High temperature: 82
Low temperature: 65
High barometric pressure: 30.02
Low barometric pressure: 29.86
Solar wind speed: 345.6 km/sec
Proton density: 2.3 per cubic centimeter
It is currently thundering, and the weather maps show a line of showers moving in from Pennsylvania.
I was looking out the train window on the way home, and between two stations, I noticed many mullein plants. One was enormous, was growing out of a sharply sloping embankment, and so had a rather dramatic curve in its stalk.
Also, this morning, on the way in, in the marshes between Newark and Secaucus, I saw one of the resident egrets in flight. It is able to tuck its long neck in such a way when flying that it appears to have a short neck.
They say the spacecraft that was launched nine years ago is approaching Pluto and will arrive in four days. This is the first time a spacecraft has gone to Pluto. I wonder what interesting features it will find?
It is events like this that give me that feeling that I love--a sense of the human community, and a sense that together, we are all participating in a grand human adventure.
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