The status of the international Halley watch

More than 1000 professional astronomers worldwide actually observed Halley's comet from the ground. Preliminary logs from the observers indicate that 20-40 Gbytes of data were acquired in eight professional disciplines and as much as 5 Gbytes in the amateur network. The latter will be used to fill in gaps in the Archive and to provide a visual light curve. In addition roughly 400 Mbytes of data were taken on Comet Giacobini-Zinner. Data will be accepted for archiving until early 1989. The permanent archive will consist of a set of CD-ROMs and a set of books, publication of both to be completed by mid-1990. Data from the space missions will be included but only on the CDs. From every indication, the ground based effort and the space missions complimented each other beautifully, both directly in the solution of spacecraft navigation problems and indirectly in the solution of scientific problems. The major remaining concern is that scientists submit their data to the Archive before the 1989 deadline

Atlas of Comet Halley 1910 II

With the impending return of Halley's Comet in 1986, a major effort began to collect the material obtained at its last appearance in 1910. This material displays the evolving coma and tail phenomena, and is useful for comparison with the present quantitative studies of spectroscopic and structural phenomena. Images in the atlas are arranged in chronological order by day. Days that have multiple images with varying scale are arranged in two sequences. Photographs showing tail phenomena are first, followed by photographs obtained with longer focus instruments showing the head or near-nuclear region. Drawings of Comet Halley, made from visual observations in 1835 and 1910, also are included

Innovationspolitik fuer Deutschland Massnahmen in zukunftstraechtigen Feldern; Vorschlaege zur Diskussion mit Wissenschaft und Politik

Die vom Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie vorgelegten Vorschlaege betreffen acht Themenbereiche, fuer die jeweils Prioritaetensetzungen formuliert, gegenwaertig bestehende Staerken und Schwaechen evaluiert und zu ergreifende Massnahmen vorgeschlagen werden. Hierbei geht es im einzelnen um (1) technische Innovationen in Verkehr, Infrastruktur und Telematik, (2) eine bessere Nutzung der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik, (3) die Foerderung der kombinatorischen Chemie, (4) den Einsatz innovativer Werkstoffe, (5) die Foerderung der Biotechnologie, (6) innovatives Management, (7) eine ebenso konkurrenzfaehige wie umweltbewusste Energieversorgung und Rohstoffnutzung sowie (8) die Nutzung der Weltraumfahrt. (ICE)Available from UuStB Koeln(38)-20000106226 / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEDEGerman