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Title: Astronomy Picture of the Day
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NASA
URL Source: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050223.html
Published: Feb 23, 2005
Author: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (U
Post Date: 2005-02-23 11:14:07 by 2Trievers
Keywords: Astronomy, Picture
Views: 182
Comments: 7
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2005 February 23 Explanation: What if part of New York broke off and slammed into New Jersey? Both being anchored land masses, that is unlikely to happen, but an event of that size scale did occur off the Antarctic coast over the last three months. Long Island, New York sized B-15A iceberg floated across 100 kilometers of the Ross Sea and struck a submarine shoal just before an expected impact with the massive Drygalski Ice Tongue, visible on the bottom right of the last image. As it is summer in Earth's Southern Hemisphere, the relatively warm weather was expected to melt and clear much of surrounding ice, but now B-15A blocks much of this ice from floating out to sea. This created a problem not only for ships servicing McMurdo Station but also for penguins expecting to swim. The greater Ross Ice Shelf, from which B-15A calved, has shed several large icebergs over the past few years. Astronomy Picture of the Day
Credit: MODIS, Terra, NASA
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#1. To: 2Trievers (#0)
That is so cool...and a little frightening. Poor penguins!
#2. To: robin (#1)
I just love this astronomy site ... I hope to post it everyday ...not an original idea ...but fun.
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