... P2010 A2: Unusual Asteroid Tail Implies Powerful Collision . ... 3.02.2010 . ... Credit: NASA , ESA , D. Jewitt ( UCLA ) Explanation: What is this strange object? ... At first glance, the object appears to have the tail of a comet . ... Knowing that the object orbits in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter , a preliminary hypothesis that appears to explain all of the known clues is that P/2010 A2 is the debris left over from a recent collision between two small asteroids. ... February 2010 . ...

... 2010 February 3 . P/2010 A2: Unusual Asteroid Tail Implies Powerful Collision . ... Pictured above , what Hubble saw indicates that P/2010 A2 is unlike any object ever seen before. ... Knowing that the object orbits in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter , a preliminary hypothesis that appears to explain all of the known clues is that P/2010 A2 is the debris left over from a recent collision between two small asteroids. ... About APOD | ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 February 28 . The Sombrero Galaxy from VLT . ... FORS1 , VLT ANTU , ESO . ... Reasons include the Sombrero 's unusually large and extended central bulge of stars, and dark prominent dust lanes that appear in a disk that we see nearly edge-on. Billions of old stars cause the diffuse glow of the extended central bulge. ... About APOD | ...

... Circumstellar disc of beta Pictoris: constraints on grain properties from polarization. To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics . abs , src , ps ] . ... Dust influx to Titan from Hyperion . ... abs ] . ... Characteristics of bulges and disks in interacting galaxies . ... Dust grains around Herbig Ae/Be stars: porous, cometary-like grains? ... To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement . ... Finally, Links may lead you to more options (e.g. via the LANL preprint system). ...

... Laboratory for Spectroscopy of Molecular Structures . ... News . ... A new article entitled Description of optical properties of cholesteric photonic liquid crystals based on Maxwell equations and Kramers-Kronig relations has appeared in Physical Review E. Congratulations to Grigoriy Ksyonz on his first publication! . 25 th February 2013 . ... 22 nd November 2012 . ... 22 nd February 2012 . 4 th Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonics 2012 will take place in Hong Kong December 9-11, 2012. ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . Monograph Publications . IAU Publications . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Mercury Magazine . ... Order Mercury Issues . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Mercury Magazine Contents and Select Excerpts . ... January/February 2006 . ... Deadly Cosmic Storms, Jennifer Birriel and Ignacio Birriel . ... Sky Events, Richard Talcott . January Sky Map | February Sky Map | ...

... IAU Colloquium 156 : The Collision of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter . ... Meetings/Workshops . ... Welcome to the WWW homepage for the Spring 1995 meeting entitled The Collision of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter hosted by the Space Telescope Science Institute and The Johns Hopkins University. ... This meeting is also sponsored by the IAU as IAU Colloquium 156. ... Here is the official meeting announcement in ASCII format. Here is the official meeting program in ASCII format. ...

From: TerryMosel aol.com Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 18:55:49 EST Subject: Jupiter's new Red Spot, Asteroid impact threat Hi all, 1. Jupiter has developed a new Red Spot! ... Christopher Go of the Philippines photographed it on February 27th using an 11-inch telescope and a CCD camera: Above: Red spots on Jupiter, photographed by amateur astronomer Christopher Go on Feb. ... The official name of this storm is "Oval BA," but "Red Jr." might be better. ... Now it is the same color as the Great Red Spot!" ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Observing . ... Why do the constellations and the Moon appear upside down from the Southern Hemisphere? ... From the Southern Hemisphere, any object or constellation that lies near the celestial equator (the imaginary line that divides the northern and southern halves of the sky) would appear both upside down and reversed left to right compared to a northern perspective. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Posted on March 4, 2015 | 3 Comments Already the year 2015 is proving to be a great year for stargazing with planets, comets and meteorites gracing the skies but prepare for March as it brings a тАШmicro [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... Posted on December 5, 2014 | 4 Comments The December skies mark my favourite time of the year for stargazing. ... Posted on October 24, 2014 | ... Posted on September 26, 2014 | ...

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... LP-Moon.pdf - 26KB . ... A. A. Berezhnoy1,2, N. Hasebe1, M. Kobayashi1, G. Michael3 and N. Yamashita1 1Advanced Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan 2Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia 3German Aerospace Center, Institute for planetary research, Berlin, Germany . Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 40, 2004, Moscow, Russia . ... 3Now at: Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, Russia . ...

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... Most Important Journals . Less Popular Astronomical Journals . Physics . Space, Selectial mechanics, .. Russian Journals . ... Astrophysics & Astronomy . ... Astronomical Journal . ... New Astronomy . ... Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific . ... STScI News . Space Telescope Insitute Newsletter . ... Journal of Astronomical Data . ... Journal of High-Energy Physics (mirror in CERN ) [astro, grav, hi-energy .. ... Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics . ...

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... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

Dr. Victoria I. Prokhorenko . ... Situation Analysis of The "PROGNOZ" Orbit for Solar- Terrestrial Space Experiments. ... Studies of Satellite Situations Mission. ... A Situation Analysis of the Orbits of the Tail and Auroral Probes in the "INTERBALL" Project. ... Specific Tasks of Multiple Scale Plasma Measurement in Regatta- Cluster System (co-authors S. Savin and L. Zelenyi)- In Book: Proceedings of an International Workshop on Space Plasma Physics Investigations by Cluster and Regatta. ...

... Recherche dans le site : . Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... des actualit†йs . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil Collision fant†‡me sur Jupiter . ... Myst†йrieusement, l'impact d'un corps c†йleste observ†й sur Jupiter le 3 juin par des astronomes amateurs n'a laiss†й aucune trace dans l'atmosph†иre de la plan†иte. ... Etat du ciel . ...

... All images on this page are copyright Robert H. McNaught. ... There have been so many requests for high resolution copies of these images that I ask that all enquiries for these to go directly to Science Photo Library. C/2006 P1 on Jan 18, 10:22 UT. Photo: R. H. McNaught, Siding Spring Observatory. Canon 5D, 135mm, f/2.0, 2 sec exp., ISO 1600 . ... ISO 200 . ... Canon 5D, 50mm, f/2.0, 30 sec exp., ... Canon 5D, 135mm, f/2.0, 120 sec exp., ... Canon 5D, 50mm, f/2.0, 110 sec exp., ...