Asteroid!
I am fascinated by astronomy. I wish I'd taken better advantage of the planetarium at my high school -- I used to visit the planetarium with y class when I was in elementary school, but by the time I got to high school I was more interested in other things. some day, when I have the time, I'd kike to study astronomy again.
A friend of mine from high school is an amateur astronomer, and I am sure that tonight he'll have his telescope out.
You see, there's a very interesting phenomenon in the sky tonight.
A mile-wide asteroid with its own moon is passing by the Earth. The European Space Agency says it will be 3,219,961 miles (5,182,024 km) away -- more than 13 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon. For an asteroid, that's pretty close.
Sigh. I need a telescope.
I thought, for us, it was going to pass about 7:05 pm. Plus, here in Binghamton, it's pretty cloudy. So you had an observatory in your high school? I did, also but it was broken during the time I went there. I did take an astronomy course in my final semester of high school (when we were permitted electives) and I loved it. Absolutely loved it, but never followed up as an adult. Alana ramblinwitham.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteI had dreams of becoming an astronomer. Alas, my physics grades in college weren't good enough to get me into a masters program. Still fascinating stuff, though.
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