... 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 May 30 . Looking Back at an Eclipsed Earth . Image Credit: PHL @ UPR Arecibo, NASA , EUMETSAT , NERC Satellite Receiving Station, U. Dundee . Explanation: What's that dark spot on planet Earth? ... The above image of Earth was taken last week by MTSAT during an annular eclipse of the Sun. ... The spot moved across the Earth at nearly 2,000 kilometers per hour, giving many viewers less than two hours to see a partially eclipsed Sun . ... About APOD | ...

... Looking Back at an Eclipsed Earth . ... Credit Copyright: CNES Explanation: Here is what the Earth looks like during a solar eclipse . The shadow of the Moon can be seen darkening part of Earth . ... Only observers near the center of the dark circle see a total solar eclipse - others see a partial eclipse where only part of the Sun appears blocked by the Moon . ... Publications with keywords: total solar eclipse - Moon - shadow . Publications with words: total solar eclipse - Moon - shadow . ...

... August 30, 1999 . Looking Back on an Eclipsed Earth . ... Explanation: Here is what the Earth looks like during a solar eclipse. ... Only observers near the center of the dark circle see a total solar eclipse - others see a partial eclipse where only part of the Sun appears blocked by the Moon . This spectacular picture of the 1999 August 11 solar eclipse was one of the last ever taken from the Mir space station , as Mir is being decommissioned after more than ten years of productive use. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Solar System . ... Moon . ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Concept Spacecraft . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... This image of Earth (left) and the Moon (right) was taken by the Juno space probe's JunoCam, three weeks after its 5 August launch. (image credit:: NASA / JPL / MSSS) . ... Earth and the Moon form a тАЬdouble planetтАЭ unique in the Solar System. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

... Gift Center . ... Why do aurorae appear strongest within rings centered on Earth's poles instead of filled-in circles? ... RELATED TOPICS: AURORAE . The visible aurorae result from electrons that move along magnetic field lines from space into the upper atmosphere. ... Just make sure you're registered with the website. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

... On the morning of Thursday, 26 February, amid the Gal pagos Islands, the Sun will fade from view. Not the culmination of ancient prophecy, but none less mystical, Earth's small Moon will be executing a slow slide past the enormous Sun. ... And anyone living in southern North America, Central America, northern South America, or on islands and cruise ships in the Caribbean Sea will, weather permitting, have the opportunity to experience the wonder of a solar eclipse. ...

... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... August 24, 2005 . ... That says Mars will be closer to the Earth on August 27th than it has in 5000 years, and it may be 2267 until it gets this big again? ... Mars won't be closest in August, it won't be as big as the full Moon, and it was actually closer back in 2003. ... It's a near-exact duplicate of an email sent around the internets back in 2003, August 2003 , to be exact, when Mars really did have a close apparition with the Earth. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Status of EPIC operations Pedro CalderСn RiaЯo, ESAC Mallorca BOC meeting 29-30 March 2011 Routine Operations Nominal observations · See the Quarterly Status report at http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_news/mission_status/index.php · Almost no time lost due to the instruments (~ 0.05%) Eclipse season; nominal. · 22 earth eclipses, one combined earth+lunar eclipse, and one lunar only. ... Pedro CalderСn RiaЯo | ... Status_Oper_2011.ppt | XMM-Newton | Pag. ... Status of EPIC operations | ...

... 29a. Satellite looking up . 29c. Satellites probing around . ... The US Air Force furthermore sponsors polar satellites of the DMSP series, scanning the cloud cover of the polar region and also studying ions and electrons of the magnetosphere. ... The Canadian satellite Alouette in 1962 bounced radio signals off the top of the ionosphere, and UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite) has studied the Earth atmosphere. ... Next Satellite Class: #29c Those observing local conditions . ...

... The Russian TESIS (FIAN) Solar Observatory has transmitted observations back to Earth of the solar eclipse made on July 22nd, 2009. ... On the first occasion, the satellite passed through the eclipse area at 04:30 Moscow time, making it the first on our planet to see the shadow of the Moon, which was still in space and was only approaching the Earth ( film 1.2 MB, wmv format ). ... The first Moon passage over the solar disk (00:30 UT) (Movie wmv; 1.2 MB) . ...

... Listed below are questions submitted by users of "The Great Magnet, the Earth" and the answers given to them. ... In "The Exploration of the Earth's magnetosphere" on the magnetic environment of the Earth in space (a few Q duplicated here) . ... 11) Magnetic Shielding . ... 51) Can electricity be generated from the Earth's magnetic field? ... 9) Measuring Earth's magnetic field . ... 6) Reversals of the Earth's field (4 queries) . ... 42) Could generated electricity affect Earth's magnetic field? ...

... This meeting is also sponsored by the IAU as IAU Colloquium 156 . ... Here is the official meeting announcement in either ASCII or Postscript format. ... The chief editor for the SL9 book is Keith Noll, and the co-editors are Paul Feldman and Hal Weaver. ... WORKSHOPS . ... ESO SL9 WORKSHOP . ... The comet SL9 image across the top is a mosaic of HST images taken on 27 January 1994 through a red filter (approximately R-band) (credit: H. A. Weaver, T. E. Smith, the HST Comet Science Team, and NASA). ...

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... 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. ... The Sych-2 satellite is being developed as a part of the space optical-range Earth observation system by the State Design Office of Yuzhnoye and built by the Industrial Association Yuzhny Machine Building Plant in cooperation w ith other space industry entities upon the state order of the National Space Agency of Ukraine . ...

ALBUM: floating Artist: Eloy @ SONG : Floating Instrumental @ SONG : The Light From Deep Darkness Out of the depth of nothing In nobobdy's time The earth was created The first morning starts Sun appears in the sky Winds stroking waves Evening shadows tumble down Eclipse the sun of life Herald the night Burning lights arise people take their places Dance a merry round They live without fear Help each other in their way through life Tomorrow we'll see They forget ...

European . ... Observatory . ... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Archive of the ESO Enews > ESO-Enews #1: August 2006 . ... Data Handling and Products . ... ESO Data . ... Details at: http://www.popsud.org/elt2006/index.php . ... Details at: http://www.eso.org/science/projects/ukidss/index.html . ... More details at: http://www.eso.org/gen-fac/adm/pers/vacant/ESO_Director_General_2006.pdf . ... Details can be found at: http://www.eso.org/gen-fac/adm/pers/vacant/ . ...

MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...

Image credit: Michael Nolan, Arecibo Observatory. These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2001 SN263 were obtained on 2008 Feb 12 and 13. ... Image from Feb 12 . ... First near-Earth triple asteroid discovered by Arecibo Observatory . ... was discovered this week by astronomers at the sensitive radar telescope at Cornell University?s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. ... For example, Arecibo has discovered more than half of the near-Earth binary asteroid systems discovered since 1999. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Chirp ionosonde main technical characteristics . ... Linear frequency modulated continuous signals sounding method is relatively simple and has wide application in various special-purpose systems. ... Chirp signals which are applying for ionosphere channel diagnostics usually have10KHz/s -- 1MHz/s. We must point out that under modulation speed increasing there is an increase in noise suppression and resolution power. ...