Contact with possible Extraterrestrial Life . Recommendation for the human Contact Team to Interact with Unknown Life Forms . Contact teams meeting an Unknown Life Form must be prepared for severe psychological impact. Extreme anxiety response will almost certainly occur. The personality traits of individuals who can withstand extreme anxiety must be determined and such individuals selected to comprise the team. ... Contact team report. ... Our Contact team continue investigation. ...

Symbolic circuit-matrix processor and evaluator . ... This software is reliable over the range of benchmark circuit complexity (both *.CIR and *.MAT file). ... SYMBOL is a symbolic-algebra package which in contrast to REDUCE, MACSYMA, MAPLE, MATHEMATICA, MathLAB, MathCAD and other known multi-purpose systems is especially intended for analysis of any lumped, linear, time-invariant circuit. ... pure ASCII text . ... CIRSYM - SYMbolic CIRcuit processor used to format ASCII text file *.out for CALCSYM. ...

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. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Февраль 1998 . ... Дата: 14 февраля 1998 (1998-02-14) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Overview of Comet Hale-Bopp meeting at Tenerife, Feb. 2-5, 1998 [1/3] Привет всем! ... Moreover, the Comet was visible in the sky for an extremely long period. ... Дата: 14 февраля 1998 (1998-02-14) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Sky Telescope News Bulletin - February 13, 1998 Привет всем! ... Clear skies! ...

ABSOLUTE PROPER MOTIONS OF 331 OPEN CLUSTERS . ... The proper motions of stars in the fields of 331 open clusters were taken from Four-Million Star Catalog (4M-catalog) of positions and proper motions (Volchkov et al. ... The absolute proper motions for 21 young open clusters have been derived by comparison of precise relative proper motions of individual stars and their corresponding absolute proper motions. ... Sign of proper motions in RA . ... 0.0001 arcsec/yr . ... rms error in RA proper motion . ...

... Appropriate values of DIT the integration time (DIT secs) for each individual integration, are lmited by various considerations. N.B. Ndit individual Integration s each of DIT secs are coadded to form a single Exposure of time Ndit*DIT]. The recommended minimum DIT is one sec (the minimum possible exposure time) or the value at which the noise becomes sky (rather than detector) limited. ... The recommended maximum DIT is such as to keep the detector wells less than half full. ... 40 sec . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Every few months, one of a series of questions comes up on the USENET group sci.astro involving tides, or the rotation of the Moon, or the recession of the Moon from the Earth. ... Why the Moon's rotation period is the same as the length of time it takes to orbit the Earth (same as number 1, but phrased differently). ... But when this happens, the time it takes for the Earth to rotate once will be slowed to exactly the same time it takes for the Moon to go around the Earth once! ...

... April 1992 The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. ... combination): -sstring - digests string -t - runs time trial -x - runs test script filename - digests file (none) - digests standard input */ int main (argc, argv) int argc; Rivest [Page 17] RFC 1321 MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm April 1992 char *argv[]; { int i; if (argc 1) for (i = 1; i argc; i++) if (argv[i][0] == '-' argv[i][1] == 's') MDString (argv ...