Category: Space


Happy International Pi Day, be a constant!

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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.

TGIF-sol

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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.

Happy birthday Galileo

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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.

You the next one?

On this Day: February 15th 1923

Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar.

Total lunar eclipse and blue moon.

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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.

Apex of the suns way… Tonight!

 

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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.

Peaking shower, winter solstice

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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.

 

Equal Opportunity

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.

TGIF-Last super moon of the year Sunday…

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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.

Neutron Star action

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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.

Full Solar eclipse

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A lot has been made of the fact that the moon is just the right size and at just the right distance from the sun to completely shadow  and block the sun out in a full solar eclipse. This rare even will be taking place again on August 21st. Vancouver start time is 9:10 AM ,ending at 11:37 AM giving about 90 percent eclipse.

The eclipse will be seen from North America however there is only a strip from the west coast of Salem Oregon to Charleston South Carolina  on the east coast of the US where complete blackout will be seen. Nasa

Never look directly at the sun serious damage can occur to eyes. A pin hole in a piece of card board into a viewing cardboard box is the safest method, or wait for the TV broadcast.

NASA will cover the eclipse coast to coast starting at noon EDT

On this Day: August 16th 1930
The first colour sound cartoon is produced, Fiddlesticks.

TGIF- enjoy the weekend

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On this Day: April 14th 1986
Hailstones weighing over 2 lbs fall in Bangladesh killing 92.

Harvest Moon

Animation of the blood moon September 28th photo KDG

Animation of the blood moon September 28th 2015
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Friday, (Saturday some places)that pesky full moon will be a harvest moon. The event is close to the fall equinox on the 22nd so the angle that it appears in the horizon will be smaller then usual.

The Earth’s axis is always tilted at an angle of about 23.4° in relation to the ecliptic, the imaginary plane created by the Earth’s path around the Sun. On any other day of the year, either the southern hemisphere or the Northern Hemisphere tilts a little towards the Sun. But on the two equinoxes, the tilt of the Earth’s axis is perpendicular to the Sun’s ray.
The fullness of the moon will be at 9:05:06 Central European Time, here it will be 12:05:06 PDT, Pacific Daylight Time.
Full moons are often attributed to strange events including a recent study by the University of Tokyo suggesting large earthquakes correspond to large tidal events, these events are driven by gravitational pull on the earth from the moon.

University of Tokyo, found that tides—which arise from the gravitational interaction between the Earth and the Moon—can cause changes that may trigger earthquakes. Source Time Magazine.

Editors note: Or the last tidal event triggered the big one meant for you…

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Moon at three quarter August Merritt BC Photo KDG

On this Day: September 15th 1971
The first Green Peace ship goes to Amchitka Island to demonstrate against nuclear testing.