... October 19, 1996 . Lalande 21185: The Nearest Planetary System? ... Explanation: What's the closest extrasolar planetary system ? It may well be planets of the dim red dwarf star cataloged as Lalande 21185 -- a mere 8 light years distant. ... Our own planetary system would be detectable by such a technique .. ... Nevertheless, the existence of a planetary system so near our own suggests the intriguing possibility that planets are common in our galaxy. ... About APOD | ...

... It may well be planets of the dim red dwarf star cataloged as Lalande 21185 -- a mere 8 light years distant. ... Using data obtained from frequent observations of this star over the last 50 years, University of Pitsburgh astronomer George Gatewood recently announced that much of Lalande 21185's wobble is most likely due to an unseen planet with approximately 90% of the mass of Jupiter and an orbital period of 5.8 years. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

... 13th European VLBI Network Symposium . and Users Meeting . on September 20-23, 2016. ... 13th European VLBI Network Symposium and Users Meeting on September 20-23, 2016. ... Year book "Ephemerides of Minor Planets for 2016" on-line . ...

... Институт прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша . БАЛЛИСТИЧЕСКИЙ ЦЕНТР . О Центре . ... Баллистический Центр Института прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша РАН . Баллистический центр (БЦ) ИПМ им. М.В. Келдыша создан по предложению С.П. Королева и М.В. Келдыша в 1965 году. На него были возложены работы по баллистико-навигационному обеспечению (БНО) управления полетом пилотируемых кораблей и автоматических космических аппаратов научного и народно-хозяйственного назначения. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements . ... ALMA . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Phase 1 Proposals . ... Data Handling and Products . ... ESO Data . ... Science Announcements . ... Published: 16 Nov 2015 . ... This survey focused on topics related to proposal preparation and submission, including interaction with the ARC / ARC nodes for ALMA proposal preparation and usability of tools such as the ALMA Science Portal or the helpdesk. ...

... The barycentric corrections computed in 8.7.1 are applied to the event times in a time-sorted QPOE file. ... output files: rp90_out.qp ti apply_bary input qpoe file name: rp90_sti.qp[ time =(1606720.0:1612809.8)] # see Note 1 2 input correction table filename: rp110590_cor.tab output qpoe file name: rp90_out event definition: medium SCC- UTC conversion table is calibrated to SCC 110883482.0000 first qpoe gti time = J.D. 2448062.97604379, SCC 1606720.00000000 last qpoe gti ...

Pulkovo NEO Page . ... EPOS Software Package . ... EPOS ( E phemeris P rogram for O bjects of the S olar system) is the Windows PC application for study and ephemeris support of observations of the Solar system objects. ... It controls the part of common data and transfers the control to one of the programs that solve the restricted set of tasks. ... So with the EPOS software package one can calculate the accurate ephemerides for many objects and get the quick illustration of their motion as well. ...

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. ...

... Pre-application form . Excel file with explanations how to fill; please, save the table in format not later Excel-1997-2003.) ... Rules and Regulations for a participant of the Olympiad that have to be translated into native languages of participants (if using Word, please, save the translation in format not later Word-1997-2003), attention for additions during last years ( blue and red text ): . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman of the International Astronomy Olympiad, . ...

The Astronomical Society of Australia has been asked by STANDARDS AUSTRALIA to compile a list of "designated" optical observatories that are valuable resources for (i) research, (ii) education and (iii) community use. The ASA is the final arbiter of whether any particular observatory is so designated. ... Upon receipt of your application form, your observatory will be entered on a list of "Pending Designated Observatories" on the ASA Home Page. ... It will be emailed for you. ... Email . ...

... Apply a time-varying phase shift to track the object. ... This overrides the normal behaviour of using the spin axis. arcane The format for the pmotion text files is the "arcane" format (see below). ... Each source is specified by three numbers: ra dec flux The RA and DEC are in normal Miriad format, and the flux is in Jy. ... The normal format consists of 3 values per line, being time ra dec with "time" (UTC), "ra" and "dec" being the position of the object at a given time. ...

... Click here to go directly to the Orion Nebula Images. ... Copies of individual figures from this paper are available from John Bally . ... Figure 1: The core of the Trapezium showing the four energetic massive stars and a plethora of Sun-like stars with surrounding extended emission. ... Click to download figure in jpeg format. Click to download figure in tiff format. ... Figure 3: A gallery of star-disk systems in Orion's Trapezium. ... To Doug Johnstone's Scientific Home Page . ...

... During all period of our investigations Dr. N.Sumzina from the Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS had prepared the Numbered Minor Planet positions from MPC Database for our processing with kind permission of the Director of Minor Planet Center Prof. Braian Marsden. ... Our extensive processing of the MPC data allows us to conclude that CCD observations of the Numbered and Unnumbered Minor Planets have the errors, sometimes very crude. ...

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. ...

... 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 . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on February 24, 2012 | 7 Comments Sir Frederick William Herschel is one of the most well-known and highly regarded historical astronomers but many may not know or realise there was more to his genius than his [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... 3 Comments What exciting space events has 2012 in store for us? ... 2 Comments Dwarf planet Haumea is one of the most bizarre small bodies of the outer Solar System. ...

SETHI & Astropulse: Astronomical applications of the SETI@home dataset . ... SETI@home data recorder . ... About 65% of the total data is usable . ... Close-up #1: The Galactic Plane . Slide 10 . Close-up #2: High Latitude . Outreach through the SETI@home and Planetary Society web sites . ... AstroPulse: A search for ms scale dispersed pulses with Paul Demorest, Eric Heien, Shauna Sallmen & Dan Werthimer . Uses the SETI@home data set . ... BOINC . AstroPulse/BOINC . ...

... Peter J.K. "Jeff" Wisoff (Ph.D) . NASA Astronaut (former) . ... A veteran of four space flights, STS-57 in 1993, STS-68 in 1994, STS-81 in 1997 and STS-92 in 2000, Dr. Wisoff has logged a total of 42 days, 56 hours, 1 minute and 48 seconds in space, including , 19 hours and 53 minutes of EVA time in three space walks. ... Following 183 orbits of the Earth in 269 hours and 46 minutes, the eleven-day mission ended with Space Shuttle Endeavour landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California. ...

... Kepler's 3rd Law . 21a.Applying 3rd Law . 21b. Fly to Mars! (1) . 21c. Fly to Mars! (2) . ... For circular orbits around Earth, we found . ... The distance of a satellite from the center of Earth in meters is an inconveniently big number, even before we raise it to the 3rd power. ... The ratio r' = (r / R E ) is the orbital distance measured in units of the Earth's radius. ... 25 638 838) = 5063.5 From this . ... This is the practical form of Kepler's 3rd law for Earth satellites. ...

Mercury Winter 2007 Table of Contents . ... But with NASA's $420 million MESSENGER orbital mission en route, and development of the European Space Agency's 650 million ($850 million) BepiColombo mission in cooperation with Japan, this iron-rich runt of a planet is finally going to get its due. If you enjoyed this excerpt from a feature article and would like to receive our quarterly Mercury magazine, we invite you to join the ASP and receive 4 issues a year. ...