Sentences with phrase «for near objects»

This parasympathetic input also controls accommodation, or changing focus of the eye for near objects.

Not exact matches

Must - see 3 - D It's 3 - D depth control allows viewers to control the «distance» between near and far objects on the screen, for a bespoke 3 - D experience.

I have produced this analogy to prove that so long as the book remains a palpable object, i.e. so long as it is not replaced by auto - vocalizing and kino - vocalizing representations, we must look to the field of the manufacture of books for basic innovations in the near future.

At evening time it is, with equal ceremony, locked away for the night in a specially prepared vault for safekeeping.11 It is not a little strange that a faith which rules out idolatry should have come, in the end, very near, if not quite, to making their sacred book an object of worship.

that's why NASA has a program for tracking near earth objects (neo).

The fact that the Old Testament may be an object of investigation in 1) church seminaries and divinity schools; 2) undergraduate departments of religion; 3) Near Eastern language and civilization programs; 4) archaeological institutes; 5) comparative literature studies; 6) English classes; or 7) anthropology departments makes for a considerably diverse angle of vision on the subject.

If my senses, for example, show me an object that seems round at a distance but square near at hand, or a stick bent in the water which is straight when taken out, the senses have not deceived me.

For most inventive accident to date, it is a close contest between him managing to fall flat on his face with a rattle in his mouth and a near collision with the objects on top of my parents» coffee table.

Woodland, North Carolina, has a nice big chunk of land near the highway that would be just perfect for putting in a new solar farm, but it looks like that won't be happening because several town residents objected to the plan, which some of them said they opposed on the grounds that the solar farm might «suck up all the energy from the sun.»

• Help them bond with a security object — choose a baby blanket or stuffed animal and keep it near you for a while, so it takes on your comforting smell.

• If you put 4 familiar objects near your baby and ask for one of them eg.

Babies will use their whole hand to grasp objects, so try holding an easily - to - grab soft toy near your baby (within her eye - line) and see if she reaches for it.

Encroachment is a key factor that is considered when the federal government is reviewing military bases for potential shut down and 70 individual, 600 - foot tall wind turbines, located on the edge of Lake Ontario near the base, could be considered major objects of encroachment.

He found it — a faint, pale dot streaking across the sky — while reviewing images from the university's Pan-STARRS telescope, which searches for near - Earth objects (NEOs) from the mountain Haleakala.

A third project, a space - based telescope to detect near - Earth objects, will receive design financing for another year.

«We find no evidence of the orbit clustering needed for the Planet Nine hypothesis in our fully independent survey,» says Cory Shankman, an astronomer at the University of Victoria in Canada and a member of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS), which since 2013 has found more than 800 objects out near Neptune using the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii.

NASA supports the Spaceguard survey to the tune of $ 4.1 million per year, but that sum of money is not enough to cover the cost of continually monitoring all areas of the sky for near - Earth objects.

Instruments like the 8.4 - meter Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, slated to begin operation in 2014, will use massive computer power to carry out continuous scans of sky for near - Earth objects, leaving ever fewer patches for amateurs to focus on.

Donald Yeomans, who calculates the orbits for near - Earth objects at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, says that comets flung out from that belt pummeled our planet shortly after its formation and could have left behind water, possibly creating the conditions that allowed Earth to become a cradle for life.

JPL manages the Near - Earth Object Program Office for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

Don Yeomans of NASA's Near Earth Object Program thinks that won't be a problem for future asteroid - hunting spacecraft.

However, even travelling at a breakneck speed of about 95,000 kilometres / hour, it took so long for the interstellar object to make the journey to our Solar System that Vega was not near that position when the asteroid was there about 300,000 years ago.

«When I began surveying for asteroids and comets in 1992, a near - Earth object discovery was a rare event,» said Tim Spahr, director of the Minor Planet Center.

«Finding 10,000 near - Earth objects is a significant milestone,» said Lindley Johnson, program executive for NASA's Near - Earth Object Observations Program at NASA Headquarters, Washingnear - Earth objects is a significant milestone,» said Lindley Johnson, program executive for NASA's Near - Earth Object Observations Program at NASA Headquarters, WashingNear - Earth Object Observations Program at NASA Headquarters, Washington.

NASA's Near - Earth Object Observations Program manages and funds the search for, study of and monitoring of asteroids and comets whose orbits periodically bring them close to Earth.

NASA is already spending $ 20 million per year in the search for potentially hazardous asteroids through the Near Earth Object Observation Program.

«The NASA - funded Catalina Sky Survey, which has made the majority of NEO discoveries since its inception in 2004, is getting an upgrade,» said Lindley Johnson, program executive for the Near - Earth Objects Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

For the small asteroids that do closely approach Earth, NASA's Near - Earth Object Program has developed a rapid response system whose chief goal is to mobilize NEO-observing assets when an asteroid first appears that could qualify as a potential candidate for the ARM missiFor the small asteroids that do closely approach Earth, NASA's Near - Earth Object Program has developed a rapid response system whose chief goal is to mobilize NEO-observing assets when an asteroid first appears that could qualify as a potential candidate for the ARM missifor the ARM mission.

Surveys funded by NASA's Near Earth Object (NEO) Observations Program (NEOs include both asteroids and comets) account for more than 95 percent of discoveries so far.

Tracking near - Earth asteroids has been a significant endeavor for NASA and the broader astronomical community, which has discovered 10,713 known near - Earth objects to date.

«There are other elements involved, but if size were the only factor, we'd be looking for an asteroid smaller than about 40 feet (12 meters) across,» said Paul Chodas, a senior scientist in the Near - Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «There are hundreds of millions of objects out there in this size range, but they are small and don't reflect a lot of sunlight, so they can be hard to spot.

The Near - Earth Object Program Office reports that, with current asteroid surveys already in place, about two potential candidates suitable for the asteroid redirect mission are discovered every year.

The various measures of eye structure were analyzed for association with age, refraction (vision prescription), and accommodation (the ability to focus on distant or near objects by changing the shape of the lens of the eye).

NASA is enhancing its ongoing efforts to identify and characterize near - Earth objects for scientific investigation, and to find potentially hazardous asteroids and targets appropriate for capture and exploration.

A committee of the U.S. National Research Council released a sobering report today on the prospects for defending the home planet against near Earth objects (NEOs), the asteroids and comets that can cross Earth's orbit and hit us.

But Irwin Shapiro, an astrophysicist at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who chaired the 2010 Committee to Review Near - Earth - Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies for the U.S. National Research Council, says that ground - based observatories such as the planned Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) on Cerro Pachón in Chile are better value for money than space telescopes, because they last longer and are less expensive.

«[2008 EV5] has been extensively observed» using infrared and radio telescopes, said Lindley Johnson, program executive for NASA's Near - Earth Object Program.

Bonus science: Now repurposed as NEOWISE, the craft looks for «near - Earth objects» — like asteroids that could collide with Earth.

Deep Ecliptic Survey In this study, a mosaic of eight CCD detectors coupled to the 3.8 - meter Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona, scanned for faint Kuiper belt objects as small as 30 miles in diameter.

Don Yeomans of NASA's Near Earth Object Program thinks that won't be a problem for a future asteroid - deflecting spacecraft.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

For example, Hubble's phenomenally high - powered imagery of the cosmos has increased our understanding of both near - and deep - space objects.

Camera purchased with the support of a 2009 Shoemaker NEO Grant is now on a new telescope providing follow - up measurements for even fainter near - Earth objects.

The explosion of an asteroid over Chelyabinsk in Russia earlier this year highlighted the need for more direct lines of defense against near - Earth objects.

Previous large - area searches have been incomplete for L / T transition dwarfs, because these objects are faint in optical bands and have near - infrared colors that are difficult to distinguish from background stars.

A new study has found that one of the nearest brown dwarfs to our Solar System, designated SIMP J013656.5 +093347 (SIMP0136 for short), might actually be a planetary - mass object.

This definition allows the term to be applied to a range of objects from the nearest gravitationally bound clusters to groups of widely spread stars with no apparent gravitational identity, which are discovered only by searching the catalogs for stars of common motion.

«While many known asteroids have passed by closer to Earth than Florence will... all of those were estimated to be smaller,» Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Center for Near - Earth Object Studies, said in a statement.

Jason C. Cook and Steven J. Desch, «Near - Infrared Spectroscopy of Charon: Possible Evidence for Cryovolcanism on Kuiper Belt Objects.»

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