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z3r010 · 17 Jun 2016

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Anak · 20 Jun 2016

For my area, today Jun 20, 6:34 PM EDT [10:34UTC]

Solstices & Equinoxes for Harrisburg

June Solstice: Longest and Shortest Day of the Year. The June solstice is the Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and the Winter Solstice the Southern Hemisphere.

A Guy · 20 Jun 2016

NASA Just Confirmed That Earth Has A New Moon

One is the loneliest number, especially when you are a single moon circling the planet full of humans. But let’s not lose hope here because NASA just announced that there might be a second moon come to keep you company. This newly discovered moon is smaller than our moon and goes around the Earth astonishingly irregularly, but still, two is quite better than one. This second “moon,” is actually an asteroid called 2016 HO3 and it is currently locked into “a little dance” with Earth. It's being called as "Quasi-Moon".

NASA Just Confirmed That Earth Has A New Moon | Physics-Astronomy

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z3r010 · 27 Jun 2016

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z3r010 · 27 Jun 2016

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ThrashZone · 27 Jun 2016

Dang did they have suction cups on the bottom of that thing :)

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Anak · 27 Jun 2016

ThrashZone said:

Dang did they have suction cups on the bottom of that thing :)

No, look at the title of the video, they're not suction cups but small thruster motors like the ones on a drone.

What you're seeing there, is a remote controlled Falcon 9 Drone. Pretty neat!

z3r010 · 05 Jul 2016

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kado897 · 05 Jul 2016

I believe the rocket engines were built in the UK.

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