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The Fifth Friday of February
Feb 29, 2008 | 8:28 AM PST
Category: Weather
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It's Leap Day everyone.....that special day which comes around but once every 4 years! One of those amazing days to celebrate the wonders of life, as we can all appreciate how long it takes the earth to complete a full circle around the sun! The exact time the Earth takes to complete a full circle around Sun is a little longer than a year, 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds. So, once every four years we need to add that extra day to the calendar!

The oddity of this version of leap year is that it falls on a Friday.....making this a very unusual 5th Friday of February!  February 2008 both started and ends on a Friday. Between 1904 and 2096, leap years with same day of week for each date repeat every 28 years, which means that the last time February had 5 Fridays was in 1980 and next time will be in 2036.

So, when you're at the bar later, make an extra toast, in celebration of this rather unusual calendar occasion!! Who knows if we'll see it again?

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Two moons on August 27, 2007
Aug 6, 2007 | 11:14 AM PST
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Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting in August.

It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye.

This will cultminate on Aug. 27 when Mars comes within 34.65M miles of earth.

Be sure to watch the sky on Aug. 27, best at 12:30 am.

It will look like the earth has two moons.

The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287.

 

 

 
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I find low-level amateur poetry, on the internet, to be a crime against art, language and intellect. We often see examples of these artistic travesties, suffering from a level of saccharine sentimentality that would make both the Osmond family and Hallmark greeting card authors vomit! As the social rules go for nose-picking, perhaps they should also be applied to the need for one to express oneself, in this high order of literary craftsmanship....if you have to do it, do it in private! I must quote the visionary Elie Weisel, when he said, "There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest".

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