This first published on the 4th November, 2009 when we were living in Mexico.
Here in San Carlos, Mexico, we have good sunrises most mornings. But this one made me grab my camera. The picture is unedited. Very simple things can provide a huge amount of pleasure.
Taken at 06:15 local time (GMT -7hrs) Camera is a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ8
Nasa’s Deep Space Network caught a glimpse of the asteroid on Monday
An asteroid that is 400m (1,300ft) wide will pass by the Earth on Tuesday, closer to it even than the Moon.
It poses no danger to the Earth and it will be invisible to the naked eye.
Asteroid 2005 YU55’s closest approach, at a distance of 325,000km (202,000mi), will be at 23:28 GMT. It is the closest the asteroid has been in 200 years.
It is also the largest space rock fly-by the Earth has seen since 1976; the next visit by such a large asteroid will be in 2028.
The aircraft-carrier-sized asteroid is darkly coloured in visible wavelengths and nearly spherical, lazily spinning about once every 20 hours as it races through our neighbourhood of the Solar System.
It will trace a path across the whole sky through to Thursday.
Let’s all pause for a moment (and my apologies for the late posting!)
The precise time of the summer solstice today is 17.16 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT/UTC).
Our sun, giver of life
In terms of local times that will be 10.16 here in Arizona and also in California, 13.16 in New York, 18.16 in London, and 03.16 (Wed) in Sydney, Australia, to pick just a few places.
What a year it has been so far!
So let’s just pause for a moment, as the Sun appears to pause, and put out our combined thoughts across this wonderful Planet Earth and pray for peace and tranquillity for all during the rest of this ‘interesting’ year.
Learning from Dogs 