Johann Kepler - a Legislator of the Sky. The laws of the planets movements put by Johann Kepler destroyed the thousand year old dogmas about the circles and spheres and opened the way to scientific understanding of celestial occurrences. ... The best object for observation was Mars - its orbit unlike the Earth's one has a noticeable eccentricity, the rotation period in comparison with Jupiter and Saturn is not too long and observation conditions are better than for Mercury and Venus. ...

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) ґ OUSTANDING PHYSICIST, COSMOLOGIST, ASTRONOMER AND WRITER ґ 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. ...

... Тhis new concept touches our simple lives, yet for those intrigued by the natural sciences, especially experts deeply engaged in the 'eternal' questions of general geology and astronomy, it is all the more fascinating. The problems to be faced by any theory for the formation of the Solar System . Any theory has to account for certain rather tricky facts about the Solar System. These are in addition to the obvious facts that the Sun is at the centre with the planets in orbit around it. ...

... 1980 . ... A three-stage version of China's CSS-X4 intercontinental ballistic missile is being developed for various space applications. ... The rocket - to be known as "Long March 3"- has four gimbal-mounted engines in the first stage developing a com?bined thrust of some 280 tonnes. ... Four small gimbal-mounted motors provide thrust-vector control. ... The third stage, which employs LO 2 /LH 2 propellants, has four gimbal-mounted thrust chambers. ... CHINESE ASTRONAUTS. ...

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. ...

THE KAIDUN METEORITE: WHERE DID IT COME FROM? ... The formation of the subalkaline and alkaline clasts of the Kaidun meteorite, apparently also requires deep differentiation of material in a fairly large parent body. ... These differences in structure of two genetically linked clasts, due to the different encounter speeds of the clasts with the parent body of Kaidun, obviously indicate that these two events were separated in time. ... References: [1] Ivanov A.V. et al. ... 16] Ivanov A.V. et al. ...

... ARTICLE: The Adventurous Search For The Astronomical Unit . ... Kepler himself had suggested to use the rare occasions of Venus transiting (crossing) the solar disk to measure our distance to the planet. ... Due to the orbital inclination of Venus against the ecliptic of 3.5°, a Venus transit is so rare that it happens only at intervals of 121.5 years, 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and so on. ... Crabtree witnessing the transit of Venus 1639 . ... Transits of Venus - The Quest for the Solar Parallax...

... Более того, представитель компании Applied Space Resources (ASR), говорит о сроке в пять лет, по прошествии которого будет совершен первый полет к спутнику Земли. ... Для первого полета требуется около 1,5 миллиарда долларов. Лунный Договор, предложенный ООН в 1979 году, должен был ограничить область действия частных компаний. ... По словам экспертов, стоимость транспортировки вещества в космосе является заоблачной, варьируясь в пределах от 2000 до 3000 долларов за каждые 300 грамм груза. ...