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Supermoon Coincides with Total Solar Eclipse and Asteroid’s TX68 Earth Flyby to Create Sensational Celestial Event
Supermoon Coincides with Total Solar Eclipse and Asteroid’s TX68 Earth Flyby to Create Sensational Celestial Event
The moon turns new on March 8 or 9, 2016, depending on your time zone, the so-called Supermoon will line up with the sun to create a larger-than-average effect on Earth’s oceans.
The first Supermoon of 2016 coincides with the first eclipse of the year, a total eclipse of the sun on March 8-9, 2016.
The total solar eclipse will be visible from Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi and from locations in the Pacific ocean.
http://http://earthsky.org/tonight/supermoon-total-solar-eclipse-march-8-9
http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/total-solar-eclipse.html
On March 8th a space rock is set to pass extremely close to our planet for comfort. Asteroid TX68 may skim past Earth’s surface at just 19000 mi (30000 km).
The asteroid is approximately twice as large as the Chelyabinsk meteor.
http://earthsky.org/space/asteroid-2013-tx68-uncertain-trajectory-closest-earth-mar-5-2016
March 8th is the 68th day of 2016.
TX68 Earth flyby
68 Total Solar Eclipses: 2001 to 2100
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEcat5/SE2001-2100.html
68 is a Perrin number
In mathematics, the Perrin numbers are defined by the recurrence relation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perrin_number
Clips credit: ESO, ESA/HUBBLE, Time and date & NASA
Images credit: Time and Date & NASA,
Image credit: NASA
