968-1975 were taken from IAGA Bulletin No. ... Indices aa and storm sudden commencements"; see also IAGA Bulletin 39: " Supplementary Geomagnetic Data 1957-1975", including a new list of ssc's 1968-1975). ... From the monthly reports of Rapid Variations prepared by 43 magnetic observatories (see list page 121), a combined list of all events is compiled. ...

... Even though the DoD would ultimately select senior Air Force officials, US Navy oceanographers and Air Weather Service officers as shuttle payload specialists, MSEs would be the first personnel from an American military programme to go into space. ... One Air Force officer, Maj. ... Jacobson was concerned about shuttle launch delays and wanted the MSEs to understand that his mission, i.e., the launch of national security payloads, dwarfed their mission, flights in space by Air Force personnel. ...

NEWS FEDERATION rus ENCYCLOPEDIA rus HISTORY rus MIR STATION RUSSIAN . ... Cosmonauts. ... Companies. ... History . ... Heroes Of Space Remember . Russian Insurance Center: 10 Years Of Work . Russian Insurance Center cooperates with several Russian departments of defense industry including Risaviakosmos, and the most well-known aerospace companies. ...

... Launch Vehicles and Spaceships . We have two rockets used to launch manned spaceships : . ... VIR 2000 will be employed with the SIRIO 2000 spaceship. ... It can carry 960,000 pounds into several planets orbit or launch a 180,000 pound payload on several planets journey. VIR 2001 will be employed with the SIRIO 2001 spaceship. ... They test many of the techniques required for landing men on different planets , such as rendezvous procedures and leaving and re-entering and orbiting a spaceship. ...

... News . ... NASA's New Horizons detects Pluto surface features, including possible polar cap . ... New Horizons scientists interpreted the data to reveal that the dwarf planet has broad surface markings some bright, some dark including a bright area at one pole that may be a polar cap. ... These latest New Horizons images allow the mission science team to detect clear differences in brightness across Pluto s surface as it rotates. ... NASAт??s New Horizons nears historic encounter with Pluto . ...

... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

... American Triumph: Project Apollo . Jim Hand . Thursday, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:00 PM . This month’s speaker will be physicist Jim Hand who worked for Kollsman Instruments and at the MIT Instrumentation Lab during the Apollo years designing and integrating hardware and software for the command and lunar modules including a fifteen million dollar telescope used on the lunar module to assist in navigation. ... Nov . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Non-linear dynamics of optical and spin waves in magnetically ordered layers and layered structures. ... Magneto-optics: interaction of propagating light and spin waves in ferromagnetic films and layered structures (including non-linear waves). ... The technology of these components utilises recent physical achievements in the fields of spinwave and vibration processes in solid state layered structures. ... Telecommunications. ... Physics Department, Joule Laboratory, Salford University, UK . ...