... Meteors and Meteorites . ... By admin August 2, 2011 Posted in: August . 13 August 2009: A perseid flashes through the sky (Image credit: Andreas M†ґller via wikimedia.org) . ... Not all meteors are sporadic events, the regular meteor showers occur when the Earth bulldozes through a great swarm of meteoroids drifting in orbit round the Sun. ... They are at their best in the pre-dawn hours, as the face of the Earth turning towards the Sun catches more meteors as the Earth moves through space. ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>2866) - www.armaghplanet.com/ )

• comets | Astronotes - Part 3
• Comet ISON Puts on a Show for Hubble | Astronotes
• Leonid meteors 2011 | Astronotes

... Credit Copyright: Andrх van der Hoeven Explanation: Tonight the Perseid Meteor Shower reaches its maximum. ... The Perseids result from the annual crossing of the Earth through Comet Swift-Tuttle 's orbit, and are typically the most active meteor shower of the year. ... Featured here is a meteor caught exploding two weeks ago above Austria next to the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy . Note: NASA TV to Host Perseid Meteor Shower Program . ... Meteors and Milky Way over Mount Ranier . ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>133826) - www.astronet.ru/ )

• Rainbow Perseid
• Meteors and Milky Way over Mount Ranier
• Spacecraft Rosetta Shows Comet has Two Components

... 2015 August 12 . Milky Way and Exploding Meteor . ... Explanation: Tonight the Perseid Meteor Shower reaches its maximum. ... Although it is hard to predict the level of activity in any meteor shower, in a clear dark sky an observer might see a meteor a minute. ... Featured here is a meteor caught exploding two weeks ago above Austria next to the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy . Note: NASA TV to Host Perseid Meteor Shower Program . ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>5097) - www.sai.msu.su/ )

• APOD: August 9, 1996 - The Perseid Meteor Shower
• APOD: 2015 August 25 - Meteors and Milky Way over Mount Rainier
• APOD: 2000 August 12 - A Perseid Meteor

See also: 2004 Perseids . This year's annual Perseid meteor shower takes place between the dates 17th July and 24th August, peaking on the night of 12/13th August, with a formal maximum in the small hours of Wednesday 13th August. ... This is the most famous of all meteor showers and rarely fails to provide an impressive display. ... Comet Swift-Tuttle takes approximately 130 years to make one circuit around the Sun, and sheds particles when closest to the Sun in its orbit. ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>5052) - star.arm.ac.uk/ )

• Armagh Observatory
• Meteor showers at Mars
• Perseid Meteors

... Articles | ... Forums . ... 230 deg . 49 deg . ... 130 deg . ... More Info . ... 210 deg . ... 168 deg . ... 249 deg . ... 195 deg . ... 271 deg . ... 110 deg . ... 338 deg . ... July 15 . 247 deg . ... 224 deg . ... 340 deg . ... July Phoenicids (PHE) . ... August 10 . 341 deg . ... 339 deg . ... 307 deg . ... 334 deg . ... 335 deg . ... 286 deg . ... 327 deg . ... 262 deg . ... 102 deg . ... 153 deg . ... 117 deg . ... December 2 . ... 123 deg . ... 100 deg . ... www.astronomy.net . ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>1190) - www.astronomy.net/ )

• Perseid Shower 2010 And Ham Radio - an Astronomy Net Observation_reports Forum

... It's a Meteor Shower Smaller than grains of sand, meteors vaporize in a bright streak of light as they hit Earth's atmosphere. Meteor showers come from comets, but the sporadic meteors on other nights are mostly asteroid bits. ... Meteor Showers Come From Comets Jupiter Earth Sun Comet Mercury Tips: A bright Moon can wash out meteors, making them hard to see. ... But the comet bits hit Earth's atmosphere so fast, the pieces vaporize in bright streaks -- making a meteor shower! ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>1401) - www.astrosociety.org/ )

• ASP: Guest Observer
• ASP: Monster Comet Promises Big Show
• ASP: Contents, July/August 1996

... Observing . ... The Perseid meteor shower peaks mid-August . You donт??t need any equipment to view this summer meteor shower, although a Full Moon will create some observing challenges. ... The Perseid meteor shower peaks August 13, which is unfortunately on the same day as Full Moon. ... One of the most-observed meteor showers will peak August 13. ... Although the Perseids peak on the 13th, you can still catch meteors associated with the shower up to a few weeks on either side of the maximum. ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>7290) - www.astronomy.com/ )

• Astronomy Magazine - Interactive Star Charts, Planets, Meteors, Comets,
• Photos of recent comet flybys show their nuclei to be barbell-shaped rather
• How to watch the Geminid meteor shower | Astronomy.com

Thought-Provoking Imagery Shows Sun's Place in the Galaxy . ... SOHO - Explosive Coronal Mass Ejections from the Sun . SOHO-6 Comet at 2-6 solar radii from the Sun . ... The remarkable images come from SOHO's visible-light coronagraph, LASCO, which is able to mask the intense rays from the Sun's surface in order to reveal the much fainter glow of the solar atmosphere, or corona. ... SOHO is ideally placed to report and even anticipate their origins in the Sun's atmosphere. ... The Sun . ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>6444) - www.arcetri.astro.it/ )

• Kuiper Belt Objects
• Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 - Hubble Space Telescope
• Comet Halley

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Dronino . ... New iron meteorite shower found! Meteorite Encyclopedia . ... About laboratory . ... Dronino iron meteorite . ... Mr. Gus'kov felt that further efforts by Milanovsky were likely to be unsuccessful, so he searched further and found our Meteorites Laboratory. The Laboratory's analysis showed that the Dronino Iron has a meteorite origin. ... Dronino is the 111th meteorite and only the third iron-meteorite shower found in Russia in the last 250 years. ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>103) - www.meteorites.ru/ )

... This 10 min exposure shows star trails clearlтАж . Sidebar Left . ... Title: This 10 min exposure shows star trails clearly defining the south celestial pole just left of centre. Description: The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are on the left and the Milky Way from Crux through Centaurus are on the right. ... This 10 min exposure shows star trails clearly defining the south celestial pole just left of centre. ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>691) - www.mso.anu.edu.au/ )

• IAU Commission #34 (Interstellar Matter)
• A series of images from Hermann Wehner, showing the telescope in its original
• Media

New England observer Lew Gramer, fresh back from his mid-November fish observing and meteor-catching expedition in South Florida, reports that December also promises to be a great month for celestial sky-sparks!" ... Other showers adding to the mix this month include several very minor showers, such as the Chi Orionids (3 Dec), Monocerotids (9 Dec) and Sigma Hydrids (12 Dec), which usually contribute no more than 2 or 3 meteors per hour during even post-midnight observing this month. ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>425) - www.atmob.org/ )

• Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Weekend Visits to the ALMA OSF . ... Images . ... Usage of ESO Images and Videos . ... Transporters . ... Public Talks 2003 . ... Planetarium shows . ... This picture was the 10000th to appear in ESO's photo archive. ... Adhemar's picture is a spectacular night view of Otto, one of the ALMA transporters, with the Milky Way and ALMA antennas as a dramatic backdrop. ... ALMA, ALMA transporters , Milky Way . ... Milky Way . ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>66342) - www.eso.org/ )

• Wide-field view of the Milky Way, showing the extent of a new VISTA gigapixel
• ESO's 10000th public image shows ALMA transporters and Milky Way
• It€‡s Raining Stars тАФ a video podcast celebrating the Geminid meteor shower |

... Club By-laws . ... Other Club Activities . ... Public Nights . ... Dr. James Green, NASA, Director Planetary Science will be our esteemed speaker on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 7:30 PM in Peyton Hall on the Princeton University campus. ... Our astronomers setup telescopes for public use at Communiversity in Princeton, Super Science Saturday at the NJ State Museum in Trenton and at various public events around Mercer County. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>107) - www.princetonastronomy.org/ )

Figure 1a. This figure shows the secondary tilts required to correct for transverse flexures of both the telescope truss and the secondary mirror mounts as the telescope changes altitude. ... The circles show the x-tilts of the secondary needed to minimize telescope coma and the squares show the y-tilts required. ... The small negative slope which seen in the y-tilt data is possibly real. ... However, the y-tilt data are very consistent with the y-tilts measured on August 14 (Figure 1a). ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>475) - www.apo.nmsu.edu/ )

• Figure 2
• Figure 6
• Figure 4

On September 15, 1998, the STScI director, Dr. Steven Beckwith, announced a special observation opportunity to the astronomical community during the Leonid Meteor Shower. During the peak of the Leonid meteor shower on November 17, 1998, HST will be pointed near the anti-radiant for ten hours. Anyone who is interested can submit ideas to STScI for scientific observations during this time. ... There are no HST observations in the archives for objects in this field. ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>9770) - www.stsci.edu/ )

• Is the Crab Pulsar Showing A 60-second Periodic Modulation?
• Tips for Viewing a Show
• Stephen Holland's Recent News

U nlike the other small bodies in the solar system, comets have been known since antiquity. There are Chinese records of Comet Halley going back to at least 240 BC. ... W hen they are near the Sun and active, comets have several distinct parts: . ... A comet whose orbit takes it near the Sun is also likely to either impact one of the planets or the Sun or to be ejected out of the solar system by a close encounter (esp. with Jupiter). ... more comet images . ... Comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1) . ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>820) - www.iki.rssi.ru/ )

• Comet Introduction
• Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
• Meteorites, Meteorites and Impacts

... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, 119899, Moscow, Russia . ... 50_Kozlova_Shevchenko.pdf - 212KB . A.A. Berezhnoy (1), O.R. Baransky (2), K.I. Churyumov (2), V.V. Kleshchenok (2), E.A. Kozlova (1), V. Mangano (3), V.O. Ponomarenko (2), Yu.V. Pakhomov (4), V.V. Shevchenko (1), yu. ... Berezhnoy A.A., Kozlova E.A., Shevchenko V.V. в сборнике 36th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, серия Lunar and Planetary Institute Science Conference Abstracts, том 36, с. 1061 тезисы . ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>114) - selena.sai.msu.ru/ )

• Aleksei A. Berezhnoi
• Козлова Екатерина Анатольевна
• List of publications

Here we have an images of Comet C/1998 U5 (LINEAR) passing NGC 7080 showing SN 1998ey on Dec.12 only a week after Ron Arbour discovered the SN. Jack was unaware that it was over the galaxy let alone that it showed the SN! . Image by Jack Schmidling . For more informat on comets, check the Comet chasing . Back to 1998ey . Back to 1998 Supernovae . Back to Bright Supernovae David Bishop Last modified: Wed Jul 18 12:47:37 EDT 2001

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>317) - www.rochesterastronomy.org/ )

Next: ASSIGN/GRAPHIC and COPY/GRAPHIC Up: General Commands Previous: General Commands . SET/GRAPHIC plays an important role in the plot package. This command gives the user control over the plot size, line types ( LTYPE ) љ , line thickness ( LWIDTH ) љ , symbol type ( STYPE ) љ and size ( SSIZE ) љ , etc. In Table the various options that can be set with the SET/GRAPH command are listed, together with the default settings. ... When STYPE=0 a line will be drawn corresponding to LTYPE . ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>973) - www.sao.ru/ )

• Index
• Gravitational Lensing by Stars
• Milky Way Cosmology

... Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today . ... we invite you to submit papers based on your plenary, review or contributed talks or posters presented at the conference "Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today" to its Proceedings to be published by Armenian Academy of Science in 2016. Please note that participants who prepare the regular papers for the special issue of JQSRT on radiative transfer, etc. are also invited to submit papers to the Proceedings. ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>265) - www.astro.spbu.ru/ )

• Slide shows and posters | Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects:
• Astronomy Electronic Preprints and Publications