Showing posts with label moon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moon. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

ATTENTION!!!A scary 1.5 mile-wide (2.5km) asteroid is set to make a 'close' encounter with Earth(but don't panic, it will still be 310,000 miles away)

Nasa predicts 'near miss' with scary asteroid on Halloween Night(but don't panic, it will still be 310,000 miles away)
What To Expect
Asteroid 2015 TB145 is expected to reach its closest approach to Earth at about 1:18 pm Eastern. It'll blast past us at a speed of about 78,300 miles an hour, and should be bright enough to see with a decent telescope and a star chart.

Artist's view of an asteroidLucas/Flickr CC By 2.0



Pan-STARRS is one of few telescopes whose main goal is to search for comets and asteroidsForest Starr and Kim Starr/Flickr CC By 2.0

Rendering of the Large Synoptic Survey TelescopeLSST

The asteroid's proximity will give scientists an excellent chance to study it. Scientists hope to image it with a resolution as high as 6.5 feet (2 meters) per pixel, and radar measurements will help shed light on the asteroid's precise size and composition. So far all we really know is that it's somewhere around 1,050 to 2,100 feet (320 to 640 meters) in diameter.

The 'asteroid' could be a dead comet.



Vesta gave us a good look at what an asteroid looks like.NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

  • Asteroid 2015 TB145 is believed to be around 1.5 miles (2.5 km) wide
  • An asteroid just quarter-of-a-mile wide could cause global devastation
  • 2015 TB145 will pass 1.3 times the distance from the Earth to the moon
  • Despite its size, Nasa has said the rock 'poses no threat' of impact
The asteroid will be plenty far away, but still close enough for researchers to get excited about imaging it. NASA notes that the fast-moving object "may be cometary in nature." If that's the case, it could be made up of rock, ice and dust, whereas asteroids consist mainly of rock and metals.

The space rock, named 2015 TB145, will safely fly past our planet at 78,000mph (125,500km/h) at 310,000 miles (499,000km) away.
While there's no danger to Earth, Nasa has described the asteroid as 'hazardous' as it comes 4,600,000 mile (7,403,00km) threshold of proximity to our planet. 



That's around 1.3 times the distance between the Earth   and the moon, allowing anyone with a telescope to see the event.


The asteroid, named 2015 TB145, will make its closest approach to Earth on 11:14 a.m. ET (3:14 pm GMT) on October 31, and can be seen by anyone using a telescope.

The 'high velocity' Halloween asteroid's closest approach will take place on 11:14 a.m. ET (3:14 pm GMT) on October 31.

It will be the closest approach to Earth since July 2006 and scientists believe we probably won't see another large asteroid come this close to the planet until 2027.

While there's no danger to Earth, Nasa has described the asteroid as 'hazardous' as it comes 4,600,000 mile (7,403,00km) threshold of proximity to our planet.

The asteroid was spotted by Nasa a fortnight ago, which is relatively short notice for the space agency.
FRIENDS!!! WATCH with TELESCOPE --Nasa predicts 'near miss' with scary asteroid on Halloween (but don't panic, it will still be 310,000 miles away) --The asteroid, named 2015 TB145, will make its closest approach to Earth on 11:14 a.m. ET (3:14 pm GMT) on October 31
'The asteroid is on an extremely eccentric and a high inclination orbit,' the space agency explained.

'This is the closest approach by a known object this large until 1999 AN10 approaches within 1 lunar distance in August 2027'

Because of its erratic orbit, Nasa isn't sure where it will go, but the space agency says it's confident it will not hit Earth.

It comes just weeks after doomsdayers claimed the end of the world was nigh after Nasa revealed a giant asteroid is heading towards the planet.

Called Asteroid 86666 (2000 FL10), the 1.5-mile wide (2.5km) space rock made its closest pass on 10 October.
Then there were assertions surrounding the end of the Mayan calendar on 21 December 2012, insisting the world would end with a large asteroid impact.

Earlier this year, asteroids 2004 BL86 and 2014 YB35 were also said to be on dangerous near-Earth trajectories, but their flybys in January and March went without incident.
Asteroid 86666 (2000 FL10) made its closest pass on 10 October (illustrated). An asteroid of its size has the potential to cause global devastation if it was to hit Earth but Nasa said at the time it posed no threat to Earth
FRIENDS!!! WATCH with TELESCOPE --The asteroid, named 2015 TB145, will make its closest approach to Earth on 11:14 a.m. ET (3:14 pm GMT) on October 31


For more information
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3279668

Monday, September 28, 2015

Full Blood Moon Message

The Final Blood Moon and Lunar Eclipse
    The normal perigee full moon, or supermoon (L), and appearing red during a total lunar eclipse (R)                    over Wiesbaden, Germany  Photo: EPA/Fredrik Von Erichsen

If you saw it you can tell your grandchildren in later years. If not, have a quick scan through our gallery or through the liveblog below, and then tell the grandchildren.
Post-totality, 4:38am BST, mid-Norfolk, UK -- just before the clouds rolled in...
The perigee full moon, or supermoon, appears red besides a spire of the Cologne cathedral  Photo: EPA

The partially eclipsed blood moon over Las Vegas  Photo: Reuters
The blood red moon over Glastonbury  Photo: Getty
Super Blood Moon in its partial phases over #Iowa.
'Super Blood Moon' sits over Kelpies

Observers in the British Isles have to wait until the morning of Monday, January 21 2019 for the next total lunar eclipse visible from these shores, but it will only be a "normal" one.
Eclipse facts
The supermoon, where Earth's satellite is near its minimum distance from our planet, means that the Moon will appear 7-8% larger in the sky.
The moon may look rust-coloured during a total lunar eclipse - giving rise to its nickname Blood Moon. This is because the Earth's atmosphere scatters blue light more strongly than red light, and it is this red light that reaches the lunar surface
During the eclipse, the Moon lies in front of the stars of the constellation Pisces

Rare supermoon lunar eclipse began at 1:10am (BST)
• Clear skies over much of the UK allowed fantastic views
• The celestial event had not occurred since 1982 - and will not be repeated until 2033.
Stargazers in Scotland have been treated to a good view of Sunday night's lunar eclipse and "supermoon".
A supermoon occurs when the Moon is in its closest part of orbit to Earth, making it appear larger in the sky.

In the beginning there was total love, unity and perfection. The universe was complete within itself, a unified field of Being. There was no awareness of itself, it merely was. It encompassed everything but was nothing. Then there was a sudden change: a spark of desire was ignited — the desire was to know itself. This desire propelled the forces of the universe to separate into two contrasting parts. These two parts are known as the masculine and feminine energies, the Masculine being of will and expansion and the feminine of nurturing and receptivity. And thus duality was born.

During this journey of expansion and exploration, the universal consciousness could only learn about itself through direct experience — by experiencing all aspects of what it can be. So, during the recent cycles we have been experiencing, we – the universe – have been learning about the different aspects of ourselves through separation. We have experienced the feminine without the masculine and the masculine without the feminine. During these times, we have embodied one of the other, and collectively learned to suppress the energy of the opposite. A perfect example of this is matriarchal versus patriarchal times. During the times of matriarchy, we lived in harmony with the earth and nature, we built our societies on the understanding of nurturing and receptivity, but we did not expand our collective selves or direct our will toward new directions. This left the masculine energy suppressed and wounded, and that suppressed energy rebelled. More recently, we have lived under patriarchal rule, where our will and direction has been prioritized, suppressing the divine feminine and her nurturing nature and wounding the feminine energy of the earth in the process.

We all carry within ourselves a deep wound and sense of lack rooted in that original separation; that formation of duality. This feeling is what propels us to explore in the search for completeness and perfection. However, that feeling that can only be fulfilled through the balance of the feminine and masculine energies within ourselves. We are now at the point in our evolution where we are finding the missing parts of ourselves. Many of us have been soul-searching and healing these wounded parts of ourselves, loving and forgiving all aspects of ourselves. Through our devotion to the wisdom of this inner unification, we have begun bringing balance and harmony into our lives. This is the reunion of the feminine and masculine, a process through which we will continue to expand in new directions (masculine) while nurturing (feminine) those around us and the Earth we are a part of.

With the Full Blood Moon and Lunar Eclipse in Aries (new directions), the final blood moon of the tetrad, we are being offered a new beginning. It is time to embody the unified masculine and feminine within ourselves, and to begin manifesting it into our world; through the philosophies we embody (Saturn in Sagittarius), the decisions we make (Mercury Retrograde in Libra), the structures we build in our lives (Pluto in Capricorn), and the influence we choose to have on the world around us.


Donald Urquhart captured images of the "supermoon" and eclipse over Dumfries

Donald Urquhart




NOTE--This phenomenon of the lunar eclipse and "supermoon" together was last observed in 1982 and will not come again until 2033.

Ref: http://raisingvibrationsastrology.com

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