suggests are either slight or problematical themselves. But given that the profession still refuses to listen, the long, sad story of the scholarly tradition in English metrics cannot be told too often. Both experienced prosodists and those who are only occasional visitors to this field will find RM a useful and enjoyable guide to what Holder calls ’the muddled kingdom of meter’ (Chapter 1), ’t...

The elements of a general high precision system for trajectory design and optimization for single or multiple spacecraft using one or more distinct propulsion systems, and operating in any gravitational environment within the solar system are discussed. The system architecture attempts to consolidate most all spacecraft trajectory design and optimization problems by using a single framework tha...

Heterogeneous and distributed nature of the Internet makes it very diicult to customize security protocols and policies in order to satisfy the security needs of applications. Celestial network security management project addresses this issue through building an infrastructure that can dynamically set up inter-domain secure communication channels upon the requests of applications. Celestial Sys...

The calculations in Thomas-Fermi approximation show that in a gravitational field each cell of ultra dense matter inside celestial bodies obtains a very small positive electric charge. A celestial body is electrically neutral as a whole, because the negative electric charge exists on its surface. On the order of magnitude the positive volume charge is very small (10 −18 e only). But it is suffi...