... 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...

Main Program Travel Where to go in Moscow Information . ... We highly recommend to make hotel reservation as early as possible due to high season in Moscow. ... Short list of convenient hotels in Moscow is presented below. ... Hotel . ... Below is the list of hotels the way from which to the conference hall at IKI will be relatively simple and shouldn't take more than 30 minutes. ... International Conference: Cosmology and High Energy Astrophysics (Zeldovich-90) 20-24 Dec 2004, Moscow, Russia . ...

... 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. ...

... The space station Mir is the most complex and unique vehicle of the twentieth century. ... It is in proposing to UNESCO the procedure of giving to the space station Mir a status of the object of the World cultural heritage of the mankind as a very valuable unique object of the technical culture of the 20th century, and realization of the special project of its preservation. ... Proactive organization work to get in UNESCO the status of the object of the World cultural heritage for the station Mir; ....

Click for a video of the pendulum . ... In 1851 Leon Foucault (1819-1868) was made famous when he devised an experiment with a pendulum that demonstrated the rotation of the Earth. Joseph Ashbrook's book, The Astronomical Scrapbook , (Cambridge University Press, 1984) has a short chapter on Foucault's contributions to astronomy. ... Click here for more a detailed pdf document (5MB) about the University of Louisville's Foucault pendulum along with technical notes and the original working drawings. ...

... Discovering Near-Earth Asteroids . ... The LINEAR program is operated by MIT Lincoln Laboratory under NASA and Air Force sponsorship . ... Dr. Stokes directs the development and operations of the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research program, under NASA and Air Force Space Command sponsorship. ... Dr. Stokes was honored with the Air Force Meritorious Civilian Service Award for his four years of service to the Air Force Science Advisory Board. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc....

... Satellite data ] . ... The SCANOR system provides receiving and processing of the Earth-surface pictures made in visible and infra-red bands and transferred by satellites of the NOAA polar orbiter series (in the HRPT mode). ... The SCANOR system includes the desktop receiving device connected to an IBM AT 386 type computer, and the parabolic antenna with the guiding mechanism. The SCANOR system possesses the state-of-art software providing registration and processing of the received data. ...

... If you hope that aliens could be somewhere then meet with first Children's Message to Extraterrestrial! ... Message to . ... An idea of contact with unknown life forms unite different specialist like: astronomers, physicists, cyberneticians, radio technicians, linguists, philosophers, and historians. Take a look at page prepared by the SETI Science and Culture Center of the Tsiolkovsky Academy of Cosmonautics and by the SETI Section of the Radio Astronomy Council, Russian Academy of Sciences. ...

. General Information . Media Files . Participants . Timetable . Local Information . Photos . October 5, 15:00 15:30 . Victor Kornilov (SAI) . PDF [2.4б MB] October 5, 15:30 16:10 . Florian Kerber (ESO) . PDF [2.0б MB] October 5, 16:10 16:35 . Boris Safonov (SAI) . PDF [704.7б KB] October 5, 16:35 17:05 . October 5, 17:05 17:45 . Pavel Kovadlo (ISZF), Olga Kochetkova (ISZF) . PDF [4.0б MB] October 5, 18:20 19:00 .

... xmmtrack . ... xmmtrack is an interactive IDL application that visualizes the orbit and attitude data in an ODF in the form of a 3-D animation sequence. The presented scenery includes an astronomically accurate simulation of the Earth-Sun system plus the actual and predicted trajectory of the XMM satellite on its path around the Earth. ... Please note: XMM's orbit is highly time variable and the predicted orbit will significantly deviate from the actual trajectory if the reference epochs differ. ...

... НЕПРЕРЫВНОГО МАТЕМАТИЧЕСКОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ . ... Кружок ?Олимпиады и математика? ... Московская математическая олимпиада . Заочный математический конкурс . ... Устные математические олимпиады . Олимпиады по программированию . Математический праздник . Математические регаты . ... Математические бои . Олимпиада по геометрии им. И.Ф.Шарыгина . ... Программа ?Math in Moscow? Научные конкурсы . Творческий конкурс . ... График олимпиад . ... XXVII Математический праздник . ...

... VAK Russian Federation . Keldysh institute of applied mathematics . ... Unitied Institute of Physics of the Earth named for O.Yu. Schmidt see also another site of this Institute . ... Moscow Meriya . Institute of Nutrition of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences . MSU, Physics Department . ... Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics of MSU , see also another site . P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute Russian Academy of Sciences . ... M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University . ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

Planetary Illumination, and Its effect on Climate Models of Earth-like Exomoons Duncan Forgan1,2 , Vergil Yotov1 1 2 SUPA, Institute for Astronomy ... Compared to an Earth-like planet, there are several extra sources and sinks of energy available to an Earth-like exomoon, including: Tidal Heating Planetary Illumination (thermal flux and reflected starlight) Eclipses of the star by the planet (acts as a sink) Circumstellar HZ - Zero Moon ...

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... Previous: Determination of Variable Time Delay in Uneven Data Sets . ... It is shown that the likeness of the periodogram and the LS-spectrum (both estimators of the power spectrum are widely used in the spectral analysis of time series), depends on the properties of the spectral window corresponding to the distribution of time points. ... Present day theory and practice of the spectral analysis of unequally spaced time series are based on two approaches. ...

Space Development: Theory and Practice 2005 . ... During the conference the participants had an exclusive opportunity to visit such Russian enterprises associated with Space industry as Scientific and Production Association “Zvezda”, which designs and produces helmets, spacesuits and emergency evacuation systems for aviation; Khrunichev Space center which is one of the world’s leaders in launch vehicle and spacecraft development ; Rocket and ...

... Space Res., 12, 265, 1992 planetary magnetic dipole: Mizutani, H., et al., ... Astrobiology, 7, 167, 2007 CME induced H+ ion pick-up loss at 0.05 AU for ` Hot Jupiters ' HD209458 b Mass loss ~1011 g/s even for weak CMEs Mmax strong magn. protection in reality Exoplanet magnetospheres - importance of magnetodisk Relatively large amount of observed Hot Jupiters (27%): survival of close-in giants indicates their efficient protection against of extreme plasma and radiation conditions ...

back to "Astrology" . ... Russia under the Sign of Jackass . I'll venture to outspeak a truism: there is nowhere such a country except our Russia, where people zig and zag from one extremity to another. ... Lummy, where are the brain-convolutions of millions of people, who have been educated in secondary school? ... No, it is quite sufficient to be an average man with average intellect and average (secondary school) education. ... Another analogous question. ... and an average education . ...