Looking Up - 26 August 2016

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Solar Eclipse on 1 September at 09:43, maximum at 10:48. Fantastic news about the discovery of a potentially water-supporting planet orbiting around our nearest star! What a stroke of luck. All we need to do is work out how to travel 40 trillion kms- but perhaps we just need to send a small probe and wait a long time.

26 Aug 2016 English South Africa Places & Travel Kechil Kirkham

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