Today has the potential for being a great day for my nerdy side. In a short while, the Space Shuttle is supposed to return to earth (which means the potential for hearing the double sonic boom here in Florida, as they come in!) and tonight, a lunar eclipse! All in one day. Hopefully, the sky will be clear for the eclipse tonight. More later...
9:13 a.m. - Update...No sonic boom heard from our house. But it was neat to watch the landing on television anyway. A couple of shuttles ago, we heard the sonic boom loudly. Just like when it takes off, sometimes we see it, sometimes we don't. Let's hope that there are no clouds hampering our view of the lunar eclipse tonight.
9:43 p.m. - Update...Lunar eclipse very cool between clouds passing. The kids got to see it as it began before they were off to bed. Liam understood when I explained the position of the sun, earth and moon, and that it was the earth's shadow we were seeing. But then I began to wonder just how much he understood when he kept putting his hand up into the air and waving to see if he could see his shadow across the moon! Too cute.
2 comments:
Hi Janice, Must be amazing to live to so close to the space shuttle landing site, I used to live under the flight path of the concorde when it operated London to New York and used to hear the sonic boom every night at 9pm when I was a kid and went off to sleep.
Thanks for the link by the way, much appreciated.
Liam
I bet it would awesome to actually see the space shuttle!
My kids didn't make it up long enough to see the eclipse. It was really cloudy here, so it was hard to see.
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