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The American Eclipse of 2017
Behind the Black ^ | August 18, 2011 | Robert Zimmerman

Posted on 08/18/2011 1:43:10 PM PDT by BobZimmerman

Time to start making your vacation plans. On August 21, 2017 a total eclipse of the sun is going to traverse the entire length of the continental United States, from Oregon to South Carolina. Kentucky will have the longest view, with totality as long as three minutes. And astronomers are already thinking of ways to harness the help of the American people in observing this event.

(Excerpt) Read more at behindtheblack.com ...


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KEYWORDS: astronomy; eclipse; science; solareclipse; ussolareclipse

1 posted on 08/18/2011 1:43:21 PM PDT by BobZimmerman
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To: BobZimmerman

If you are the author, as you claim, what seems to have prevented you from posting the full content?


2 posted on 08/18/2011 1:54:13 PM PDT by humblegunner (The kinder, gentler version...)
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To: BobZimmerman

Great, our first solar power brownout.


3 posted on 08/18/2011 1:56:06 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: BobZimmerman

Bob, I like your music and singing style...


4 posted on 08/18/2011 1:57:52 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: humblegunner
If you are the author, as you claim, what seems to have prevented you from posting the full content?

The answer, my FRiend, is blowin' in the wind.

5 posted on 08/18/2011 1:59:53 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (My dream ticket for 2012 is John Galt & Dagny Taggart!)
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To: BobZimmerman

Here’s how it looks from space. No if I could view the eclipse over the US like this?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0329_060329_eclipse.html


6 posted on 08/18/2011 2:01:40 PM PDT by cicero2k
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To: EGPWS

But, no one appreciates his voice...


7 posted on 08/18/2011 2:02:51 PM PDT by SuzyQue
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To: BobZimmerman

Plan on being on our sail boat off the coast of South Carolina when it passes over. Been waiting for the last 30 years for this one.


8 posted on 08/18/2011 2:04:40 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Conan the Librarian

Was there at the last one in 1979 when the sun went dark over Goldendale, Washington. Plan on being there this time with MY little girl and her mom.

Also traveled to Romania to see the one in ‘99. What a hoot!

If you haven’t seen one— do it!


9 posted on 08/18/2011 2:08:53 PM PDT by agooga (Struggling every day to be worthy of their sacrifice.)
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To: humblegunner

Signed up just yesterday to pimp his blog, and that’s all he’s done ever since.


10 posted on 08/18/2011 2:20:52 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Rick Perry: Looks like Joe Isuzu, acts like Grant Woods [AZ joke])
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To: Cyber Liberty

would you ping me in 2016 ?


11 posted on 08/18/2011 2:34:24 PM PDT by WSGilcrest (Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus ad erit.)
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To: BobZimmerman

God willing, I think I’ll stay here in Buffalo in 2024 when a total eclipse will occur right over us...

For a small area in SE Missouri, they’ll have the unique opportunity of catching both eclipses IN 2017 and 2024.


12 posted on 08/18/2011 2:39:22 PM PDT by mikrofon (Space BUMP)
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To: BobZimmerman

Hey Mr. Blogpimp Man, post a little more blog here. (With apologies to the real whiny, nasal-voiced libtard.


13 posted on 08/18/2011 2:43:17 PM PDT by 50mm (Trust nobody and you'll never be disappointed.)
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To: BobZimmerman

I looked up the map at the NASA site:

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2017Aug21Tgoogle.html


14 posted on 08/18/2011 3:12:00 PM PDT by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: BobZimmerman

The last time I saw one this good, . . . I was a young man on top of the world :)

15 posted on 08/18/2011 3:42:37 PM PDT by labette ( Humble student of Thinkology)
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