M. Christina Freidhoff, Entrepreneur

12/23/2025

Colorado has officially opened the Greenland Wildlife Overpass, a major conservation milestone spanning Interstate 25 near Larkspur. Designed to reconnect fragmented habitats, the overpass allows elk, pronghorn, mule deer, black bears, mountain lions, and other wildlife to cross the busy highway safely—reducing vehicle collisions while restoring natural migration routes. Remarkably, the project was completed in under a year, finished ahead of schedule, and delivered on budget, showcasing how smart infrastructure can protect both people and wildlife at the same time.

11/20/2025

I have the privilege of calling his daughter, Eileen, my classmate. One of the loveliest people I know.😊

John Joseph Sirica (March 19, 1904 – August 14, 1992) was an American lawyer and jurist who was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia from 1957 to 1992. Sirica became known in the early 1970s for presiding over the federal criminal trials r...

10/27/2025

🌍 A tiny companion has been quietly shadowing Earth, masquerading as our “second moon” for decades—only now have scientists caught it in the act.

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of 2025 PN7, a newly classified “quasi-moon”—a small asteroid that’s been following Earth in a synchronized orbit around the Sun. Unlike our true Moon, quasi-moons aren’t permanently bound to our planet, but share a cosmic waltz that makes them appear to circle us.

Discovered on July 30, 2025 by the Pan-STARRS1 telescope at Haleakalā Observatory in Hawaii, 2025 PN7 measures just 19 meters (62 feet) across—smaller than the meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk in 2013. The asteroid is incredibly faint, with a magnitude of 26, and was missed for so long thanks to its dimness and “unfavorable” viewing angles.

What makes 2025 PN7 remarkable is both its stability and transience: orbital calculations show it’s been locked in this quasi-satellite configuration for the past 60–70 years and is expected to remain close for another six decades before drifting away. This makes it the smallest and least stable quasi-satellite currently known, offering scientists a rare glimpse into the dynamics of Earth’s celestial neighborhood.

This find hints at more such secret companions—future surveys, like those from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, could unearth many more. Each new quasi-moon deepens our understanding of the solar system’s choreography and may unveil clues about planetary formation and near-Earth objects.

📄 RESEARCH PAPER

📌 Carlos de la Fuente Marcos et al, “Quasi-satellite 2025 PN7: the smallest and the least stable known quasi-satellite of Earth”, Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society (2025)

09/24/2025

Well this could be ODD.
And quite funky.
Have to be honest. This is easily one of the more interesting & wild runs of the EURO model I have ever seen in the Atlantic during hurricane season. Twin hurricanes/tropical storms in such close proximity between Florida and Bermuda early next week. After this image who knows how they would evolve or track. Everyone from Florida to North Carolina should follow the forecast closely.

Lots to sort out. Generally in the other parts of the world where these "Fujiwhara" collisions or interactions of tropical systems are more common, one ends up being much stronger, and the other much weaker. It is very rare for both to be intense and so close to each other. We'll see what happens.

The “Fujiwhara” effect could pinwheel or eat one of the hurricanes essentially from the other. They can spin around each other in a circle, like kids holding hands and twirling. Sometimes, one gets bigger and eats the smaller one, or they just bounce apart. This fun (but actually dangerous) dance is named the Fujiwhara effect, after a smart scientist who figured it out.

See my previous post if you did not. Florida appears very unlikely to have any risk of direct impacts or a landfall. While I can't rule it out definitively yet, seems very unlikely and not worrisome. For the Carolina’s, definitely watch much closer next week but an approaching cold front could kick the “left” storm out to sea too, but far from a certainty. Many model members show a more impactful or concerning track closer to land there (Carolina’s). Stay tuned.

08/04/2025

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