. This tour is for people who have wondered what goes on behind the locked doors in Possum Hall. This walking Feast of Facts will give you an insiders view and brief you of some of the astronomy and space projects the AITC is supporting, and our aspirations for the future. You don t need to don a clean suit but you will need to leave all food and drink behind.

... noise that surrounds me Pulls so loud in my head From the promise that healed us To the lies that I said Oh, it's a strange day In such a lonely way Some people look down on me, I know they like what they see Strange day , Such a strange day Such a strange day @ SONG : Senses My eyes are weary of you before me I see for their sake, the light of daybreak It shines upon me, this day we'd all see No reason ever was given No ...

... One of the more amusing ones is the mysterious ability to balance eggs on end at the Vernal Equinox (curiously, no such claims are made at the Autumnal Equinox). ... Every year, without fail, some TV station broadcasts a news segment showing local school children standing eggs on end on the first day of spring. ... If you can stand an egg on its end on the Spring Equinox, surely you can on the Autumnal Equinox as well! ... At any day of the year, grab a carton of eggs and try to stand each one. ...

... Keywords: syscall, module, lock physical page . ... I wrote a kernel module for user controlled page allocation, which needs to call some kernel function to lock some physical pages allocated, so they won't get swapped out. After searching in the kernel source, I only found sys_mlock() in mm/mlock.c seem to be a good function for my purpose. ... Then I found that one of the pre-defined syscalls is actually mlock, so I was thinking if I could make a syscall from inside my kernel module. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Centaurus A: The Galaxy Deep Inside . ... Explanation: Deep inside Centaurus A , the closest active galaxy to Earth, lies ... another galaxy! Cen A is a giant elliptical galaxy a mere 10 million light-years distant with a central jumble of stars, dust, and gas that probably hides a massive black hole . ... Publications with keywords: Centaurus A - active galaxy . Publications with words: Centaurus A - active galaxy . ... Jumbled Galaxy Centaurus A . ...

The ion rocket is another means of providing thrust, more gradually but also more efficiently than a conventional rocket. ... As in the nuclear rocket, the energy which propels the xenon jet comes from a different source; here it is electrical energy from solar cells. The reason an ion rocket is much more efficient than ordinary rockets is the way its jet is produced. ... As with solar sails, solar ion engines are mainly practical in the inner solar system, where ample sunlight is available. ...

... Orbits in Space . ... The ion rocket is another means of providing thrust, more gradually but also more efficiently than a conventional rocket. ... As in the nuclear rocket, the energy which propels the xenon jet comes from a different source; here it is electrical energy from solar cells. ... The XIPS ("zips") ion engine developed by the Hughes corporation was tested in the laboratory and then aboard a Russian spacecraft, launched 6 October 1997; it is the one shown on top of this page. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... I have a fun video on how to stand an egg on end on my blog at Discover Magazine . ... At the end of the show, one of the characters looks up the words "egg" and "equinox" on the web... and says it sent him to "thingsthatarewrong.com". ... Bad Astronomy : Only on the day of the Vernal (spring) Equinox, can you stand a raw egg on its end. Good astronomy : If you can stand a raw egg on end, it has nothing to do with the Equinox. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 18:29:47 -0500 From: Ken Sembach To: opm Subject: Fwd: SSR3 still locked Begin forwarded message: From: "Burley, Richard J. (GSFC-4410)" Date: December 1, 2011 6:10:34 PM EST Subject: SSR3 still locked When reading the SSR3 Remote Terminal 10, sub-address 8, we got a different value 'e005' than we expected '8001' which was based on the SSR1 event. ... We will meet tomorrow morning, time currently TBD, when we expect to have some testing results available. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. December 4, 1998 . Centaurus A: The Galaxy Deep Inside . ... Explanation: Deep inside Centaurus A , the closest active galaxy to Earth, lies ... another galaxy! ... The ISO data maps out the dust in what appears to be a barred spiral galaxy about the size of the prominent nearby spiral M33 . ... About APOD > . ...

Blackholes Forum Message . ... Why We Can't See Inside A Blackhole? ... well, we can't see what is inside of a black hole because scientiest says that not even light can't escape from the blackhole.... but may be light can escape and we can't see inside of it because may be there is nothing of which light can reflect and come back again! . ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... policy for hiding frames . ... uses ABbuilder ; filterRaw . ... change/hide request . ... For tradition, the tool name is 'hideFrame', although the tool will probably be more often used for change requests than for hide requests.] . ... This tool assists in creating a standardized hide (option 1) or header change request (option 2) to the archive: . 1 - Hide frame(s) (hide invalid SCIENCE or CALIB frames) . ... The user should provide a reason for changing or hiding, for the records . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Milky Way . ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... At its close on Saturday 23 April, there will be the Cosmic Threats to Earth Public Lecture Event (followed by the End of the World Ceilidh to cheer everyone up). ... аThere have been several such impacts in EarthтАЩs history. ... Of the three my greatest concern would and asteroid impact; simply because it has happened before. ...

From: TerryMosel aol.com Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:10:35 EST Subject: TV Progs, Lectures, CSP Hi all, 1. ... 17 Jan. 8.00pm, Channel 4 TV: The Riddle of Einstein's Brain. ... 20 Jan.: 9.00pm, BBC2 TV: Horizon on Reason and Passion - a docudrama about Albert Einstein's last years. ... NUI Galway; Fri., ... 1 Feb., ... Don't forget to book for the second Connaught Star Party, Galway, 29 January, hosted by the Galway Astronomy Club: details: http://www.galwayastronomyclub.ie Clear Skies, Terry Moseley . ...

... Two routines are given for the two ellipse formats described above: . function pointInEllipseWithPhase(x, y, xAmp, yAmp, phase) real(single), intent(in) :: x, y, xAmp, yAmp, phase integer :: pointInEllipseWithPhase end function pointInEllipseWithPhase function pointInEllipseWithAngle(x, y, xSemiAxis, ySemiAxis, rotatedAngle) real(single), intent(in) :: x, y, xSemiAxis, ySemiAxis, rotatedAngle integer :: pointInEllipseWithAngle end function pointInEllipseWithAngle . ...

Next: Scratch Files Up: Miriad Datasets Previous: Listing Datasets - PRTHD . ... A dataset contains several kinds of data, called `items', . Items can be quite small (e.g. a single number), intermediate in size (e.g. the history item, use to store history information), or very large (e.g. the image item in an image dataset, which is used to store the pixel data, or the visdata item in a visibility dataset, which contains the correlations). ...

... 25feb11 - Checking rfi inside pedestal . ... We did the measurements from inside the pedestal with the pedestal door closed. ... 6 cm loop antenna for close in measurement of Ethernet transciever . ... Pedestal door closed, cabinet door closed. moved az, el during peak hold . ... pedestal door closed, cabinet door closed. main power switch to cabinet off. ... horizontal pol. pedestal door closed, cabinet door closed. move telescope during peak hold . ... Pedestal door closed, cabinet door closed . ...

March 1999 Microsoft has been hiding behind the need to innovate for a long time, and the national media has been eating it right up. After all, they've given us all so much, right? ... Sorry, Unix did this in 1969, and Unix wasn't the first. ... The MacOS interface was loosely based on Xerox PARC research dating back to the '70s, which grew out of work by Douglas C. Engelbart in the late '60s. Even user-unfriendly Unix had a windowing environment back in the '80s, long before Microsoft. ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

... Space Res., 12, 265, 1992 planetary magnetic dipole: Mizutani, H., et al., ... Astrobiology, 7, 167, 2007 CME induced H+ ion pick-up loss at 0.05 AU for ` Hot Jupiters ' HD209458 b Mass loss ~1011 g/s even for weak CMEs Mmax strong magn. protection in reality Exoplanet magnetospheres - importance of magnetodisk Relatively large amount of observed Hot Jupiters (27%): survival of close-in giants indicates their efficient protection against of extreme plasma and radiation conditions ...