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July 11 Total Eclipse Among the Mysterious Moai
Universe Today ^ | 9 July 2010 | Written by Nancy Atkinson

Posted on 07/10/2010 3:57:06 PM PDT by combat_boots

A group of astronomers are now on the mysterious Easter Island, one of the few solid places to stand on Earth where a total solar eclipse will be visible on July 11, 2010. The majority of the eclipse's path is over the ocean, so this will be one of the least observed eclipses ever. "This is one of the most interesting things that is possible for anyone on Earth to see in one of the most interesting places on the Earth that people can go," said Jay Pasachoff from Williams College, who is the Chair of the International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Eclipses. This will be his 51st eclipse.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: easterisland; eclipse; ecuador; moai; rapanui; thorheyerdahl
It wasn't on my calendar this year...... ;> They are fun though. The whole eclipse idea is interesting.
1 posted on 07/10/2010 3:57:12 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: combat_boots
I've experienced two solar eclipses.

The second was in Landstuhl, Germany.

Some dude was driving his car at the time, put his head out of the window, veered across the road and had his head severed as he slid by an old stone overpass.

He DID make it into the Darwin Awards.

True story.

2 posted on 07/10/2010 4:07:55 PM PDT by Leo Farnsworth (I'm really not Leo Farnsworth.)
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To: combat_boots
What is coming up this year?
Av 1 - August 1, 2008 - partial eclipse
Av 1 - July 22, 2009 - total eclipse
Av 1 - July 11, 2010 - partial eclipse
In the Jewish calendar, they are all on the first of Av, the day when Jews
lament the destruction of their temples. As the story goes, Moses caught
the people worshiping the Golden Calf on Tammuz 17. Therefore, the three weeks
from Tammuz 17 to Av 9 are called “the dark time” and “between the straits.”
It is the most sorrowful time of the year for Jews. From Av 1-9, no bathing
is allowed; no comforts; no clean clothes; the Jew takes his shoes off; sits
on an overturned chair and reads the book of Lamentations.


shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

3 posted on 07/10/2010 4:08:50 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: Leo Farnsworth

I wont even ask for the 1st experience..


4 posted on 07/10/2010 4:14:08 PM PDT by max americana
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To: combat_boots

Total eclipse of the heart?


5 posted on 07/10/2010 4:29:37 PM PDT by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: Leo Farnsworth

I hate to say it. That’s actually a pretty funny story, in a darkly humorous, eclipse sort of way. ;> Islam is related to the moon god, after all.


6 posted on 07/10/2010 4:35:57 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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To: combat_boots

Supposedly there is also going to be a CME that day, as well.


7 posted on 07/10/2010 4:51:41 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: buccaneer81

Well, this might be interesting........

“In 1977, a CME knocked out a communications satellite and silenced pagers all over the world.”

http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/cmes.html


8 posted on 07/10/2010 4:57:20 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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To: combat_boots

1989, same thing. We lost power and phones for 6 hours in Western Massachusetts.


9 posted on 07/10/2010 5:13:42 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: combat_boots

On 13 March 1989, the voltage of Quebec’s power grid began to fluctuate alarmingly. Seconds later, the lights went out across the entire province. Some 6 million people were without electricity for nine hours. Within two days, NASA had lost track of some of its spacecraft and the northern lights were glowing in the sky south of London.


10 posted on 07/10/2010 5:19:06 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: combat_boots
"This is one of the most interesting things that is possible for anyone on Earth to see ..."

Yeah, tell that to

Full Double Rainbow Dude!
 

Of course results may vary according to the degree of one's psychotropic drug consumption.

But none the less, that dude loves him some double rainbow!

11 posted on 07/10/2010 5:22:47 PM PDT by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: avg_freeper
Don't eat the blue acid, I repeat don't eat the blue acid.

That dude is tripping his brains out.

I saw a double and it was awesome but did not have that effect on me.

12 posted on 07/10/2010 5:37:46 PM PDT by Hotmetal (Support the castle, defend the flag.)
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To: buccaneer81

Is the Sun now scheduling them in advance?

Cool...


13 posted on 07/10/2010 8:06:28 PM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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