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The National, Monday 13th May 2013
TYPICAL!! There’s an eclipse on and people are already talking about the end of days. Very true Sergius Sengi. For once, can we all please appreciate the beauty of this phenomenon and make less noise about its misconceptions. It’s such a sight, knowing the physics behind this wonder of nature
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AN annular solar eclipse took place last Friday with a magnitude of 95%. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between earth and the sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring the image of the sun for a viewer on earth.
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AN annular eclipse occurs when the moon’s apparent diameter is smaller than the sun, blocking most of the sun’s light and causing the sun to look like an annulus (ring). Hence it is also known as a ring of fire eclipse.
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AN annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region thousands of kilometres wide. Annularity was visible from a 171km to 225km-wide track that took in Australia, eastern Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and the Gilbert Islands, with the maximum eclipse time of six minutes, three seconds, visible from the Pacific Ocean east of French Polynesia.
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IT was a breath of fresh air for a Port Moresby Rainbow suburb residence returning home after work on Thursday. What used to be the popular Rainbow market had been dismantled by police the previous night. The men in blue stood watch like hawks to ensure the place remained clean in preparation for Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard to pass through on her way to Gerehu market last Friday.
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CAN we have the US president visit next so we can have an overnight transformation? Or better still the Missus Queen.
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THE Government of PNG has been urged to uphold its commitments to protect the human rights of all its citizens enshrined in the PNG Constitution as well as carry out its international commitments. Many international bodies have called on the government to address extra-judicial torture and killings related to accusations of sorcery as a priority.
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FRANK Kramer was born and raised in Alexishafen, Madang. His Papua New Guinea heritage goes back to the Wuvulu and Awa Islands – north of Wewak and west of Manus – from where his mother and father came. The name Kramer is German, and is part of PNG’s legacy from Germany’s colonial rule over the northern half of the nation. Read more about him in Friday’s Weekender. If you want a feature to be published in Weekender, contact us an on [email protected]
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