Sky Phenomenon Along 2010

I always love when an article told about sun, star, moon, planets, asteroid...our universe. For sky lover, along 2010, you can see many sky phenomenon almost each month. Use your telescope (i wish i can have this one hehe..) to see some of them (while we can see with naked eyes for the others). Here's the list...and don't forget.

January 15, The longest Sun Eclipse

Ring sun eclipse will take place on January 15, 2010, especially in Afrika, India, and China. The eclipse will take time 11 minutes 8 seconds, the longest eclipse for this millennium. This duration will not occurs again until 3043.

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Atlantis

Atlantis is the subject of a legend about an advanced island civilization that was destroyed or lost. Stories about Atlantis are first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, in which characters say it was destroyed by an earthquake or a tsunami about 9,000 years before the time in which Plato wrote.
The Atlanteans used crystals quite extensively, and mis-used them to such a degree that they eventually led to the catastrophe which caused Atlantis to disappear into the ocean. Is there any prove of existence of this mysterious place?

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Why is The Sky Blue?

Why is the sky blue? Light is a kind of energy that can travel through space. Light from the sun or a light bulb looks white, but it is really a mixture of many colors. The colors in white light are red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet. You can see these colors when you look at a rainbow in the sky.

The sky is filled with air. Air is a mixture of tiny gas molecules and small bits of solid stuff, like dust.

As sunlight goes through the air, it bumps into the molecules and dust. When light hits a gas molecule, it may bounce off in a different direction. Some colors of light, like red and orange, pass straight through the air. But most of the blue light bounces off in all directions. In this way, the blue light gets scattered all around the sky.

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The Sun Eclipse, The Last Wonders of January 2010

The solar eclipse of January 15, 2010 is an annular eclipse of the Sun with a magnitude of 0.9190. It will visible as a partial eclipse in much of Africa, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Asia. It will be seen as annular within a narrow stretch of 300 km width across Central Africa, Maldives, South Kerala, South Tamil Nadu, North Sri Lanka, Burma and China.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_January_15,_2010

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Meteor Shower, Second from Third Wonders of January 2010

The Quadrantid Meteor Shower

January's best meteor shower is the Quadrantids, which peaks overnight from January 3 to 4. The meteors will be somewhat diminished by a moon just a few days past full phase. The Quadrantids can have a zenithal hourly rate of 90, which is a rather strong show. Meteor showers tend to be named after the region of sky from which they appear to emanate, but the constellation Quadrans Muralis is no longer on any star maps. This extinct constellation was in the region of Hercules, Bootes, and Draco. Look north as soon as it gets dark to catch some "shooting stars".

source:

http://stargazing.suite101.com/

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Lunar Eclipse, First from Third Wonders of January 2010

The last lunar eclipse for the year of 2009 is one the line and all of us will witness the last lunar eclipse of 2009 along with ending year. Tonight is the last night of the 2009, the last night has been just started after the sun of last day for 2009 went into bed for sleep. Tomorrow, we will welcome the new sun of 2010 with best wishes and prayers. Anyways, we were talking about the last lunar eclipse that is on the line. The fifth and final lunar of the year will start at 10:45 pm on 31st December and will continue till 3 am on January 1st. So, you can also consider it as a joint lunar for ending year and coming year. We had 3 solar eclipses in 2009 as well.

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50,000 soldier's skeleton have been found on Sahara Desert

The rest of dominated Persia's soldier which is said has been sunk in Mesir on west desert at 2,500 years ago maybe finally has been found. This in one of extraordinary discovery in archeology, according to Italian's researches.

Bronze weapon, silver bracelet, earrings and hundred of human's skeleton found on Sahara Desert, is the lost army of Cambyses II, King of Persia. It is said that about 50,000 soldier has been buried by powerful sand storm on 525 BC.

“It all started in 1996, during an expedition aimed at investigating the presence of iron meteorites near Bahrin, one small oasis not far from Siwa,” Alfredo Castiglioni, director of the Eastern Desert Research Center (CeRDO) in Varese, told Discovery News.

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