Astrophysics & Space Science
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-09-06 | Author:William Lyne [Lyne, William]

The Ether and “Ponderable Matter” In 1879, James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) said that the velocity of the solar system relative to the ether could be determined by observing the retardation ...
( Category: UFOs February 15,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-04-08 | Author:William Lyne [Lyne, William]

If one calculates the phenomenon on a scale model of the earth one foot in diameter, the orbits of the astronauts would be only a tiny fraction of an inch ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science February 15,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-10-04 | Author:Gurbir Singh

In addition to the traditional uses of satellite-based navigation, such as navigation aid for drivers in urban areas, hikers and travellers in remote areas, IRNSS is also called upon to ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight February 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-04 | Author:Glatzmaier, Gary A.

so that everywhere. Note how this is similar to how we defined the mass flux in Eq. 10.43 for a Boussinesq fluid in a cartesian box with = 1. Note ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science February 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-02 | Author:Sara Seager [Seager, Sara]

From our previous discussion of the thermal compoment of the source function in LTE (Section 5.4) we have where B is black body radiation, which depends only on temperature (through ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science February 3,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Manfred “Dutch” von Ehrenfried

The landing sites for future human missions to the Moon might be different to those for robotic missions. There is one site that seems to be high on the list ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science January 24,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:James Miller

Another approach is to order the Monte Carlo samples from low to high and estimate the probability level directly from the sample. For example, the cumulative 99% probability level may ...
( Category: Software Development January 23,2020 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2020-01-22 | Author:Thomas Gangale

ROBERT FROSCH, STATEMENT TO CONGRESS (JANUARY 26, 1978) In this statement to the Committee on Science and Technology in the House of Representatives, NASA Administrator Robert Frosch looks at the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight January 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Keith Cooper

CHAPTER FIVE Galactic Empire To the young boy, the tree seemed impossibly high. Craning his neck upwards, he considered how it towered into the sky. Maybe, he wondered, as high ...
( Category: UFOs January 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-11 | Author:Helmut Satz

The stages of the universe from the Big Bang to the formation of atoms; in the blue region the physical vacuum already exists In this picture, we only show the ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Marcia Bartusiak [Bartusiak, Marcia]

Richard Isaacson, the NSF’s former program director of gravitational physics, in 1995. Photograph by Tatiana Divens, courtesy AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives, Divens Collection. With this decision, gravity-wave astronomy moved ...
( Category: Astronomy January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-15 | Author:Martin Rees [Rees, Martin]

PART II The Beginning and the End CHAPTER 7 Deceleration or Acceleration? Limits to Prediction In August 1999, a total solar eclipse was visible from southwest England. I viewed it ...
( Category: Astronomy January 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-09-10 | Author:Donald Goldsmith

The exoplanet expert David Kipping has pointed to an interesting aspect of the newly established super-Earth category: our planet’s rank among the largest of these objects. As Kipping puts it: ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-17 | Author:Leon Golub & Jay M. Pasachoff [Golub, Leon]

FIGURE 5.8. Solar eclipse composite images made from dozens of original photographs combined to bring out the full range of bright and faint features in the corona. The computer work ...
( Category: Astronomy January 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-29 | Author:Bob King

The twin tidal bulges are not caused by centrifugal force but by the moon’s gravity. Even if the Earth stopped spinning the bulges would remain. The moon puts a squeeze ...
( Category: Astronomy December 30,2019 )