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. ...

... Panoramic spectroscopy of the sample of 80 nearby lenticular galaxies is presented. ... By comparing the subsample of the S0s with the chemically distinct nuclei to the total sample of nearby S0s (Fig. 1), we have assured that the chemically distinct nuclei are always younger than the surrounding bulges: the mean age difference between the chemically distinct nuclei and their surrounding bulges is 2.8 Gyr while the age difference between the nuclei and the bulges for the whole sample is only 1 Gyr. ...

... Heracles Triplane and Aerospace Systems . The key characteristics of two-stage aerospace systems are determined according to speed and carrying capacity of the aircraft-carrier used . ... So the SPIRAL system hypersonic carrier was expected to launch the second stage by weight 63 tons at a speed corresponding to 6M; whereas launching weight of the MAKS system orbital stage with the use of the An-225 MRIYA heavy subsonic aircraft reaches 275 tons, and the HERACLES aircraft - 450 tons. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil LтАЩ†йclipse totale de Soleil vue par satellite . ... Cette photographie issue du satellite m†йt†йorologique Himawari-8 (€л tournesol €Ё en japonais) montre l'†йclipse totale de Soleil qui a eu lieu en Asie du Sud-Est ce mercredi 9 mars 2016. ... Envoyer par email . ...

... Я попытался выделить самые интересные сюжеты, в основном связанные с наблюдательной астрономией и появившиеся в Архиве препринтов в 2006 г. Большинство из этих работ описывались в моих обзорах и было включено в число "лучших из лучших" . ... Непопадание в список каких-то важных работ связано в основном с тем, что "на лету" трудно определить важность статьи вне своей области интересов, кроме того этот год выдался для меня непростым.. ... Authors: Jason W.T. Hessels et al. Статья в Обзорах . ...

... 2001 . ... Сегодня: 10 апреля 2016 г. Компания Iridium Satellite LLC распространила следующую информацию о дальнейшей судьбе созвездия спутников системы связи Iridium: суд по делам банкротства южного округа Нью-Йорка одобрил предложение компании Iridium Satellite LLC о покупке всех текущих оборотных активов компании Iridium LLC и ее дочерних фирм. ... Спутники Iridium переходят к компании Iridium Satellite . Запуск ракеты Delta 2 отложен для очистки спутника . ...

Prague, August 16, 2006 . To start a new GCVS edition (presumably an electronic one), combining the stars of the GCVS IV and Name Lists (and maybe eventually merged with automatic-survey variables), we need to revise the GCVS classification system. ... Our approach: the classification scheme must be simplified, more detailed classification should be given in specialized catalogs for particular types, but the GCVS classification should take into account new astrophysics. ...

This module provides support for dynamically configured mass virtual hosting . ... Source File: mod_vhost_alias.c . ... For simple name-based virtual hosts you might use the following directives in your server configuration file: UseCanonicalName Off VirtualDocumentRoot /usr/local/apache/vhosts/%0 . A request for http://www.example.com/directory/file.html will be satisfied by the file /usr/local/apache/vhosts/www.example.com/directory/file.html . ... Module: mod_vhost_alias . ...

... 18941904; Bespalov P.A. Effective saturation of absorption in a plasma magnetospheric maser. In book: Nonlinear Space Plasma Physics, R.Z. Sagdeev -Editor-in-Chief, American Institute of Physics, 1993, p.339-346]. Magnetospheric plasma maser [Bespalov P.A, Trakhtengerts V.Yu., ... In a magnetospheric plasma maser (MPM) the relatively dense magnetised plasma and the conjugate ends of a magnetic trap form a quasioptical resonator for electromagnetic waves. ...

... According to the estimations of the RSC Energia it will take at least 10 years and 500-600 million $ (cost of adjustment, preparation, equipment's launching and accompaniment of carrying out of the experiments is included) to build up a similar experimental complex. ... It was carried out successfully. ... Radiation researches on the station Mir, carrying out by Moscow State University, gave rise to the construction of the dynamic picture of radiation zones' changes during the sun activity cycle. ...

ABSTRACTS 10-th International Gamow Summer School "Astronomy and beyond: Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravitation, Cosmomicrophysics, Radio-astronomy and Astrobiology" (Ukraine, Odessa, Chernomorka, 23-28 August, 2010) MEMORIAL SESSION SERGEY ALEKSANDROVICH SNEGOV (1910-1994) ­ OUSTANDING PHYSICIST, COSMOLOGIST, ASTRONOMER AND WRITER ­ VISIONARY TO A 100-ANNIVERSARY FROM BIRTHDAY Pahomov A.G. PFUM, Moscow It is possible to judge a condition of an astronomical science on literary works of time. ...

The Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton invites its members to learn astro imaging! ... Well, here's your chance to kindle the motivation with like-minded AAAP members. ... Or you just want to learn more about astrophotography but you didn’t know where to turn. ... AAAP member and astrophotographer Brian Van Liew is preparing to host a AAAP SIG ( Special Interest Group ) covering digital astrophotography. ... Types of imaging equipment . ... All images on this page created by Brian Van Liew. ...

... Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite ? название автоматической межпланетной станции НАСА, запущенной 18 июня 2009 года в 21:32:33 UTC вместе с Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter к Луне. ... космический телескоп Хаббл и европейский спутник 'Odin'. ... 1М (космический аппарат) . ... 2МВ (космический аппарат) . 3МВ (космический аппарат) . ... AGILE (космический аппарат) . ... Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite . ... Прогресс М-01М . ... Союз (космический корабль) . ...

... 5-GHz total flux density . ... 0.017 * = the position has been determined to an accuracy of 10 mas from the VLBApls data . VLBApls image at 5 GHz . color gif | contour gif | ... Correlated flux density (Jy) vs. projected baseline length plot . gif | ... flux density (Jy) . EW position (mas) . ... major axis (mas) . minor axis (mas) . position angle ( ) . ... 2.0 0.3 . ... 5 GHz: see Gurvits et al. ... VLBApls reference: Fomalont et al. ... VLBApls home page . ...

спутники Юпитера . ... 7,07 час . ... 9,56x10^16 кг . ... 7,77x10^17 кг . ... 1,77 дня . ... 11 165 000 км . 240,9 дня . ... 250,6 дня . ... 259,2 дня . ... 610,5 дня . ... Немецкий астроном Симон Майер (Мариус) увидел их несколько раньше, но принял за звезды. ... Я поэтому заключил и решил бесповоротно, что имеются три звезды в небесах, перемещающихся вокруг Юпитера, как Венера и Меркурий вокруг Солнца; что и было подробно установлено и стало ясным как день после многочисленных других наблюдений. ...

... 1979 A TICKET TO SPACE . ... The Volks-rocket and its designer, Robert Truax. ... We have since heard of another "private venture" space project being pursued by the veteran rocket pioneer Robert Truax in the United States. ... One need not have the advanced degrees, perfect health or the thousands of hours .of flight time this frontier has demanded to be attracted towards it. ... Robert Truax brings some forty years of experience to his private manned space flight programme. ... Flight Tests . ...

... Advises . Contact Advises . As an advise for amateurs we would like to underline: if it's possible, try to observe 3 asteroid positions per night and do not neglect to observe the Numbered Minor Planets in your telescope field of view as a "by product" of your observational programs. ... We think such estimations ought to be produced every morning after CCD observations of the moving celestial objects by observer himself. ...

... Seminar archive . ... 30 min. ... Липунов В. М. ( МГУ, ГАИШ МГУ ) . ... Горбовской Е. С. ( ГАИШ МГУ, от группы МАСТЕР ) . Тюрина Н. В. ( ГАИШ МГУ ) . ... Руденко В. Н. ( ГАИШ МГУ ) . ... Пустовойт В. И. Download presentation . Липунов В. М. Download presentation . ... А.В.Тутуков(ИНАСАН), Л.Р.Юнгельсон, А.М.Черепащук (ГАИШ МГУ), Н.С.Кардашев, И.Д.Новиков, В.Н.Лукаш, А.Г.Дорошкевич (АКЦ ФИАН), А.Ф.Захаров (ИТФ), Г.С.Бисноватый-Коган (ИКИ), М.Е.Прохоров, К.А.Постнов (ГАИШ МГУ) , . ...

The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) . ... Before jumping into all the finer details of teh survey, a brief non-astronomer's guide to redshift surveys is available. ... The primary scientific aims of the QSO survey are: (1) to obtain the primordial fluctuation power spectrum out to COBE scales, (2) to determine the rate of QSO clustering evolution in the non-linear and linear regimes and hence obtain new limits on the value of and the bias parameter, (3) to apply a powerful geometric method to measure . ...

marked with yelow asterisk are sites that have links to the VSM . Russian/Soviet Cosmonautics History . interesting site (Russian language only) and ABSOLUTELY STUNNING photos! Russian mirror of Mars Pathfinder site . Space Technology Images . big collection of photos and drawings including some rare and exotic . ... excellent site of spaceflight history . ... Astronomy 105 . ... Some interesting things plus a brilliant collection of astronomy and space links. Space Frontier . ...