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Image of the Day… “Most ‘ Super’ Super Moon of 2014 on 10 August…

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Above image contrasting largest and smallest full moons: Stefanao Sciarpetti

Full moon falls on August 10, 2014 at 18:09 UTC (1:09 p.m. CDT in the U.S.). This full moon is not only the closest and largest full moon of the year. It also presents the moon’s closest encounter with Earth for all of 2014. The moon will not be so close again until the full moon of September 28, 2015. In other words, it’s not just a supermoon. It’s the closest supermoon of 2014.

At United States’ time zones, the moon will turn full on August 10 at 2:09 p.m. EDT, 1:09 p.m. CDT, 12:09 p.m. MDT and 11:09 a.m. PDT.

We astronomers call this sort of close full moon a perigee full moon. The word perigeedescribes the moon’s closest point to Earth for a given month. Three years ago, when the closest and largest full moon fell on March 19, 2011, many used the term supermoon, which we’d never heard before. In the following years, we heard this term again to describe the year’s closest full moon on May 6, 2012, and again on June 23, 2013. Now the term supermoon is being used a lot. Last month’s full moon – on June 13, 2014 – was also a supermoon. But the August full moon is even more super! In other words, the time of full moon falls even closer to the time of perigee, the moon’s closest point to Earth. The crest of the moon’s full phase in August 10, and perigee, fall within the same hour.

What does supermoon mean exactly? And how special is the August 10, 2014 supermoon? Follow the links below to find out.

What is a supermoon?

How super is this supermoon?

How often is moon both full and closest to Earth?

Will the tides be higher than usual?

Your best photos: May 2013 supermoon

Does a supermoon have a super effect on us?

 

Source::: Earth sky news

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A Lovely Message on ‘Value’ …..

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My Favorite Links and Inspirations
A lovely message on ‘Value’ –

I had known a friend of mine who used to say that he misplaces and loses his pen very often.
He will use only very cheap pens so that he need not worry about losing them. He was worried about carelessness habit.
I suggested him to buy the costliest pen he could afford and see what happens.
He did that and purchased a 22 carat Cross pen. After nearly six months I met him and asked him, if he continues to misplace his pen.
He said that he is very careful about his costly pen and he is surprised how he has changed!
I explained to him that the value of the pen made the difference and there was nothing wrong with him as a person!
This is what happens in our life.
We are careful with things which we value most.
* If we value our health, we will be careful about what and how we eat;
* if we value our friends, we will treat them with respect;
* if we value money, we will be careful while spending;
* if we value our time, we will not waste it.
*if we value relationship we will not break it.Carefulness is a basic trait all of us have, we know when to be careful!
Carelessness only shows what we don’t value……    
Source::::debu7370.blogspot.in
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Image of the day…Baby Sea Turtles March Towards Sea … !!!

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These baby loggerhead sea turtles hatched from their eggs and began their march to the sea on Friday night, July 25, around 9 p.m.

Using infrared lighting, a live-streaming, high-definition turtle webcam – positioned on a beach in the Florida Keys – recorded the hatch and march to the sea of about 100 baby loggerhead sea turtles on Friday night, July 25, 2014.

Source::: You Tube & Earth sky news

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Image of the Day… Close View of Mercury !!!

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Super-close views of Mercury

The MESSENGER spacecraft is now dropping closer to Mercury, and long anticipated, super-close views of the planet are beginning to come in.

Image via NASA / JHU / APL MESSENGER spacecraft

The image above is one of the highest resolution images ever returned of Mercury. MESSENGER acquired it on June 11, 2014. Last Friday – July 25, 2014 – MESSENGER’s periherm(closest point to Mercury) dropped below 100 kilometers / 62 miles. MESSSENGER is the first manmade object ever to come this close to Mercury.

On June 17 – around the time the image above was taken – the periherm had dropped to 113.80 kilometers / 70.80 miles. The image has absolutely incredible 2.90-meter resolution, showing a cluster of tiny secondary craters within the northern intercrater lava plains in a 3.00 kilometer / 1.86 mile wide area within Mercury’s North Polar Borealis Quadrangle.

The craters seen here are a few hundred meters at most in width, many much smaller. These are secondary craters from an impact out of this frame, where impact ejecta fell back on ballistic trajectories forming smaller craters. Many can be hundreds of kilometers away from the primary impact if the impact was large enough.

There are a handful of much smaller craters in the area too.

All of these craters in this image are of the simple bowl shaped type.

The image is a little ‘noisy’ due to the very short exposure required to prevent blurring of the image as MESSENGER was lower and faster than usual above the surface of Mercury.

On August 19, 2014, periherm will drop below 50 kilometers / 31 miles. On September 12, 2014, periherm will have lowered to 25 kilometers / 15.52 miles.

The number of such high resolution and even higher resolution images will increase as periherm continues to lower.

The fuel on board MESSENGER is expected to be depleted on January 21, 2015. MESSENGER is expected to impact Mercury during the last weekend of March, 2015.

Source:::: earth sky news site

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” மெட்ராஸ் நல்ல மெட்ராஸ் … ” !!!

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சென்னை – பலதரப்பட்ட மனிதர்களின் வாழ்க்கையை ஒருங்கிணைக்கும் நகரம். இதனை நம் கண்முன் கொண்டுவந்து நிறுத்தும் வகையிலான ‘மெட்ராஸ் இஸ் ப்யூட்டிஃபுல்’ என்ற வீடியோ பதிவு, யூடியூப் தளத்தில் நல்ல வரவேற்பைப் பெற்றுள்ளது.

இரண்டரை நிமிடமே கொண்ட இந்த வீடியோவை, மெட்ராஸுடன் தங்களை பிணைத்துக்கொண்ட பலர் இணையத்தில் கண்டு ரசித்து வருகின்றனர். இப்போதும் இயங்கும் பழைய கிராமபோன், மெரினா கடற்கரையில் குளிக்கும் சிறுவர்கள், தனது வாழ்நாள் ஆதாயத்துக்காக கடலை நோக்கி புறப்படும் மீனவர், பாரிமுனையில் இருக்கும் கூலி வேலையாட்கள் என தமிழ் மனங்களை தொடும் மெல்லிய வருடலான பிண்ணனி இசையோடு மெட்ராஸின் முகங்களை இந்த வீடியோ பதிவு செய்துள்ளது.

இதனை பாலாஜி மகேஷ்வர் என்ற 28 வயது மிக்க ஆவணப்பட கலைஞர் உருவாக்கியுள்ளார். இது குறித்து கூறும் பாலாஜி, “மெட்ராஸ் அழகானது என்பதை உணர்த்தும் நிறைய நிகழ்வுகளை நாம் தினமும் பார்க்கிறோம். அவை அனைத்தும் மெட்ராஸ் எவ்வளவு அழகானது என்பதனை நமக்கு உணர்த்தக் கூடியது. இந்த வீடியோ அதனை அப்படியே திரையில் வெளிப்படுத்துகிறது.

சென்னை என்று கூறுவதைவிட மெட்ராஸ் என்று கூறும்போது நாம் மிகவும் இந்த நகரத்தோடு ஒன்றிப்போவதாக உணர்கிறேன். அதனால்தான் இதற்கு ‘மெட்ராஸ் இஸ் ப்யூட்டிஃபுல்’ என்று பெயர் வைத்தேன்” என்கிறார்.

ஜூலை 25-ஆம் தேதி இரவு 9 மணிக்கு யூடியூபில் வெளியிடப்பட்ட இந்த வீடியோவை இதுவரை 57,000 பார்வைகளைக் கடந்துள்ளது. பல பின்னூட்டங்களும் தொடர்கின்றன.

பாலாஜி மகேஷ்வர், புகைப்படக் கலை மீது உள்ள ஈடுபாட்டால், மென்பொருள் வேலையை விட்டு வெளியேறி தற்போது ஆவணப்படங்களை இயக்கி வருகிறார். பாலாஜியின் இந்த வீடியோவுக்கு சென்னைவாசிகளின் வரவேற்பு இணையத்தில் குவிகிறது.

Source:::: பிரியதர்ஷனி   in The Hindu….Tamil

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” To School …with Love … ” !!!

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No matter who you are, what you do, how old you get, your memories from school will always remain one of your most prized possessions.

We’re sure you remember your days at school – the times when you and your friends sat on the last bench and ate your tiffin during class; the times when your best friend ‘helped’ you with the answers to a test and all you had to do in return was buy him an ice cream; the detentions that gave you some of your best friends; the first taste of rebellion you got from bunking a class; the first crushes; the first heartbreaks; the most wonderful memories from the best time of your life.

Well get ready to be reminded of all that and more. This video by Pepsi India will transport you back to school – and believe us; it’s resultant wave of nostalgia will sweep you over.

Travel back to your farewell with this one. You’ll be reminded of the time when you and your friends signed each others uniforms, took strolls in the hallowed corridors of your alma mater, took one last ride on the merry-go-round and even sat in those old classrooms to discuss the days gone by…

“This Friendship Day, celebrate those school besties and the memories you have with them,” it says on the video. So forget Facebook for once and just phone some of those friends this time. Because this one’s for those who taught you friendship.

Take a trip down memory lane and transport yourself back to school with the video below. You might want to dust those scrapbooks and check out all those class photographs again after this one. And remember – School khatam hua hai… dosti nahin.  

 

 

Source::::NDTV.COM

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