The nasa.gov site requires that JavaScripts be enabled in your browser. ... Contact NASA . ... The term "astronaut" derives from the Greek words meaning "space sailor," and refers to all who have been launched as crew members aboard NASA spacecraft bound for orbit and beyond. Since the inception of NASA's human space flight program, we have also maintained the term "astronaut" as the title for those selected to join the NASA corps of astronauts who make "space sailing" their career profession. ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

... The third processing stage filters the combined event list to produce the filtered event list, which contains the collection of node-specific exposure maps. ... Combining the event filtering with exposure map construction in one step assures mutual consistency. ... If the original combined event list is missing (as, for example, in the PPS) the original filtered event list is acceptable as a substitute if no changes have been made to the original attitude and housekeeping GTI. ...

... Huchtmeier Richter A catalog of all published HI observations of external galaxies has been compiled. ... the morphological type (internally coded in a crude 1-byte code based on the system of the RC2 Second Reference Catalog of Bright Galaxies (de Vaucouleurs et al, 1976)) in column 4; . the inclination i (in degrees) used by the authors in column 5. ... A General Catalog of HI Observations of External Galaxies by W.K. Huchtmeier O.-G. Richter, H.D. Bohnenstengel and M.Hauschildt May 1983. ...

One of my on-going research interests concerns the dust shells of proto-planetary nebulae or PPNs (also called pre-planetary nebulae, transition objects, and post-AGB objects in the literature; the latter term also applies to a wider selection of objects such as RV Tauri stars), especially the carbon-rich ones that show the unidentified "21 micron' emission feature. ... I am working to find a complete sample of proto-planetary nebulae in these satellite galaxies from the millions of detected stars. ...

NAUTICAL ASTRONOMICAL YEARBOOK for 2010 (in Russian) . Foreword . ... The EPM2004 domestic numerical theory of movement of the Sun, the Moon, and major planets is used in т??Nautical Astronomical Yearbookт?? In NAY the positions of stars are published in the system of stellar catalogues FK6 and HIPPARCOS. ... conditions of visibility of the planets, apparent places of stars, star charts, tables of azimuths of Polaris ? ... Examples for NAY 2010 are calculated by M.V.Lukashova, M.L.Sveshnikov. ...

O ptimal transport : T heory and A pplications . ... Names of participants of the OTARIE project are underlined . ... That code was never made public. ... WANN (Weighted Approximate Nearest Neighbors) is a library of C++ classes for weighted nearest neighbor search: given the set P of points p 1 , p 2 , , p N endowed with weights w 1 , w 2 , , w N and a query point q , find p k such that | ... WANN is part of a multipurpose library for numerical transport optimization developed in the OTARIE project. ...

... country name . ... Query " Moscow's celebrations hotel Moscow, Russia" would failed if search attributes separately, but could be succeeded if search their concatenation. ... hotel". ... Simple search for "Moscow": # select name, country, place, rank( idx, ftsquery ) as r from hotels, to_tsquery('Moscow') as ftsquery where idx @@ ftsquery order by r desc; name | ... Query "Moscow hotel" (rewritten by hand): # select name, country, place, rank( idx, ftsquery ) as r from hotels, to_tsquery('Moscow | ...

... Get the latest BIOS which has concatenated NCR scsi BIOS 3.04.00. ... 53C810 = 8 bit Fast SCSI-2 (10 MB/Sec) Single ended only Requires Integrated Mother board BIOS 100 pin Quad Flat Pack (PQFP) Worlds first PCI SCSI Chip, Volumes make it the most inexpensive. ... 53C825 = 8 bit Fast SCSI-2, Single ended or Differential 16 bit Fast SCSI-2 (20 MB/Sec), Single ended or Differetial Also has support for external Rom, making it a good candidate for add in cards. 160 pin QFP Not supported by linux yet. ...

... Posts tagged ?model based? ... arXiv:stat.ME:0910.2585] . Variable Selection and Updating In Model-Based Discriminant Analysis for High Dimensional Data with Food Authenticity Applications . ... Category: Algorithms , arXiv , Cross-Cultural , Data Processing , Jargon , Methods , Spectral , Stat | ... Tags: bimodality , chi-square minimization , Classification , CMD , Estimation , machine learning , massive data , model based , PCA , spectral analysis , spectroscopic , survey , VO . ...

... What's new . ... The new version of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS4.2) revised taking into account the new data accumulated since the 4th GCVS edition for the constellations: Canis Minor, Capricornus The new version of the GCVS ! ... The new version of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS4.2) revised taking into account the new data accumulated since the 4th GCVS edition for the constellations: Apus, Cancer, Canes Venatici and Canis Major The new version of the GCVS ! ...

... Credit: Apollo 8 Crew, NASA Explanation: When the second millennium began, people generally knew that the Earth was round , but few saw much of it beyond their local village. ... The Earth started as the center of everything , but became a planet placed in the Solar System , which became placed in a Galaxy , which became placed in the Local Group of Galaxies , which became placed in an expanse so vast we call it just the Universe . ... Publications with keywords: Moon - Earth - millennium . ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.2 > Virtual Hosts . ... IP-based virtual hosting is a method to apply different directives based on the IP address and port a request is received on. ... As the term IP-based indicates, the server must have a different IP address/port combination for each IP-based virtual host . ... In the terminology of Apache HTTP Server, using a single IP address but multiple TCP ports, is also IP-based virtual hosting. ...

... CentralProcessor 0.11 documentation . ... This allows flexible logging to stdout, file, or other sinks. Here is an example of a typical log output: . ... Log level . ... DOCTYPE log4j: configuration SYSTEM log4j.dtd log4j: configuration xmlns:log4j= http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/ appender name = console class= org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender param name = Target value = System.out / layout class= org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout param name = ConversionPattern ...

Analysis of general features of the chaotic system behavior and investigation of the properties of concrete chaotic sources. ... Analysis of information properties of chaotic systems and chaotic oscillations as concrete objects for information processing and comunications. ... This hypothesis gives a possibility of designing simple mathematical structures accomplishing various processes of information processing using chaos. ... Activities | ... E-mail: chaos@mail.cplire.ru ...

... Consequently, it is inappropriate to expand and in ordinary spherical harmonics. The proper expansion expresses both and simultaneously in terms of a particular order of generalized spherical harmonics. ... Generalized spherical harmonics start at , and for each , . ... Generalized spherical harmonics obey a sum rule analogous to a familiar one for ordinary spherical harmonics, but it includes an explicit phase factor which depends on the orientation of the two lines of sight. ...

Next: FIRST Example - a9999a.sls Up: SETUP & PROCEDURE FILES Previous: SETUP & PROCEDURE FILES . As discussed in Section 4.2.2, the general set-up file customizes the system environment for your project, and in particular points to YOUR source list, log-file, procedures file, and correlator setup file. ... In this appendix, we both describe generic set-up and correlator files, and present the "standard" set-up files (.sls files) which are available through the AO Control Observer GUI. ...

... If you could point a telescope anywhere in the sky, where would you look? The Personal Space web application allows you to make a direct and personal connection to the universe by linking significant events in your own life with what was above you in the sky at that moment. ... Personal Space is an online invitation to connect with and explore the universe in an intuitive way by presenting beautiful astronomical images of the sky overhead at key moments and places of personal significance. ...

The perturbation method is based on the small-parameter expansion of an unknown solution of the light scattering problem in a vicinity of the exact solution. ... The only probably exclusion is the case of anisotropic particles for which the rigid solution is either impossible or too complicated. For such problems the perturbation method can give information of the first approximation, which is important for understanding of the basic principles of influences of the material anisotropy. ...

Chair for Solid State Physics of the Department of General and Applied Physics (FOPF) of Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology is based in Chernogolovka, at the Institute for Solid State Physics since early 1960-ies. The high quality of scientific researches performed in the ISSP is mostly due to thorough and industrious training of scientific personnel. Leading scientists of the Institute deliver lectures and provide practical training for the students. ... MIPT's Page of the Chair . ...