... 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...

... SHORT TERM PREDICTION OF POWER SOLAR FLARES FROM SSRT DATA . The algorithm for short term prediction of powerful solar flares, based on SSRT data, includes microwave emission characteristics in total and polarized flux, the structure of active region (AR) magnetic field at the photospheric level, and H a patrol data. ... During this period, 7 AR's crossed the solar disk, in which 20 flares of importance ? ... Data on AR's and magnetic fields were received from the Sayan observatory by teletype. ...

The possibility of recovery of the vertical distribution of the magnetic field in umbrae by line width differences S.G. Mozharovsky Ussuriysk Astrophysical Observatory of FEB RAS, Ussuriysk, Russia sw@newmail.ru Abstract. This article studies the possibility of recovery of the vertical distribution of the magnetic field in the photospheric layers of sunspot umbra by the Difference of the Line profile Absolute Widths of neutral zirconium ? ... 2) Line profiles for cold models have extended wings. ...

... For reliable estimation of the accuracy of asteroid CCD observations we usually consider from ten or more various NUMBERED MINOR PLANETS (NMPs) observed during several nigths per month (more then 50 positions). ... They can be considered as an indicator of accuracy of the CCD positional observations with given MPC code. ... For any NUMBERED minor planet the (O-C) values must be zero if the errors of observations and the errors of its theory are absent. ...

... 03.32 AM - the first impulse is performed using the Progress M1-5 eight thrusters to construct the pre-descent orbit. ... maximal distance from earth surface - 219 km . minimal distance from earth surface - 188 km . ... 05.00.24 AM - the second impulse is performed using the Progress M1-5 eight thrusters to construct the pre- descent orbit. ... 08.08 AM - the final third breaking impulse is performed using a combination of the Progress M1-5 main engine and eight thrusters to deorbit Mir OC. ...

. Comment on J0334-4008 . Our image is not consistent with the one at 5 GHz by Shen et al. (1998) which shows an extension in the opposite direction to that seen in our image. A redshift of 1.445 is widely quoted for this source, but there is little to support this value. Drinkwater et al. (1997) were unable to measure a redshift for this source. VLBApls home page . Last modified: 16 Oct 2000

... GCR and SCR are primary cosmic rays. 10-15 years after the discovery of cosmic radiation (1919) there emerged two main avenues of investigation in the physics of cosmic rays (CR): 1) nuclear - elucidation of the origin of elementary particles and nuclear interactions; and 2) astrophysical (space physics) - solution of the problem related to the origin and variations (changes in intensity) of CR. ... Besides, the CR flux in interplanetary space is, strictly speaking, not isotropic. ...