since I was a child, I recall that it has always been dark at 2 - TopicsExpress

Frank Lusky

since I was a child, I recall that it has always been dark at 2 AM in the morning in the Eastern part of the US and because of this, something passing by in space would not cause light from the sun to be blocked in this area. The star Regulus is the brightest star in the constellation Leo and is approximately 79 light years from Earth. Our sun is approximately 93 million miles from earth. Regulus is expected to be occulted by the asteroid 163 Erigone in the early morning of March 20, 2014 While the main belt asteroid will come nowhere near Earth, as it passes in front of the star its 67-mile-wide shadow will sweep across Nassau and Suffolk counties, all five boroughs of New York City and the Hudson River Valley, with the center of the predicted shadow path following a line roughly connecting New York City, White Plains, Newburgh, Oneonta, Rome and Pulaski before crossing into Canada near Belleville and North Bay, Ontario.[10] Observers in the shadow path may see the star wink out for as long as 14 seconds. (wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulus) With regard to the sun being blocked and we’re going to be able to spot it from a mile away Im either really missing something or things have changed drastically since I was born. I recognize that mistakes are made but on this magnitude?

Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 11:26:23 +0000

since I was a child, I recall that it has always been dark at 2 - TopicsExpress

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