Its perigee, the closest it can come to Earth, is 221,456 miles
In 1986 astronomers found a massive one of these at the center of the Milky Way galaxy
In 1979 Voyager 1 discovered that this large body has rings, just like Saturn & Uranus
In 1995, 2 Swiss astronomers announced the first known one of these to orbit a star other than the sun
Around 240 B.C. Chinese astronomers observed this, later named for a British astronomer
In 585 B.C. Thales of Miletus accurately predicted one of these astronomical events
In 1801 Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the first known one of these heavenly objects & dubbed it Ceres
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from beside a replica rover at the Adler Planeterium in Chicago, IL.) This is a replica of both the Mars exploration rover Spirit and this companion, who came knocking in January 2004
When "shadow bands" are seen on Earth, it means this is about to happen up in the heavens
This totally darkened phase of the Moon occurs when the Moon is between the Sun & the Earth