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Occultation meaning
An astronomical event that occurs when one celestial object is hidden by another celestial object that passes between it and the observer when the nearer object appears larger and completely hides the more distant object. | The state of being occult (“hidden, undetected”). | The disappearance of the Twelfth Imam, or Mahdi, who is believed alive and present in this world, but hidden until his reappearance at the end of time.
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B.C. and most of Alberta won’t get to witness the occultation.
Lew Welch, in his suicide- and/or self-occultation note, said: “I went Southwest”—Southwest, we must assume, from his point of departure, Gary Snyder’s Kitkitdizze, near Nevada City in the Sierra foothills.
Spire’s product is the first mass application of the company’s ability to collect 5,000 radio occultation profiles daily, which Spire announced earlier this week.
After the death or Occultation of Muhammad ibn Ismaill in the 8th century, the teachings of Ismailism further transformed into the belief system as it is known today, with an explicit concentration on the deeper, esoteric meaning ( bāṭin ) of the faith.
An example of an occultation is when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, causing the Sun to disappear either entirely or partially.
A rare event in astronomy is the passage of one planet in front of another ( occultation ), as seen from Earth.
A reasonably accurate estimate for the diameter of Aldebaran was obtained during the September 22, 1978 occultation. citation Aldebaran is in conjunction with the Sun around June 1 of each year.
Earth occultation occurred between 17:07 UT and 17:11 UT, during which the spacecraft transmitted X-band radio waves through Venus' atmosphere, gathering data on cloud structure and temperature.
However, in 1979, Voyager 1 observed an occultation of the star κ Centauri during its flyby of Jupiter, with differing results.
In contrast, some Ismailis believed the Imamate did continue, and that the Imams were in occultation and still communicated and taught their followers through a network of dawah "Missionaries".
In the 1990s, various observations from Earth were made of the limb of Triton using the occultation of nearby stars, which indicated the presence of an atmosphere and an exotic surface.
In this way, a solar eclipse is an occultation of the Sun.
It returned one swath of pictures and some radio occultation data which constituted the first detection of the nightside ionosphere on Mars.
Last occultation of Spica by Venus was on November 10, 1783.
Mars and the full Moon would have appeared close together in the sky worldwide, with an occultation of Mars occurring for observers in some far northern locations. citation A similar conjunction will take place on 21 May 2016.
Observations of Pluto in occultation with Charon allowed scientists to establish Pluto's diameter more accurately, whereas the invention of adaptive optics allowed them to determine its shape more accurately.
Radio occultation data from Mariner 5 helped to understand the temperature and pressure data returned by the Venera 4 lander, which arrived at Venus shortly before it.
Shi'a Muslims believe that when the world becomes oppressed, the Imam Mahdi (also termed the Qa'im ) will come out of occultation and restore true religion on Earth before the cataclysmic end of the world and judgement day.
The groups which do believe in it differ as to which lineage of the Imamate is valid, and therefore which individual has gone into occultation.
The next occultation will occur on September 2, 2197, when Venus again passes in front of Spica.