Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders . ... Archives . ... ArXiv] Data Visualization, July 17, 2007 . ... If a statistical technique has not been widely applied in astronomy before, then there are additional burdens of convincing the journal referees and the community at large that the statistical methods are valid. ... Category: Bayesian , Cross-Cultural , Frequentist , Quotes , Stat | ... Chandra Blog . ...
... In an important development, the Observatory and its senior research staff received formal recognition from the Queen's University of Belfast to supervise QUB MPhil and PhD students. ... Simon Jeffery was appointed to serve as Observatory representative on the Court of the University of Ulster, for a 4-year period starting 1 October 2000. Simon succeeds John Butler, who had served in this capacity from 1 October 1996 to 30 September 2000. ... Figure 2: Armagh Observatory staff, summer 2000. ...
... Comets and Asteroids . ... Earth Satellites . ... Illustration of how NASA could capture an asteroid . ... The meteor was quite small compared to some of the objects out there that could potentially hit the Earth, thus if we understood asteroids it could be potentially life-saving! ... This mission could start as soon as the early 2020s with NASA already simulating an asteroid mission to figure out how astronauts might undertake a spacewalk on it. ... Can NASA lasso an asteroid back to Earth? ...
Past Las Cumbres Amateur Outreach Award recipients . Nomination Guidelines . ... The Las Cumbres Amateur Outreach Award, established by Wayne Rosing and Dorothy Largay, seeks to honor outstanding educational outreach by an amateur astronomer to K-12 children and the interested lay public. ... Nominations . Nominations are made by members of the astronomical community. ... Las Cumbres Award Nomination . ... The Award . ... Submitting Nominations . ... Las Cumbres Award Nominations . ...
... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Site Info . Search the site . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Miscellaneous nonsense . ... There are several places on the web you can find information about James McCanney and his wacky claims. If you want to read it from the horse's mouth (and you have aspirin ready), then go to McCanney's site. ... McCanney has been discussed many times on the Bad Astronomy Bulletin Board . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...
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... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Tune into the Asteroid Day press conference . ... WISE colors in unknowns on Jupiter asteroids . WISE has shown that the two packs of Trojans are strikingly similar and do not harbor any interlopers from other parts of the solar system. ... Other planets were later found to have Trojan asteroids riding along with them, too, such as Mars, Neptune, and even Earth, where WISE recently found the first known Earth Trojan. ...
The latest version of this FAQ is always available from the main Apache web site, at < http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html >. ... The errorlog says Apache dumped core, but where's the dump file? ... Why does Apache ask for my password twice before serving a file? ... The best you can do as a server administrator is to accurately configure the mime type of your documents by editing the mime.types file or using an AddType directive in the Apache configuration files. ... No user file? . ...
Projectile Motion: In Aristotle's view, objects moved parallel to the Earth's surface until it was time (i.e. it was their destiny) to fall back to the earth . Aristotle believed that the "natural" state of massive objects was to seek the center of the Earth. When a stone is launched, an impetus is given to it to disturb it from its natural condition. ... Archimedes' catapults lobbed quarter-ton stones at the attacking Roman ships, quickly destroying the clumsy Roman siege engine. ...
Our Irish Ancestors Paul Francis, 2010 Page 1 Our link to Ireland comes through the Knox Family. ... Back at this time, Ireland was largely controlled by wealthy Protestant landowners, the descendants of the English and Scottish "Planters" who had invaded Ireland in the 1600s, displaced the natives and appropriated their lands, becoming fabulously wealthy in the process. ... They decided to try their luck across the Irish Sea, and in a year of terror sacked coastal monasteries all around Ireland. ...
SETI with SKA1 and SKA 2 Alan Penny1, Heino Falcke2, Mike Garrett 3 1 University of St Andrews and South African Astronomical Observatory PI: LOFAR Early Access Program LEA070 'A SETI Pilot Program' 2 Raboud University 3 ASTRON and Leiden University AAVP2010 U Cambridge 8-10 December 2010 What a radio SETI search looks for A narrow (perhaps1 Hz wide) spectral line Sections 1. SETI 2. Experience of SETI with LOFAR and WSRT 3. SETI and SKA - needs Sections 1. ...
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... Up: Observatory Planning and Scheduling . ... Technological advances such as widespread use of the Internet, multi-platform visual development tools such as Java and CORBA, and overall increases in the power of desktop hardware are allowing for significant improvements in user support tools. ... In such an environment, for any type of observing to maximize scientific returns, information has to be passed back and forth between instrument developer, observatory staff and the user community. ...
The Official Publication of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Director John Miller (609) 252-1223 jmiller@princetonastronomy.org Assistant Director John Church (609) 799-0723 j ... -6981 (732)-469-7698 and (609)448-8644 ron@princetonastronomy.org editors@princetonastronomy.org Volume 37 From the Director May 2008 Number 5 How many of you made it to this year's NEAF ... Jeff Bernardis Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Other News.. ...
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... STAR FIELDS Newsletter of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston Including the Bond Astronomical Club Established in 1934 In the Interest of Telescope Making & Using Vol. ... Dr. Schechner's talk, "The Adventures of Captain John Smith, Pocahontas, and a Sundial: Astronomy, Mathematics, and Power at the Time of Jamestown," will give us a interesting look the history of astronomy in precolonial America. ... Glen is a long-time club member, variable star observer, and writer for Astronomy Magazine. ...
Journal of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York November 2008 Volume 56 Number 11, ISSN 0146-7662 EYEPIECE By examining other planetary star systems, Low said, we get to see if our solar system is typical. Star formation happens [relatively] quickly, with interstellar gas and dust cooling to form planets within the planetary disk. ... November 1 Moon lies near Venus. ... The Moon is to the right on the first night, but the next day joins the two planets in a tight, beautiful gathering. ...
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