448-8598 vic@apink.com Assistant Director: John Miller (609) 252-1223 jmiller@princetonastronomy.org Volume 35 From the Director June 2006 Number 6 AAAP Meeting June 13 (8:00 at the NJ State Planetarium) At the June 13 meeting we'll continue our adventures through the cosmos with a stop at the New Jersey State Planetarium, where AAAP member and planetarium operator Bill Murray will conduct the tour featuring the multi-media show "Hubble Vision". ... AAAP Board Meeting June 1 (7:30 PM). ...

... 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. ...

... Прямое CP-нарушение Первое наблюдении прямого CP-нарушения в системе нейтральных B-мезонов было сделано коллаборацией BELLE в январе 2004 года в распадах B -мезона на два -мезона. ... 3 Возможные проявления "новой физики" Если СМ является теорией, которая правильно описывает свойства элементарных частиц, то помимо распада B 0 J / K 0 , должны существовать другие распады нейтральных B мезонов, в которых можно найти эффекты CP-нарушения и измерить величину sin(21 ). ...

Introduction to PLASMA ASTROPHYSICS (Selected 10 lectures) Boris V. Somov Astronomical Institute and Faculty of Physics Moscow State University Pushino-na-Oke, 2008 Contents Ab out These Lectures 1 Particles and Fields: Exact Self-Consistent Description 1.1 Liouville's theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.1 Continuity in phase space . . . . . . . . . 1.1.2 The character of particle interactions 1.1.3 The Lorentz force, gravity . . . . . . . . . 1.1.4 Collisional friction . . . . . . . . . . . .