The sixteen instruments, weighing 118 kg altogether, included magnetometer sensors mounted on an 11 m boom to minimize interference from the spacecraft ; a plasma instrument for detecting low energy charged particles and a plasma wave detector to study waves generated by the particles ; a high energy particle detector ; and a detector of cosmic and Jovian dust.

The RTG, whip antennas, and instrument boom are placed to stabilize this axis.

The initial spectrometer activity, lasting between 15 and 40 days, performed an instrument calibration before the boom was deployed.

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The baby boom and an increase in school music programs led to a substantial increase in the band and orchestral instrument business throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

He continued to work with Peuerbach learning and extending the then known areas of astronomy, mathematics and instrument making until Peuerbach's death in 1461.

This consisted of about 670 tuning-forks, of as many different pitches, extending over four octaves, and it afforded a perfect means for testing, by enumeration of the beats, the number of vibrations producing any given note and for accurately tuning any musical instrument.

He wanted this instrument in order primarily to play the works of J. S. Bach, and because the pedal set that came with the production model had a range of only two octaves ( not quite wide enough for all the Bach pieces ), he set about extending its range.

The instrument has a high range extending to middle C, but the top fifth is rarely used.

The United Kingdom had previously introduced provisions by statutory instrument extending its Protection of Trading Interests Act 1980 ( originally passed in the wake of extraterritorial claims by the U. S. in the 1970s ) to United States rules on trade with Cuba.

" After departing the end of the runway, the airplane struck several tubes extending outward from the left edge of the instrument landing system ( ILS ) localizer array, located 411 feet beyond the end of the runway ; passed through a chain link security fence and over a rock embankment to a flood plain, located approximately 15 feet below the runway elevation ; and collided with the structure supporting the runway 22L approach lighting system.

For a time the outlook appeared hopeless, but Rezanov's skill, subtlety and address prevailed, and shortly before the assassination of Paul ( 1801 ) he obtained his signature to the momentous instrument which granted to the Russian-American Company, for a term of twenty years, dominion over the Pacific Northwest coast of North America, from latitude 55 degrees northward ; and over the chain of islands extending from Kamchatka northward to Alaska and southward to Japan.

The critical feature described in the patent is a " raised longitudinal belly ridge " extending along the top of the instrument, under the strings, from the end of the fingerboard to the tailpiece.

A new dashboard with rainbow style instrument cluster and burled leather trim extending to the carpets was seen this year.

A new dashboard with " rainbow " style instrument cluster and leather grained panels extending to the carpets was seen only this year.

Simple melodies extending over one octave can be played in this instrument.

The neck of the instrument is angled upwards from the body, and there are two independent sets of strings.

While Bettencourt was slow to adopt the instrument under his brother's tutelage, his skills quickly developed when he began teaching himself, and he has mentioned in many interviews that he would skip many school days to practice upwards of 7 hours a day.

The whole instrument is enclosed within three stone and concrete chambers with swell shutters facing upwards, except the Tuba box which speaks down into the transept.

A group of musicians participate singing, and one of them holds the Egyptian instrument sistrum.

The penhold grip is so-named because one grips the racket similarly to the way one holds a writing instrument.

Each holds a musical instrument except the singer, who holds a fan.

Leuchter holds patents for a geodetic instrument and an electronic sextant.

When the instrument is played with one beater, the hand that holds the triangle can also be used to damp or slightly modify the tone.

There are numerous styles of capos, but most commercial capos consist of a rubber-covered bar that holds down the strings of the instrument and is clamped to the instrument by one of a number of mechanisms.

In a strap-on capo, the rubber-covered bar is placed over the strings and a strap is attached to either end of the bar ( wrapped around the back of the neck of the instrument ) which holds the bar tightly to the neck.

Whoever physically holds the paper on which the bond is issued owns the instrument.

The instrument consists of a chanter which plays the melody, drones which play a constant unchanging harmony, a bag which holds the air to blow drones and chanter, and a set of bellows to supply air to the bag.

She is also mentioned in the Lotus Sutra and often depicted holding a biwa, a traditional Japanese lute, in contrast to Saraswati who holds a stringed instrument known as a veena.

An investor or speculator may “ buy protection ” to hedge the risk of default on a bond or other debt instrument, regardless of whether such investor or speculator holds an interest in or bears any risk of loss relating to such bond or debt instrument.

Also the part of a stringed instrument that holds the strings in place and transmits their vibrations to the resonant body of the instrument.

The gusle player ( guslar ) holds the instrument vertically between his knees, with the left hand fingers on the strings.

* Bridge ( instrument ), the device that anchors the strings to or holds the strings above the body of a string instrument, such as a violin or guitar

He holds current Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) ratings which include commercial pilot ( multi-engine ), instrument, and glider ; and he previously served as a Certified Flight Instructor ( CFI ).

The percussionist holds the instrument by the handles and hits the two pieces of wood together, creating a loud whip noise.

The player of the chimta is able to produce a chiming sound if he holds the joint of the instrument in one hand and strikes the two sides of the chimta together.

Holding the instrument in front of him, with the sun at his back, he holds the instrument so that the shadow cast by the shadow vane falls on the horizon vane at the side of the slit.

Greg's eyes flicked up from his instrument panel.

This machinery will not become the instrument of an Atlantic community by fiat, but only when that community evolves from potentiality to reality.

If a wedge-shaped coating of increasing thickness is removed from a substrate by an instrument like the Hesiometer with a knife of constant rake angle, a number of removal mechanisms are often observed which depend upon the thickness of the coating.

Marsyas could not do this with his instrument ( the flute ), and so Apollo hung him from a tree and flayed him alive.

Environmental noise arises from the surroundings of the analytical instrument.

The shofar or keren ( horn ) is the only temple instrument still being used today in the synagogue, and it is only used from Rosh Chodesh Elul through the end of Yom Kippur.

The term is derived from the Greek word anemos, meaning wind, and is used to describe any airspeed measurement instrument used in meteorology or aerodynamics.

An aerovane combines a propeller and a tail on the same axis to obtain accurate and precise wind speed and direction measurements from the same instrument.

) In the field of particle physics, " shmoo " refers to a high energy survey instrument, as utilized at the Los Alamos National Laboratory to capture subatomic cosmic ray particles emitted from the Cygnus X-3 constellation.

In 2006 and 2007, J. D. Monnier and his coworkers produced an image of Altair's surface from 2006 infrared observations made with the MIRC instrument on the CHARA array interferometer ; this was the first time the surface of any main-sequence star, apart from the Sun, had been imaged.

The instrument allows the three-dimensional reconstruction of up to hundreds of millions of atoms from a sharp tip ( corresponding to specimen volumes of 10, 000-1, 000, 000 nm < sup > 3 </ sup >).

Even though the saxophone is classified as a woodwind instrument and the harmonica is a free reed aerophone, both are also often made from brass.

Simpler forms of the instrument were fashioned by Africans in Colonial America, adapted from several African instruments of similar design.

In the 1930s, musician and inventor Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Washington, developed the first electric string bass in its modern form, a fretted instrument designed to be held and played horizontally.

Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones, using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag.

A " diddley bow " is a typically homemade American string instrument of African origin, probably developed from instruments found on the coast of west Africa.

The classical guitar ( also called classic guitar, Spanish guitar, nylon-string guitar or concert guitar ) is a 6-stringed plucked string instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones.

Rhythm, controlled by a typical instrument called berimbau, differ from very slow to very fast, depending on the style of the roda.

The word derives ultimately from vitula, meaning a stringed instrument.

This slight difference in instrumentation derives from the British concert band's heritage in military bands, where the highest brass instrument is always the cornet.

Graph of cosmic microwave background spectrum measured by the FIRAS instrument on the Cosmic Background Explorer | COBE, the most-precisely measured black body spectrum in nature, the standard error of estimation | error bars are too small to be seen even in enlarged image, and it is impossible to distinguish the observed data from the theoretical curve

He likewise proposed legislative intervention into the terms of private bargains, to " provide against contracts being made which, from the helplessness of one of the parties to them, instead of being a security for freedom, become an instrument of disguised repression.

The clavichord is a European stringed keyboard instrument known from the late Medieval, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras.

") and chorda ( from Greek χορδή ) meaning " string, especially of a musical instrument ".