... 2000 February 16 . Eros From Orbit . Credit: NEAR Project , JHU APL , NASA . Explanation: On February 14th, the NEAR spacecraft became the first artificial moon of an asteroid . Captured by the gentle gravity of a 20 mile long slipper-shaped mountain of rock, NEAR recorded this premier image while orbiting asteroid 433 Eros at a distance of about 200 miles. The image shows features as small as 100 feet across in a view dominated by a 3 mile wide crater near Eros' narrow waist. ...

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Region markers can be moved, resized, rotated, zoomed, deleted, and can change geometric type. ... For example, markers placed on astronomical catalog positions should be fixed so that one cannot accidentally move them off the specified position. ... Parameters can be fixed using the fix option of the regions public access point (for fixing classes of markers) or by means of a fix keyword in the definition of an externally loaded marker. ... In the command: echo "regions fix all -position -size" | ...

... Table 1: Summary Recommedation for post- STIS TAC Orbit Re-Allocation Recommendation Considerations Total est_ orbits until C13/C14 boundary (44 weeks ) Tail to maintain efficiency (10 weeks ) Subtotal orbits to plan for (Table 2) Assumed HOPRs (2.5%) Remaining planned and anticipated orbits (Table 3) Subtotal orbits available for re-allocation: STIS -- non- STIS transfer Total Total Orbits to Plan for in the Remainder of Cycle 13. ...

... Credit Copyright: NEAR Project , JHU APL , NASA Explanation: On February 14th, the NEAR spacecraft became the first artificial moon of an asteroid . Captured by the gentle gravity of a 20 mile long slipper-shaped mountain of rock, NEAR recorded this premier image while orbiting asteroid 433 Eros at a distance of about 200 miles. ... Although Eros is a large S-type near-earth asteroid , it is still not massive enough for its own gravity to have shaped it into a planet-like spherical form. ...

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Next: DWELL Up: Details of SCHED Parameters Previous: DOVEX Contents . The topic of controlling scan timing is discussed in detail in the Scan Times section . ... DWELL is a very similar parameter except that, with DURation , the scan starts GAP seconds (perhaps adjusted by the old parameter PRESCAN after the previous stop time while with DWELL , the scan will start at least GAP seconds after the previous stop time, but, if necessary, will wait longer to allow all antennas to reach the source. ...

Plans are under way to create a new way of performing non-interactive observations which will be called auto-observing . ... Non-interactive observing with CIMA has for a long time been available with the use of CIMA command files. Contrary to normal command file observing which requires a command file with a set of commands to be executed sequentially, auto-observing will use a list of sources and a list of instructions on how to observe each of the sources. ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... honing the skills of performing the tasks of operating the orbital (suborbital) spaceship in a normal autonomous flight and in case of occurrence of off-optimum situations; . ... preparing for conducting visual observations, photographing and video filming envisaged by the flight program; . ... preparing the astronaut's body to the effect of space flight factors, honing the skills of operating the spaceborne medical facilities, rendering self and mutual aid; . ...

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... February 21, 1996 . Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri . ... Explanation: Pictured above is the largest ball of stars in our Galaxy. About 10 million stars orbit the center of this globular cluster - named Omega Centauri - as this giant globular cluster orbits the center of our Galaxy . Recent evidence indicates that Omega Centauri is by far the most massive of the about 160 globular clusters in the Milky Way . ... About APOD | ...

. Computer Ephemeris. Elements of osculating planetary orbits. Explanations. Each row contains at 0h of Time Dynamical Terrestrial of specified date in system of mean equator and ecliptic J2000.0 the ecliptic osculating elements of heliocentric orbit: inclination of orbital plane (degrees), longitude of ascending node (degrees), argument of perigelion (degrees), semimajor axis (astronomical units), mean motion (degrees per day), eccentricity (dimensionless), mean anomaly (degrees).

Regions designation | Regions models | ASCII files description . The real time visibility of the IB_TAIL relative to the Evpatoria and Panska Ves . ... The real time regions passing . ... The IB_TAIL geocentric distance as a function of the Moscow time (MT = UT + 3h) (Plot) . Geomagnetic local time in the IB_TAIL position as a function of the MT (Plot) . The IB_TAIL orbital data ASCII files . ... INTERBALL mission  ...

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Next: General CCF Components Up: Calibration Access and Data Previous: List of CAL Routines Contents . This section contains descriptions of the structure of CCF constituents. ... The calibration team of the SOC is also providing additional CCF components where required in conjunction with data that were generated with SciSim. ... These CCF components are generated on a need basis and are identical in structure to the real life components. ... Generation from Ground Calibration Data . ...

Four spacecraft: INTERBALL Tail probe (IB_TAIL), MAGION 5 (IB_MAG5), POLAR(NASA/ISAS), GEOTAIL (NASA) are considered. ... four spacecraft . ... INTERBALL . ... IB_MAG5) . ... NASA) . GEOTAIL . NASA, ISAS) . The four spacecraft . ... INTERBALL mission | ...

... For reducing data from ESO instrumentation it is assumed that the FITS headers conforms the standards set by the document ``ESO Archive, Data Interface Requirements''. ... As an example, in the ESO case the exposure type is stored in the ESO hierarchical FITS keyword `HIERARCH ESO GEN EXPO TYPE'. ... To fill the CCD keywords with the telescope and instrument setup parameters, like name of the telescope, CCD used, read-out noise, frame size, etc. the command LOAD/CCD can be used. ...

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... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . On Friday 15th February the recently discovered Apollo-class near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 will make a close pass by the Earth. The asteroid will come within about 34,000 km (21,000 miles) of the centre of our planet at 7.26 p.m. That is, within the ring of geostationary communication satellites which orbit at some 35,800 km above the surface of the Earth. ... Last Revised: 2013 February 11th . ...