... 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 . ...

... 5.07.2009 . ... Credit: Genesis Mission , NASA Explanation: A flying saucer from outer space crash-landed in the Utah desert in 2004 after being tracked by radar and chased by helicopters. ... The saucer, pictured above , was the Genesis sample return capsule, part of a human-made robot Genesis spaceship launched in 2001 by NASA itself to study the Sun. ... July 2009 . ... 2001 2002 . ... Publications with keywords: Genesis - Sun - impact . Publications with words: Genesis - Sun - impact . ...

Educator's Guide to Impact Craters . ... Just about all craters have deep central depressions, raised rims, and a blanket of ejected material surrounding them. ... Look for classical cratering features: basin, raised rim, ejecta blanket (material excavated from the crater and dumped around it, visible as white flour on the colored powder), and rays (material shot out at high velocity forming lines pointing directly away from the impact site). ... The material lies like a blanket around the crater. ...

... Lunar Orbiter 5 was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. ... Accurate data were acquired from all other experiments throughout the mission. ... A detailed description of the experiment, a bibliography, and indexes of all the available Lunar Orbiter 1 through 5 photos are contained in the report 'Lunar Orbiter Photographic Data,' NSSDC 69-05, June 1969. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2009 July 5 . Genesis Mission's Hard Impact . Credit: Genesis Mission , NASA . ... The saucer, pictured above , was the Genesis sample return capsule, part of a human-made robot Genesis spaceship launched in 2001 by NASA itself to study the Sun. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... Peter J.K. "Jeff" Wisoff (Ph.D) . NASA Astronaut (former) . ... A veteran of four space flights, STS-57 in 1993, STS-68 in 1994, STS-81 in 1997 and STS-92 in 2000, Dr. Wisoff has logged a total of 42 days, 56 hours, 1 minute and 48 seconds in space, including , 19 hours and 53 minutes of EVA time in three space walks. ... Following 183 orbits of the Earth in 269 hours and 46 minutes, the eleven-day mission ended with Space Shuttle Endeavour landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California. ...

... In this final issue of the year, we consider the Moon's alien surface features, (so different from those we're used to on Earth) and review the golden age of lunar exploration. ... From 1959 (when the Luna 1 probe made the first flyby of the Moon) until 1976 (when Luna 24 returned the last lunar sample to Earth), 32 unmanned probes and 9 manned missions to the Moon or near-Moon space were successfully carried out. ... Luna 1 . ... First flyby of Moon . ... Flyby; first photographs of Moon's farside ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Flights Chronology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . ... Mounting of MPAC & SEED panels on the external surface of the Service module during extravehicular activity, obtaining video and photographic information on the state of the panels. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

Penetrators for Europa Rob Gowen on behalf of UK Penetrator Consortium University College London Birkbeck College London Imperial College London Open University Leicester University Cambridge University SSC Surrey University Universit QinetiQ Astrium SSTL Magna Parva + international support MSSL/UCL UK Europa Lander Workshop - Moscow, Feb12 2009 Contents Introduction.. ... Europa Lander Workshop - Moscow, Feb12 2009 MSSL/UCL UK - End - Europa Lander Workshop - Moscow, Feb12 2009 MSSL/UCL UK ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... By admin February 19, 2011 Posted in: Comets and Asteroids . ... Since it was launched in 1999, the Stardust spacecraft has travelled about 5.7 billion km (3.5 billion miles) on its odyssey from Earth to comet Wild 2, back to Earth then on to comet Tempel 1. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... des actualit†йs . des reportages . ... les plus belles images de l'Univers d†йcrypt†йes pour vous . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil Un impact record vu en direct sur la Lune . ... Comment d†йtecter des flashs sur la Lune ? ... 30/03/2016 - La chute dтАЩun corps c†йleste sur Jupiter vue en direct . ...

Журнал ПОВЕРХНОСТЬ публикует оригинальные статьи и обзоры по наиболее актуальным проблемам изучения поверхностных явлений. ... Редакция журнала 'Поверхность. ... Англоязычная версия журнала Journal of Surface Investigation . X-Ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques выходит 6 раз в год . The Journal of Surface Investigation. X-ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques ( Poverkhnost '. ... X-ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques is abstracted and/or indexed in (Impact Factor 0.359): . ...

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #1092 PERIOD COVERED: 0700 EST Daily Status Report as of 069/1200Z. 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed WF/PC-2 5392 (Mapping Io's Surface and Volcanic Activity: Cycle 4 Medium) The WF/PC-2 was used to make images of the surface of Jupiter's moon Io to study changes since the Voyager Mission and before the Galileo Mission. ... Eight observations were completed as scheduled. ... Two images were executed in fine lock with no apparent problems. ...

... A Proposal for an International Atlas of Lunar Exploration Philip J. Stooke Department of Geography University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C2 Introduction. ... I propose the creation of an International Atlas of Lunar Exploration to tell this story in cartographic form. ... Many new products would be based primarily on spacecraft images rather than drawn maps, which will also reduce costs and help illustrate the primary data products of the principal lunar missions. ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... 2) get instructions for proceedings from here . ... Chris Sterken (chair), Ulli K ufl (co-chair), Mike A'Hearn, Hermann Boehnhardt, Michael Combi, Yan Fernandez, Marco Fulle, Luisa Lara, Casey Lisse, Jean Manfroid, Karen Meech, Javier Licandro, Heike Rauer, Rita Schulz, Gerhardt Schwehm, Diane Wooden . ... Ulli K ufl or Chris Sterken . ... there will be proceedings in the ESO / SPRINGER series (eds. Ulli K ufl & Chris Sterken); link to retrieve latex-kit . ... Deep Impact Specific Questions . ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

... GRAIL mission solves mystery of Moonт??s surface gravity . ... NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has uncovered the origin of massive invisible regions that make the Moon's gravity uneven, a phenomenon that affects the operations of lunar-orbiting spacecraft. ... GRAIL scientists found the mascons by combining the gravity data from GRAIL with sophisticated computer models of large asteroid impacts and known detail about the geologic evolution of the impact craters. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Март 1998 . ... Дата: 26 марта 1998 (1998-03-26) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: STARDUST Update - March 20, 1998 Привет всем! ... TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov Galileo Europa Mission Status March 25, 1998 NASA's Galileo spacecraft is sending to Earth the final pictures and science information stored on its onboard tape recorder during the December 1997 flyby of Jupiter's moon Europa. ...

... NASA SPACECRAFT FINDS NEW EVIDENCE FOR WATER ICE ON MERCURY . ... The new data indicate the water ice in Mercury's polar regions, if spread over an area the size of Washington, D.C., would be more than 2 miles thick," said David Lawrence, a MESSENGER participating scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., and lead author of one of three papers describing the findings. ... Water ice concentrations are derived from the hydrogen measurements. ...