... A High School Curriculum in Astrobiology . ... It was the focus of the ASP science symposium this summer; the University of Washington is offering it as a new Ph.D. program, and TERC (Technical Education Research Center) is developing a high school integrated science course based on it. ... Apparently, as soon as Earth was mature enough for life to form here, it did. ... One may be tempted to rule out various places in our Solar System as sites that harbor life because of their extreme conditions. ...

Iron (Fe) i s extremely reactive with oxygen. ... Archean - Find occurrence of minerals that only form in non-oxidizing environments in Archean sediments: Pyrite (Fools gold; FeS 2 ), Uraninite (UO 2 ). ... Chemical building blocks of life could not have formed in the presence of atmospheric oxygen. ... Oxygen prevents growth of the most primitive living bacteria such as photosynthetic bacteria, methane-producing bacteria and bacteria that derive energy from fermentation. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Earth Satellites . ... A bleak Martian Panorama from a Viking spacecraft (Image credit: NASA) . In the last part of this article we saw Mars had once been regarded as a home for life. ... No subsequent NASA Mars probe or rover since has carried any instruments to directly locate Martian life, being focussed on the planetт??s climate and geology. ... Alternately could life from the early Earth seeded Mars? ... The Truth about Life on Mars (part 3) | ...

I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical; I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news--- With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . The fireball of 22nd November as imaged by the Polar Bear camera at the Armagh Observatory . See also: Video of the fireball . At around 1 o'clock in the early hours of Sunday 22nd November a piece of space rock about the size of an apple moving at some 25 km per second entered the atmosphere somewhere over the north Atlantic ocean between Scotland and Northern Ireland. ... Last Revised: 2009 November 26th . ...

... METAM-IQ . ... ABOUT LOMO . ... MICROSCOPES . ... SURGICAL MICROSCOPES . ... Home Products Microscopes METAM-IQ . ... LOMO America, Inc. will repair or replace the defective microscope covered by this warranty free of charge if it is returned, postage prepaid, to LOMO America's Service Center in Prospect Heights, Illinois in its original package. A Return Authorization Number (RAN) has to be obtained from LOMO America, Inc. prior to shipping. ... LOMO America, Inc. ... 2000-2016 LOMO America,Inc. ...

The Earth orbits the Sun with eight other planets, millions of asteroids, and perhaps trillions of comets. ... While the planets may appear to move through the night sky just as stars do, they are also moving in their own orbits around the Sun. ... When all of the planets are made, the paper clip strings should be hooked into the holes on the tops of the planets. ... The Planetary Data Table at the beginning of this chapter lists the distance of each planet from the Sun (in astronomical units). ...

... Some existing (e.g., USNO-A1.0) and most of the upcoming catalogs (e.g., GSC-II SDSS , GAIA ) contain data for half a billion up to several billion objects. ... Here we present methods for structuring and searching very large catalogs to provide fast access to the coordinate domain of the parameter space. ... By generalising such methods it is also possible to produce catalog structures and indexes for accessing a multi dimensional parameter space. ...

... Home Observing This Month?s Sky This Monthт??s Sky т?? April 2016 . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... This Monthт??s Sky т?? ... This Month's Sky - 2015 . This Month's Sky - January 2015 . ... April 2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... August 5, 9:00 a.m. EDT : Prospector definitely impacted the Moon! ... On March 5th, 1998, however, the Prospector scientific team announced their big result: they had measurements that indicated there might be frozen water on the Moon. ... So the Prospector impact might make a splash big enough to see. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Subscribe to the Bad Astronomy Newsletter! ...