... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... 6.09.1996 . ... Credit Copyright: The Clementine Project Explanation: What is the largest known impact crater in the Solar System? ... In general, the rocky terrestrial planets and moons are scarred and battered from frequent repeated bombardment by large objects during our Solar System's early years. ... Publications with keywords: impact crater . Publications with words: impact crater . ... 3D Barringer Meteorite Crater . ... Manicouagan Impact Crater on Earth . Barringer Crater on Earth . ...

... 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 . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. September 6, 1996 . The Largest Impact Crater . Credit: The Clementine Project . Explanation: What is the largest known impact crater in the Solar System? ... In general, the rocky terrestrial planets and moons are scarred and battered from frequent repeated bombardment by large objects during our Solar System's early years. ...

We present a mid-infrared analysis of star-formation activity in the Large Magellanic Cloud's molecular ridge (south of 30 Doradus). The Magellanic Clouds are a rare laboratory in which extragalactic star-formation diagnostics can be tested at high spatial resolution. ... Detailed analysis in very nearby galaxies, like the Magellanic Clouds, allows us to test and better understand the scaling relations used in unresolved and distant star-formation regions. ...

... The lava flow has visibly fewer impact craters than the background terrain, illustrating the general principle that crater numbers can reveal ages of surfaces. ... Dating Small Martian Features . ... The crater-counting system that scientists have used since the 1970s to determine the age of large geologic features on Mars will also allow them to date small features, such as riverbeds and lava flows, according to William K. Hartmann, a senior scientist at the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute...

... About meteorites . ... Meteoritic data . Impact Crater Smerdyachee . ... Based on Smerdyachee's depth, near circularity, and its mounded wall, and analysis by N.A. Fillin of nearby Roshal, Russia, the Estonian scientists Yu.V. Krestlane and K.H. Mella proposed in 1987 that Smerdyachee Lake is a meteorite crater. ... In 2002, the Laboratory of Meteoritics of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences explored this mysterious lake. ...

A team of scientists believes they have discovered a chain of impact craters in the central African country of Chad that suggests ancient Earth may have been hit by a large, fragmented comet or asteroid similar to the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet that slammed into Jupiter in 1994. The craters were discovered in radar images of the Earth taken by the Spaceborne Imaging Radar C/X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) that flew on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in April and October of 1994. ...

Chain of Impact Craters Suggested by Spaceborne Radar Images . ... A team of scientists believes they have discovered a chain of impact craters in the central African country of Chad that suggests ancient Earth may have been hit by a large, fragmented comet or asteroid similar to the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet that slammed into Jupiter in 1994. ... The Spaceborne Imaging Radar project is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of Mission to Planet Earth, Washington, DC. ...

Swirl distribution on the lunar surface: locations antipodal to the young basins? ... THERE ARE TWO MAIN CLASSES OF HYPOTHESISES OF THE SWIRL ORIGIN: FORMATION OF THE SWIRLS IN THE REGIONS ANTIPODAL TO LARGE IMPACT BASINS (1), AND FORMATION OF THE SWIRLS IN RESULT OF COMETARY IMPACTS (2). ... THEY HAVE NEARLY THE SAME AGE. [pic]FIG. ... On the other hand, there are two cases of absence of correlation between swirl areas and regions antipodal to impact basins (for small swirl formations). ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Site Info . ... It is from from Voyager 1 and shows a whopping big impact crater dominating the profile of the moon. Note that Mimas is about 400 kilometers across (about 250 miles). ... The wall around the crater is 5 kilometers high, and that central peak rises 6 kilometers above the surface (many impact craters have a large central peak which is caused by a pressure rebound from the impact). ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... February . ... By admin February 16, 2012 Posted in: Moon . A roll?n?rock can be seen in this image from NASA?s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. ... This rolling stone gathered no moss but left its track in the regolith until the slope levelled off and it slowed to a halt. ... Then the Moon shone down on an Earth that€а looked superficially familiar to that of today but was oddly different. ...

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. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Moon . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Read Mark BosloughУ?т??т??s blog on the Jupiter impact . ... How often does a large meteroid hit the Moon? Can I see such an impact? ... We think 2-pound rocks likely hit the Moon more than 260 times per year. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Pluto's largest moon may have once had an ocean . ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

"Dynamical friction and formation of structures: some cosmological aspects", Astroph. Space Sci., v.123, p.393-402, 1986 (with S.G.Simakov). "Accretion Mechanism of the Formation of Large Scale Structure of the Universe", Astron.Zh., vol.66, p225-231, 1989 (with S.G.Simakov). Back .

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 . ...

. ATLAS is a project to image seven square degrees of sky, in two fields (CDF-S and ELAIS-S1), at radio wavelengths, to an rms of about 15 Jy, making it the widest deep radio survey aver attempted. The fields are chosen to cover the Spitzer Wide-Area IR Extragalactic Survey (SWIRE), and the radio images cut through the dust, to trace the cosmic history of AGN and star-forming galaxies. This page last updated by Ray Norris 5-Mar-2007

... Previous: Multi-threaded Query Agent and Engine for a Very Large Astronomical Database . ... Dedicated tools have been developed at CDS in order to face the challenge of fast on-line access to very large astronomical catalogues. ... When a query to such a large catalogue is submitted to VizieR , the CDS database of catalogues and tables (Ochsenbein et al. 2000), a dedicated program handles the request, extracts and decodes the matching data, and sends its output back to VizieR. ... 1990, Russel et...

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