Main . ... About meteorites . ... Museum . Mighei . Meteorite descriptions . ... Main menu . ... About laboratory . ... Museum of extraterrestial material . ... The Mighei meteorite is the type specimen of a new type of meteorite material CM chondrites. ... According to Kostenkova, the meteorite fell to earth from a height of 20-25 m, and it fell quite vertically: The meteorite seemed a black round rotating sphere like a big watermelon; "smoke and steam like a huge wheel surrounded it". ...

... Climb 60 steps at the back of the planetarium to view the sky through a 12.5-inch diameter reflecting telescope operated by knowledgeable volunteers from the Astronomy Section of the Rochester Academy of Science, the leading local astronomy club. ... As many as 100 people per Saturday night come to view the heavens through a telescope at the Strasenburgh Planetarium, thanks to volunteers from our leading local astronomy club, the Astronomy Section of the Rochester Academy of Science (ASRAS). ...

... Educational programs (English) . ... Pre-university education . ... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Interuniversity Department of Space Research of Samara State Aerospace University named after S. P. Korolev (National Research University) will hold holds the Tenth International Summer Space School Future Space Technologies and Experiments in Space from August 24 to September 6. ... Tags: ssau roadmap international summer space school future space technologies experiments in space nanosatellite . ...

Next: stecf.impol - Features Up: The ``stecf" IRAF Layered Previous: stecf.slitless - a Slitless . The impol package consists of five tasks to reduce, simulate and plot imaging linear polarimetry data taken with the HST instruments with polarizing facilities - currently FOC, NICMOS and WFPC2. ... Figure: An example of the output from stecf.impol showing polarization vectors plotted on an HST WFPC2 F673N filter image of the Homunculus nebula surrounding Carin?. љ . ... stecf.impol - Package Tasks . ...

... In this context, a very promising new tool is represented by the ultra-long period (ULP) Cepheids (P \geq 80 days), recently identified in star-forming galaxies. ... Abridged] We present the first direct comparison of the distribution of the gas, as traced by the [OI] 6300 AA emission, and the dust, as traced by the 10 micron emission, in the protoplanetary disk around three intermediate-mass stars: HD 101412, HD 135344 B and HD 179218. ... Star formation in young star cluster NGC 1893 . ...

GCVS Variability Types and Distribution Statistics of Designated Variable Stars According to their Types of Variability ======================================================================== I. GCVS Variability Types. ... Amplitudes usually do not exceed 0.1 mag. ... RR Variables of the RR Lyrae type, which are radially-pulsating giant A-F stars having amplitudes from 0.2 to 2 mag in V. Cases of variable light-curve shapes as well as variable periods are known. ... RV Variables of the RV Tauri type. ...

... Горизонты науки о Вселенной (Модераторы: Дмитрий Вибе , AlAn ) ? Порассуждаем об обоснованности космогонических гипотез . ... Рейтинг: +1/-0 . ... Е. Л. Рускол, доктор физико-математических наук, Объединенный институт физики Земли им. О.Ю. Шмидта РАН . ... Рейтинг: +446/-53 . ... Ответ #4 : 26.12.2007 [07:27:29] ? ... Или на Ваш, весьма требовательный взгляд (и безусловно правильный методологический) среди существующих космогонических гипотез нет подлинно научно-обоснованных теорий? ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... SYSTEM OF MEASUREMENT OF THE CHARGE S/C Foton-M #2 . ... The charging of the space vehicles and their elements leads to failures of an electric equipment. ... The charging of S/C occurs as a result of influence on its surface of some the factors, in particular surrounding space plasma and solar electromagnetic radiation. ... Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, 2005-2006 . ...

NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office . ... This paper briefly presents the history, interactions and current activities of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office. The Program Office utilizes near-Earth object (NEO) astrometric data from the international community, received from the Minor Planet Center, to refine orbits and provide predictions for coming Earth close approaches. ... Recent studies of some of the issues surrounding the deflection of an Earth threatening NEO are also described. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Irvin M. Winer . ... Science . ... Tom Kaye, an amateur astronomer from the Chicago, Illinois area, installed his Tau Boo campaign equipment at our facility in mid-February, 2000. ... The custom unit fed the starlight to an optical fiber that transmits the light to a bench spectrograph located in the Winer machine shop. ... The daily results from mid-February, 2000 to early March, 2000 are shown on the left. ...

... Тhis new concept touches our simple lives, yet for those intrigued by the natural sciences, especially experts deeply engaged in the 'eternal' questions of general geology and astronomy, it is all the more fascinating. The problems to be faced by any theory for the formation of the Solar System . Any theory has to account for certain rather tricky facts about the Solar System. These are in addition to the obvious facts that the Sun is at the centre with the planets in orbit around it. ...

... A Splendid Visit to the Star Hill Inn, New Mexico In November I was fortunate to visit, with my wife Carol, one of the southwest's premier astronomy retreats, the Star Hill Inn north of Las Vegas, NM. ... I spent four nights observing under transparent skies which, when cloud free (one of four nights was pristine while the other three were clear about half the night), revealed magnitude 6.5 stars and, for example, M33 as a naked eye object! ... These efforts should not go unnoticed by AAAP members. ...

Cosmic Ray laboratory of . ... Neutron Monitor (Cosmic Ray Observations) . is situated in Irkutsk (Russia) . ... Height - location above sea level . ... Height: . ... For recording the CR (Cosmic Rays) neutron component at Irkutsk, . neutron monitor NM-64 is used, which is an installation with 18 two-meter proportional counters filled with BF 3 (boron trifluoride gas) in which the B 10 90 per cent of the total boron. ... The neutron monitor is located at 475m above sea level. ...