Like many of you I was very excited to see the solar eclipse today. I thought about driving to see totality, but ended up choosing against it as I figured it would be too much, and I had a quiz the morning of. So, I decided to stick around campus and watch it from here. Aaaaaaaaaaand it was underwhelming. It was just way too cloudy to see it consistently. We only got brief glimpses at it. I was able to snap this photo just before it went back behind the clouds. I’m hoping others who went to the area of totality got to see it better. I remember the one in 2017, I was also very close to totality then. It was a really cool experience since there were no clouds in the sky. The coolest thing I remember was that all the leaves made crescent shaped shadows on the ground which made a really cool effect.
Category: Solar System
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The Kuiper Belt was foreign to me before this class. I had never heard of it and because of that it stuck out to me. The basics of the Kuiper Belt is that it is the large region beyond Neptune. It stretches from about 30au-50au from the Sun. So far NASA says that only 2000 objects have been categorized. Which is astonishingly small for how big it is, but they estimate that there are hundreds of thousands of objects in it. Another interesting fact about the Kuiper Belt is that many of its objects have moons. This of course includes Pluto but other objects in it also have moons. The Kuiper Belt remains one of the most interesting but understudied parts of our solar system. I encourage everyone to look it up at some point and see if it interests you as well.
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