Objects in Space

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261Angle / Angular diameter / Elementary geometry / Minute of arc / Light-year / Cosmic distance ladder / Star / Astronomy / Astrometry / Space

Chandra Explores Angular Size 26 Astronomers measure the sizes of objects in the sky in terms of their angular size. For instance, the moon

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Source URL: chandra.harvard.edu

Language: English - Date: 2011-10-05 09:52:23
262Space telescopes / Planetary defense / Exoplanetology / Infrared telescopes / Near-Earth object / Asteroid-impact avoidance / Kepler / Ball Aerospace & Technologies / Asteroid / Spacecraft / Spaceflight / Space technology

RobertFArentz.doc NEO Survey: An Efficient Search for Near-Earth Objects by an IR Observatory in a Venus-like Orbit Submitted to the Primitive Bodies Subcommittee of the Decadal Survey Harold Reitsema2, Robert Arentz1

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Source URL: www.lpi.usra.edu

Language: English - Date: 2009-09-16 13:21:58
263Trans-Neptunian object / Planetary science / Spaceflight / Centaur / Natural satellite / Asteroid / Scattered disc / Occultation / New Horizons / Astronomy / Space / Solar System

GOALS AND PRIORITIES FOR THE STUDY OF CENTAURS AND TRANS-NEPTUNIAN OBJECTS IN THE NEXT DECADE: A COMMUNITY WHITE PAPER Authors, listed alphabetically: P. A. Abell (NASA/Johnson Space Ctr.) E. Ammannito (INAF/Istituto di

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Source URL: www.lpi.usra.edu

Language: English - Date: 2009-09-04 19:26:41
264Kuiper belt / Planets beyond Neptune / Planet / Charon / Space exploration / Michael E. Brown / Neptune / Valeri Tokarev / Pluto in fiction / Astronomy / Planetary science / Solar System

Stealing Pluto’s thunder This places the new planet in the Kuiper Belt, a dark realm beyond Neptune where thousands of small icy bodies orbit the sun. The planet appears to be typical of Kuiper Belt objects, only much

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Source URL: www.jsc.nasa.gov

Language: English - Date: 2005-12-06 17:07:44
265Planets / Observational astronomy / Planet / Definition of planet / Asteroid / Object / Solar System / Category / IAU definition of planet / Astronomy / Planetary science / Space

Activity 1: Sorting the Solar System developed by Anna Hurst This activity has students explore some of the different objects in the Solar System and create their own categories for them. They then have a discussion abou

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Source URL: mintaka.sdsu.edu

Language: English - Date: 2008-08-31 18:32:03
266Astronomical objects / Astrochemistry / Space dust / Extragalactic astronomy / Cosmic dust / Dust / Solar System / Interstellar medium / Cassini–Huygens / Astronomy / Space / Planetary science

Studies of interstellar dust in the solar system V. J. Sterken ISSI[removed]

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Source URL: www.issibern.ch

Language: English - Date: 2014-05-27 05:33:50
267Geometry / Films / Four-dimensional space / Flatland / Shape / Four-dimensionalism / Introduction to special relativity / Physics / Dimension / Special relativity

NOÛS 33:4 ~1999! 644–662 Relativistic Objects Yuri Balashov University of Georgia I offer an argument in defense of four-dimensionalism, the view that objects are

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Source URL: www.yuribalashov.com

Language: English - Date: 2014-06-04 20:49:56
268Ontology / Relativity / Dimension / Perdurantism / Special relativity / Endurantism / Spacetime / Frame of reference / Philosophy of time / Physics / Metaphysics

YURI BALASHOV ENDURING AND PERDURING OBJECTS IN MINKOWSKI SPACE-TIME∗ (Received in revised form 25 May[removed]ABSTRACT. I examine the issue of persistence over time in the context of the

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Source URL: www.yuribalashov.com

Language: English - Date: 2014-06-04 20:49:12
269Litter / Near-Earth objects / Space debris / United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space / Space law / Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee / Debris / Low Earth orbit / Satellite / Spaceflight / Space / Manned spacecraft

Microsoft Word[removed]f39b-4c43-a774-f2d1a06bc805_in_for_PDF_printing.doc

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Source URL: www.oosa.unvienna.org

Language: English - Date: 2011-02-08 03:10:45
270Erlang programming language / Ericsson / Erlang / Structured storage / Perl / Mnesia / External variable / International Space Station / Perl module / Spaceflight / Computing / Software engineering

The world is parallel. If we want to write programs that behave as other objects behave in the real world, then these programs will have a concurrent structure. Use a language that was designed for writing concurrent ap

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Source URL: os24.org

Language: English - Date: 2014-07-01 18:05:57
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