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... 2014 February 10 . Falling to Earth . ... Explanation: What would it be like to fall to Earth from really high up? ... Surpassing the previous record of 31.3 kilometer plummet , Baumgartner, in a commercial venture , jumped off a floating balloon platform 39.0 kilometers above New Mexico, USA and had his entire fall recorded on video. Baumgartner wore a pressurized suit able to provide breathable air and warmth while up in the balloon and during his fall. ... About APOD | ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... News . ... In the following article, I used the wrong number to get the circumference of the Earth at the latitude of Cape Canaveral, which ironically is what I accuse Ms. vos Savant of as well! ... At the Equator, the Earth spins at 1000 miles per hour (the Earth is 24,000 miles around, and spins once every 24 hours). ... The math is a wee bit hairy, but not too bad, to calculate the circumference of the Earth at Cape Canaveral assuming the Earth is an ellipse with these numbers...

... 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. ...

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Next: The BeppoSAX Low-Energy Concentrator Spectrometer Archive at the Space Science Department of ESA . Up: Archiving . ... The Integrated Data Archive System . ... This paper shows aspects of the development of a prototype application to test the feasibility of near real time distribution of Telemetry Packets to the different instrument control centers. ... The FIRST ground segment will be based on the object oriented FIRST Integrated Network and Data Archive System - FINDAS. ...

... Archives . ... They find yearly modulation in their detected scintillation rate that matches what you would expect if the Earth were rushing through Galactic Dark Matter as it goes around the Sun. ... Significant! ... Certainly, at 8-sigma, it is easy to accept that there is modulation. ... Astronomers in general are extremely suspicious of any yearly modulations, as we have learnt from hard experience that it is an extremely common source of systematic error. ... Chandra Blog . ...

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... Mercurys Transit: An Unusual Spot on the Sun . ... Usually it is the Earth's Moon that eclipses the Sun. A Hurricane Over the South Pole of Saturn . ... Follow the handle of the Big Dipper away from the dipper's bowl, until you get to the handle's last bright star. ... Janus: Potato Shaped Moon of Saturn . ... First, Janus travels in an unusual orbit around Saturn where it periodically trades places with its sister moon Epimetheus, which typically orbits about 50 kilometers away. ...

... Deutsch . ... The Milky Way is the galaxy in which we live, a collection of billions of hot burning stars, planets and cosmic gas. If you re lucky enough to have enjoyed a really dark sky, far from the light pollution in cities and towns, you might have seen the Milky Way arching majestically across the night sky. ... This star cluster lies in the Carina-Sagittarius arm, named after the two constellations we find it in (the Carina constellation and the Sagittarius constellation). ...

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A very important stage in a story of formation of any new science is the shift from discussion of situation which are possible but do not occur in practice due to some reason to recognition of real phenomena of interest. ... We suggest to consider computer viruses as this new specific form of life which is coming in the contact with our form of life. ... Computer life has been created by human being, the role of independent evolution of computer viruses seems to be still negligible. ...

. The pysynphot import problem was not solved. I really solved it today (really). I ran the pandokia tests on pysynphot under python2. None errored, but some failed, which I will look at. Tried running the python3 tests, but didn't have pandokia set up correctly. Search . Pages . Front Page . Weblog . Recent posts . Archive for 2015 . Archive for April . Commands . Edit Post .