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There will be 230 lunar eclipses in the 21st century (2001–2100): 87 penumbral, 58 partial and 85 total. [1]Eclipses are listed in sets by lunar years, repeating every 12 months for each node.
The supermoon of 14 November 2016 was 356,511 km (221,526 mi) away [1] from the center of Earth. Supermoons occur 3–4 times per year. [2] As the Earth revolves around the Sun, approximate axial parallelism of the Moon's orbital plane (tilted five degrees to the Earth's orbital plane) results in the revolution of the lunar nodes relative to the Earth.
Date Time UT (hr:mn) Type Node Saros Gamma Magnitude Duration (min) Moon position Contacts UT (hr:mn) Chart Greatest Pen. Umb. Par Tot RA Decl. U1 U2 U3 U4
February 7, 2010 22:43:25 Venus 1°04' south of Neptune 6.6° East February 16, 2010 21:09:36 Venus 35' south of Jupiter 8.8° East February 27, 2010 05:07:37 Mercury 1°48' south of Neptune 11.9° West March 3, 2010 22:43:19 Venus 40' south of Uranus 12.4° East March 7, 2010 19:00:44 Mercury 1°11' south of Jupiter 5.7° West March 15, 2010
Also, the tropical period of Earth (a tropical year) is the interval between two alignments of its rotational axis with the Sun, also viewed as two passages of the object at a right ascension of 0 hr. One Earth year is slightly shorter than the period for the Sun to complete one circuit along the ecliptic (a sidereal year) because the inclined ...
full moon: seen from Earth at perihelion maximum brightness of perigee + perihelion + full Moon (~0.267 lux; mean distance value is −12.74, [17] though values are about 0.18 magnitude brighter when including the opposition effect) −12.40: Betelgeuse (when supernova) seen from Earth when it goes supernova [36] −11.20: star Sun: seen from ...
The Apollo 8 mission carried out the first human trip to the Moon on 24 December 1968, certifying the Saturn V booster for crewed use and flying not a circumlunar loop but instead a full ten orbits around the Moon before returning safely to Earth. Apollo 10 then performed a full dress rehearsal of a crewed Moon landing in May 1969. This mission ...
Disasters Cyclone Yasi The Australian state of Queensland evacuates off-shore islands and low-lying parts of North Queensland ahead of Cyclone Yasi which is expected to hit the state as a Category 4 tropical cyclone late on Wednesday or early Thursday. (Courier Mail) (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Cyclone Yasi is upgraded to Category 5 and is predicted to be the worst storm to hit Australia in ...