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Versant Power Astronomy Center and Maynard Jordan Planetarium

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October 2014
October 19, 2014

Near Collision of a Comet with Mars

Anywhere ME, United States

All eyes will be on the Red Planet in October as Comet C/2013 A1(Siding Spring), discovered by Robert H. McNaught at Australia's Siding Spring Observatory, will pass extremely close to Mars. The comet will come so close, in fact, that its coma may envelop Mars, as well as create a stupendous shower of meteors as seen […]
October 23, 2014 @ 3:30 pm - 8:00 pm

A Partial Eclipse of the Sun

Anywhere ME, United States

The moon's penumbral shadow will fall over much of North America as well as extreme eastern Siberia, producing a partial solar eclipse. Greatest eclipse, with more than four-fifths of the sun's diameter covered by the moon, will occur in M'Clintock Channel, an arm of the Arctic Ocean which divides Victoria Island from Prince of Wales […]

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