Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Space Flight . ... The Future . ... Science Fiction . ... Written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Chris Weston and published by Image Comics in 2004, the book is a graphic novel (a posh comic aimed at adults) set in a 2001 where Britain dominates the Solar System. The story is told from the viewpoint of the elderly Sir John Dashwood, mastermind of the British space program, jumping between 2001 and flashbacks to his past. ...

... 13.03.1996 . ... Probably some of these comets did not get as bright as Comet Hyakutake ("hyah-koo-tah-kay") will in the next two weeks. ... During its closest approach to the Earth on March 25th, Comet Hyakutake will appear in the Northern hemisphere as a diffuse ball of light brighter than most stars. ... As Comet Hyakutake recedes from the Earth it will fade, but brighten again as it nears the sun later in April. ... There is no chance Comet Hyakutake will hit the Earth. ... Little Planet Lovejoy...

... March 13, 1996 . Here Comes Comet Hyakutake . ... Comet Hyakutake is shown above already showing a tail of dust . This image, taken directly from a photographic negative, shows stars as black spots and the bright comet coma and tail as dark clouds against the white background of space. During its closest approach to the Earth on March 25th, Comet Hyakutake will appear in the Northern hemisphere as a diffuse ball of light brighter than most stars. ... About APOD | ...

... The awsome spectacle of a brilliant comet, with its long ghostly tail streaming behind it, is a rare event. ... Only one other comet, Comet Halley, was seen so far from the Sun, giving scientists an opportunity to watch it as it slowly warmed up and sprouted a tail. ... Comets are the Rip Van Winkles of the solar system -- mini-worlds that have changed little during their 4.5-billion-year nap far from the Sun. ... Observing Comets . ... Once, comets inhabited the entire solar system. ...

... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... Site Info . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... By now, most everyone has heard the news that a group of people in California has committed mass suicide, claiming that it would enable them to meet a spaceship flying along with the comet Hale-Bopp. ... I received an email from a Bad Reader basically laying the blame for all this on the people purveying the Bad Astronomy. ... One of the best Hale-Bopp comet sites, AT JPL . ...

Educator's Guide to Kitchen Comets . ... When a comet nucleus is gravitationally drawn into the inner solar system it begins to heat up. ... You can make an accurate model of a comet nucleus easily and inexpensively. ... Dry Ice (5 lbs) available from ice companies or ice cream parlors; CAUTION: Dry ice is -79 degrees C (-110 degrees F). ... Water, ammonia, organic (carbon based) molecules, and silicates are all present on comet nuclei. ... Observe the behavior of your miniature comet nucleus. ...

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... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Moon . ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... Moon Maps . ... Gift Center . ... With the Moon gradually moving away from Earth, what will happen to people and objects when the Earth-Moon center of mass reaches Earth's surface? ... The barycenter, or the Earth-Moon system's center of mass, is a mathematical construct used to help us understand the system as a whole. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

For a sample of 16 people, the error would be 4/16 = 25%. This a large error since the range of YES vs NO is from 0-100% if 12 people answered yes and 4 people answered no then your result would be: . Percentage yes = 75 +/- 25% . ... For a sample fo 1000 people, the error would be SQRT(1000)/1000 = 33/1000 = 3%. If 750 answered yes and 250 answered no then your result would be: . ... Conclusion: Always ask what the measuring errors are!! Previous Lecture Next Lecture Course Page ...

... 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). ...

... English astronomer and mathematician. ... American astronomer. ... Bond, William Cranch 1789-1859 . ... At the observatory, he studied Saturn and (with William Lassell ) discovered its moon Hyperion . ... Polish astronomer who advanced the heliocentric theory that the earth and other planets revolve around the Sun. ... Galileo Galilei 1564-1642 . ... Van Allen discovered the Earth's radiation belts, which now bear his name, with an instrument aboard the first successful American satellite, Explorer...

... Comet 292P/Li. Images obtained using the Faulkes Telescope South, operated by Las Cumbres Observatory. ... Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring. ... Throughout our week at Armagh Observatory, we used the Faulkes Telescope in Australia to look at an interesting comet from the Oort Cloud C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring), that was discovered on the 3rd of January in 2013, by Robert H. McNaught at Siding Spring Observatory. ... Image obtained using the Faulkes Telescope South, operated by Las Cumbres Observatory. ...

... Comet Images . ... Comet Hale-Bopp Home Page . ... JPL's Comet Hale-Bopp Home Page . ... Планируемые и прошлые миссии к кометам: . New Millenium Deep Space-1 Миссия НАСА к астероиду ?3352 Мак Олиф и периодической комете Веста-Когоутека-Икемуры (1998); . Stardust - Миссия НАСА по проекту "Дискавери (открытие)" к комете Вилд2 (1999) или еще один сайт . ... ICE (ISEE-3) - Миссия НАСА по исслед. кометы Джакобини-Циннера . Sakigake - Япония, изучение кометы Галлея (и Джакобини-Циннера в1998) . ...

... And, of course, sometimes it is unavoidable, or so I told Brad W. When one has too many points for a regular polynomial fit, and they are too scattered for a spline, and too few to try a wavelet ?denoising?, and no real theoretical expectation of any particular model function, and all one wants is ?a smooth curve, damnit?, then Lowess is just the ticket. ... Tags: Brad Wargelin , error bands , error bars , Fitting , least-squares , Loess , Lowess , polynomial , question for statisticians , smoothing...

ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Staff list | ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... VLBI . ... Not necessarily relevant but Randall felt that xfs and raiding didn't get on as well as ext2, so our internal feelings here were to simply turn off the journalling option in the formatting script, thus returning things to ext2, which means no significant changes but a probable potential speed up. ... Subject: Re: LBA recorder disk speed tests . ...

... A horse is a horse Of course of course And no one can talk to a horse, Of course That is, of course Unless the horse Is the famous Mister Ed! Go right to the source And ask the horse He'll give you the answer that you'll endorse He's always on a steady course Talk to Mister Ed! People yakkity-yak a streak And waste your time of day But Mister Ed will never speak Unless he has something to say! ... I am Mister Ed!" ... A. Franklin Wheeler, King of Triviality Carnegie Mellon University ...

. [ Go back to Comet WWW site ] . Andrew A. Martis . martis @ sai.msu.ru .

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NATIONAL ASTRONOMY AND IONOSPHERE CENTER . ... Astronomy . ... Visitor Center . ... Comets . ... Observing conditions were favorable at Arecibo July 5-15 2001, and observing time for both spectroscopy of 18-cm OH lines and S-band radar observations were arranged. The comet nucleus was observed to split into two pieces on April 30. ... Because the comet passed within 0.25 AU of the Earth in early July, when it was visible from Arecibo Observatory, it was fairly well suited to radar observation. ...