... Objectives of the study . To survey and evaluate the technical and economical feasibility of European initiatives by start-up companies, for privately-funded crew vehicles for commercial human space flight. ... New commercial markets, among them space tourism, have a great potential to become major drivers in space technology development. This study aims at the assessment of the feasibility of European initiatives to address these new markets through the development of crewed space vehicles. ...

... Between them, the following points are touched: ICRF-2 structure, ICRF Core sources selection, and some expected user's requirements. ... Suggested total number of sources is close to the number of sources already observed in the IVS and VCS sessions, and for most of them reliable positions are derived, mostly for declination > -40 deg. ... So, results of source position time series analysis heavily depend on method used for time series computation and should be used with care. ...

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION . Space technologies - to serve the society" Kyiv, Khreschatik street, 2 24-28 August 2001 . ... About exhibition . ... NAME: International Exhibition "Space Technologies to Serve the Society". ... REASONS: International Exhibition "Space Technologies to Serve the Society" is being carried out according to the President of Ukraine Decree ? ... strengthen of the space industry enterprises' positions and ptoducts' manufacturing for domestic market needs, . ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... Yes, Exploding Comet 17P/Holmes is one of the strangest things ever seen by astronomers - professional and amateurs alike. ... We also had some club members who received some Astronomical League awards...and we'd like to congratulate them! ... It is again a potluck, and is being held at the Masonic Temple in Galion ( 1252 State Route 598, Galion , OH 44833) Here's a map: Map of 1252 State Route 598 Galion, OH 44833-9367, US And, along with the party come RAS elections for 2008! ... Comet 17P/Holmes ...

... According to the estimations of the RSC Energia it will take at least 10 years and 500-600 million $ (cost of adjustment, preparation, equipment's launching and accompaniment of carrying out of the experiments is included) to build up a similar experimental complex. ... It was carried out successfully. ... Radiation researches on the station Mir, carrying out by Moscow State University, gave rise to the construction of the dynamic picture of radiation zones' changes during the sun activity cycle. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . Research results on fast active processes General information Main characteristics of the Radio telescope Observing programs General view of the antenna array Main research areas Principle of generation of radio images Radio telescope's beam Receiving systems Main characteristics of the base receiving-recording complex Calibrations Data archive and databases ... Distribution of the recorded spikes in duration . ...

... Meteorite Boguslavka fall , October 18, 1916. ... By fear of such awful stories we will learn to do good and to keep God's commandments and then we will be blessed" - lamented the scribe as he entered a meteorite fall in Great Novgorod into the Tale of Years. ... The greatest among them were meteorite falls in Great Ustyug (1290), Great Novgorod (1421) and near the village of New Ergy (1662). ... The third and fourth seals show the cloud of stones covering Great Ustyug rocks falling onto the town. ...

The Astronomical Journal welcomes new submissions at IOP Publishing . ... From: Andrew Wray < andrew.wray@iop.org > . ... On behalf of the IOP-AAS Project Team, I am delighted to announce that IOP Publishing is now processing all new submissions to the AJ. Submitting a new article . To submit a new article to the journal, go to http://authors.iop.org/aj , where you will find our beta version of the new AJ web submission site. ... Refereeing an article . ... IOP Publishing . ...

... Crystalline graphite has a strong resonant feature near 11.52 (Draine, [ 1984 ]) which is not observed... width 2 . Note that the observed weakness of the bump strength in dense clouds can be attributed to the hydrogenation of carbon (Sorrell, [ 1990 ]).. ... Its idea was first suggested by Gold ([ 1952 ])...fpell) 4 . A similar conclusion follows from calculations made by Matsumura and Seki ([ 1996 ])... ``correct'' 5 . ...

. The original pictures are taken at: . Biosphere-2, Tucson, Arizona - "Pray" . USS "Little Rock", Buffalo, New York - "The door" . Castelet, Copenhagen - "Mr. Hyde in October" (Oct '94) .

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... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : The Moon only shows one face to us because it is not rotating. Better astronomy : The Moon only shows one face because it is rotating, once every time it revolves around the Earth. ... Place the Moon model on the table about 30 centimeters (one foot) away with the X facing the Earth model. ... You'll see that to keep the X facing the Earth model, you have to rotate the Moon model as it goes around the Earth model . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

448-8598 vic@apink.com Assistant Director: John Miller (609) 252-1223 jmiller@princetonastronomy.org Volume 33 From the Director April 2004 Number 4 AAAP Regular Meeting April 13 (8:00 PM) ... On March 15, 2004, only days after his AAAP presentation on Quaoar at Peyton Hall, Michael Brown from Caltech and his colleagues C Trujillo from Gemini Observatory, and D. Rabinowitz fromYale announced the discovery of the most distant object known to orbit the sun. ... NEAF 2004 April 17, 18. ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Series 6000 APO Refractors . ... These telescopes come with all necessary equipment in the box and feature an altazimuth mount that allows for easy and quick viewing. ... NG70-SM Altazimuth Refractor . ... Meade NG70-SM Altazimuth Refractor #20218. ...

THE PARAMETERS INVOLVED IN HAPKE'S MODEL FOR ESTIMATION OF THE COMPOSITION OF THE EJECTA LUNAR TERRAINS. ... In the previous papers we were estimated the surface roughness of the ejecta lunar terrains by means comparison of the local phase function and the average integrated lunar indicatrix. ... The Hapke's theoretical model of the lunar surface reflection. ... For THE PARAMETERS INVOLVED IN HAPKE'S MODEL: S.G. Pugacheva, V.V. Shevchenko a low-albedo lunar surface parameter Bo = 1. ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... 14 Bissat, an International Student Experience . ... On August 2003 an accident with the Brazilian Launcher, VLS, destroyed the UNOSAT (www.space.unopar.br) that was the first Brazilian University Undergraduate Student nano satellite. ... The name of 14 Bissat is to commemorate the 100 year of the flight of the first airplane by the Brazilian Santos Dumont in Paris and is an acronym of Brazilian International Student Satellite. ...

АНОНС НАУЧНЫХ КОНФЕРЕНЦИЙ 1998-99 гг. ... An AAS Electronic Announcement Dear Colleague: NASA has approved development of a Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) for installation in the HST on the 2002 Servicing Mission. A Scientific Oversight Committee (SOC) is being established to ensure that the broad interests of the scientific community are represented in the development of WFC3. The primary task of the SOC will be to advise the HST Project and STScI in all areas of scientific performance of WFC3. ...

... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...

... COMPUTER SIMULATION OF RADIOWAVE MULTIPLE SCATTERING EFFECTS IN IONOSPHERE USING MONTE-CARLO METHOD . ... Distribution of reflected radiation on the ground is computed. ... Such influence can be remarkable if the scattering is multiple, i.e. the optical thickness for the scattering process is considerably greater than a unit. ... Radiation energy transfer in the slab is modeled by distribution of some particles carring small portions of radiation energy. ... The isotropic plasma approximation is...