Pandora: sputnik-"pastuh" Saturna
23.11.2005 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Kak vyglyadit malen'kii sputnik Saturna Pandora? Chtoby uznat' eto, avtomaticheskii kosmicheskii apparat Kassini, obrashayushiisya v nastoyashee vremya vokrug Saturna, v nachale sentyabrya proletel na rasstoyanii okolo 50 tysyach kilometrov ot neobychnogo sputnika. Poluchennoe togda izobrazhenie Pandory, kotoroe prevoshodit po razresheniyu vse sdelannye ranee, pokazano zdes' v uslovnyh cvetah.

K 70-letiyu Vilena Valentinovicha Nesterova
 Biblioteka GAISh/Astronet, 23 noyabrya 2005

Vilen Valentinovich Nesterov rodilsya v g. Moskve 8 noyabrya 1935 goda. V 1952 godu on postupil na astronomicheskoe otdelenie mehaniko-matematicheskogo fakul'teta MGU, po okonchanii kotorogo v 1957 godu byl prinyat na rabotu v GAISh. Za 43 goda on proshel put' ot starshego laboranta do zaveduyushego otdelom astrometrii.