- May 11, 2022
- 1 min
In this month: July 2022
1st July 2013 Hippocamp, a moon of Neptune, is discovered. With a diameter of approximately 35 kilometres it is the smallest moon that...
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Elizabeth Cocking
- Jul 26, 2021
- 2 min
Did you know?...the asteroid belt
The disc shaped asteroid belt is located between Mars and Jupiter at a distance ranging from 329-478 million kilometres from the Sun. ...
Elizabeth Cocking
- Jun 8, 2021
- 2 min
Did you know: Uranus
Did you know: Astronomical tidbits and this months is our Solar System planet Uranus.
Elizabeth Cocking
- Nov 30, 2020
- 2 min
In this month: December
23rd December 1672 Rhea, the second-largest moon of Saturn and the ninth-largest moon in the Solar System, is discovered by Giovanni...
Andrew Wood
- Oct 12, 2020
- 6 min
A Day in My Life of The Solar System
"I set out to observe as many Solar System objects as I could..."
Elizabeth Cocking
- Jul 17, 2020
- 3 min
Did you know? Naming planets
This month . . . . Naming the three planets in our solar system discovered in “modern” times was not a straightforward process. There...
Ann Cairns
- Apr 1, 2020
- 1 min
The morning dance of the planets
Sidewalk Astronomy in the times of COVID-19 As an inner-city dweller who loves astronomy, I have found that one can still enjoy...
Elizabeth Cocking
- Sep 7, 2019
- 1 min
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This month Pluto…. Once our ninth planet Pluto was demoted to “dwarf planet’ in 2006. However, with the New Horizons mission enigmatic...
Elizabeth Cocking
- May 1, 2018
- 1 min
Did you know? - the planets
The Earth is not a sphere ! It is an oblate spheroid. Due to its rotation it bulges out at the equator about 43 km more than at the...
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