Day: December 14, 2018

Ran Across This on The Old Farmer’s Almanac, Did you know we have a comet coming the 16th?

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2018’S BRIGHTEST COMET COMES CLOSEST TO EARTH DECEMBER 16

COMET 46P/WIRTANEN VISITS DECEMBER 15-16
By Bob Berman
Comet 46P/Wirtanen is 2018’s brightest comet and comes closest to Earth on December 15–16, 2018—this weekend! As awesome as they can be, you can’t trust comets. We can always predict where they’ll be, but not how they will react with the Sun’s energy. So, the question is: Will it be an amazing sight or another bust?

For a short background, Comet 46P/Wirtanen is indeed the brightest comet in the night sky, though it’s been too faint to see with the naked eye thus far.  From dark sky sites, however, it could just become naked-eye visible soon as it comes closest to Earth on its 5.4-year-long looping orbit.

PAST COMET SIGHTINGS

  • We’ve had a goodly number of busts, such as comet Ison a few years ago that was touted as “The comet of the Century” but never got bright at all.

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The Goddess in the Margarine Tub Is Just One of 1,267 Treasures Found by the British Public in 2017 Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/goddess-margarine-tub-just-one-treasure-found-british-public

A new report reveals the pieces voluntarily recorded with the U.K.’s Portable Antiquities Scheme last year

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Margarine Goddess

(Rod Trevaskus/Oxfordshire County Council)
By Jason Daley
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Old margarine tubs don’t exactly have a reputation for harboring priceless treasures. If they’re holding something, it’s usually crumbling matchbooks, bread ties, false teeth, or maybe just some really old margarine. But a farmer in Great Britain lucked out, reports Mark Brown at The Guardian: a tub he’d held onto for over a decade turned out to contain the real deal—a genuine copper-alloy and lead statue of Minerva dating back 2,000 years.

Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/goddess-margarine-tub-just-one-treasure-found-british-public-180971026/#oeCFLsyHO0Iuu3Xc.99
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