• ALLEGRO--A Louisiana Low temperature Experiment and Gravitational wave Observatory
• ALBM--air-launched ballistic missile (range over 1000 km)
• ALCM--air-launched cruise missile (range over 1000 km)
• AAM--air-to-air missile
• ASM--air-to-surface missile (range under 1000 km)
• ABM--anti-ballistic missile
• ASAT--anti-satellite weapon
• ASCM--anti-ship cruise missile
• ASW--anti-submarine weapon
• ATBM--anti-tactical ballistic missile
• AFAP--artillery-fired atomic projectile
• AU--astronomical unit
• ADS--Astrophysics Data System
• ADM--atomic demolition munition
• ATNF--Australia Telescope National Facility
• ACIGA--Australian Consortium for Interferometric Gravitational Astronomy
• AIGO--Australian International Gravitational Observatory

• BF--boosted fission
• BASE--Brownsville Alliance for Science Education
• BATSE--Burst and Transient Experiment

• CGWA--Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy
• CM--command module
• CGRO--Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory
• CC--cross-correlation

• DEC--declination
• DEW--directed energy weapon
• DF--Dong Feng

• EKO--Edgeworth-Kuiper object
• ER--enhanced radiation
• ESA--European Space Agency
• ETI--extra-terrestrial intelligence

• FL--Feilung
• FM--Feimeng
• FOBS--fractional orbit bombardment system

• GRB--gamma ray burst
• GCN--Gamma Ray Burst Coordinates Network
• GW--gravitational wave
• GLCM--ground-launched cruise missile (range between 1000 km and 5500 km)
• GA--gun assembly

• HY--Hai Yang
• HETE--High Energy Transient Explorer
• HIP--Hipparcos
• HJ--Hong Jian
• HN--Hong Nu
• HQ--Hongqi

• ID--identification
• IOC--initial operational capability, or date of first alert capability
• ICBM--intercontinental ballistic missile (range over 5500 km)
• ICCM--intercontinental cruise missile (range over 5500 km)
• IFO--interferometer
• IRBM--intermediate-range ballistic missile (range between 1000 km and 2500 km)
• IAU--International Astronomical Union
• IAUC--International Astronomical Union Circulars
• ICQ--International Comet Quarterly
• INTEGRAL--International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory
• IGEC--International Gravitational Event Collaboration
• ISS--International Space Station

• JPL--Jet Propulsion Laboratories
• JL--Ju Lang
• JD--Julian date

• KBO--Kuiper Belt object

• LIGO--Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
• LISA--Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
• LHO-2k--LHO 2 km interferometer
• LHO-4k--LHO 4 km interferometer
• LY--light years
• LHO--LIGO Hanford Observatory
• LLO--LIGO Livingston Observatory
• LSC--LIGO Scientific Collaboration
• LR--likelihood ratio
• LM--lunar module
• LCE--Lyapunov characteristic exponent

• MRBM--medium-range ballistic missile (range between 2500 km and 5500 km)
• MPC--Minor Planet Center
• MICBM--mobile intercontinental ballistic missile
• TN--multi-stage thermonuclear

• NASA--National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• NIMA--National Imagery and Mapping Agency
• NSF--National Science Foundation
• NDB--nuclear depth bomb
• NGB--nuclear gravity bomb

• PL--Pen Lung
• PSD--power spectral density
• PSR--pulsar

• ROC--receiver operating characteristic
• RA--right ascension
• R/B--rocket booster
• RMS--root-mean-square
• RXTE--Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer

• SDO--scattered disk object
• SRBM--short-range ballistic missile (range under 1000 km)
• SY--Shui Ying
• SNR--signal-to-noise ratio
• SLBM--submarine-launched ballistic missile
• SLCM--submarine-launched cruise missile (range over 1000 km)
• SN--supernova
• SAM--surface-to-air missile

• TSC--Texas Southmost College
• TNO--trans-Neptunian object

• USGS--United States Geological Survey
• UT--University of Texas
• UTB--University of Texas at Brownsville

• WWW--world wide web

• XRF--X-ray flash

• YJ--Ying Ji

© 2005 by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified 25 March 2005.
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