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    Did you know? the Kuiper Belt
    Elizabeth Cocking
    • Nov 7, 2021
    • 1 min
    Did you know? Astronomical tidbits

    Did you know? the Kuiper Belt

    DID YOU KNOW This month . . . The Kuiper Belt. Home to short period comets and icy bodies in the far reaches of our solar system. The ...
    In this month: November
    Elizabeth Cocking
    • Oct 31, 2021
    • 4 min
    In this Month

    In this month: November

    7th November 1631 A transit of Mercury occurs. Many astronomers set up to capture Mercury's movement in front of the Sun. However only...
    Did You know?...Equinoxes.
    Elizabeth Cocking
    • Sep 8, 2021
    • 1 min
    Did you know? Astronomical tidbits

    Did You know?...Equinoxes.

    There are two equinoxes every year. The March equinox also known as the autumnal equinox, and the September equinox or the spring...
    Did you know?...the asteroid belt
    Elizabeth Cocking
    • Jul 26, 2021
    • 2 min
    Did you know? Astronomical tidbits

    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. ...
    Did you know? The Most & The Least of the planets
    Elizabeth Cocking
    • Jan 11, 2021
    • 2 min
    Did you know? Astronomical tidbits

    Did you know? The Most & The Least of the planets

    in our solar system The most tilted planet… Uranus has the largest tilt with an axial tilt of about 98 degrees. Its north pole is nearly...
    In this month: January
    Elizabeth Cocking
    • Dec 31, 2020
    • 3 min
    In this Month

    In this month: January

    Elizabeth Cocking continues this astronomical blog post sequence in 2021. Each month she looks back on astronomical happenings, and the...
    Did you know? Moonbows
    Elizabeth Cocking
    • Nov 12, 2020
    • 2 min
    Did you know? Astronomical tidbits

    Did you know? Moonbows

    We’re all familiar with rainbows and the elusive pot of gold at the end. But our neighbour the Moon is also capable of producing the same...
    A Day in My Life of The Solar System
    Andrew Wood
    • Oct 12, 2020
    • 6 min
    Solar Observing

    A Day in My Life of The Solar System

    "I set out to observe as many Solar System objects as I could..."
    In this month: August
    Elizabeth Cocking
    • Jul 31, 2020
    • 4 min
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    In this month: August

    13th August 1898 The asteroid Eros is discovered by the German astronomer Gustav Witt at the Urania Observatory in Berlin, and...
    Did you know? Naming planets
    Elizabeth Cocking
    • Jul 17, 2020
    • 3 min
    Did you know? Astronomical tidbits

    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...
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