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| mwishka |
| 05/13/02 at 10:20:55 |
| i love stuff like this - entertainment on the cosmic level - thought maybe people here would enjoy it, too. Rare planetary alignment with moon brightens sky By STEPHEN STRAUSS From Monday's Globe and Mail A rare alignment of five planets will become even more special over the next three nights when they are joined by the sliver of a new moon. Depending on cloud cover, the phenomenon, which occurs roughly every 40 years, should be visible to the naked eye shortly after sunset in the western sky all across the southern part of the country. "It is not of great astronomical significance, but it is a real treat visually," said Don Enright, co-ordinator of programs at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria. Joining the moon in left-leaning upward line will be all the planets bright enough to be seen from Earth without a telescope: Mercury near the horizon, a bright Saturn, Mars, an incandescent Venus and Jupiter. uh oh - have to go back to the article to get the link, and it already took forever to get this new topic box to open... ayyyy... |
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| eleanor |
| 05/13/02 at 10:23:09 |
| [slm] enjoy..insha Allah :) Is it visible from Europe too? I remember the eclipse here a few years ago - a midday sun eclipse, unfortunately it was really cloudy and we didn't get to see the "ring" of light around the moon :'( It did go quite dark though, Subhan Allah. There were a few very confused birds and bees flying around the place :D wasalaam eleanor :-* |
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| mwishka |
| 05/13/02 at 10:23:44 |
| ok, here's the article. this is from a canadian paper, so i don't know where all this will be visible.... http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/RTGAMArticleHTMLTemplate/C/20020513/wxstro?hub=&tf=tgam%252Frealtime%252Ffullstory.html&cf=tgam/realtime/config-neutral&vg=BigAdVariableGenerator&slug=wxstro&date=20020513&archive=RTGAM&site=Front&ad_page_name= mwishka |
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| eleanor |
| 05/13/02 at 10:29:45 |
| [slm] Off-topic: (sorry) Mwishka - means mouse right? Pardon me if this is a really stupid question, but which language is it? It sounds to me like one of the Scandinavian/nordic languages...icelandic even... but I could be wrong... so what is it? wasalaam eleanor :-* |
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| mwishka |
| 05/13/02 at 12:19:53 |
| hi eleanor, no no of course it isn't a dumb question! if anything, it was presumptuous of me to use a not-easily identified language here.... however, if those were cyrillic letters, i'll bet you'd recognize it! ;) as a typical less-than-well-educated american, the only language i speak fluently IS american. :D but i've studied both spanish and russian, remember more russian than spanish - need a dictionary for either. (along with my brief forays into turkish and arabic - my vocabulary in those two is, well, not worth noting..) mwishka means little mouse - it's the diminutive of mwish (which has a "hard sign" at the end that can't be rendered in english), and i use that for my name to honor both the children of palestine and a brave cat and phenomenal mouser i once knew, who also died an unnecessary and wrongful death. she wasn't my cat, but i named her mwishka. hmmm...asking if it's icelandic...... interesting. i've found that my real first name is an icelandic adjective, an arabic last name, an indian feminine first name and a variation of it is a thai masculine first name, so it's really a coincidence that you asked that.. mwishka |
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