Sentences with phrase «near objects by»

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).

These allow wearers to focus on both far and near objects by looking through different parts of the lens.

Not exact matches

Someone objected and the bucket was left near the podium and people came by in single file to cast their vote.

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.

And from There You Shall Seek by Joseph Soloveitchik Ktav, 230 pages, $ 29.50 Near the end of Courage to Be, Paul Tillich writes: «God as a subject makes me into an object which is nothing more than an object.

Your baby can't see very far yet, so play games with him by holding objects that are brightly colored or high - contrast near his face.

These binoculars also have the «Insta - Focus» focus system, so you can quickly focus on any object whether it is near or far by simply pressing a lever.

Hyperopia, also known as hypermetropia or colloquially as farsightedness or longsightedness, is a defect of vision caused by an imperfection in the eye (often when the eyeball is too short or when the lens can not become round enough), causing inability to focus on near objects, and in extreme cases causing a sufferer to be unable to focus on objects at any distance.

Related sites Meteor research at NASA Ames Research Center, with link to paper by Jenniskens History of the Quadrantid meteors An annual meteor observing calendar NASA's Near Earth Object office

Imaging the cosmos at near - infrared wavelengths allowed the astronomers to see objects that are both obscured by dust, and extremely distant [2], created when the Universe was just an infant.

When it originated, the NASA - instituted Near - Earth Object Observations Program provided support to search programs run by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory (LINEAR); the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NEAT); the University of Arizona (Spacewatch, and later Catalina Sky Survey) and the Lowell Observatory (LONEOS).

The NEOWISE project is funded by the Near - Earth Object Observation Program, now part of NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office.

The 10,000 th near - Earth object, asteroid 2013 MZ5, was first detected on the night of June 18, 2013, by the Pan-STARRS-1 telescope, located on the 10,000 - foot (convert) summit of the Haleakala crater on Maui.

Ninety - eight percent of all near - Earth objects discovered were first detected by NASA - supported surveys.

The object was first reported on Saturday by members of the Siding Spring Survey, a near - Earth object search programme based in Australia.

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.

Without a southern telescope, «you could easily get blindsided by one of these», says Don Yeomans, of NASA's Near - Earth Object Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

In another scenario, a loosely consolidated object (possibly a comet) passing near Chariklo was captured to become a satellite but subsequently was ripped apart by gravitational interactions with its new parent.

«I'm not easily surprised by close - Earth approaches any more,» says Don Yeomans, who heads NASA's near - Earth object office in Pasadena, California.

Black hole hair would change how such objects orbit near the hole, and these changes could be detectable by telescopes that will come online within the next decade.

Near - Earth object (NEO) 8TA9D69 will strike the atmosphere over Sudan tonight at 0246 UTC, 5:46 a.m. local time, according to calculations by celestial dynamicist Steven Chesley of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Such rules include perspective (parallel lines appear to converge in the distance), stereopsis (our left and right eyes receive horizontally displaced images of the same object, resulting in the perception of depth), occlusion (objects near us occlude objects farther away), shading, chiaroscuro (the contrast of an object as a function of the position of the light source) and sfumato (the feeling of depth created by the interplay of in - and out - of - focus elements in an image as well as from the level of transparency of the atmosphere itself).

Near - Earth Objects: Finding them before they find us by Donald Yeomans is a fascinating tour guide of the asteroids orbiting near ENear - Earth Objects: Finding them before they find us by Donald Yeomans is a fascinating tour guide of the asteroids orbiting near Enear Earth

NHATS is funded by NASA's Near - Earth Objects Observations (NEOO) program.

Based on high definition 3D lossless digital imaging technology, the Compound Eye imaging system can acquire realistic 3D positional information of objects at both near and far fields, which provides a solution to image distortion caused by conditions such as insufficient light and inadequate resolution.

Despite only being a few metres across, the object was spotted a day before impact by the Mount Lemmon Observatory near Tucson, Arizona (see Space rock found on collision course with Earth).

The MPC Fellowship Program is administered by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Fellowship office and is geared towards early career PhD Scientists and Engineers, enabling their pursuit of independent research into astrophysical, computational, data - processing, and / or data - communication topics that are broadly applicable to the field of Near Earth Object and Minor Planet science.

Pan-STARRS conducts a near - Earth object (NEO) survey funded by NASA's NEO Observations Program, a key element of NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office.

Seventy - nine of our objects have near - IR spectral types of L6 - T 4.5, the most L / T transition dwarfs from any search to date, and we have increased the census of L9 - T 1.5 objects within 25 pc by over 50 %.

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).

Adaptive optics images made with ARIES at the MMT of 87 Kepler Objects of Interest place limits on the presence of fainter stars in or near the Kepler... ▽ More The Kepler mission has revolutionized our understanding of exoplanets, but some of the planet candidates identified by Kepler may actually be astrophysical false positives or planets whose transit depths are diluted by the presence of another star.

The asteroid, referred to as 2014 JO25, was found in May 2014 by scientists at the Catalina Sky Survey, a part of NASA's Near Earth Object (NEO) Observations Program.

We identify PSO J060.3200 +25.9644 (near - infrared spectral type L1) and PSO J077.1033 +24.3809 (L2) as new members of Taurus based on their VL - G gravity classifications, the consistency of their photometry and proper motions with previously known Taurus objects, and the low probability of contamination by field objects.

Under this office, NASA's Asteroid Threat Assessment Project has been established to develop predictive tools, including physics - based computer simulations, to assess the impact threat posed by so - called «near - Earth asteroids» and a subclass of these objects deemed «potentially hazardous asteroids.»

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.

ALMA image of SDP.81 (orange arches around the bright object) overlaid on a near - infrared image taken by the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

Pan-STARRS1 is supported by NASA under grant NNX14AM74G issued through the SSO Near Earth Object Observations Program.

This remarkable object was discovered Oct. 19 by the University of Hawaii's Pan-STARRS1 telescope, funded by NASA's Near - Earth Object Observations (NEOO) Program, which finds and tracks asteroids and comets in Earth's neighboobject was discovered Oct. 19 by the University of Hawaii's Pan-STARRS1 telescope, funded by NASA's Near - Earth Object Observations (NEOO) Program, which finds and tracks asteroids and comets in Earth's neighboObject Observations (NEOO) Program, which finds and tracks asteroids and comets in Earth's neighborhood.

This serendipitous discovery is bonus science enabled by NASA's efforts to find, track and characterize near - Earth objects that could potentially pose a threat to our planet.»

Though the pursuit in Gun Fury takes the team down Mexico way, the picture was shot near Sedona, Arizona (Walsh employing some of John Ford's creative geography), and even if the 3 - D didn't do its part, with multiple objects and even animals surging toward the screen, and a gun - to - the - camera throwback to The Great Train Robbery (1903), the vibrant Technicolor cinematography by Lester White is bold and picturesque in its own right.

The Irish - Ethiopian actress Ruth Negga has eyes intentful enough to shift objects around on - screen — a near - telekinetic focus that can shove aside anyone crowding her path (as evidenced by her brash Tulip O'Hare in AMC's Preacher).

Explain the basic concepts of perspective drawing, describing how one can represent objects at a distance on paper by making objects appear smaller and closer together as they near the vanishing point.

«Generate measurement data by measuring lengths of several objects to the nearest whole unit, or by making repeated measurements of the same object.

MD.. D. 9 Generate measurement data by measuring lengths of several objects to the nearest whole unit, or by making repeated measurements of the same object.

Such a pre-collision safety system utilizes a sonar hidden behind the bumper that calculates if a collision nears, by comparing the speed of the car with the speed of the object in front.

The structures were arranged in a west - facing curve around an open space near the center of the area covered by the overhanging stone shelf, which was filled with a confusion of objects and people.

By hovering near small objects and looking at the cross hairs, we were better able to hit things like the close button on a window or a file icon in Windows Explorer.

Ask for him to give the object, then either wait for him to do so (if he knows the cue) or cause him to do so by presenting food near his mouth.

It acts like a magnifying glass to make objects up close appear crisply detailed and clear by focusing near objects accurately onto the retina.