... Even though the DoD would ultimately select senior Air Force officials, US Navy oceanographers and Air Weather Service officers as shuttle payload specialists, MSEs would be the first personnel from an American military programme to go into space. ... One Air Force officer, Maj. ... Jacobson was concerned about shuttle launch delays and wanted the MSEs to understand that his mission, i.e., the launch of national security payloads, dwarfed their mission, flights in space by Air Force personnel. ...

... StarCalc Home Page - Downloads . ... File . StarCalc (English version) . ... With minimal configuration, version 5.72 of StarCalc includes the next interfaces: "Horizon", "Horizontal coordinategrid", "Equatorial coordinate grid", "Constellation boundaries", "Constellation lines", "Constellation names", "Star proper names", "Bright Star Catalog", "Deep-sky objects", "Sun", "Moon" and "Planets and satellites" . Plugins for StarCalc . ... Interface to NGC 2000 (plugin + catalog file) . ...

Authors: T.V. Borkova , V.A. Marsakov , . ... It is found that dispersions of spatial and kinematics characteristics of field stars change abruptly when the metallicity crosses the boundary [Fe/H] -0.95 . ... По опубликованным прецизионным наземным и спутниковым измерениям собственных движений, компилятивным лучевым скоростям и фотометрическим расстояниям вычислены компоненты пространственных скоростей и элементы галактических орбит для 174 переменных звезд типа ab RR Лиры околосолнечной окрестности. ...

... For reliable estimation of the accuracy of asteroid CCD observations we usually consider from ten or more various NUMBERED MINOR PLANETS (NMPs) observed during several nigths per month (more then 50 positions). ... They can be considered as an indicator of accuracy of the CCD positional observations with given MPC code. ... For any NUMBERED minor planet the (O-C) values must be zero if the errors of observations and the errors of its theory are absent. ...

... What are mechanisms of secular evolution? ... Internal mechanisms of secular evolution may b e: · bar instabilities in dynamically cold disk galaxies , · deviations from circular rotation due to non-axisymmetric gravitation p otential effect which may b e produced by planar structures ... gravitational and energetic, effects of nuclear sup ermassive black holes ­ they may provoke as attraction as well expansion, · certain gas expansion by galactic winds and fountains, etc ...

... 20 октября 2005 г . Американские ученые из Аризонского университета запустили уникальный проект под названием Mars Odyssey Mission THEMIS . В рамках новой инициативы, не имеющей аналогов, всем желающим предоставляется доступ к "живым" фотографиям поверхности Марса, сделанным научным инструментом THEMIS зонда Mars Odyssey. ... При этом посетители веб-сайта проекта Mars Odyssey Mission THEMIS получают доступ к новым изображениям Красной планеты одновременно с учеными. ... Планета Марс . ...

THE 7-TH G. GAMOW'S ODESSA ASTRONOMICAL SUMMER SCHOOL «Astronomy and beyond: Astrophysics, Radioastronomy, Cosmology and Astrobiology» (Ukraine, Odessa, Chernomorka,7-12 August, 2007) SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Tuesday, August 7 ­ 5.11, ­ 5.45, ­ 20.20 , ­ 20.55 THE DAY OF ARRIVAL 8.00-22.00. ... OPENING SUMMER SCHOOL MEMORIAL: Lection 1 10.00-10.20. ... LUNCH AND SEA COAST WALK AFTERNOON LECTURE: Cosmology: Lection 6 15.00-15.45. ... HOT COFFEE AND COLD WATER BREAK AFTERNOON SESSION: Cosmology: 17.00-17.20. ...

The new view on the population of Galactic open clusters A.E.Piskunov1, N.V.Kharchenko2, S.RЖser3, E.Schilbach3, R.-D.Scholz4 1 2 3 4 Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia Main Astronomical ... Observatory, Kiev, Ukraine Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Heidelberg, Germany Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany What are open clusters and what do they teach us Groups of Population I ... Cluster complexes: OCC-1 = Gould's Belt cluster complex? ...

... The author attempts to approach the problem from the positions of systems analysis with account for the ideological grounds and history of space activities in Russia and abroad, comparing its current interpretation with the initial goals posed by leading theoreticians and practitioners who stood at the cradle of the space exploration era. ... The space systems recognized in Russia as priority projects are largely developed with violations of the systems approach principles. ...

... 8, 859 - 864 (2013) / DOI 10.1002/asna.201311942 Eclipsing variables: Catalogue and classification E.A. Avvakumova1 , O.Yu. ... Kniazev: Eclipsing variables: Catalogue and classification 2 Evolutionary classes of eclipsing binaries The study supplies data with independently determined evolutionary classes of systems. ... We have used all conditions listed above to classify systems with unknown evolutionary type in our catalogue and have found two additional detached systems with subgiants. ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Phase range for plots: -0.5 to 1.0 0.0 to 2.0 0.0 to 1.0 . ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... Two period search methods are currently implemented. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . ...