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... A form allowing access to any MPEC is at the bottom of this page. ... Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A. Prepared using the Tamkin Foundation Computer Network MPC @CFA.HARVARD.EDU URL http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/ mpc .html 2010 NJ1 Observations: K10N01J * K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J K10N01J ... C51 WISE. ...

COPRATES CHASMA NORTH WALL INTERIOR LAYERED DEPOSIT: LAYER MEASUREMENTS AND COMPARISON WITH JUVENTAE CHASMA ILDS USING MARS EXPRESS HIGH RESOLUTION STEREO CAMERA (HRSC) DERIVED TOPOGRAPHY Michael, G.1, E. Hauber1, K. Gwinner1, R. Stesky2 ... Planets, Freie Universitaet, Berlin, Germany 5ESTEC, ESA, Noordwijk, The Netherlands Introduction: The interior layered deposit ( ILD ) in the north wall of Coprates ... The lesser section of the ILD is confined by a ridge of the chasma wall. ...

... 16-mm/2.8 Fish-eye . ... I set up my Edixa Prismaflex TTL on a tripod outside the dome at Zeiss 50" and opened the camera for several hours. The 2.6 m Shain reflector is visible at center. The time exposure of about 5 hours duration showing circumpolar stars. The dome can be seen to blur slightly due to their motion during the exposure. Back to Astronomical Images Home Page . ...

... 248, 2007 W. J. Jin, I. Platais & M. A. C. Perryman, eds. c 2008 Intern atio nal A stro nom ical U nion doi:10.1017/S1743921308018838 A compiled catalogue of reference stars around the selected ERS in the northern sky V. P. Ryl'kov1 , N. Narizhna ja1 , A. Dement'eva1 , N. Maigurova2 , G. I. Pinigin2 and Y. I. Protsyuk2 1 Main Astronomical Observatory of RuAS, MAO RuAS, Russia email: vryl@gao.spb.ru; 2 Nikolaev Astronomical Observatory, NAO, Ukraine email: pinigin@mao.nikolaev.ua Abstract. ... Pul...

September 17, S.P.Korolev RSC Energia - MCC-M, . ... Russian logistics spacecraft Progress M-65, launched from the Baikonur launch site, after seven days in free flight, docked with the International Space Station (ISS). The spacecraft docking, originally scheduled for September 13, was postponed at the US request because operations in the primary ISS Mission Control Center in Houston were suspended due to hurricane Ike. ... The spacecraft delivered to the station about 2.5 tons of cargo. ...

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... Astronomy news . ... NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy . ... It is spiral-shaped like our Milky Way, with long, spindly arms of stars. The "eye" at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars. In this color-coded infrared view from Spitzer, the area around the invisible black hole is blue and the ring of stars, white. ... The ring around the black hole is bursting with new star formation. ...