Kepler's Laws Kepler was an assistant to Tycho Brahe. Brahe had made extensive observations of the known planets and had accurately mapped the motion of these planets as they passed across the sky for a number of years. ... The orbits of the planets are ellipses with the sun at one of the foci. ... Look at the distance between the discs. ... Kepler's Laws All bodies sweep out equal areas in equal times If we look at the planets we have already seen that the planets change speed in their orbit. ...

There are six possible ways of object description: . a) by number(s) . ... d) by list . e) by orbital elements . ... They should be introduced as year, month, day with tenth (e.g. 20021104.1). d) Computations are performed for all objects listed in the file whose path and name should be introduced into assigned data field. ... On pressing Edit file button user has a possibility to look through the list of object elements or their coordinates and velocities to add or to change it. ...

... The numbers of three types of compact binaries containing accreting NSs and BHs, which are most interesting from the point of view of their observational appearances, have been calculated as a function of time: i) X-ray transient source containing a NS in an eccentric orbit around a main sequence Be-star (the observed prototype: A0535+26), ii) BH The evolution of the selected types of X-ray binaries during the first 10 million years after the starburst onset is presented in Fig. ...

Detecting Long Period Planets with WASP 1 University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL To estimate the number of transiting planets in this period range, planetary occurrence rates from Kepler (Fressin et al, 2013) for varying spectral type & planet type were used. ... Two `stare' fields are currently available from 2011 (330,000 stars) producing a detection rate of 3.0±2.4 planets (Fig 4). ... Since 2011, WASP-N cameras have observed in `Stare' mode, with cadence of ~1-2min. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... News . ... In the following article, I used the wrong number to get the circumference of the Earth at the latitude of Cape Canaveral, which ironically is what I accuse Ms. vos Savant of as well! ... At the Equator, the Earth spins at 1000 miles per hour (the Earth is 24,000 miles around, and spins once every 24 hours). ... The math is a wee bit hairy, but not too bad, to calculate the circumference of the Earth at Cape Canaveral assuming the Earth is an ellipse with these numbers...

... Our scientific interest is an accuracy of asteroid CCD observations obtained by amateurs and professional astronomers all over in the World. ... These data help us to analyse an accuracy of real CCD positions in the MPC Database. ... Do you test your observations of the small Solar System bodies permanently before sending them to the International Minor Planets' Center? ... Do you know a real accuracy of your positional CCD-observations in comparison with the other observatories' one ? ...

Science Objectives for the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph Claus Leitherer, Martin Barstow, Linda Dressel, Cynthia Froning, Peter Garnavich, Tony Keyes, Jeff Valenti, & the COS Science Team Claus Leitherer Slide Number 1 of 12 Four key science questions -- united by the theme of Cosmic Origins · What are the origins of large-scale structure and the intergalactic medium? How do galaxies form and evolve? ... Unprecedented sampling of the IGM. ... Claus Leitherer Slide Number 12 of 12 ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... for 1-5 bytes is number of a numbered minor planet, . ... Positions 1-80 file "mpcreportiz.txt" are similar to positions of file "mpcreport.txt". 83-95 – errors of unit weight, . ... If this tag is " 1 0 " , this record contains results of measurements of an image of object (approximation by "PSF"),  . ... 57-66 – error in X (pixels), for first star in a multicentric image, for subsequent it is error in (distance between first star in the image and this), . ...

... A Leonids Meteor Storm in 1999 . ... The 1999 Leonids meteor shower was not equally good for everybody. Only observers in Europe and the Middle East with clear skies near 2 am (UTC) on 1999 November 18 saw rates shoot up to a meteor every few seconds. ... The 1999 Leonids Meteor Shower came to a tremendous crescendo. ... Just days before the peak of the Leonid meteor shower, skywatchers were offered another astronomical treat as planet Mercury crossed the face of the Sun on November 15. ...

... What is a planet? ... When they finally came up with an answer it had big consequences: The number of planets in our Solar System went from nine to eight! ... Then, in 2005, astronomers found an object in the outer Solar System, called Eris, which they thought was bigger than Pluto. ... However, recently astronomers were able to measure the size of the dwarf planet Eris more accurately and they have discovered that it isn t bigger than Pluto after all they re actually about the same size. ...

... Planets . ... The planets were found using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6m telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory. ... A planet in orbit around a star causes the star to regularly move towards and away from observers on Earth. ... One newly discovered planet, HD 85512 b, is best hope found so far for a habitable exoplanet. ... The HARPS team so far have found that about 40% of stars similar to own Sun have at least one planet smaller than Saturn (which is 95 times more massive than Earth). ...

... There has been a heated public discussion in the past few years about whether our ninth planet is really deserving of the name. Since Pluto orbits a star, and is much less luminous, it certainly satisfies the definition we have above. The problem is actually not with Pluto, but with a very large number of other bodies in our Solar System which also satisfy this definition, but which are not called planets. Perhaps the most notable of these is Ceres, the largest asteroid. ... Planet . ...

This document describes how number input can be given to tasks which request numbers from Hermes. ... list selection The following constants are implemented: pi 3.14159.... c speed of light (SI) h Planck (SI) k Boltzmann (SI) g gravitation (SI) s Stefan-Boltzman (SI) m mass of sun (SI) p parsec (SI) BLANK Universal undefined value The following mathematical functions are implemented: abs(x) absolute value of x sqrt(x) square root of x sin(x) sine of x asin(x) inverse sine ...

Rules for natural satellites observation rough data CONTENT file Version 28.06.2000 /Arlot J.-E., Emelianov N./ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Contents. ... IAU code> - <observatory name> <NL> <NL> Reference. ... planet number>-<planet name>[:<quantity>], <NL> <satellite number> [-<temporary name>] [-<satellite name>]:<quantity> , <NL> ... <satellite number> [-<temporary name>] [-<satellite name>]:<quantity> <NL> reference frame: astrometric | ...

Canberra Times 07/09/2009 Page: 6 Times Region: Canberra Circulation: 34354 Type: Australian Capital City Daily Size: 348.32 sq.cms MTWTFS- Page 1 of 2 back Does the universe contain an infinite number of Kevin Rudds? The year 2009 is the interTo mark the occasion, the Astronomical Society of Australia recruited a small group of media-friendly astronomers to national year of astronomy. distance between the light and its point of origin. ... And besides, how could you possibly test such an idea?" ...

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Astronomy Discussion Forums . Forums: . ... How Do You Feel About Numbers? ... Post Message | ... Posted by Richard D. Stafford, Ph.D. on September 15, 2002 16:22:25 UTC . ... Wait - harvey1 - September 15, 2002 - 22:20 UTC . I don't follow you! - doctordick - September 16, 2002 - 14:59 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Insert date: . Day: . Month: . ... This CGI -script calculates a day of week of the given date, Julian date of Greenwich noon JD and extracts from the database indices of solar activity: Wolf number for the day W , monthly W m and yealy means W y of Wolf number for month and year of the date. The prediction of Wolf number (which was made in 1998 and, hence, lost actuality) is also presented. The database uses solar activity data got from server of National Geophysical Data Center . ...

... These are just the bare bones--just three basic ideas and rules for handling relations ("equations") involving unknown quantities whose values you are trying to find. In most calculations you try to find a number . ... To get a solution, one must replace the given equation (or equations) with others, containing the same information but cleaner in appearance. ... If you have an equation and modify both its sides in exactly the same way, what you get is also a valid equation. ...

Next: Inspection of results Up: *fit* - Fit Data Previous: Verbose Mode . If the number of net counts for a source is less than it is impractical to fit the data in all 34 energy bits. However, if the flux is required, then a fit must be performed first. ... Fit will then calculate the normalization of the model and xflux can be used to determine the flux and luminosity of the source from the best fit model. xs> fit rebin=yes . ...