Recently however, funding of projects such as the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research and Near Earth Asteroid Tracking projects has meant that most comets are now discovered by automated systems, long before it is possible for amateurs to see them.

Most ancient cultures have had conceptions of a flat Earth, including Greece until the classical period, the Bronze Age and Iron Age civilizations of the Near East until the Hellenistic period, India until the Gupta period ( early centuries AD ) and China until the 17th century.

Near the end of the decade, he made a cameo appearance in Welles's Touch of Evil ( 1958 ) and a starring role in the film adaptation of Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon ( also 1958 ).

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* In Die Erde is nah: die Marsexpedition ( 1970 ), by Ludek Pesek, published in English as The Earth is Near ( 1973 ), a crew of twenty men undertake the first manned mission to Mars, and after landing in the wrong area due to computer malfunction and / or human error, have to cope with vicious sand storms, and a long trek undertaken in vehicles to their original intended area of exploration.

* Near Earth Asteroids Astronomy Cast episode # 29, includes full transcript.

* NASA Space Telescope Finds Fewer Asteroids Near Earth ( 09. 29. 11 )

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* Near instant point-to-point teleportation is possible with transfer booths ( on Earth ) and stepping disks ( on the Puppeteer homeworld ); on Earth, people's sense of place and global position has been lost due to instantaneous travel ; cities and cultures have blended together.

* June 15 – Near Earth Asteroid 2002 MN misses the planet by, about 1 / 3 the distance to the moon.

The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous-Shoemaker ( NEAR Shoemaker ), renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene M. Shoemaker, was a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from close orbit over a period of a year.

* Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous

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The craft was controlled from the European Space Agency ESOC facilities in Darmstadt ( then West Germany ) initially in Geostationary Transfer Orbit ( GTO ) then in the Near Earth Phase ( NEP ) before the longer Cruise Phase through to the encounter.

He had many epithets which alluded to different aspects of his deity: Titlacauan (" We are his Slaves "), Ipalnemoani (" He by whom we live "), Necoc Yaotl (" Enemy of Both Sides "), Tloque Nahuaque (" Lord of the Near and the Nigh ") and Yohualli Èecatl (" Night, Wind "), Ome acatl (" Two Reed "), Ilhuicahua Tlalticpaque (" Possessor of the Sky and Earth ").

Near the surface of the Earth, its magnetic field can be closely approximated by the field of a magnetic dipole positioned at the center of the Earth and tilted at an angle of about with respect to the rotational axis of the Earth.

Astronomers have been conducting surveys to locate the NEOs, many ( as of early 2007 ) funded by NASA's Near Earth Object ( NEO ) program office as part of their Spaceguard program.

This data set is a digital archive created from optical images taken over a 5-year period by the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking ( NEAT ) program using two 1-m telescopes located on Maui.

* NEO News: Spaceguard Survey of Near Earth Asteroids David Morrison Tuesday, August 1, 2000 ( Discovery statistics by 2000 )

* Near Earth Network

* Near realtime composite of satellite image of the Earth by Intellicast

Muwaffaq al-Din Muhammad ' Abd al-Latif ibn Yusuf al-Baghdadi (; 1162 – 1231 ), more commonly known as ' Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi or ' Abdallatif al-Baghdadi (), born in Baghdad, Iraq, was a celebrated physician, historian, Egyptologist and traveller, and one of the most voluminous writers of the Near East in his time.

Formerly the Department of the Ancient Near East, with a collection numbering some 330, 000 works, the British Museum possesses by far the world's largest and most important collection of Mesopotamian antiquities outside Iraq.

In addition to ongoing beautification and renewal projects for the existing parks, a number of new parks have been added in recent years, such as the Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chinatown, DuSable Park on the Near North Side, and most notably, Millennium Park in a section of one of Chicago's oldest parks, Grant Park in the Chicago Loop.

The most recent study on the ante-Aesopic fables or the fables in ancient Near Eastern languages by Akimoto discovers the rich fable traditions in ancient Mesopotamia and Anatolia ; for example, the Ninurta-uballitsu Assyrian fable collection which is the oldest known fable collection with the compiler's autograph and the completion date 883 BCE, the Hurrian-Hittite bilingual fable collections are embedded in a long myth and the storyteller tells after each fable his / her own moral.

Acigöl town and the Göllü Dağ volcano were the most important sources in central Anatolia, one of the more important source areas in prehistoric Near East.

In building its maritime commercial empire, the Republic dominated the trade in salt, acquired control of most of the islands in the Aegean, including Cyprus and Crete, and became a major power-broker in the Near East.

During this period Europe, North Africa and the Near East fell under increasing domination by the Roman Empire, which continued expanding, most notably conquering Britain under the emperor Claudius ( 43 ).

Some scholars argue that the chariot was most likely a product of the ancient Near East early in the 2nd millennium BC.

Historian and linguist Andrew Dalby says most references to butter in ancient Near Eastern texts should more correctly be translated as ghee.

Mitanni gradually grew from the region around Khabur valley and became the most powerful kingdom of the Near East in c. 1450-1350 BCE.

Near Mezzouna, his vehicle was part of a column strafed by Kittyhawk ( P-40 ) fighter bombers of the Desert Air Force – most likely from No. 3 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force – and he received severe, multiple wounds.

Among the offering recovered from the cave, the most spectacular are decorated bronze shields with patterns that draw upon north Syrian originals and a bronze gong on which a god and his attendants are shown in a distinctly Near Eastern style.

Near most of the various European Union institution sites, European Schools have been created to allow staff to have their children receive their education in their mother tongue, and at the same time to foster European spirit by ( among other things ) teaching at least two other European languages.

Nevertheless, the second most important Haplogroup family is from Northern Africa, Near and Middle East.

Near the end of the war, the city was declared a Festung and most of the civilian population fled or was evacuated, except some 4, 000 people.

Near the waterfront are the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and Hong Kong Arts Centre, two of the most popular venues for theatrical and cultural performances in the region.

Near the northern end of the canyon, Forest Road 4260 ( Lower Imnaha Road ), the last part of which is too rough for most cars, reaches the river at Dug Bar, from Imnaha, Oregon.

Dreadlocks are associated most closely with the Rastafari movement, but people from many ethnic groups in history before them have worn dreadlocks, including many ancient Semitic and Indo-Aryan peoples of the Near East and Asia Minor, Sadhus of Nepal, India and the Sufi Rafaees, the Māori people of New Zealand, the Maasai and the Oromo of Ethiopia, and the Sufi malangs and fakirs of Pakistan, and medieval Irish Warriors.

Near Elmer, Oklahoma, the North Fork finally joins, and the river proceeds to follow a winding course east through one of the most arid parts of the Great Plains, receiving the Wichita River from the right as it passes the city of Wichita Falls.

The Cinereous Vulture has declined over most of its range in the last 200 years in part due to poisoning by eating poisoned bait put out to kill dogs and other predators, and to higher hygiene standards reducing the amount of available carrion ; it is currently listed as Near Threatened.

Near passerine or higher land-bird assemblage are terms often given to arboreal birds or those most often believed to be related to the true passerines ( order Passeriformes ) due to ecological similarities ; the group corresponds to some extent with the Anomalogonatae of Garrod

Near sunrise and sunset, most of the light we see comes in nearly tangent to the Earth's surface, so that the light's path through the atmosphere is so long that much of the blue and even green light is scattered out, leaving the sun rays and the clouds it illuminates red.

Near Brooks, Alberta, Green-winged Teal nests were found most often in beds of rushes ( Juncus spp.