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Asteroid Station



Asteroid (2020 MP1)

Published 22nd June 2020

Set for close approach June 25th 2020

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ei2z40q1evE

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Nemesis Maturity

Comet NEOWISE & Comet Encke Plunging Toward The Sun For A Close Encounter

Published 22nd June 2020

COMET NEOWISE IS APPROACHING THE SUN: Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) is plunging toward the sun for a close encounter near the orbit of Mercury on July 3rd. The comet has just entered the field of view of SOHO's C3 coronagraph, which, for the next week, will monitor how the comet reacts to the sun's intensifying heat.

Astronomers expect the comet to increase in brightness, reaching peak magnitude by July when it could potentially be visible with the naked eye. The comet will be visible very low in the northeast near the sunrise position, before dawn for several weeks centered on July 6.

Comet 2P/Encke
Comet Encke is approaching the Sun for its close encounter on June 25, 2020. Comet Encke has the shortest orbital period of any known comet within our solar system. It takes 3.30 years for Enke to orbit the Sun once. Its nucleus measures approximately 2.98 miles (4.8 kilometers) in diameter. Encke last reached perihelion (closest approach to the sun) in 2017.

At the time, you need binoculars to catch the comet at the evening. Comet Encke may brighten to 6th magnitude for southern-hemisphere observers in July.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pBIEu62TUCo

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Primal Space

Why We Are Losing Atmosphere

Published 21st June 2020

Aurora’s are one of the many wonders of our night sky, caused by the interaction between the Sun and our atmosphere. These dazzling displays of light are harmless apart from a very specific type of aurora which is causing our atmosphere to leak into space. This video looks at the physical process involved in the Cusp Aurora.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=T9RomHPVv04

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European Space Agency

SMOS Monitoring Droughts

Published 23rd June 2020



In orbit for more than a decade, ESA’s Earth Explorer satellite SMOS has not only exceeded its planned lifespan, but also surpassed its original scientific goals. Built to demonstrate new technology in space and address gaps in our scientific understanding of how Earth works as a system, this remarkable mission is now also being used for a number of practical applications. With drought seemingly more commonplace, entrepreneurs are using information on soil moisture from SMOS and data from other satellites to generate commercial data products for the insurance market, ultimately bringing benefits to farmers.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=A_OWajtGQfc

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Weather Events

Dust Storm Travelled More Than 5, 000 Miles Above The Ocean Toward The Gulf Of Mexico

Recorded 22nd & Published 23rd June 2020



The storm will travel more than 5, 000 miles above the ocean towardthe Gulf of Mexico!

Weather forecasts indicate that the eastern winds will push the dust storm to travel more than 5,000 miles over the Atlantic Ocean to reach the Gulf of Mexico and relatively affect the shores of the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico coast, thus affecting two continents more than 5,000 miles apart!

What is the impact of the dust wave on the hurricane season?

Dust waves rushing from western Africa to the Atlantic are common and frequent at this time of year, but they always negatively affect seasonal cyclone activity and may prevent them from occurring permanently in this period, raising drought levels in the middle and lower atmospheres.

Shear winds are also a reason for preventing storms and hurricanes from forming, and by shear winds here we mean the sudden difference in wind speed or direction in different layers of the atmosphere, which destroys any initial construction to form storms and hurricanes.

A special sunrise and sunset of the sun in the coming days on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico

This wave of dust and dust when it reaches coastal areas that are accustomed to the purity and purity of the atmosphere will make sunsets and sunrises a distinctive sight, so that the horizon tends to the color of the garroup and the sunrise to warm up due to the presence of dust particles, which is rarely considered for these coastal areas.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nDWM8zS52sw

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Large Eruption Of Merapi Volcano & Landslide In Taraju, Tasikmalaya, , Indonesia

Recorded 20th, 21st & Published 22nd June 2020

Large eruption of Merapi Volcano, in Central Java, June 21
Ashes rain occurred in 45 villages located in eight subdistricts of the Magelang Regency. Ashes rain occurred after the Merapi Volcano in Central Java erupted Sunday morning, June 21

INDONESIA - Images of landslide in Taraju Tasikmalaya District, West Java, 4 houses are buried, dozens of evacua
tion, June 20

The rains of the storm that struck West Sumatra in the afternoon generated flooding in Agam, also the districts of Sitalang, Ampek Nagari, Malalak and Tanjung Sani, so far no casualties reported.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BNCrrg3-puU

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Mind Escape

Supervolcanoes Part One: Yellowstone & Lake Toba

Published 23rd June 2020 Streaming Live At Time Of Posting

Today we discuss Yellowstone, Lake Toba, and Supervolcanoes. Is Yellowstone due for an eruption? How much damage would a supervolcano do and how would it effect humanity?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aZ_DL7dSmV8

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Weather Events

Mexico Earthquake: Powerful Tremors Rock Capital City

Recorded & Published 23rd June 2020



Aftershocks along the coast and beach resort area of Huatulco continued over the next hour, and streets, buildings and powerlines were captured swaying from tremors in Mexico City.

A fire was reported at a Pemex refinery in Oaxaca. The company reported that at least one man was injured and under medical evaluation.

There have been several earthquakes in the region with a magnitude of 7 or higher within the last 35 years, including a deadly 2017 quake that killed 350 people, and a devastating 1985 quake that killed at least 5,000 people. Thousands of others were injured in those events.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=z4dSVYiBiQU

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Raft Of Waterspouts Cause Dramatic Scenes In Çatalca, Istanbul, Turkey

Recorded & Published 21st - 23rd June 2020

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=T_NymjL5Cgg

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DiscoverMagazine.com

How We Know A Volcano Is Restless In Remote Alaska

Published 16th June 2020



Out on the Alaskan island of Unalaska sits Makushin. This volcano is covered in a thick layer of ice and snow. And although it is not far — as the crow flies — from Dutch Harbor, it is extremely inaccessible. Yet, as part of its tasked mission, the Alaska Volcano Observatory must watch for signs that this volcano might be rumbling back to life.

Makushin is a volcano with a busy and sometimes violent history. The last known eruption from the caldera volcano was back in 1995; over the past few centuries, Makushin has produced at least a dozen blasts. Some of these eruptions were as large as VEI 3 (something close to the same size as the 2010 eruptions at Mount Merapi in Indonesia).

Read all about it here: https://www.discovermagazine.com/pla...-remote-alaska

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=a8AO8T7usKA

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=okfL50fDq9Q

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Suspicious Observers | Space News | 24th June 2020 | Big Earthquake, Volcano Cooling, Cosmic Distance

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=f2ucaFJVFNk

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NASA Goddard

A Decade Of Sun

Published 24th June 2020

As of June 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory — SDO — has now been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade. From its orbit in space around the Earth, SDO has gathered 425 million high-resolution images of the Sun, amassing 20 million gigabytes of data over the past 10 years. This information has enabled countless new discoveries about the workings of our closest star and how it influences the solar system.

With a triad of instruments, SDO captures an image of the Sun every 0.75 seconds. The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument alone captures images every 12 seconds at 10 different wavelengths of light. This 10-year time lapse showcases photos taken at a wavelength of 17.1 nanometers, which is an extreme ultraviolet wavelength that shows the Sun’s outermost atmospheric layer — the corona. Compiling one photo every hour, the movie condenses a decade of the Sun into 61 minutes. The video shows the rise and fall in activity that occurs as part of the Sun’s 11-year solar cycle and notable events, like transiting planets and eruptions. The custom music, titled “Solar Observer,” was composed by musician Lars Leonhard (https://www.lars-leonhard.de/).

While SDO has kept an unblinking eye pointed towards the Sun, there have been a few moments it missed. The dark frames in the video are caused by Earth or the Moon eclipsing SDO as they pass between the spacecraft and the Sun. A longer blackout in 2016 was caused by a temporary issue with the AIA instrument that was successfully resolved after a week. The images where the Sun is off-center were observed when SDO was calibrating its instruments.

SDO and other NASA missions will continue to watch our Sun in the years to come, providing further insights about our place in space and information to keep our astronauts and assets safe.

Some noteworthy events appear briefly in this time lapse. Use the time links below to jump to each event, or follow the links to more detailed views.

6:20 June 7, 2011-- A massive prominence eruption explodes from the lower right of the Sun. See the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HloC4xMg4Z4 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10801

12:24 June 5, 2012-- The transit of Venus across the face of the Sun. Won’t happen again until 2117. See the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9rM8ChTjY https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10996

13:06 July 19, 2012-- A complex loop of magnetic fields and plasma forms and lasts for hours. See the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFT7ATLQQx8 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11168

13:50 Aug. 31, 2012-- The most iconic eruption of this solar cycle bursts from the lower left of the Sun. See the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrnGi-q6iWc https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11095

20:25 Sept. 29, 2013-- A prominence eruption forms a long 'canyon’ that is then covered with loops of plasma. See the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qurh_BZ-O2E https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11379

26:39 Oct. 8, 2014-- Active regions on the Sun resemble a jack o’ lantern just in time for Halloween. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11711

36:18 May 9, 2016-- Mercury transits across the face of the Sun. Smaller and more distant than Venus it is hard to spot. See the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhO6Ufw9h_s https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12235

43:20 July 5, 2017-- A large sunspot group spends two weeks crossing the face of the Sun. See the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SungFXUsoqw https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12105

44:20 Sept. 6, 2017-- The most powerful sequence of flares during this solar cycle crackle for several days, peaking at X9.3. See the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-ZQBlWdlAY https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12706

57:38 Nov. 11, 2019-- Mercury transits the Sun once more for SDO. The next transit won’t be until 2032. See the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yNzSwlnQ2Q https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13425

Read all about it here: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard...rom-nasa-s-sdo

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=l3QQQu7QLoM

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ScienceDaily.com

Artificial Night Sky Poses Serious Threat To Coastal Species

Published 22nd June 2020



The artificial lighting which lines the world's coastlines could be having a significant impact on species that rely on the moon and stars to find food, new research suggests.

Creatures such as the sand hopper (Talitrus saltator) orientate their nightly migrations based on the moon's position and brightness of the natural night sky.

However, a study by Bangor University and the University of Plymouth shows the presence of artificial light originating from cities several kilometres away (also known as artificial skyglow) disrupts the lunar compass they use when covering long distances.

Read all about it here: https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0622133004.htm

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NPR.org

Light Pollution Hides Milky Way From 80 Percent Of North Americans, Atlas Shows

Published 10th June 2020



The luminous glow of light pollution prevents nearly 80 percent of people in North America from seeing the Milky Way in the night sky.

That's according to a new atlas of artificial night sky brightness that found our home galaxy is now hidden from more than one-third of humanity.

While there are countries where the majority of people still live under pristine, ink-black sky conditions — places such as Chad, Central African Republic and Madagascar — more than 99 percent of the people living in the U.S. and Europe look up and see light-polluted skies.

The country with the worst light-pollution is Singapore, where researchers found that "the entire population lives under skies so bright that the eye cannot fully dark-adapt to night vision."

Read all about it here: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...=1593020202657

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Phys.org

Evidence Supports 'Hot Start' Scenario & Early Ocean Formation On Pluto

Published 22nd June 2020



The accretion of new material during Pluto's formation may have generated enough heat to create a liquid ocean that has persisted beneath an icy crust to the present day, despite the dwarf planet's orbit far from the sun in the cold outer reaches of the solar system.

This "hot start" scenario, presented in a paper published June 22 in Nature Geoscience, contrasts with the traditional view of Pluto's origins as a ball of frozen ice and rock in which radioactive decay could have eventually generated enough heat to melt the ice and form a subsurface ocean.

Source paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-020-0595-0

Read all about it here: https://phys.org/news/2020-06-eviden...rly-ocean.html

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NASA's First Planetary Defence Mission Target Gets A New Name

Published 23rd June 2020



Nearly two decades ago, a near-Earth asteroid was discovered to have a moon and the binary system was given the name "Didymos"—Greek for "twin," a loose description of the larger main body and the smaller orbiting moon, which became unofficially known as Didymos B.

In 2022, that moon will be the target of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the first full-scale demonstration of an asteroid deflection technology for planetary defense. The DART spacecraft will execute a kinetic impact, deliberately crashing into the asteroid to change its motion in space. To mark this historic mission, Didymos B is getting an official name of its own: Dimorphos.

Read all about it here: https://phys.org/news/2020-06-nasa-p...e-mission.html

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Comet NEOWISE & Comet Encke Plunging Toward The Sun For A Close Encounter

Published 22nd June 2020

COMET NEOWISE IS APPROACHING THE SUN: Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) is plunging toward the sun for a close encounter near the orbit of Mercury on July 3rd. The comet has just entered the field of view of SOHO's C3 coronagraph, which, for the next week, will monitor how the comet reacts to the sun's intensifying heat.

Astronomers expect the comet to increase in brightness, reaching peak magnitude by July when it could potentially be visible with the naked eye. The comet will be visible very low in the northeast near the sunrise position, before dawn for several weeks centered on July 6.

Comet 2P/Encke
Comet Encke is approaching the Sun for its close encounter on June 25, 2020. Comet Encke has the shortest orbital period of any known comet within our solar system. It takes 3.30 years for Enke to orbit the Sun once. Its nucleus measures approximately 2.98 miles (4.8 kilometers) in diameter. Encke last reached perihelion (closest approach to the sun) in 2017.

At the time, you need binoculars to catch the comet at the evening. Comet Encke may brighten to 6th magnitude for southern-hemisphere observers in July.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pBIEu62TUCo

Comet NEOWISE Is Getting Really Bright

Published 23rd June 2020

Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) is plunging toward the sun for a close encounter near the orbit of Mercury on July 3rd. SOHO coronagraphs are monitoring the approach, and it's looking good.

The sun-baked comet is still intact. Moreover, comparing the comet to nearby reference stars, we see that it is brightening beyond magnitude +3. This should make Comet NEOWISE a naked-eye object when it emerges from the sun's glare in mid-July. SOHO will be monitoring the comet for the rest of the week.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3SwKSccDv5w

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India Times

Meteorite Like Object Falls From The Sky In Rajasthan, India

Published 23rd June 2020

A meteorite-like object fell from the sky in Sanchore town of Rajasthan’s Jalore district and created a 2-3 feet deep crater on the ground. The mysterious object is estimated to weigh around 2.8 kilograms. The incident happened on the morning of June 19th.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=piaFwskRnYk

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Asteroid Station



End Of Month Report For June 2020

Published 27th June 2020

This is your end of month report for June 2020. We have a few interesting asteroid all different distances from Earth, speeds and sizes.

Asteroid (2020 LX) 2020-Jun-27 05:24
Asteroid (2020 MK) 2020-Jun-27 16:48
Asteroid (2020 ME) 2020-Jun-27 19:40
Asteroid (2020 MF1) 2020-Jun-27 21:12
Asteroid (2016 TP18) 2020-Jun-27 22:58
Asteroid (2020 KQ7) 2020-Jun-27 23:19
Asteroid (2020 ME1) 2020-Jun-28 06:14
Asteroid (2012 BS23) 2020-Jun-28 18:45
Asteroid (2020 LT) 2020-Jun-29 04:01
Asteroid (2020 JX1) 2020-Jun-29 04:09

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xclp9F8_BCo

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Suspicious Observers | Space News | 25th -28th June 2020

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=suWVrCILJ3U

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3noWJ_vwiRc

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VrYR3nbqPrY

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Geoengineering Watch



Global Alert News | Episode 255



Published 27th June 2020

Question, sprayed skies and the current situation, is there a connection? Headlines from all over the globe confirm rapidly unfolding collapse on countless fronts. Official sources say the second wave of Covid-19 is upon us with new strains of the virus showing up. What agendas are being carried out? Will unfolding events help to awaken populations? What are the core underlying factors that are fueling the current trajectory. So many breaking reports to cover, thank you for tuning in..
So much of what is unfolding won’t seem real until it is.

Supporting link: https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/...e-27-2020-255/

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0MaRpqtW-Uk

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Weather Events

Hurricane Winds Hits Veendam, Groningen Province, Netherlands

Recorded 27th & Published 28th June 2020

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=__FU119MXok

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Powerful Tornado Hits Tarnogsky District, Vologda, & Severe Hail Storm Hits Orichi, Kirov Oblast, Russia[/I]

Recorded 26th -27th & Published 28th June 2020

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CMAQFdjDTRA

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Level One Flood Alarm Goes Off In Yichang City, Hubei Province, China

Recorded 27th & Published 28th June 2020

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7U44hCYr6hc

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Lowell Observatory



Sagas In The Sky | Cygnus

Published 28th June 2020

Sagas in the Sky explores some of the stories behind the stars in the night sky. In this episode, we look at the story of Cygnus.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=P8DbI7CETSA