... ARTICLE: The Adventurous Search For The Astronomical Unit . ... Kepler himself had suggested to use the rare occasions of Venus transiting (crossing) the solar disk to measure our distance to the planet. ... Due to the orbital inclination of Venus against the ecliptic of 3.5°, a Venus transit is so rare that it happens only at intervals of 121.5 years, 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and so on. ... Crabtree witnessing the transit of Venus 1639 . ... Transits of Venus - The Quest for the Solar Parallax...

... comet nucleus. ... Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), Near Earth Objects (NEOs), cometary families , terrestrial type planets, collidings, transition of a comet nucleus , initial heliocentric parabolic orbit, heliocentric elliptical trajectory, a pairwise three dimensional two-body problem, the Sun - comet nucleus , terrestrial planet - comet nucleus , orbital parameters of a nucleus , sphere of influence of a ...

... Certain classical problems of one-dimensional dynamics, of dynamics on surfaces, of billiards in polygons, of surface foliations, can be solved using the recent knowledge about the moduli spaces. ... The conference is intended to put into contact experts in different aspects of the area (dynamics in moduli spaces, surface dynamics, surface foliations, horocyclic flow, symbolic dynamics, billiards in polygons), which, hopefully, would enrich everybody. ... Download conference poster (PDF, 549k) . ...

Atmospheric influence on the different radio-engineering system functioning . ESTIMATION OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND REMOTELY SANSED IMAGE CORRECTION . ... Direct transmittance estimation results for 12 channels of the spectrometer CHRIS. ... We have managed to develop a direct method of estimating the discrete Normalized Atmospheric Point Spread Function (NAPSF) from available images alone, not using any external sources of information about the atmosphere. ... IRE RAS 1996-20 11 ...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Практика > Астрономический наблюдательно-информационный портал > Метеорные потоки (наиболее заметные) > Декабрьские Лео Минориды / December Leonis Minorids / Dec. Leonis Minorids / Dec. Leo Minorids (DLM) / 2014 - максимум 20-21 декабря, ZHR = 5 .. ... Просмотр полной версии : Декабрьские Лео Минориды / December Leonis Minorids / Dec. ... 19.12.2014, 12:49 . Декабрьские Лео Минориды / December Leonis Minorids / Dec. ... Leo Minorids (DLM) / 2014 .. мах. ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

... 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. ...

December 16, 1997 . ... An example of the EUV chain revealed by the modified SOHO/EIT images. A complex EUV (195 A) chain or thread of December 16, 1997, consisting of several quasi-straight-line fragments between points 1-2-3-4-5 and covering a large part of the solar disk. ... A comparison of the large-scale chains and threads on two pairs of the modified SOHO/EIT (195 A; inverted) and He I (10830 A; normal) images. ... SOHO/EIT, 195 A, December 15-17, 1997 GIF Animation (1.07 MB) . ...