... About meteorites . ... The RAS Meteorite Collection: History . ... The beginning of the Russian Academy of Sciences' meteorite collection was in 1749, when a huge piece of iron rock, weighing 700 kg, was found near Krasnoyarsk. ... A wonderful collection of meteorites was formed in the Forestry Institute (now the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy). ... Analysis of meteorites is performed by the Laboratory of Meteoritics (of the Vernadsky Institute, address: 119991 Moscow, Kosygin St, 19, tel. ...

... In accordance with the de-orbit plan the OC "Mir" is in a waiting mode continuing its deceleration in Earth atmosphere. During the previous day the OC "Mir" onboard systems were subject to a routine check out, the current trajectory parametres were registered. The processed information confirms the MCC readiness for the final stage dynamis operations with the OC "Mir". ... The first corrective impuls ( the cargo ship "Progress M1-5" 8 control engines are fired): . T burn start - 03.32; . ...

... Now, with all that liquidity coming into the economy, it's a good time to mention ­ AAAP dues are due! ... Or give your payment to club Secretary Ron Mittelstaedt during next Tuesday's meeting. Your club counts on these funds for future operations, from observatory maintenance to Star Quest. ... The new grease problem. ... Plantation Astronomy Club: Leesburg, Florida, Sep 10, 2007 Ernie Rossi is a well known and well liked Amateur Astronomer from New Jersey and good friend to several AAAP members. ...

Isaak Newton (1642 - 1727). ... During 1665 - 1667 Newton made his three main discoveries: the method of fluxings and quadratures (differential and integral calculus, explanation of the light nature and the law of gravitation). ... In 1668 Newton built the first reflecting telescope. The big lens telescope gave indistinct image with painted edges. ... The scientist considered this problem indisolved and suggested a mean against chromatic aberration: a mirror must be used instead of objective lens. ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... A task of selection and preflight training is to form up and to train a crew for a space mission. ... Training in crews on the "Soyuz" transport space vehicle and on the "Earth-Moon-Earth" interplanetary flight program, . ... Basic space training of a lunar crew provides for acquiring a fundamental knowledge on the origin, structure and evolution of the Universe, studying methods and means of space flights performance, use of space for the benefit of mankind. ...

... 110, A09S07, doi:10.1029/2004JA010931, 2005 CORONAS-F/SPIRIT EUV observations of October ­ November 2003 solar eruptive events in combination with SOHO/EIT data V. V. Grechnev,1 I. M. Chertok,2 V. A. Slemzin,3 S. V. Kuzin,3 A. P. Ignat'ev,3 A. A. Pertsov,3 I. A. Zhitnik,3 J.-P. Delaboudinie e,4 and F. Auche e4 `r `r Received 30 November 2004; revised 2 March 2005; accepted 8 April 2005; published 28 July 2005. ... Events of the First Rotation 3.1. ... SPIRIT AND EIT OBSERVATIONS A09S07 Figure 1. ...

Russian version of HP . ... StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers you can found here ). ... Extensibility : This program is based on common "Plugin StarCalc interface to catalogs and object groups", which allows program to add new modules as Plugins. ... Welcome to the Pocket StarCalc Home Page: . ... Some bugfixes in eclipses" and line" plugins - see the new versions in downloads page. ...