... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

MATHEMATICAL MODELING: . ... This model is developed on the base of the probabilistic description of the collisional aeronomical processes and is realized on a computer as the numerical system (stochastic model). ... Shematovich, V.I., Bisikalo , D.V.             Nonequilibrium processes in the planetary and cometary atmospheres. ... In Russian) . ... Piarnpuu , A. A.; and Shematovich, V. I.       Construction of structural stochastic models of collision processes in rarefied gas media (abstract) . ...

. Предисловие. Введение. Глава 1. НЕМНОГО ТЕОРИИ. 1. Свет, оптические детали и характеристики систем. 2. Конические сечения. Поверхности вращения. 3. Как работает телескоп? . 4. Простейший телескоп. 5. Аберрации. 6. Ахроматические линзы. 7. Идеальный объектив и тонкая структура изображения. 8. Разрешающая сила телескопа. 9. Предельные увеличения телескопа. 10. Эффективность телескопа. 11. Типы телескопов.

Bill Boroski, Terry Sager, Chuck Wilson, Angie Prosapio, and Steve Bastian worked their tails off to accomplish the alignment work needed for the next dark run. ... Terry and Chuck set lines for sighting from the windscreen, across the mirror cell. ... Bill and Angie zero out the telescope position. Chuck and Terry begin taking measurements. And more measurements.. ... Staying the extra day and putting in the extra effort made for a successful trip. ...

This module provides an environment variable with a unique identifier for each request. ... The unique identifier is even unique across multiple machines in a properly configured cluster of machines. ... On Unix machines, Apache creates several children, the children process requests one at a time. ... To distinguish time we will use a Unix timestamp (seconds since January 1, 1970 UTC), and a 16-bit counter. ... The actual ordering of the encoding is: time stamp, IP address, pid, counter. ...

... 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 . ...

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... Stage A was used as stage I . of launch vehicle N1. ... height across mating interfaces - 11.5 m. The rocket was a package design with suspended, single-unit, spherical fuel tanks and multi-engine propulsion units on stages I, II, and III. Relying on the analysis, it was decided to employ engines sized to 150 tf. ... For this, stages I, II, and III of LV were provided with the Kord engine control system to shut down the engine at its derating. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Space Res., 12, 265, 1992 planetary magnetic dipole: Mizutani, H., et al., ... Astrobiology, 7, 167, 2007 CME induced H+ ion pick-up loss at 0.05 AU for ` Hot Jupiters ' HD209458 b Mass loss ~1011 g/s even for weak CMEs Mmax strong magn. protection in reality Exoplanet magnetospheres - importance of magnetodisk Relatively large amount of observed Hot Jupiters (27%): survival of close-in giants indicates their efficient protection against of extreme plasma and radiation conditions ...

... 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...

Gliese . Our next planet is Gliese we landed on it 3 days ago and launch robots to investigate area around our ship. Although our central computer didn't find any signs of life we still hope to find some creatures. ... Our robots copied text and try to decipher it. But unfortunately they can't. So we send it to our central computer and it translated a headline. ... But it still can't translate whole text, so YOUR TASCK is to decipher the ancient text and send it to our central computer. ...

... Spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism are also easily observed using the star test. ... Off-axis images are complex. ... Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for no aberration Airy Disk 1 wave defocus Less than 1 wave defocus Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for third-order spherical aberration Paraxial Focus Small distance inside paraxial focus Moderate distance from marginal focus