Anyone up early enough to see the Eclipse?
LUNAR

ECLIPSE: This morning, the Moon
passed through
the shadow of Earth, producing a partial lunar
eclipse. Jared
Aicher of Boise, Idaho, photographed the eclipse at
maximum,
when 54% of the Moon's diameter was covered:

"The lunar eclipse was beautiful as it

set over the distant Owyhee Mountains on Saturday
morning!"
says Aicher. "The light was changing rapidly, and
show
was magnificent."

Note that in Aicher's picture, the
eclipse is
not the red half of the Moon. That's normal
'moonset
reddening' caused by scattering of moonlight in
Earth's atmosphere.
The eclipse is the dark half of the Moon. That's
Earth's shadow
cutting the full moon in two.
SPACE

STATION MARATHON: The International
Space
Station (ISS) is putting on a remarkable show. For
the next
few days, the behemoth spacecraft will be in
constant sunlight
as its orbit lines up with Earth's day-night
terminator. This
means it will shine brightly in the night sky every
single
time it passes overhead. Some observers can see it
3, 4, even
5 times a night!
"Last night we witnessed five passes of the ISS
over
the Mont-Megantic Dark Sky Reserve in Quebec,"
reports
Guillaume Poulin. "This picture shows one of the
most
impressive, with the space station's magnitude
reaching -3
for much of its five minute pass."

"The campfire was in celebration of Quebec's
National
Holiday," he explains. "It was nice to have the
space station join our party so often!"
Readers, please take advantage of this rare "ISS
marathon."
Check the Simple
Satellite Tracker for
viewing times. Better yet, let your iPhone or
Android guide
you to the space station. There's
an app for that!
more images: from

Pete Glastonbury of Devizes, Wiltshire, UK; from

Guillaume Poulin of Quebec, Canada; from

John C McConnell of Maghaberry, Northern
Ireland; from

Peter Rosén of Stockholm, Sweden; from

Baqir of Quetta, Pakistan; from

Steve Paluch of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; from

Pete Lardizabal of St Johns, Florida; from

Joseph Shaw of Bozeman, Montana;

Spacecraft to Make
Final Flyby of Earth

The re-purposed Deep Impact spacecraft
will make one final flyby of Earth on Sunday June
27, 2010, getting a gravity assist to help propel the spacecraft towards
a meetup with comet Hartley 2 this
fall. The spacecraft bus that brought the Deep Impact "impactor" to
comet Tempel 1 in July of 2005 has been put back to work double time
where two new missions share the same spacecraft. This is the fifth time
this spacecraft has flown by Earth, and at the time of closest approach
on Sunday, it will be about 30,400 kilometers (18,900 miles) above the
South Atlantic.
"The speed and orbital track of the spacecraft can
be changed by changing aspects of its flyby of Earth, such as how close
it comes to the planet," said
University of Maryland astronomer Michael A'Hearn, principal
investigator for both the new EPOXI mission and its predecessor mission,
Deep Impact.
Click to continue…
https://spaceweather.com/
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Reminds me of a movie???
June 26, 1959

Papua
New Guinea UFO Visitations About.com
  Papua
New Guinea UFO Visitations Google Videos
Father William Gill and 38 others allegedly witnessed a disc-shaped
object with four legs hovering over the village of Boianai, Papua New Guinea. Four human-like figures were seen standing above the craft who returned
the waves with the witnesses. The object remained intermittently
visible for some hours, and returned the following two evenings. It was
one of the best witnessed close encounter cases in the annals of
ufology. At the time, Gill had assumed the objects to be new American
aircraft. There had been a UFO flap on the island that year - 61 UFO
sightings, mostly in June and July. The country is situated on the
Pacific Ring of Fire, at the point of collision of several tectonic
plates. There are a number of active volcanoes and eruptions are
frequent. Earthquakes are relatively common, sometimes accompanied by a
tsunami.
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Gulf
of Mexico Oil Spill   Wikipedia
  Coast
to Coast: George Noory and Richard Hoagland   YouTube
Richard
Hoagland   Wikipedia
  Volcanic
Tsunami and Poison Gas Alert   YouTube
  Toxic Oil Spill Rains
Warned Could Destroy North America, Gulf of Mexico   YouTube
  BP
Alaska a 'ticking time bomb'?   CNN
G-20
Summit Begins   Google - June 26, 2010
REMEMBER the last Summit? With that blue thing/spiral going onto a "HOLE in the sky? Wonder what delightful event this summet will bring?
2010
G-20 Toronto summit   Wikipedia
6.9-magnitude
quake rattles Solomon Islands   USGS - June 26, 2010
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OPPS I missed the memo on this one, oh well..

June 24, 1717
.....Thursday June 24, 2010



Foundations of
Freemasonry Were Established
  Freemasonry Google Videos
The first Grand Lodge, the Grand Lodge of England, was founded on June
24, 1717 when four existing London Lodges met for a joint dinner.
Freemasonry was exported to the British Colonies in North America by the
1730s. After the American Revolution, independent U.S. Grand Lodges
formed within each State. Some thought was briefly given to organizing
an over-arching "Grand Lodge of the United States", with George
Washington, who was a member of a Virginian lodge, as the first Grand
Master, but the idea was short-lived. The various State Grand Lodges did
not wish to diminish their own authority by agreeing to such a body.


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