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. ...

... 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 . ...

... 2012 July 10 . Happy People Dancing on Planet Earth . ... Many humans on Earth exhibit periods of happiness, and one method of displaying happiness is dancing. Happiness and dancing transcend political boundaries and occur in practically every human society. ... The above video , the latest in a series of similar videos , is perhaps a dramatic example that humans from all over planet Earth feel a common bond as part of a single species . ... Help Evaluate APOD: How do you access APOD? ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Astrophysics graduate student programs . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ...

... 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). ...

... Credit Copyright: Fefo Bouvier Explanation: In this engaging scene from planet Earth , the Moon shines through cloudy skies following sunset on the evening of September 8. ... As the the second image was made with a telephoto setting, the digital merger captures both Earth and sky, exaggerating the young Moon's slender crescent shape in relation to the two nearby bright stars. ... Closest to the Moon is Earth's evening star, planet Venus , emerging from a lunar occultation . ... September . ...

... Up: Science Software Applications . ... It has extensions for creating GUI (Tk) and object-oriented ([incr tcl]) applications. Several Tcl-based tools that may be used for astronomical and other scientific applications have been created and are discussed. One example is ptcl , which registers PGPLOT functions as Tcl commands, creating a powerful interactive plotting package. ... Both programs use the same C code, Tcl commands, and [incr tcl] classes; only the GUIs are different. ...

Motif and X-Windows . The applications described in this section are some of the many applications available. ... A DECterm session can be created by choosing the DECterm submenu item the Session Manager's Application menu or by using the CREATE/TERMINAL command at the system prompt. ... The CDA Viewer application displays the contents of compound documents consisting of graphics, images, and text. ... Ghostview is an application that displays PostScript documents using ghostscript. ... DECterm . ...

... The material in "From Stargazers to Starships" meets several important requirements of the national standards. Pages cited below are from National Science Education Standards National Academy Press, Washington 1995. ... For example: the sections on astronomy not only describe calendars and sundials (including their construction), but also the astronomy of the ancient Greeks, including two different ways in which ancient Greeks estimated the distance to the Moon. ...

... 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 . ...

... The Australian National University] [Department of Physics] [Paul Francis] [Main Roleplay Page] . These exercises are my attempt to adapt the technique of Problem Based Learning to the context of introductory astronomy and astrophysics classes. ... As students grapple with the puzzle, they are forced to learn the subject matter of the course. ... This exercise is designed for 1st year University students with a reasonable high-school background in Maths and Physics. ...

Estimates for the Set-theoretic Distance between Orbits of Celestial Bodies . ... It is reasonable to use preliminary simple criteria for the proximity to intersection based on estimates of set-theoretic distance ( , 0 ) between orbits , 0 of celestial bodies , 0 . ... We describe here two simple criteria and one more complicated one. ... The third one requires calculation of the distance itself and it amounts to solving a trigonometric equation of the 8-th degree. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Dnepr LV (a converted SS-18 ICBM) with THEOS SC aboard was successfully launched from Yasny Launch Base several minutes ago. ... A new fuelling station and clean room 2 were used during the THEOS launch campaign at Yasny Launch Base. ... ISC Kosmotras' stock of orders contains signed contracts for five more launches scheduled for up to 2011 both from Baikonur Cosmodrome and Yasny Launch Base. ... 01.10.2008 . ... Dnepr Program...

... Science . ... Science Users Information Science Software ESO-MIDAS jump to navigation jump to content . ... Science Software . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... ESO-MIDAS uses software standards provided by most computer manufactures, and runs on UNIX or Linux based platforms, as well as on Mac OSX systems. ... RedHat based, e.g. Scientific Linux, CentOS . ... Ubuntu based, e.g. Kubuntu, Ultimate Edition, Linux Mint . ... Debian based, e.g. aptosid . ... based on Linux/X11 emulation software Cygwin_NT-5.1 . ...

Catastrophism : . ... During the late 18th and early 19th century, a German mineralogist, Abraham Gottlob Werner, proposed that all of the Earth's rocks were formed by rapid chemical precipitation from a "world ocean," which he then summarily disposed of in catastrophic fashion. Though not directed toward the genesis of landforms in any coherent fashion, his catastrophic philosophy of changes of the Earth had two major consequences of geomorphic significance. ... Thermal Plate Tectonics : . ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.4 > 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. ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

... In a report on a recent information technology conference at Columbia University (Chronicle of Higher Education, 16 January 1998, p. A25), questions are raised with respect to the efficacy of computers in the classroom. ... The Summer Science Program is once again being held at The Thacher School in Ojai, California. ... The Consortium for Undergraduate Research and Education in Astronomy announces the Mount Wilson Summer Program for Undergraduates, August 12-25, 1998. ...

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. ...