... 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 . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . The Coldest Place on Earth . ... 11.12.2013 . ... Landsat 8 , USGS , NASA Explanation: How cold can it get on Earth? ... The record temperature occurred in 2010 August -- winter in Antarctica -- and was found by scientists sifting through decades of climate data taken by Earth-orbiting satellites. ... Publications with keywords: Earth - Antarctica . Publications with words: Earth - Antarctica . ... Equinox Earth . Fire on Earth . Earth Waves at Saturn . ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... ISC Kosmotras announces signing of a launch contract with T B?TAK Space Technologies Research Institute (T B?TAK UZAY) for injection of RASAT spacecraft - the first Earth observation satellite designed and manufactured in Turkey by Dnepr LV in 2010. ... Dnepr LV Performance . ...

... 2013 August 5 . Leaving Earth . ... Explanation: What it would look like to leave planet Earth? Such an event was recorded visually in great detail by the MESSENGER spacecraft as it swung back past the Earth, eight years ago, on its way in toward the planet Mercury . ... MESSENGER is one of the few things created on the Earth that has left and will never return -- at the end of its mission MESSENGER will be crashed into Mercury's surface . ... About APOD | ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . Exoplanets . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on October 17, 2012 | ... Continue Reading.. Posted on August 14, 2012 | ... Posted on July 17, 2012 | ... Posted on March 29, 2012 | ... 3 Comments What exciting space events has 2012 in store for us? ... 5 Comments Once exoplanets, worlds orbiting other stars, were the stuff of science fiction but now we know of literally hundreds of real alien planets circling other stars. ...

Magnetic field measurements onboard the Interball Tail spacecraft are carried out by the FM-3I instrument which consists of two flux-gate magnetometers covering two different ranges: [-200, +200] nT and [-1000, +1000] nT. Besides scientific goals, the FM-3I experiment data is used to perform the attitude control of the Interball Tail spacecraft. ... August 22, 1995 . ... October 18, 1995 . Top of the page . ... Back to the Interball Home Page . ...

... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

... In addition, IZMIRAN comprises the St.Petersburg branch and magnetic ionospheric observatory in Kaliningrad. The history of IZMIRAN is largely that of investigating magnetic storms and sub-storms on the Earth surface, in circum-terrestrial and interplanetary space, initially by means of a network of ground stations of the Soviet Union (1930s - 1940s) and the nonmagnetic skunner "Zarja", then through the extensive use of magnetic measurements on artificial Earth satellites and automatic stations. ...

Main Sections LabIR main page . ... On January 23, 1998 the space probe NEAR was on its way to its closest approach to Earth. ... However, we were able to record a series of images of the space probe shortly before the sunglint event, and we have assembled them into a movie. At the TIRGO observatory, an observation of the space probe NEAR was organized for the night of January 22-23, 1998. ... We show here a preliminary movie (MPEG format, 412kb) made from 74 frames, each lasting 5 seconds. ...

... On 18 April 2002 the Russian Aviation and Space Agency, S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia and European Space Agency (ESA), Belgian Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs (OSTC) concluded a contract to fly Belgian astronaut Frank de Winne, member of European astronauts team as Soyuz TMA-1 flight engineer as the visiting crew VC-4 member to the International Space Station (ISS) and perform the Odessia Project scientific program. ... ODISSEA Project Experiments . ...

... June 16, 2009 - TESIS has recorded new sizeable mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere . One of this year's largest mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere was recorded last Sunday by TESIS telescopes aboard the CORONAS-PHOTON satellite (video - wmv 4.3 MB). ... June 6, 2009 - This year's largest group of sunspots passes across the solar disk . ... June 2, 2009 - A malfunction in one of the TESIS telescopes has been fixed . ... A malfunction in one of the TESIS telescopes has been fixed . ...

... The JSC History Portal offers access to the JSC History Collection , other JSC history materials, and hundreds of NASA history web pages. ... Johnson Space Center was established in 1961, and from the early Gemini, Apollo and Skylab projects to today's Space Shuttle and International Space Station Programs, the Center continues to lead NASA's efforts in human space exploration. ... JSC Space Shuttle Program . ... This link provides access to the NASA JSC History Portal Document Search page. ...

... Space Research Institute . ... Auroral Probe Instrument List . Tail Probe Instrument List . ... MAGION-5 Operation on Orbit . ... Organizational Diagram of Data Processing in the INTERBALL Project . INTERBALL Data at IKI Solar-Terrestrial Data Archive . ... Attitude . Auxiliary Data . ... Attitude data files . ... Orbit data files . ... Magion-4 Sessions List (1995-1997) We provide authorized access to the instrument data. ... Interball publications list 1995-2001 ( PDF ) . ...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Comet Hyakutake wowed us this spring [see Guest Observer, May/June, p. 11]. ... The best time to observe a meteor shower is after midnight, as your nighttime location moves head-on into the path of the cometary debris. ... As observers, we are interested in the number of Perseids per time interval. ... Tabulate the number of meteors observed per interval, and make sure to label the table with the local time and date of each interval. ...

... It was discovered that it would pass about 0.02 AU (about 3 million miles) from the Earth on 1998 August 11 --- close enough to be observed by the Arecibo Planetary Radar and (at much lower S/N) by the Goldstone Solar System Radar. ... Even at this distance, the Arecibo Planetary Radar can obtain images at up to 7 meter resolution. ... This delay-Doppler image of asteroid 1998 ML14 was taken on UTC 1998 August 15 12:45. ... A higher-resolution image taken on Aug 16. ... The Arecibo Observatory . ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . This project was established in mid-1998 to help coordinate, and provide a focal point for, the study of those comets and asteroids that can approach the Earth's orbit. ... Web Site . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . are trademarks of John Huggins ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes | ... Cosmic engine for senior students . ... The Sun . The Sun is vital for life on Earth. ... The Sun is a typical star, emitting electromagnetic radiation and particles that influence the Earth . ... In the meantime you can view material on the Sun and its influence on Earth written for the first version of the new syllabus here . ...

... Reports . ... Reports (since 2002) . ... Geographic Information Systems Survey Results" July 2006 . ... Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Department of State Needs Assessment" August 2005 . ... Linux and MAC OS X Deployment at STScI: Scientist User Feedback" 2002, Input and Recommendations from the Scientific Staff . Customer Needs and Values: A Method Developed as a Springboard for Innovation" 2002, Techniques used in Innovation and Process Improvement . ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . ... A small spacecraft Aist-2D , developed by the scientists of Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) and the experts of the Rocket and Space Centre Progress will see from outer space what is hidden under the thick top of trees and below the Earth's surface. The radar equipment was installed on Aist-2D , which was delivered to the space launcher complex Vostochniy on January 22. ... Tomography of the Earth's ionosphere will also be carried out. ...