... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

... 2001 November 12 . Is Mystery Object an Orphan Afterglow? ... SDSS , DOE , NSF , NASA . Explanation: What is that unusual object? ... Attributes of the object include that it has unusual colors , appears to be fading as months go by, and appears to be associated with a distant galaxy . ... A bit of caution might be merited, however, as the last well-publicized mystery object turned out not to be a new member of the astronomical zoo , but rather an unusual type of quasar . ... About APOD | ...

... Credit: M. Brown ( Caltech ), C. Trujillo ( Gemini ), D. Rabinowitz ( Yale ), NSF , NASA Explanation: Is that a tenth planet? A faint, slowly moving dot discovered by computer shows clear signs of being a deep Solar System object at least as large as Pluto . The object, designated 2003 UB 313 , is currently situated nearly 100 times the Earth-Sun distance -- over twice the average Pluto-Sun distance. ... Since 2003 UB 313 is surely not completely reflective , it could be substantially larger. ...

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... CURRENT ASPECTS OF REMOTE SENSING OF EARTH FROM SPACE . ... For developing of the scientific concept and the programs of global monitoring of the Earth from space and pursuant to the disposal of Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences # 10310-717 (August 11, 2004 ) Space Research Institute RAS and Center of Space Observations of the Russian Space Agency during November 16-18, 2004 conduct the Second Opened All-Russia conference ' Current Aspects of Remote ...

Cosmology, Religion & Kansas . ... Cosmology is the study of the origin, current state, and future of our Universe. ... My cosmology tutorial is an attempt to summarize these discoveries. ... These measurements of very small CMB temperature fluctuations over 1% of the sky with a beam size 40 times smaller than COBE's 7 o beam confirm earlier work by a group at Penn & Princeton and data from BOOMERanG's test flight, but provide 3 to 4 times more accuracy. ... Ned Wright's Home Page . ...

... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomers recently discovered that Scholz's star passed close to the Sun 70,000 years ago. Wouldn't its gravity have sent Oort Cloud comets raining into the inner planets? ... COMETS | OORT CLOUD . Based on the number of long-period comets that enter the inner solar system, astronomers estimate there are probably trillions of them in the Oort Cloud. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Discover | ...

StringIO . ... usr/local/Python-2.5/lib/python2.5/StringIO.py . Module Docs . File-like objects that read from or write to a string buffer. ... buf = f.readline() # read until end of line ('\n') or EOF . ... f.truncate([size]) # truncate file at to at most size (default: current pos) . ... or raises StopIteration when EOF is hit. read (self, n =-1 ) . Read at most size bytes from the file . less if the read hits EOF before obtaining size bytes). ... Read one entire line from the file. ...

The Status window shows the status of the telescope and (on unix and Windows) contains TUI's menus. ... The top panel shows user-specified information about the current target and also the progress of slews: . Name : object name . Obj Pos1/2 (e.g. RA/Dec): net object position. including object and arc offsets. ... Object Arc Off: the current object arc offset . Object Arc Off X,Y: the current object arc offset rotated to instrument xy coordinates (this may vary if the field rotates). ...

... Kuiper belt objects are icy bodies in the outer solar system. ... Views of Kuiper Belt Objects . Object 1993 SC . This image shows a small part of the discovery frames of 1993 SC, one of the brightest Kuiper-Belt objects so far discovered. ... Assuming that Object 1993 SC reflects light much like other primitive asteroids and comets in the out solar system, the diameter is around 300 kilometers (186 miles), or just a quarter the size of Pluto's moon Charon. ... Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact . ...

... Solar System . ... Planets . ... Until V774104 was discovered Eris (illustrated in this artist?s impression) was the most distant observed member of the Solar System. ... V774104 hardly rolls off the tongue, but this is just a provisional designation and this little world will probably receive a name eventually. ... This bleak little world was found by astronomers led by Scott Sheppard and Chad Trujillo using the 8m Subaru telescope in Hawaii and the Dark Energy Survey Camera in Chile. ...

We have undertaken a survey for H I 21-cm absorption within the host galaxies of z 1.2-1.5 radio sources, in the search of the cool neutral gas currently `missing' at z > 1. ... From this, we obtain one detection out of 10 sources searched, which at z = 1.278 is the third highest redshift detection of associated 21-cm absorption to date. ...

The Arecibo Observatory-- at nearly 1000' across--is the world's largest radio and radar telescope. Located in northwestern Puerto Rico, the original facility was built 40+ years ago, but it underwent major upgrades in the 1970s and in 1997-99. ... The observatory operates with a staff of about 125 and a yearly budget of about $12M, 5/6ths of which comes from NSF-astronomy and most of the remainder from NSF-atmospheres. ... This will extend the telescope's life by 20-30 years. ...

... Next: Unsupervised Catalog Classification Up: Object Detection and Previous: Classification of Objects . ... Multi-resolution allows for image analysis in terms of different scales. ... This approach is used for the detection (and subsequent analysis) of globular cluster systems around elliptical galaxies, and for image characterization and object trawling in large image databases. ... The applicability of this approach to object detection in large image collections has been investigated. ...

... The search for distant objects which can be both galaxies and quasars is one of the most important problems of observational astrphysics, because it allows one to determine cosmological parameters connected with the time of appearence and evolution of stellar systems, large scale structure of the Universe. ... Radio galaxies are important objects to be studied because they are sources of infrared-optical-ultraviolet continuum, emission lines and continual radio emission. ...

The choice of which type of electricity is called "positive" and which "negative" was made around 1750 by Ben Franklin, early American scientist and man of many talents. Franklin studied static electricity, produced by rubbing glass, amber, sulfur etc. with fur or dry cloth. ... Later, when electric batteries were discovered, scientists naturally assigned the direction of the flow of current to be from (+) to (-). ... Exploration" home page (index) Glossary . Official GSFC Home Page .. ...

NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office . ... This paper briefly presents the history, interactions and current activities of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office. The Program Office utilizes near-Earth object (NEO) astrometric data from the international community, received from the Minor Planet Center, to refine orbits and provide predictions for coming Earth close approaches. ... Recent studies of some of the issues surrounding the deflection of an Earth threatening NEO are also described. ...

. Other Relevant Links . Number counts have been illustrated earlier in the talk. QSO Clustering and Large-Scale Structure , Scott Croom et al . QSO Evolution and the Luminosity Function , B.J. Boyle et al . | Front page | . | << - Contamination | QSO close pairs - >> | . Robert J. Smith, ">rsmith@mso.anu.edu.au Last modified: Fri Sep 24 11:39:02 EST 1999 .

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