... 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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In 1950 Jan Oort noticed that . no comet has been observed with an orbit that indicates that it came from interstellar space, . ... From this he proposed that comets reside in a vast cloud at the outer reaches of the solar system. ... Unfortunately, since the individual comets are so small and at such large distances, we have no direct evidence about the Oort Cloud. ... Its orbit is intermediate between the Kuiper Belt and what was previously thought to be the inner part of the Oort Cloud. ...

... no comet has been observed with an orbit that indicates that it came from interstellar space, . ... From this he proposed that comets reside in a vast cloud at the outer reaches of the solar system. ... Unfortunately, since the individual comets are so small and at such large distances, we have no direct evidence about the Oort Cloud. ... T he Kuiper Belt is a disk-shaped region past the orbit of Neptune roughly 30 to 100 AU from the Sun containing many small icy bodies. ... Small Bodies .. ...

... Kuiper belt objects are icy bodies in the outer solar system. ... Views of Kuiper Belt Objects . Object 1993 SC . This image shows a small part of the discovery frames of 1993 SC, one of the brightest Kuiper-Belt objects so far discovered. ... Assuming that Object 1993 SC reflects light much like other primitive asteroids and comets in the out solar system, the diameter is around 300 kilometers (186 miles), or just a quarter the size of Pluto's moon Charon. ... Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Moon . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... What changed our view of Chariklo is the discovery of a ring system around it, the first such feature found around a Solar System body smaller than a gas giant planet. ... Almost certainly the rings were born when a collision with a smaller asteroid blasted millions of tonnes of debris off CharikloтАЩs surface. ... A ring system detected around the Centaur (10199) Chariklo (Braga-Rigas et al.) ...

Some peculiarities of orbits of observed comets. ... Icarus, 2005 Simulation and reality Distribution of anti-perihelia of short-period comets with e 0.9 ( ecliptic coordinates ) Distribution of anti-perihelia of short-period comets with e 0.9 ( ecliptic coordinates ) Distribution of anti-perihelia of long-period comets with 0.9 e 1 ( ecliptic coordinates ) ­ ...

In 1990, Duncan Steel, then of the Uni. of Adelaide, commenced the Anglo-Australian Near-Earth Asteroid Survey. This project took advantage of the photographic work being undertaken at the 1.2-m U.K. Schmidt Telescope of the Anglo-Australian Observatory. Since the U.K. Schmidt had commenced its photographic sky surveys in 1973, many comets had been found, but few NEAs. ... The status of the AANEAS and other U. K. Schmidt NEA discoveries can be found here. ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

This is a copy of a Press Release from E.S.O. Eight years after the passage of Comet Halley in early 1986, astronomers at the European Southern Observatory have succeeded in obtaining an image of this famous object at a distance of no less than 2,820 million km from the Sun. ... The image shows the 6 x 15 km avocado-shaped nucleus as an extremely faint point of light without any surrounding dust cloud. ... This observation was made with the ESO 3.58 metre New Technology Telescope (NTT). ...

... Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer Instrument Handbook for Cycle 17 > Appendix C: Bright Object Mode > C.1 Bright Object Mode . ... The time taken to read through a quadrant on the array sets a fundamental limit on the fastest electron collection rate which can be achieved by resetting all the pixels. ... In BRIGHTOBJ mode, an ACCUM sequence of operations is performed on one pixel in each quadrant at a time. ... The time required to take a BRIGHTOBJ mode exposure can be rather long. ...

... 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. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... I want to know if a space colony or large sattelite was established at any Lagrange point, like L5, would another Colony or sattelite have to be placed at L4 in order for the earth's orbit to remain stable? ... In the late 1700s, French mathematician Joseph Lagrange discovered that if you have a massive object orbiting another massive object (say, the Earth orbiting the Sun), there exist five points of equilibrium where the forces all balance. ... 2008 Phil...

... The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest human-made object ever to orbit the Earth. Last August, the station was visited and resupplied by space shuttle Discovery. ... Crumbling Comet . ... Comet Meets Ring Nebula: Part II . ... Rock Slab Growing at Mt St Helens Volcano . ... A new rock slab is growing at more than one meter a day on the Mt. ... The rock slab, growing since last November, now extends about 100 meters out from one of the volcano's craters. ... Next [ Last page ] . ...

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 ...

Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders . ... Archives . ... A fast Bayesian approach to discrete object detection in astronomical datasets ? ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ...

Shakht N.A., A.A.Afanas'eva, D.L. Gorshanov, E. V.Poliakow (Pulkovo Observatory, Russia): Title: Long-term photographic observations for selected objects of Pulkovo program: measurements and results. Abstract: The selected objects, observed at Pulkovo observatory during long time period have been of intense interest among astronomers, and now they are the most important aims for space investigations. ... Now we believe, that they also are interesting for observation during space mission Gaia. ...

ImageIO - Reference Counted C++ Class for Reading and Writing Images . include ImageIO .h // types of image data (these mostly correspond to the FITS BITPIX values) enum ImageDataType { UNKNOWN_ IMAGE = -1, // unknown type BYTE_ IMAGE = 8, // 8 bit images X_ IMAGE = -8, // special, color scaled, X image data SHORT_ IMAGE = 16, // 16 bit signed USHORT_ IMAGE = -16, // 16 bit unsigned LONG_ IMAGE = 32, // 32 bit integer FLOAT_ IMAGE = -32 // 32 bit floating point }; ...

... 22c. Flight (1) . ... 24a.The Rotating Earth . ... Assuming our rocket and spaceship are provided--how should they be aimed, and how long would the flight take? As an approximation assume that the orbits of Earth and Mars are both circles in the same plane, centered on the Sun. ... That is an ellipse with perihelion P (point closest to the Sun) at the orbit of Earth and aphelion A (point most distant from the Sun) at the orbit of Mars (drawing). ... The length PA of that ellipse is, in AU, . ...

... They are the offset in arcseconds for the x and y inst plane offset, the exposure time in seconds, and the number of exposures at each position. ... A point about offsets should be made here. The dither program uses absolute instrument plane offsets, so you should use object plane offsets to center up on the chip so that the script starts from where you centered up. INST and OBJ offsets are independent so an object offset will not be zeroed out by and inst plane offset, just added to it. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...