June 3 - Asteroid Strike Yesterday?

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Help EarthSky keep going! Good morning! Thank you to all who've donated so far in our annual crowd-funding campaign. We're at 1,945 donations ... can you help us hit 2,000 this morning? Donate here. Small asteroid might have impacted Earth on Saturday​ Astronomers found it Saturday morning, hours before closest approach. Trajectory models, observer reports and a video all suggest it struck Earth's atmosphere over South Africa on Saturday. Check it out! What makes a halo around the sun or moon? A large ring or circle of light around the sun or moon is called a 22-degree halo by scientists. Mars starts to rise before midnight​ Or does it? Wildfire smoke messing with orangutans' eating and sleeping "They sounded raggedy, a little like humans who smoke a lot," said a researcher studying orangutans in the Indonesian forests.

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Mars starts to rise before midnight​ View larger. | This chart from our friend Guy Ottewell shows the middle of the night, between Sunday and Monday. Guy writes: "Mars has joined a late-evening-early-morning scene with Saturn and Jupiter, spread out over the zodiacal constellations of Capricornus, Sagittarius, Scorpius, and Libra, therefore enriched by Antares and the other starry features of the summer Milky Way."

What makes a halo around the sun or moon? Robert Green of London caught this glorious solar halo on August 12, 2017, from Suðuroy, Faroe Islands. His daughter Mia is standing beneath! Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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