Today, August 31st, 2012, will be the last Blue Moon until July 2015. Once again proving that 2012, 2015, and 2039 will be years of great Astronomical importance. For those not in the know (i.e. me before watching the Universe series), 2012 has a Blue Moon, the most and strongest (wow, bad grammar, sorry) solar flares and storms and the 'Solar Black Hole' Anomaly. Well, I doubt the world will end before the holidays, but I do expect a few days through out the year where the solar output my screw around with radio and internet signals.
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2015 seems a bit more interesting. Another Blue Moon, Einstein's birthday, the Pluto "New Horizons" expedition, but the real fun happens in 2039 when we have the possibility of getting destroyed by an
asteroid. I'm not joking kids, in 2027 asteroid 1999 AN10 will swing close enough to the Earth that, if conditions are right, it could slip through a very small section of our orbit that would pull it back towards the Earth for a collision in 2039 that could destroy everything. Fun, huh?
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