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Matt Chambers: June 2007 Archives


What in the World is a Solstice?!?

8:59 AM Thu, Jun 21, 2007 |

Hi everybody -- Matt here in the 4Warn Weather Center, counting down the last few hours of Spring. In fact, by the time many of you read this, summer will have already arrived.

The summer solstice occurs today (June 21, 2007) at precisely 1:06 PM local time. First of all, what is a solstice, and secondly, how could we possibly know that it occurs at such a specific time?

The word solstice has Latin o...



Alright Skywatchers... Listen (& Look) Up!

9:27 AM Mon, Jun 04, 2007 |

What an age in which we live! Not only do we have a man-made marvel of scientific ingenuity in orbit right now around our home planet, but we also have the ability to accurately predict when that home-spun "satellite" will be visible in our local sky!

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Photo courtesy NASA.gov

The International Spa...