Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

This is Ephemeris for Indigenous Peoples Day, Monday, October 14th. Today the Sun will be up for 11 hours and 1 minute, setting at 6:58, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:58. The Moon, 3 days before full, will set at 5:24 tomorrow morning.

I’ll relate it to our comet. Comets are the cause of meteor showers. However, our current comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will never produce a meteor shower for us because its orbit doesn’t come close to the Earth’s. The closest it gets is half the distance to the Sun which it did five days ago.

The Anishinaabek have a story about how the Wolverine got its name, in their language, gwiingwa’aage, which means “The One Who Came From a Shooting Star”. An evil star spirit crashed to Earth and created a crater in what is now northern Quebec. Later it filled with water, and sometime later this ill-tempered creature crawled out of it. The University of Michigan’s teams are called the Wolverines, even though the wolverine is not native to Michigan.

The astronomical event times given are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (EDT, UT – 4 hours). Times will be different for other locations.

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