... 2014 September 15 . 62 Kilometers above Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko . ... Crossing the inner Solar System for ten years to reach the vicinity of the comet last month, the robotic spacecraft continues to image the unusual double-lobed comet nucleus . ... Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko spans about four kilometers in length and has a surface gravity so low that an astronaut could jump off of it. ... Astronomers: Has an APOD image ever helped your research? ... About APOD | ...

... Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko in Crescent . ... Credit Copyright: ESA , Rosetta , NAVCAM; processing by Giuseppe Conzo Explanation: What's happening to Comet 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko? As the 3-km wide comet moves closer to the Sun, heat causes the nucleus to expel gas and dust . ... Comet 67P , shown in a crescent phase in false color, should increase its evaporation rate as it nears its closest approach to the Sun in 2015 August, when it reaches a Sun distance just a bit further out than the Earth. ...

... Solar System . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Vision of Vesta: a dark feature with a diameter of approximately 100 kim near the asteroid's equator can be seen in this image from Dawn (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA) . Between Mars and Jupiter lies the Asteroid Belt. ... The Dawn space probe is expected to go into orbit around Vesta on 16 July, from there it will return some detailed images and other data, staying at the asteroid for about a year before setting off to visit Ceres. ...

... Главная . ... Новости . ... Проекты . Любителям астрономии . Проект ISON . ... Подробнее . ... Категория: Новости проекта ISON . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Гамма-всплески ,љ Любителям астрономии ,љ Кометы љ . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Любителям астрономии љ . ... Новости обсерваторий проекта] - Обсерватория Кубанского государственного университета от Иванов А - 09.04.2016 11:08:49 . ... 1999-2013 Copyright "Астрономия и Телескопостроение" . ...

... Users . ... Data Collection and Analysis . ... This particular part of the analysis has been disabled since the code is struggling to cope with the number of users seen this year, in particular the large contingent of people who have re-tweeted NASA. ... Order accounts: by user number (effectively random) by number of tweets (includes retweets) by number of followers by number of followers that also tweeted about AAS225 by number of friends that also tweeted about AAS225 . ... by user number . ...

Communications between DF-224 and NSSC-I is via PITs (Processor Interface Tables) . ... SSM PIT tells NSSC-I about DF-224 and spacecraft . ... Maneuver request accepted . Maneuver information . Guide star information . SIC PIT tells DF-224 about SIs . ... Indicates that a payload safing has been initiated . ... DF-224 safes SIC and SIs if it does not receive PIT . NSSC-I safes SIs if it does not receive PIT . Previous slide . Next slide . Back to first slide . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. December 22, 1996 . 18 Miles From Deimos . Credit: The Viking Project , NASA . ... Potato shaped and barely 6 miles wide this asteroid-like body was visited by the Viking 2 orbiter in 1977. This image was made when the spacecraft approached to within 18 miles of Deimos' surface. ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... R. E. Jackson . ... H.-M. Adorf . ... D. C. Wells . ... AstroWeb is a World Wide Web (WWW) interface to a collection of Internet accessible resources aimed at the astronomical community. ... The goal of AstroWeb is to be the most complete, up to date, and useful listing of Internet accessible astronomical resources available anywhere. ... Jackson, Wells, and Adorf noticed that they and others had created largely overlapping lists of Astronomical resources. ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

The Wind spacecraft. ... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... For additional details and updates, see the home page of the "Wind" mission. Exploration" home page (index) Glossary . ...

... Division , Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA, 1954-1955; College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 19591961 PRE- NASA EXPERIENCE: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, VA (1954-1958) · Aerospace Technologist, Fluid and Flight Mechanics Branch (1954-1958) NASA Langley Research Center , Hampton, VA (1958-1961) · Aerospace Technologist, Fluid and Flight Mechanics Branch (1958-1961) · Transferred to ...

Next: Public Understanding of Science, Up: Technical Research Summaries Previous: New Approaches to Risk . ... Michael Smith has been analysing new infrared data collected from 11 PPN and PN by Chris Davis (Joint Astronomy Centre, Hawaii) to search for clues as to how the objects evolve. ... Georgi Pavlovski studied the properties of supersonic turbulence in molecular clouds and its effect on the molecular cloud properties and their chemical evolution. ...

... The remote planet Pluto and its moon Charon orbit the Sun at a mean distance of almost 6,000 million kilometres, or nearly fourty times farther out than the Earth. During a recent investigation by an international group of astronomers [1], the best picture ever of Pluto and Charon [2] was secured with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera at the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). ... The new HST image was taken when Charon was near its maximum elongation from Pluto (0.9 arcseconds). ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

... This task fixes a number of distinct problems in ODF time correlation data: . Due to wrong ground station and spacecraft time propagation delays hardcoded in XSCS v71 all time correlation files produced with these XSCS versions contains too small UTC values. ... During several periods in 2002 timing data from the Kourou ground station showed various anomalies which manifests themselves as discontinuities at the time of a handover to/from this station. tcsfix does: . ... if (rev < 207) . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... News . ... Sky this Month . ... Sky this Week . ... New cometary phenomenon greets approaching spacecraft . ... A phenomenon was recorded by imagers aboard NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft from September 9 to 17 during pre-planned scientific observations of Comet 103P/Hartley. ... If observers monitoring Hartley 2 do not take into account this new phenomenon, they could easily get the wrong picture of how the comet is changing as it approaches and recedes from the Sun," said A'Hearn...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

... Among the objectives of Principal Components Analysis are the following. dimensionality reduction; љ . the determining of linear combinations of variables; љ . ... identification of groups of objects or of outliers. ... Finding a set of principal axes allows the objects to be adequately characterised on a smaller number of (artificial) variables. ... Reduction of dimensionality is practicable if the first new axes account for approximately 75 % or more of the variance. ...

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