Weekly Bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Highlights on 22 - 28.06.2015, Forecast on 29.06 - 05.07.2015, Carrington Rotations 2165 (17,64.06.2015) SUNSPOT-FORMING ACTIVITY OF THE SUN WAS ON AVERAGE, AND 26 -27.06 LOW LEVELS. ... As a result of emergence of significant new magnetic fluxes in the following spot 22 and 25.06 there were two large solar flares. AVERAGE LOW LEVELS OF THE SUNSPOT-FORMING ACTIVITY ARE EXPECTED ON THE NEXT WEEK. ... G - geoeffectivity in last solar rotation. ...

... BIRTHDATE/PLACE: . ... EDUCATION: . ... B.S., Geology, University of California-Santa Barbara, 1990 . M.S., Geology, University of Arizona, 1992 . ... Full Biographical Data . ... M.S., Ocean Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000 . ... B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of the Pacific, 1984 . ... JAXA Astronaut . ... M.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, 1997 . ... Astronaut Candidates | ... Biography Page Curator: Kim Dismukes . ...

... I am involved in Project Astro, a program to bring astronomers into public schools to assist with teaching students about science and astronomy. ... While there are all sorts of scale model of the Solar System type exercises ( Mitchell Charity's page has a good listing of what's available), none were really tailored towards discovering the spatial relationships of the planets, and in a way that could be done at night as part of a Star Party. ...

... The reduction system of observations FADPS (description in Russian) (Flexible Astronomical Data Processing System) for data of wide-band receivers of the first observation cabin of the radio telescope RATAN-600 had been created under the Unix-like operational system DEMOS for computers of the SM-1420-type (PDP/11) in 1987 for observation analysis and estimates of coordinates and flux densities of radio sources. ... FADPS: flexible astronomical data processing system at RATAN-600 in UNIX environment....

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