To the seasons of life
Wednesday morning wil see a passing of asteroid 52768 close to the earth. At 556 AM ESt the body will pass with in 6 million miles of earth..
This will be the biggest asteroid so far this year,
This is a safe distance!
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On Tuesday April 20th the Lyrid shower will treat people late Tuesday night to a naked eye event.
The wide variety of astronomy events this month will be great for people looking to spend some time outside under the night sky, including families with young children, as they will not require any special equipment apart from a blanket, warm clothes and a clear sky.
Source Acuweather
Because of states of emergency may limit availability. Households in rural areas should well enjoy depending on cloud cover. Others may be creative so as not to do any thing unsafe.
While a telescope is required now this event should grow larger until late April.
Apollo 13 returns to earth.
A young moon with a sweeping length will be out tonight. Look west under Venus for a possible Photo OP.
Operation Starvation begins.
The sun will move across the horizon as spring moves to summer. Pick a spot to watch for it at sunset and you will see its weekly progress.
The General Relitivity Theory is published.
At 8:49 PM DST in BC spring equinox will happen. This is the soonest spring in a hundred and 24 years. Making Daylight savings time more attractive then ever.
Happy spring
A government in Saskatchewan is declared by Louis Riel.
There is a February 29th in 2020. Saturday will add another 24 hours to 2020 as the 29th sees its 4 year visit . There will be 4 year cycles that will not have a February 29th, three of them every every 400 years, but this one is not one of them. The next 4 year cycle that will not have a leap year will be 2100.
MASH last episode draws over 100 million veiwers.
The moon is full and its rising tonight. It will come with a lunar eclipse that will be seen in Asia viewing of the eclipse is poor in north America because of its time. A wolf moon is in some minds a traditions a moon that wolfs howl a lot at. The Moon to night is the first of 13 for 2020.
An investagation for a trail of Joan of arc begins in Rouen.
Have a good weekend.
This weekend the Geminid meteor shower is peaking and on through the 19th of December. Mostly cloudy skies are for the weekend in the BC south central interior.
Relay 1 is launched.
India’s failed lander has been found on the moon according to Nasa. The Vikram lander didn’t complete its landing intact on September 7th 2019 (North American time. ) There have been three countries make a successful landing on the moons surface the US, China and Russia. Only the US has landed people on the moon.
Prizes by Google and donations saw Israel attempt a low cost lander. in February 2019. They would have been the 7th country to land on the moon, however engine failure in decent caused a crash as well. The mission was still deemed a success for various reasons. India’s attempt was also a low cost attempt.
The Unity Module is launched.
One glass of wine can impair you for driving according to ICBC.
The mass energy equivalent formula is published.
Arctic oscilation will drive swings in temperature regardless of El Nino or La Nina.
AO to you and its predictability is limited to a weeks.
Flooding this last year lends to drought relief in some areas combined with AO.
Calculations based on the Canadian Farmers’ Almanac’s time-tested formula suggest that the winter of 2018-2019 will be a “teeth-chattering” cold one, with below-normal temperatures forecast for much of the country.
The first photography from space.
October 18th 2019
A walk in space.
Friday the 18th 2019 two female astronauts arte going out on a space walk from the ISS. Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will replace a power controller that failed recently.
The Colbert report comes to TV.
Hey Merit what do you say?
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