Lunar Eclipse March 3rd
http://www.shadowandsubstance.com/
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEplot/LEplot2001/LE2007Mar03T.GIF
http://njnightsky.com/nuke/html/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=672
http://www.mreclipse.com/Special/LEprimer.html
They have built a house -----now they will shake it down
Engineers are simulating a 6.7 quake under a 40-ton wood frame building, to see how the structure holds up. This experiment will be broadcast live beginning at 7:30 a.m. PST Tuesday on the laboratory’s website at
http://nees.buffalo.edu/projects/NEESWood/video.asp
On November 8, 2006, Mercury will slowly slide across the face of the sun during an event known as a transit. A transit of Mercury is relatively rare&emdash;there are only about a dozen in a century.
The Exploratorium's Live@ crew will be at the Kitt Peak National Observatory, and, with the Kitt Peak staff, will Webcast the transit: a live five-hour telescope-only feed beginning at 11:00 am PST.
The transit will take place from 11:12 a.m. PST until 4:10 p.m. PST and will be visible from the Pacific, the Americas, eastern Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, although some locations will not be able to see the entire transit. Because of Mercury's diminutive size, the transit cannot be seen with the unaided eye, but it can be viewed with a telescope (with the proper filter) or with a homemade optical projector.
Mercury Will Provide Mini-Eclipse By Passing Across Face of Sun Wednesday November 8th At 11:12 PST
Mercury will transit, or pass across the face, of, the sun Wednesday, in an event that happens about 12 times per century. It will be like a mini eclipse, but because Mercury is so small and so far from the Earth it will not cast a noticeable shadow on the earth unless viewed safely through a filtered telescope. Mercury will only be about .05% as wide. If you have a small telescope with a protective filter or project the image on a piece of paper you should be able to see Mercury moving and tell it from any small sunspots that are on the sun. The transit begins at 11:12 am PST and take about four hours. The transit can be viewed live at the following addresses:
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/
http://www.xprize.org/home.php
What's Happening
Current Events In Sceince
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html
Total Lunar Eclipse Thursday Evening May 15 2003
http://www.time.com/time/2003/inventions/list.html
Here is a list of Time Magazine's Coolest Inventions of 2003.
The 2003 Nov. 19, 2003 Leonid Meteor Shower
