... Jay Apt (Ph.D.) . NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... PUBLICATIONS: Dr. Apt shared his images and knowledge in the publication Earth in Orbit : NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth , written in conjunction with NASA scientists Michael Helfert and Justin Wilkinson and published by the National Geographic Society. ... From 1976 to 1980 he was a staff member of the Center for Earth & Planetary Physics, Harvard University, supporting NASA s Pioneer Venus Mission by making temperature maps of Venus from Mt. ...

... Beautiful Nebula discovered between the Balance [Libra] the Serpent [Serpens] ..." begins the description of the 5th entry in 18th century astronomer Charles Messier's famous catalog of nebulae and star clusters. ... South Pole Star Trails . ... The Milky Way Over Monument Valley . ... Curiosity Before Mars: Seven Minutes of Terror . ... In the center of star-forming region 30 Doradus lies a huge cluster of the largest, hottest, most massive stars known. ... Pink Aurora Over Crater Lake . ...

About us . ... Telescopes . ... Apart from the 6-meter telescope BTA two small telescopes are operative at SAO: the 1-m and 0.6-m telescopes, both manufactured by Carl Zeiss, Jena, are located near the BTA. ... These telescopes are used for adjusting the equipment and techniques of observations used at the BTA. ... The observational time allocation and also a brief description of the equipment of the 1-m telescope, which is used either permanently or mainly on this telescope, are presented below. ...

Rules and Regulations for a participant of the Olympiad . ... Don't write the conditions of problem in rough copy or clean copy. ... Rough copy. If you haven't time to rewrite solution (or a part of solution) in your clean copy, please make a note 'see rough copy' in Russian or English by accurate printed characters . ... In particular if solutions in clean copy and in rough copy are different, then clean copy is evaluated only. ... To write solutions of tasks in clean copy in arbitrary sequence. ...

... Инновационная зубная щетка Splat "Complete" направленного действия для комплексного очищения зубов с мягкой щетиной: Утонченная щетина идеально очищает все труднодоступные места: межзубные промежутки, углубления жевательных поверхностей, придесневые участки, где наиболее часто образуется кариес. ... Текстильные коврики для автомобиля мягкие и приятные, а их основа из вспененного полиуретана не пропускает влагу.. ... Подкладка выполнена из мягкого, приятного на ощупь искусственного меха. ...

Each Apache configuration directive is described using a common format that looks like this: . ... This indicates the format of the directive as it would appear in a configuration file. This syntax is extremely directive-specific, and is described in detail in the directive's definition. ... If the directive has a default value ( i.e. , if you omit it from your configuration entirely, the Apache Web server will behave as though you set it to a particular value), it is described here. ...

Microsymposium 34, MS015, 2001 TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE "SOUTH POLE - AITKEN " BASIN. ... Head [2] and Spudis [1] suggested in their reviews that the existense of the structure identified later as the South Pole - Aitken baasin was first predicted on the basis of a relief analysis of the mountain ridges observed in the libration zone be Hartman and Kuiper [7], i.e. after the first images of the lunar far-side had been obtained. ... SOUTH POLE-AIKEN BASIN: V.I.Chikmachev et al. ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

This page contains the table of contents and select excerpts only and is not a complete reproduction of this issue. Complete content for online Mercury is available to ASP members and institutional subscribers . ... Public exhibits in parks, airports, libraries, shopping centers, art festivals, nature centers and even prisons promote scientific awareness to millions of people worldwide. ... Gamma-Ray Bursts: Piecing Together a Cosmic Puzzle , Zach Cano . ... Education Matters, David Bruning . ...

... FTP access the basic models is here . ... Below, we put short descriptions of the used SED models for the photometric redshifts providing by the current server . ... The uniqueness of this model consists in expanding to the near IR (NIR) of Rocca-Volmerange and Guiderdoni's (1988) atlas of synthetic spectra with a revised stellar library, which includes parameters of cool stars. ... Homepage of the GISSEL model). ... Another model used earlier is the model of synthetic spectra of Poggianti (1997). ...

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... Description . Catalog . ... In the Catalog, we publish equatorial (ЮБ 2000 , ЮД 2000 ) and galactic (l,b) coordinates of cluster centers derived as the position of overdensity in 2MASS catalog (Koposov et al. ... Distances, color-excesses and ages are the mean-square values calculated using all available evaluations from different color-magnitude diagrams. ... There are individual pages for every cluster where all available plots and parameters are published. ... 2002). ...

... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...

... Комментариев нет 22 августа 2010, 13:58 Blogger , English , Астрономия . ... Neptune will finally complete its first full orbit of the sun since it was discovered in 1846a approximately one year from now, according to NASA estimates. ... Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-21 . ...

. | Front page | . | << - Number counts | Contamination - >> | . Robert J. Smith, ">rsmith@mso.anu.edu.au Last modified: Fri Sep 24 11:39:02 EST 1999 .

... Our friends from Chile send us wonderful description of planet they found on their way to blue planet. ... Shambala, planet of highly developed creatures. ... Picture 1) We investigated and found wonderful caverns with pictures that showed high development in all disciplines: Music, Art, Poetry, Singing, Astronomy, Mathematics, Language, Geometry, Grammar; Science and Technology. ... Picture 4 Dark creatures who destroyed their own lives and the planet development attracting disaster. ... Chile. ...

... This API (Application Programming Interface) document has pages corresponding to the items in the navigation bar, described as follows. The Overview page is the front page of this API document and provides a list of all packages with a summary for each. ... Each package has a page that contains a list of its classes and interfaces, with a summary for each. ... Each of these pages has three sections consisting of a class/interface description, summary tables, and detailed member descriptions: . ...

ON ERRORS OF RADIO SOURCE POSITION CATALOGS Z. MALKIN Pulkovo Observatory, St. Petersburg, Russia St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia e-mail: malkin@gao.spb.ru ABSTRACT. In this paper, a new method of investigation of the external radio source position catalogs RSPCs stochastic errors is presented. ... It was also found that the formal uncertainties of the source position in the RSPCs correlate with the external errors. ... For N catalogs, we have N (N - 1) equations. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Every few months, one of a series of questions comes up on the USENET group sci.astro involving tides, or the rotation of the Moon, or the recession of the Moon from the Earth. ... Why the Moon's rotation period is the same as the length of time it takes to orbit the Earth (same as number 1, but phrased differently). ... But when this happens, the time it takes for the Earth to rotate once will be slowed to exactly the same time it takes for the Moon to go around the Earth once! ...