organization:open university

Join our Perihelion Hangout !
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/08/10/join-our-perihelion-hangout

Join us for a Google hangout with Rosetta mission experts to celebrate perihelion – the closest point to the Sun along the comet’s orbit. The hangout will be streamed live on 13 August at 13:00 GMT / 15:00 CEST – watch it here. The Hangout will be hosted by Emily Baldwin (ESA Space Science Editor) who will be joined by: Nico Altobelli - Acting Rosetta Project Scientist, ESAC Michael Küppers - Rosetta Science Operations Coordinator, ESAC Sylvain Lodiot - Rosetta Spacecraft Operations Manager, ESOC Armelle Hubault - Rosetta Spacecraft Operations Engineer, ESOC Barbara Cozzoni - Philae Lander Engineer, DLR Holger Sierks - OSIRIS Principal Investigator, MPS Joel Parker - Alice instrument Deputy-PI, SwRI Colin Snodgrass - Professional ground-based observing campaign coordinator, Open University (...)

Chasing a comet from Earth – update on the professional observing campaign
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/07/24/chasing-a-comet-from-earth-update-on-the-professional-observing-campaign

An interview with Colin Snodgrass of the Open University, UK, who coordinates a consortium of professional astronomers observing #Comet_67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from Earth in support of the Rosetta mission. Q: Rosetta has been ’living’ with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for almost a year now. How was this year from the perspective of the professional astronomers observing the comet with telescopes on Earth? A: It has been a very exciting year for everyone in comet science, following the results from Rosetta, but thankfully the ground-based view of 67P didn’t get too exciting yet – the comet largely followed our predictions in terms of its total brightness, which is reassuring as it allows us to have confidence in our plans for observing (and for Rosetta). We watched the comet grow (...)

#CometWatch #Ground-based_observations #Images ##CometWatch #activity #ground-based_observations

#Israel: Foreign direct investment plunges almost 50% as #Boycott Divestment and Sanctions take toll
▻http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/israel-foreign-direct-investment-plunges-almost-50-boycott-divestment-san

http://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1402309/tourists-belgium-france-walk-near-tanks-staging-area-outside-northern-gaza-strip-july-27-2014.jpg

Dr Ronny Manos, one of the report’s authors and a researcher in the department of management and economics at the Open University of Israel, told Israeli news website Ynet News that international boycotts against the country for alleged violations of international law were one of the major causes of the decline. The fallout from Israel’s Operation Protective Edge in Gaza in the summer of 2014 was also cited.

#Israël #BDS