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... At the January meeting we finally achieved the necessary quorum in the vote on the bylaws changes proposed in September. ... Giant Ribbon at Edge of the Solar System: Mystery Solved? ... It is where solar wind particles heading out into interstellar space are reflected back into the solar system by a galactic magnetic field." ... Particles from the solar wind that escape the solar system are met ~100 astronomical units (~15 billion kilometers) away by an interstellar magnetic field. ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Shirokovsky . ... The meteorite fell on the frozen Shirokovsky reservoir situated on the Kosva River near the village of Shirokovsky and the cities of Ugle-Uralsk and Kizel. ... Two slices were transferred to the Vernadsky Institute for study and research. ... M.A. Nazarov, Vernadsky Inst. ... Furthermore, the Shirokovsky samples do not contain typical accessory phases of stony-iron meteorites, and the accessory phases are completely atypical for all meteorites. ...

... News ] . Satellite data ] . SMIS ] . ... New system for operational data processing has been launched on the "Russia's Fires" server (National Forest Fire Center) . ... 31/12/1998 . ... New Data processing examples . ... New SMIS publications . ... Operational Archive of RESURS Data (New Version). ... New cloudiness maps. ... New data from GOMS satellite. ... SMIS supported organizations (New list) . ... Whole Russia cloudiness Map" : SMIS IKI RAN - ISZF SO RAN joint programm begun. ...

Microsymposium 38, MS082, 2003 (A4 format) EVALUATING THE STRUCTURE OF THE SURFACE LAYER OF MERCURY. ... Photometric Analysis of the Lunar Surface Analogue. ... The phase function obtained directly on some segments of the lunar surface: 1- phase function of the Moon, 2 - phase function of Mercury, 3 - phase function of segments, converted to the lunar phase function system (correlation 0.8), 4 - phase function of segments, converted to the Mercurian phase function (correlation 0.9). ...

The Second U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog ( UCAC2 ) Table of Contents 1) Introduction 2) Summary of the Project a) Observations and Instrumentation b) Reductions of UCAC Observations c) Computation of Proper Motions 3) Properties of the Catalog and Important Notes For the User a) Sky Coverage b) Completeness c) Positions, Proper Motions and Error Calculations d) UCAC2 Magnitudes e) 2MASS Photometry f) Non-stellar ... All stars in the UCAC2 have proper motions. ...

The Russian Parliament will soon consider a bill that would restructure the Russian space program, 35 years after the launch оf Sputnik. ... But the legislation's most striking and controversial feature is a provision that would ban testing and deployment оf space weapons ? including anti-satellite weapons and space-based missile interceptors. ... A draft bill was written by a group of experts within the Moscow Space Club, several of whom now work on space issues with the Russian Parliament. ...

... Full silvery Moon illuminates terrain. ... Begun a next moon eclipse, when Land barriers a Moon from the Sun and throws its shade on it. ... Drawing 1. ... Drawing 6 Drawing 6 shows a splendid photo of full moon eclipse 18-19 november 1975 during is packed phases doing Dennis de Chikko. ... Eclipse, which will occur 9 november 2003, is a repetition through сарос (cycle of repetitions of eclipses equal 6585 days or 18 years 11 days) full moon eclipse from 28 octobers 1985 with the maximum phase 1,07....