{"id":123,"date":"2008-08-01T12:50:35","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T12:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=123"},"modified":"2013-02-14T21:16:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T02:16:25","slug":"oh-be-thule-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/oh-be-thule-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, To Be At Thule Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

I look back with fondness at the year I spent at Thule Air Base, Greenland — in fact, today I wore my “Thule Tracking Station” hat* — but it looks as if the path of this morning’s total solar eclipse<\/strong> went very close to Thule. I hope the weather was clear enough for the folks to get a (safe) glimpse of the event.<\/p>\n

This Wikipedia link has a neat animation of the eclipse path<\/a>. The little black spot is the area of totality; the larger grey area would see a partial eclipse.<\/p>\n

Ultra cool for Ultima Thule. (And no, if you pronounce it correctly that doesn’t rhyme.)<\/p>\n

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\n*Our tracking station had an awesome logo: a polar bear coming out of a radome. I need to get a new hat and a couple new shirts, because mine are getting worn out.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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