... Planets, moons, asteroids and comets contain resources such as water and minerals, valuable to astronauts and potentially to Earth, with other elements such as platinum as a byproduct of the extraction. ... Lewis hoped we could defray cost s b y "bringing inexpensive products down to Earth. ... We could make travel to Mars cheaper by "bringing just enough fuel [to get there], then use the Martian CO2 atmosphere to go home. One ton of equipment will be able to produce 100 tons of fuel." ...

... 11/09 - Dave's response . Some of you have probably seen this original letter floating around the internet. Read Dave's (whoever he is) response below. ... I don't know who David is, but his response is hilarious!! ... At first I rolled my eyes....then I read Dave's response and I couldn't have said it better if I had all day to do it." ... September 11th is the 254th day of the year: 2 + 5 + 4 = 11 . ... Wait a sec ... just realized "YOU CAN'T HIDE" also has 11 letters! ... Help me!! ...

... It is being organized jointly by the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO) and the Armenian Astronomical Society (ArAS). ... LIST OF LECTURERS AND LECTURES : Dr. Vladimir AIRAPETIAN (Goddard Space Flight Center, USA): Physics of Winds from Cool Evolved Stars Dr. Don BARRY (Cornell University ... (observation techniques and theory) Dr. Michel DENNEFELD (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France): Introduction to spectroscopic observations Dr. Serguei DODONOV (Special Astrophysical ...

http ://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/003900/CBET003962.txt Electronic Telegram No.3962 Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION CBAT Director: Daniel W. E. Green; Hoffman Lab 209; Harvard University ; 20 Oxford St.; Cambridge, MA 02138; U.S.A. e-mail: cbatiau en eps.harvard.edu (alternate cbat en iau.org) URL http ://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/index.html Prepared using the Tamkin Foundation Computer Network SUPERNOVA ...

... 12.03.2001 . ... March 12 2001 09:00 (Moscow time) . The operations sheduled with OC "Mir" for March 11 are fully complete. The station continues in free drift. ... The onboard systems perform nominal, the Complex arrays generate enough electricity, the thermal mode is normal. Today on the Station (core block) the Motion Control System (MCS) digital central computer was powered on, it is being loaded with command software. The next status report is scheduled for March 13 2001. ...

... Up: Человек против Бога Previous: 3. ... Человек против Бога . This document was generated using the LaTeX 2 HTML translator Version 96.1 (Feb 5, 1996) Copyright ї 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, Nikos Drakos , Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds. ... The translation was initiated by Lipunov V.M. on Sat Jan 9 14:41:03 MSK 1999 . Lipunov V.M. Sat Jan 9 14:41:03 MSK 1999 . Copyright (c) "Русский переплет" . ...

Preliminary results of astroclimate parameters measurements at the Sternberg 2.5m telescope installation site V.Kornilov, N.Shatsky, S.Potanin, O.Voziakova, B.Safonov Moscow, 2008 Acknowledgements A.Belinskiy M.Kornilov A.Tokovinin M.Kuznetsov P.Kortunov E.Gorbovskoy SAI administration some SAI students Pulkovo solar station (KHSS) staff RFBR support MAVEG Gmbh Why to study optical turbulence and some other relevant ... Mean seeing by DIMM data for this night is 1''5. ...

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) . ...

... 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....

Postal address: Australia Telescope National Facility . ... Australia Email : Brian.Boyle -AT- csiro.au . ... Postal address: University of Sydney, School of Physics . ... University of Sydney . ... Postal address: Mullard Space Science Laboratory, . ... UK Email : nsl@mssl.ucl.ac.uk Postal address: Department Of Physics . ... Postal Address: Department of Physics . ... Postal address: Department of Physics . ... UK Email: ">Tom.Shanks@durham.ac.uk Postal address: Astrophysics Research Institute . ...

... Astronomy news . ... NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy . ... It is spiral-shaped like our Milky Way, with long, spindly arms of stars. The "eye" at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars. In this color-coded infrared view from Spitzer, the area around the invisible black hole is blue and the ring of stars, white. ... The ring around the black hole is bursting with new star formation. ...

... Department Number . ... Astro Space Center . ... Telephone Number . 7(095) 333 3366 . FAX Number . 7(095) 333 2378 . ... stern@lukash.asc.rssi.ru . ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...