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... 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 . ...

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... VLA , NRAO Explanation: An object many astronomers believe is a black hole has been found only 1500 light-years from Earth, making it the closest black hole candidate . ... V4641 is the fourth known microquasar , a miniature version of the massive, matter spewing black holes thought to exist in the centers of galaxies . ... Publications with keywords: black hole - radio source - X-ray source . Publications with words: black hole - radio source - X-ray source . ... Jumbled Galaxy Centaurus A . ...

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... 2000 January 17 . V4641 Sgr: The Closest Black Hole Candidate . ... Explanation: An object many astronomers believe is a black hole has been found only 1500 light-years from Earth, making it the closest black hole candidate . ... Astronomers are working to understand why V4641 acts strangely even for a black hole , as the explosions it creates fade within minutes, and appear at different times in different bands of light . ... About APOD | ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... A Minor Planet's Night Out . ... Orbiting between Mars and Jupiter are thousands of rocky bodies. ... In 1804 came Juno; in 1807, Vesta. ... Most minor planets, as asteroids are sometimes affectionately called, hum in elliptical orbits between Mars and Jupiter. ... This helps us as we select the Guest Observer, and it helps readers to understand what you studied. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... This activity is believed to be promoting the unusually high rate of star formation seen in M82. ... Radio image of M82 made with the MERLIN and VLA telescopes. Insets show MERLIN images from April 25th and May 3rd 2009 demonstrating the sudden appearance of the mystery object.€а All images are at a frequency of 5 GHz. ... Mystery object in Starburst Galaxy M82 . ...

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... 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. ...

... The First (Experimental) International Astronomy Olympiad . The following olympic problems were proposed for the participants on the theoretical part: Grades 8-10 . ... Why is it sometimes better to use a small telescope in orbit around the Earth than it is to use a large telescope on a mountain top? ... What will an observer looking to the Moon through the telescope see? ... Paper with a drown circle and table of maximal elongations of Mercury and Venus had been done for participants. ...

... Listed below are questions submitted by users of "The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere" and the answers given to them. ... The ones included below are either of the sort that keeps coming up again and again--the danger of solar eruptions, the reversal of the Earth's magnetic field, etc.-- or else the answers make a special point, going into extra details which might interest other users. ... Radiation Belts and Manned Space Flight . ... Capturing the Energy of the Solar Wind . ...

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. ...

... Events . ... The Event Horizon Telescope: Observing Black Holes with Schwarzschild-Radius Resolution . ... Galaxy lies a super massive black hole - 4 million times more massive . ... Universe to spatially resolve and image a black hole Event Horizon. ... For the much more massive (6 billion solar mass) black hole . ... for assembling a submm-VLBI Event Horizon Telescope. ... emission near the event horizon of super massive black holes. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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 ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2010 > Central Massive Objects: The Stellar Nuclei - Black Hole Connection . ... Science Users Information . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Science Software . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... An ESO workshop for observers and theorists to discuss recent progress in our understanding of the formation and evolution of black holes and star clusters in the centres of galaxies and their connection to each...

... ARTICLE: The Adventurous Search For The Astronomical Unit . ... Kepler himself had suggested to use the rare occasions of Venus transiting (crossing) the solar disk to measure our distance to the planet. ... Due to the orbital inclination of Venus against the ecliptic of 3.5°, a Venus transit is so rare that it happens only at intervals of 121.5 years, 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and so on. ... Crabtree witnessing the transit of Venus 1639 . ... Transits of Venus - The Quest for the Solar Parallax...

... Chapter 4: Solar System Targets > 4.4 Observing Windows [Windows] > 4.4 (cont) Observing Windows [Windows] . ... The <occulted object>, <occulting object>, and <observer> must be standard targets from Table 4.1: Solar System Standard Targets . ... The <transiting object>, <transited object>, and <observer> must be standard targets from Table 4.1: Solar System Standard Targets . ... The <object> and <observer> must be standard targets from Table 4.1: Solar System Standard Targets . ...

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After a couple of visits by Steve Larson and Ed Beshore in late 2003 and early March 2004 to deal with various hardware issues and to install the new survey code, regular surveying commenced in mid-March 2004. ... However, the initial results are most satisfying and new objects have been found from the very first night. ... UA Media Release . ... Fellow Uppsala observer Rob McNaught was observing NEOs with the 1.0-m at Siding Spring as part of our regular program of follow-up observations. ...