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Tagged: nature

Science/Medicine
1:12 pm
Mon December 20, 2010

Lunar eclipse tonight

Lunar eclipse
Credit D'Arcy Norman - wikimedia commons user
A lunar eclipse in 2008
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Update December 21st, 2:00 a.m.:

Well, I woke up... the Earth's shadow is passing over the moon right now. NASA says it'll be in full eclipse starting at 2:41 a.m. and then the shadow will start slipping off the moon at 3:53 a.m.

Welcome to the shortest day of the year! Now... time for bed.

December 20th, 1:12 p.m.

It's not as special as a solar eclipse, which happens in one spot (say in Detroit, MI) around once every several hundred years, but a lunar eclipse is still pretty cool. Even if it does happen around twice a year.

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