Moon File Photo KDG
Saturn in opposition gives a hot full moon. West coast Wednesday morning, east coast today 12:52, Central European summer time today at 4:53 .
On this Day: June 28th 1926
Mercedes Benz company is formed.
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Broken sign no contract….File Photo KDG
The Petro Can station on Voght and Nicola, ( highway 8 and 5 ) is selling regular gasoline at One twenty nine point nine a liter today down 10cents from recent weeks. That is 2 cents less then other stations in Merritt BC.
The average price is $1.48.9 in BC at this writing. Prices trending up. Saskatchewan has the lowest average price per liter at $1.25.2.
On this Day: May 30th 1975
The European Space Agency is established.
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The time between the March 20th equinox and the summer solstice is refereed to as a lunar season giving the opportunity to name full moons. The full moon tonight will be a flower moon and the third of that season. It will be the final full moon of the spring season and be known as a flower, milk or planting moon. The same full moon in the southern hemisphere will be a hunter, beaver or frost moon.
The gravity of the moon is thought to effect earthquakes, lava flows and other earth events.
Enjoy the bright show tonight, the May moon is known as “when the ponies shed their shaggy hair ” by some first peoples.
In BC the moon was completely full at 7:19 this AM.
Moon rising File photo KDG
On this Day; May 29th 1660
Charles II is restored as a King when the English throne is returned.
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International PI day is recognizes the mathematical formula that can be carried out in a constant form to infinity.
Pi Day is an annual celebration of the mathematical constant π. Pi Day is observed on March 14 since 3, 1, and 4 are the first three significant digits of π. In 2009, the United States House of Representatives supported the designation of Pi Day.
Rip: Stephen Hawking since the universe is still expanding you and PI will have to measure up.
On this Day: March 14th 1931
India’s first talking film, Alam Ara, is released.
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February saw the Mars rover Opportunity reach its 5000th day of operation. It was originally planned to have 90 sol or Martian days. A solar day on Mars is 24 hours and a little under 40 minutes.
We hope this information does something for your sol because:
The rover is investigating a channel called Perseverance Valley, which descends the inboard slope of the western rim of Endeavour Crater. Ray Arvidson of Washington University in St. Louis is Opportunity Deputy Principal Investigator. source: Earth Sky News.
On this Day: February 23rd 1987
Supernova 1987a is observed in the Magellan cloud.
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Its the 454th birthday for astronomy pioneer Galileo. The scientist and inventor, thinker is still remembered for contributions that effect us today. Good job he did the math!
Galileo Galilei was an Italian polymath. Galileo is a central figure in the transition from natural philosophy to modern science and in the transformation of the scientific Renaissance into a scientific revolution.
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On this Day: February 15th 1923
Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar.
Animation of the blood moon.
A super (close to earth, Blue (twice in a month) and a total lunar eclipse today.
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On this Day: January 31st 2018
A blue moon and total lunar eclipse occurs.
The sun west of Merritt, Red from smoke, of the 2017 fire season in the Sothern interior of BC File Photo KDG
A trip around the Milky Way galaxy center is called a cosmic year. Tonight the sun reaches its half way point in the orbit.
Our Milky Way galaxy is a collection of several hundred billion stars. It has an estimated diameter of 100,000 light-years. Our sun does indeed circumnavigate the Milky Way galaxy. In space, everything moves. There are various estimates for the speed the sun travels through the galaxy, but its speed is about 140 miles per second. Source earth sky news.
And it so happens that astronomers know which star the sun is moving toward in its journey around the galaxy. Our sun and family of planets travel more or less toward the star Vega – and away from the star Sirius. Unsurprisingly, Vega and Sirius lie in opposite directions in Earth’s sky.
Look for Vega at West to Norwest. One estimate of a Cosmic year is 230 million years; this must in our minds mean that the earth is subject to different influences over the millennia including gravity and weather .
On this Day: January 16th 1934
The Harlem Apollo theater reopens in New York.
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The Ursid meteor shower will be peaking on the 22nd, the annual shower has had up to a hundred meteors and hour in the past at peak and in will be radiating down from the base of the little dipper, (look up from Polaris)
The peak is the morning of December 22, but tomorrow morning or Friday morning (December 21 or 23) might yield some meteors as well.
The winter solstice will also be tomorrow at 16;28 UTC, 8:28 PST. The days ( light) will begin to get longer until the spring equinox in March and the summer solstice in June.
On this Day: December 20th 2013
The Chinese place a telecommunications satellite for the Bolivian government.
The Trans Mountain Pipeline people have a equal opportunity policy to hiring:
Worley Parsons Cord (WPC) is the Engineering, Procurement and Construction Contractor for the Edmonton Terminal and 12 pump stations included in the Trans Mountain Expansion Project. Their work includes addition of four new storage tanks at Edmonton Terminal, 11 new pump stations along the route in British Columbia and Alberta and one new pipeline on the existing pipeline.
What’s your process for hiring the construction crews and related workers who will be building the Trans Mountain Expansion Project?
WorleyParsonsCord is an equal opportunity employer. Our process includes a very strong local and Aboriginal hiring focus for multiple reasons, including commercial returns to the communities engaged in the project, reduced travel risks by using workers and subcontractors living close to our construction sites, and creating a sense of pride among the respective work forces which results in improved quality. We have dedicated human resource staff that research local and Aboriginal labour sources and identify skilled workers who can bring value to our project delivery source: Trans Mountain.
The expansion of the existing line to Burnaby was approved by the NEB, the detailed route is under review( Chapter Four) by the NEB at this time. detailed route.
On this Day: December 7th 1972
The Blue Marble photo is taken.
Moon rising
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December 3rd, Sunday ,will see the years last full moon, and it’s last super moon as well. A super moon is a full moon when the moon is closer to the earth then normal. The event will be followed by two more in January on the 2nd and 31st. This makes a blue super moon on the 31st of January 2018. ( a good omen to some) science to others. There is more .:The last moon in January will be a full Lunar eclipse. You better plan a good new year party to be prepared for any thing…
On the Day: December 1st 1924
The Boston Bruins becomes the first American city to play in the NHL.
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Ever thought where the gold in your wedding ring came from in the beginning. It came from a collapsing star or a neutron star expelling its matter out in an ever expanding universe. It as well as your body are star dust. If that thought does not add sanctity to your wedded bliss relax it s normal to be concerned with the day to day of your livelihood, relationships and your space on the block. But for a moment take a breath and consider the forces and magnificence of your being, to be able to contemplate such things is special! The time involved and the energy that connects you is no cheap deal nor is the trust you made with that little band of space dust.
Rise my friends from the low things of failure and take a moment to check your course and see that it is worthy of you! Since being such a special concoction of star dust gives pause!
The person that you are or may be, one worthy of the wonder of all things! If you are perfect now and no longer in need of a quantum leap to complete you,that’s great. Need more spooky action to bring the right elements into your completion ? Just wait for the next gravitational wave to drive you , it will be along in good time.
Gravitational waves:
Some gravitational waves were first observed this week as distinctly coming from a collision of two specific neutron stars that collided eons ago.
The universe is alive with waves of gravity, spooky action is one of the terms of quantum physics you will have to investigate as to its meaning. KDG
Space-time can be considered to be the fabric of the universe. That means everything that moves, moves through it. In this model, anything with mass distorts the space-time fabric. The larger the mass, the larger the distortion. And since every moving object moves through space-time, it will also follow the distortions caused by objects with big mass. source Earth Sky News.
God Element bless you…
On this Day: October 17th 1814
Eight persons drown in the London Beer Flood.
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