Category Archives: Of Interest

Asteroid Flyby

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ASTEROID FLYBY: Newly-discovered asteroid 2011 CA7 is going to fly past Earth on Feb. 9th only 63,000 miles away, or 1/4th the distance to the Moon. At closest approach around 1700 UT, the VW-Bug-sized space rock will zip through the constellation Orion glowing like a 17th magnitude star. [

New Volcanic Activity-Japan & Iceland

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Another Japanese Volcano Erupts
And another volcano has erupted in Japan.
Minami-dake crater at Sakurajima, a volcano on Japan’s southern island of Kyushu, erupted Tuesday, following volcanic explosions at Mt. Kirishima in the same region.
The volcano spewed plumes of smoke and ash up to 2,000 meters into the air.
Local authorities temporarily banned citizens from driving near the area due to the sheer amount of ash raining down from the volcano.
Japan’s Meteorological Agency says it will maintain a level 3 alert for Sakurajima that bans access to the mountain.
The agency notes, however, that it cannot confirm that this eruption was linked to a series of recent eruptions on the island.
FEB 08, 2011   Reporter : wone0102@arirangtv.com
And fr/http://www.clickgreen.org.uk/news/international-news/121878-iceland-on-volcano-alert-with-threat-of-fresh-eruption.html
Iceland on Volcanic Alert with New Threat of Fresh Eruption
Geologists on Iceland are warning of the increased risk of a fresh volcanic eruption after measuring an increased swarm of earthquakes around the island’s second largest volcano.
Páll Einarsson, a professor of geophysics at the University of Iceland, says the area around Bárdarbunga is showing signs of increased activity, which provides “good reason to worry”.
He told the country’s national TV broadcaster Rúv a shortage of seismometer measuring devices is making it more difficult to determine the scale and likely outcome of the current shifts.
But he said there was “every reason to worry” as the sustained earthquake tremors to the north east of the remote volcano range are the strongest recorded in recent times and there was “no doubt” the lava was rising.
check out link above to read more

February Earth Changes Forecast

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February 2011 will host super storms, major quakes, severe and bitter cold weather,ice storms, hyper solar actvity, tsunamis, floods, perilous cyclones erupting volcanoes explosions, strong deluge of water, , land and mudslides, extreme weather around the world per floods, tornadoes weird weather with records being broken.
February starts out with a shocking New Moon in Aquarius on Feb. 2nd @ 6:31 PM PST or 9:31 PM EST opens a door to huge storms in the North and South
All in synch with solar flares
Then on February 18th @ 12:36 AM PS T or 3:36 AM EST a Full Moon in Leo at 29 degrees that will be unforgettable
these events add to massive seismic shifts and extreme weather around the world
FEBRUARY UPDATES – Quake, Volcano and Weather News for February 2011:
to read more go to:
http://www.aquasoul.com/index2.html
Astrological Updates – Earth changes for a Planet in Swift Transformation”

Superbowl SUNday…

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On Super SUNday Feb. 6, 2011, NASA will release humankinds first ever view of the entire Sun and NASA’s Robonaut 2 will make a first ever guest appearance on the NFL’s Super Bowl Pre game show
for Super Bowl XLV. Left: The Sun from STEREO taken by the SECCHI Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUVI) at the 304 Angstrom bandpass which is sensitive to the He II singly ionized state of helium, at a characteristic temperature of about 80 thousand degrees Kelvin. Credit: NASA.
Right: Robonaut 2 practicing for the NFL Super Bowl XLV at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in front of the world famous Countdown Clock. Credit & Mosaic: Ken Kremer

What do NASA, Robots, the Sun and the NFL have in common ?

to read more of this article, go to

http://www.universetoday.com/83133/nasa-robot-and-first-whole-sun-picture-coming-on-super-bowl-sunday/

Volcanic Activity-Japan & Washington

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Hundreds evacuate as Japan volcano erupts

(AFP) – 5 hours ago

TOKYO — Hundreds of people living near a Japanese volcano that has been spewing columns of smoke and ash thousands of metres into the air were forced to evacuate their homes Monday, a local official said.

More than 600 residents of the town of Takaharu in Miyazaki prefecture, on the eastern outskirts of the erupting Mount Shinmoedake, were sheltering in school gyms and community halls, an official said.

Municipal authorities had issued an evacuation advisory for 1,158 residents in high-risk districts near the 1,421-metre (4,689-foot) volcano earlier Monday.

The mountain in the Kirishima range in southwestern Japan has been belching smoke and ash into the air since late Wednesday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

The agency has widened the area that it fears could be hit by a torrent of high-temperature gas and ash from two kilometres (1.24 miles) to three kilometres from the peak.

It added that the dome of lava inside the volcano’s crater, which grows as pressure increases from below, was now five times larger than it had been on Friday.

For the complete article, go to:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gX3bk3avuId__3e6Af9y39X2DXGg?docId=CNG.c844ee3821075f96953de8636c1c359a.211

And in Washington:

Swarm of Quakes detected on Mt. St. Helens

by KGW Staff

Posted on January 31, 2011 at 9:10 AM

Updated today at 9:10 AM

Dangers of the ‘Pretty Princess” Paradigm

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The Destructive Culture of Pretty Pink Princesses

By Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience Senior Writer

Girls the world over often go through a “princess phase,” enthralled with anything pink and pretty — most especially the Disney princesses.

When it happened to Peggy Orenstein’s daughter Daisy, the contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine stepped back to examine the phenomenon. She found that the girlie-girl culture being marketed to little girls was less innocent than it might seem, and can have negative consequences for girls’ psychological, social and physical development.

Orenstein’s exploration took her to Walt Disney World, the American Girl flagship store in New York City and a child beauty pageant. She details her quest in the new book “Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture” (Harper Collins, Jan. 25).

Check out this link for the complete article.  The Q &A is particularly telling:

http://www.livescience.com/culture/pink-princess-toys-girls-peggy-orenstein-110124.html