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October 2012 –
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Astronomy Today Sky Guide – October 2012
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October 01 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
Comet 168P/Hergenrother –
Perihelion (1.415 AU)
October 02 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
Comet 158P/Kowal-LINEAR –
Closest Approach To Earth (3.584 AU)
October 03 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
October 04 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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October 05 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Moon Occults Jupiter
Comet C/2011 S1 (Gibbs) Closest Approach To Earth (6.362 AU)
October 06 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
Mercury Passes 3.5 Degrees From
Saturn
Comet 76P/West-Kohoutek-Ikemura –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.806 AU)
October 07 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
October 08 2011 – 07:33 UT –
End of Third Lunar Quarter
October 08 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
Draconids Meteor Shower
Draconids (DRA) Meteor Shower Peak 11:15 UT – IMO Details & SkyMap
October 08 – 12 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Symposium: Gamma Ray Burst 2012 Malaga, Spain
October 09 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
October 10 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Southern Taurids (STA) Meteor Shower Peak – IMO Details & SkyMap
October 11 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
d-Aurigids (DAU) Meteor Shower Peak – IMO Details & SkyMap
October 11 & 12 2012 –
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Lecture: Herschel Opens Up the Cool Universe Pasadena, California
October 12 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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October 13 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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October 14 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
October 15 2011 – 12:02 UT –
New Moon
October 15 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
Dwarf Planet 136199 Eris –
At Opposition (95.542 AU)
October 15 – 17 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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12th European Workshop on Astrobiology (EANA 2012) Stockholm, Sweden
October 16 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
October 17 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
Moon Occults Mercury
Kuiper Belt Object 55636 (2002 TX300) –
At Opposition (41.885 AU)
October 18 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
e-Geminids (EGE) Meteor Shower Peak – IMO Details & SkyMap
October 18 – 20 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Solar System Exploration @50 Conference Washington DC
October 19 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
Comet C/2011 R1 (McNaught) –
Perihelion (2.079 AU)
Comet C/2009 S3 (Lemmon) –
Closest Approach To Earth (5.898 AU)
October 20 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
October 21 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
Kuiper Belt Object 15760 (1992 QB1) –
At Opposition (40.160 AU)
Orionids Meteor Shower
Orionids (ORI) Meteor Shower Peak – IMO Details & SkyMap
October 21 – 24 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Conference: Brown Dwarf Binaries and the Origin of Brown Dwarfs Bavaria, Germany
October 22 2011 – 03:32 UT –
End of First Lunar Quarter
October 22 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
October 23 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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October 24 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Leonis Minorids (LMI) Meteor Shower Peak – IMO Details & SkyMap
October 25 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
October 26 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Mercury –
At Its Greatest Eastern Elongation (24 Degrees)
October 27 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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October 28 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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October 29 2011 – 19:50 UT –
The Full Hunter’s Moon
October 29 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
October 30 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
Kuiper Belt Object 55637 (2002 UX25) –
At Opposition (40.313 AU)
October 31 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
Kuiper Belt Object 84522 (2002 TC302) –
At Opposition (45.806 AU)
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November 2012 –
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November 01 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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November 02 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Moon Occults Jupiter
November 03 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Taurids Meteor Shower Peak
November 04 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Comet P/1997 C1 (Gehrels) –
Closest Approach To Earth (2.925 AU)
November 05 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
November 06 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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November 07 2011 – 00:36 UT –
End of Third Lunar Quarter
November 07 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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November 08 2012 –
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November 09 2012 –
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November 10 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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November 11 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
November 12 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
November 13 2011 – 22:08 UT –
New Moon
November 13 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
Total Solar Eclipse Visible From Australia & South Pacific
Cassini, Titan Flyby
November 14 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
Moon Occults Mercury
November 15 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
Kuiper Belt Object 90377 Sedna –
At Opposition (85.759 AU)
November 16 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
November 17 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Leonids Meteor Shower Peak
November 18 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
November 19 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
Comet P/2010 TO20 (LINEAR-Grauer) –
Closest Approach To Earth (4.828 AU)
November 20 2011 – 14:31 UT –
End of First Lunar Quarter
November 20 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
November 21 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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a-Monocerotids (AMO) Meteor Shower Peak 09:55 UT – IMO Details & SkyMap
November 22 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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November 23 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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November 24 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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November 25 2012 –
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November 26 2012 –
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November 27 2012 –
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Venus Passes 0.5 Degrees From
Saturn
Mars Passes 4.5 Degrees From
Pluto
November 28 2012 – 14:46 UT –
The Full Beaver Moon
November 28 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
November 29 2012 –
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Moon Occults Jupiter
Cassini, Titan Flyby
November 30 2012 –
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December 2012 –
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December 01 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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December 02 2012 –
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Kuiper Belt Object 84922 (2003 VS2) –
At Opposition (35.553 AU)
December 03 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
Jupiter At Opposition
Comet 121P/Shoemaker-Holt –
Closest Approach To Earth (2.939 AU)
December 04 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Mercury –
At Its Greatest Western Elongation (21 Degrees)
December 05 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Kuiper Belt Object 174567 (2003 MW12) –
At Opposition (48.323 AU)
December 06 2011 – 15:32 UT –
End of Third Lunar Quarter
December 06 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Phoenicids (PHO) Meteor Shower Peak 03:45 UT – IMO Details & SkyMap
Puppid-Velids (PUP) Meteor Shower Peak – IMO Details & SkyMap
December 07 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Kuiper Belt Object 19521 Chaos –
At Opposition (40.592 AU)
Kuiper Belt Object 2004 XR190 At Opposition (56.754 AU)
December 08 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Monocerotids (MON) Meteor Shower Peak – IMO Details & SkyMap
December 09 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan
December 10 2012 –
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December 11 2012 –
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s-Hydrids (HYD) Meteor Shower Peak – IMO Details & SkyMap
December 12 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Moon Occults Mercury
Comet P/2011 N1 (ASH) –
Closest Approach To Earth (2.262 AU)
Comet 129P/Shoemaker-Levy –
Closest Approach To Earth (3.078 AU)
December 13 2011 – 08:42 UT –
New Moon
December 13 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daily Sunspot Number for last 24 hours
Geminids Meteor Shower
Geminids (GEM) Meteor Shower Peak 23:30 UT – IMO Details & SkyMap
December 14 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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December 15 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan
Comet 36P/Whipple –
Closest Approach To Earth (2.560 AU)
Comae Berenicids (COM) Meteor Shower Peak – IMO Details & SkyMap
December 16 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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December 17 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Comet P/2011 U2 (Bressi) –
Closest Approach To Earth (3.882 AU)
December 18 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Comet 111P/Helin-Roman-Crockett –
Closest Approach To Earth (2.723 AU)
Asteroid 1 Ceres At Opposition (6.7 Magnitude)
December 19 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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December Leonis Minorids (DLM) Meteor Shower Peak – IMO Details & SkyMap
December 20 2011 – 05:19 UT –
End of First Lunar Quarter
December 20 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Comet P/2003 O2 (LINEAR) –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.633 AU)
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So we at The Morien Institute have compiled some links for those who need reassurance that the world will not end and that everything
will be just fine after tomorrow’s Winter Solstice passes
The Winter Solstice marks the point at which the Sun
does not rise any higher in the sky nor does it set any lower
In many ancient societies sunset on the day before the Winter Solstice traditionally marked the death of the old year, while sunrise on the day after the Winter Solstice marked the rebirth of the new year
In many ancient societies sunset on the day before the Winter Solstice traditionally marked the death of the old year, while sunrise on the day after the Winter Solstice marked the rebirth of the new year
This is ALL that it means. Nothing bad will happen tomorrow and it certainly won’t be the end of the world so enjoy the holidays
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Debunking the “2012 Doomsday” Nonsense
How to talk to your kids about 2012
2012: Beginning of the End or Why the World Won’t End?
The Great 2012 Doomsday Scare
Nibiru and Doomsday 2012: Questions and Answers
2012: Beginning of the End or Why the World Won’t End?
What are Mayan Elders saying about the Mayan Calendar
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2012 is not the end of the world, Mayan elder insists
December 21 2008 – 11:12 UT –
Alban Arthan –
Winter Solstice
December 21 2012 –
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Asteroid 1 Ceres Closest Approach To Earth (1.679 AU)
December 22 2012 –
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Ursids Meteor Shower
Ursids (URS) Meteor Shower Peak 08:00 UT – IMO Details & SkyMap
Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan & Rhea
Comet 58P/Jackson-Neujmin –
Closest Approach To Earth (2.073 AU)
December 23 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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December 24 2012 –
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December 25 2012 –
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Comet P/2011 R3 (Novichonok-Gerke) –
Closest Approach To Earth (2.859 AU)
December 26 2012 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Moon Occults Jupiter
December 27 2012 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Comet C/2011 Y3 (Boattini) –
Closest Approach To Earth (5.454 AU)
December 28 2011 – 10:21 UT –
The Full Long Nights Moon
December 28 2012 –
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December 29 2012 –
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December 30 2012 –
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December 31 2012 –
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Comet C/2011 Y3 (Boattini) –
Closest Approach To Earth (5.454 AU)
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“A Little History of
Astro-Archaeology:
Stages in the Transformation
of a Heresy”
by
John Michell
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“Stonehenge today is a battlefield, not only for police and festivalgoers at midsummer but also for rival camps of archaeologists, astronomers, and other researchers into the mysteries of prehistoric religion and science. Controversy flared up in 1963, when Gerald Hawkins made early use of the computer to identify Stonehenge as an observatory for the sun and moon and an instrument for predicting eclipses. Further studies of megalithic sites by Alexander Thom proved that many of them were also related to the seasonal positions of the heavenly bodies.
The study of astro-archaeology has now expanded worldwide, bringing new revelations about the mystical sciences of antiquity. This “little history” summarizes the issues involved in astro-archaeology, and illustrates its principal sites and personalities. Included are recent findings of British scientists, whose records of anomalous levels of natural energies at stone circles are in accordance with the magical reputations of such places in local folklore.”
“Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy:
From Giza to Easter Island”
by
Giulio Magli
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“This complete, authoritative study of the growing discipline of Archaeoastronomy examines the role of astronomy in antiquity. Professor Giulio Magli provides a clear, up-to-date survey of current thinking on the motives of the ancients for building fabulous and mysterious monuments all over our planet. Was it an attempt to reproduce the sky on Earth, to bring down the power of the stars to where they could see it, worship it and use it?
The connecting thread is astronomy: Giulio Magli uses astronomy as a key to understanding our ancestors’ way of thinking. It is a challenge he likes to call ‘predicting the past’ – archaeology as a science is able to make predictions, like any other science, and to check them.
All of the astronomical achievements of the past are considered as a whole, in a comprehensive way that shows the depth and breadth of the thought behind them. In the past, the motives of the ancients – and particularly their scientific thought – have often been misconstrued, maligned or even dismissed.
In an ironic, provocative style, Professor Magli shows the limitations of orthodox archaeology in the face of astronomically-based artefacts and tries to understand what led the ancients to construct magnificent buildings such as the city of Teotihuacan in the Mexico Valley, the Ceremonial Centre of Chaco Canyon in the USA, the Avebury stone circle in Great Britain or the Great Pyramids in Egypt.
The book is divided into two parts. In the first, the reader is taken on an ideal ‘world tour’ of many wonderful and enigmatic places in almost every continent, in search of traces of astronomical knowledge and lore of the sky. In the second part, Giulio Magli uses the elements presented in the tour to show that the fundamental idea which led to the construction of the astronomically-related giant monuments was the foundation of power, a foundation which was exploited by ‘replicating’ the sky.
A possible interpretive model then emerges that is founded on the relationship the ancients had with “natureâ€, in the sense of everything that surrounded them, the cosmos.
The numerous monumental astronomically aligned structures of the past then become interpretable as acts of will, expressions of power on the part of those who held it; the will to replicate the heavenly plane here on earth and to build sacred landscapes.”
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