Time Lapse of Asteroid 2014 JO25

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Despite some clouds, I was able to capture time lapse video of Asteroid 2014 JO25 passing by last night. Nearly 2 hours of time exposure photos are compressed into 23 seconds, from 9:20 p.m. until 11:09 p.m. CDT (watch full-screen, and make sure the highest definition is enabled, 1080p):

https://player.vimeo.com/video/213997279

The asteroid is traveling from near the left side toward the right. The clearest view, unobstructed by clouds, is near the end of the video.

The dumbbell-shaped asteroid was measured a few days ago by radar to be about 1 mile long, and was about 1 .5 million miles away from Earth at the time of the video.

Taken with a Canon 6D, Canon 200 mm f/2.8 lens at f/4.0, ISO2500, over 500 individual 10 sec exposures taken every 12 seconds, mounted on an Astrotrac star tracker, which in turn is on a Manfrotto geared head on a tripod.

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April 20, 2017 at 12:55AM

One Of America’s Biggest Solar Companies Files For Bankruptcy

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April 20, 2017 at 12:51AM

Pruitt Takes Steps To Roll Back Obama’s Fracking Rules

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The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday took a new step in enacting President Trump’s executive order to roll back Obama-era energy regulations by granting industry petitions to reconsider methane emission rules for fracking.

“EPA is continuing to follow through with President Trump’s Energy Independence Executive Order,” said EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. “American businesses should have the opportunity to review new requirements, assess economic impacts and report back, before those new requirements are finalized.”

Pruitt announced that the agency is halting the effective date of the new source performance standard for methane. It also will open a new period so the energy industry and other interested groups can comment on the rule.

The EPA sent a two-page letter to industry groups, such as the American Petroleum Institute, that formally requested that the rule be reconsidered by the administration. The industry has argued that the regulations are duplicative and not necessary, given the industry’s own standards for eliminating methane releases as a good business practice

The letter, signed by Pruitt, said that the industry raised at least one objection on the emission reporting requirements, while stating that a number of unanswered questions still remain regarding how the rules would actually work. Businesses also had complained that they did not have enough time to comment on some of the provisions. Those are all grounds for reconsidering the regulation under the Clean Air Act, the letter said.

The rule will be halted for 90 days after the June 3 effective date for the industry to comply with the standards.

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April 20, 2017 at 12:44AM

Proof the New York Times Stealthily Revises its Articles after Publication

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NY Times regularly revises its articles after publication. The revisions are substantial, undisclosed, and are nothing like real time updates in developing stories. These are regular articles that undergo dramatic changes that appear as if NY Times editors received a commissar’s call stressing the party line and demanding the article matches it exactly, with the […]

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April 20, 2017 at 12:40AM