МЕТЕОРЫ И МЕТЕОРИТЫ . ... При его исследовании было обнаружено около 12 т метеоритного вещества и установлено, что он возник примерно 50 тыс. лет назад при падении железо-никелевого метеорита размером около 60 м, летевшего со скоростью 20 км/ с . ... Железные и железо-каменные метеориты . ... Скорее всего при таком ударном "уплотнении" разнородного вещества на поверхностях астероидов в течение десятков и сотен миллионов лет формировались некоторые образцы, упавшие в виде метеоритов на Землю. ...

S S P i s n ow p ro u dl y sponsored by SSP2015 REGISTRATION FOR M August 7 ­16th. ... SSP 2015 is located at Peppermint Park Camping Resort, Plainfield, Massachusetts to provide you with top-notch facilities, camping grounds and on-site food service, as well as fantastic amenities such as FREE WI-FI, beautiful in-ground swimming pool, new kid's playground, and lodge with fireplace, all under the pristine dark skies of the Berkshire Mtns! ... 45) > The Famous SSP Chicken StarBQ, Sunday August 9th. ...

... Tadpole Emission Nebula and the Flaming Star Nebula . The constellation of Auriga harbors the cluster NGC 1893 which contains the Tadpole Nebula (IC 410). ... The Flaming Star Nebula, IC 405, is the magenta/purplish area and is the reflection portion of this nebulous region. 5nm Narrowband filters; H-alpha: O-III: S-II - 60: 60: 40 minutes x 600-second sub frames, Total= 2-hours 40-minutes, binned 1x1. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Our Once and Future Homes Life in the Solar System and Beyond Barrie W. Jones Praxis/Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $39.95 paper (317 pp.) ... Life in the Solar System and Beyond by Barrie Jones is not a work of popular science written by a journalist with a trendy interest in a hot topic. ... In this respect, Life in the Solar System and Beyond reminded me of Frank Shu's classic astronomy textbook The Physical Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy (University Science Books, 1982). ...

... Recognition of Anomalous Events S. Monai 1,2 and F.Pasian 2 1 Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera Merate, Italy 2 Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Italy Abstract. We present an original algorithm for the recognition of anomalous events in a CCD frame (i.e., cosmic hits, bad pixels etc.) ... Raw images, as read from a CCD, are often a#ected by some events which are revealed by anomalous pixel values, i.e., single saturated pixels or pixels at zero intensity (also named hot or bad pixels). ...

... It was with this spirit that Norman Oberle suggested that area amateurs should have the benefit of a large aperture (25 inches or larger) telescope with sufficient focal length for excellent visual work. ... Norm Oberle and Jim Thomas spent 2,000 hours grinding and polishing to work the mirror into an oblate spheroid. ... Norm worked with Jim Thomas in a basement workshop. ... The Richland club is situated in the Hidden Hollow camp ground, and has long held meetings in the clubhouse on the grounds. ...

... Ему принадлежит заслуга организации и оснащения первой в Петербурге астрономической обсерватории, которая стала одной из лучших в Европе. ... Совершенно новый период в отечественной астрономии связан со строительством вблизи Санкт-Петербурга знаменитой Пулковской обсерватории, закладка которой состоялась в торжественной обстановке 21 июня 1835 года. ... Путешествие, в наше время не очень простое по разным причинам, прежде всего финансовым. ... Но вот наше двухнедельное путешествие подошло к концу. ...