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The Magellanic Bridge (MBR) [1] is a stream of neutral Hydrogen that links the two Magellanic Clouds, [2] with a few known stars inside it. [3] [4] It should not be confused with the Magellanic Stream, which links the Magellanic Clouds to the Milky Way.
The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...
The Giotto space probe found that the nucleus of Halley's Comet (1P/Halley) reflects about four percent of the light that falls on it, [25] and Deep Space 1 discovered that Comet Borrelly's surface reflects less than 3.0%; [25] by comparison, asphalt reflects seven percent. The dark surface material of the nucleus may consist of complex organic ...
The degree of a node in a network (sometimes referred to incorrectly as the connectivity) is the number of connections or edges the node has to other nodes. If a network is directed, meaning that edges point in one direction from one node to another node, then nodes have two different degrees, the in-degree, which is the number of incoming edges, and the out-degree, which is the number of ...
Phase 3 (Participation in ring poll) – A station learns the address of its Nearest Active Upstream Neighbour (NAUN) and makes its address known to its nearest downstream neighbour, leading to the creation of the ring map. Station waits until it receives an AMP or SMP frame with the AR and FC bits set to 0.
The last series of Finnish markka coins included five coins (listed with final euro values, rounded to the nearest cent): 10p (cupronickel) – a honeycomb on the reverse and a lily of the valley flower on the obverse = €0.02; 50p (cupronickel) – haircap moss on the reverse and a bear on the obverse = €0.08
Prestel was the brand name of a videotex service launched in the UK in 1979 by Post Office Telecommunications, a division of the British Post Office. [a] It had around 95,500 attached terminals at its peak, [2] and was a forerunner of the internet-based online services developed in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. [3]