Asteroid 2010 WC9

Time Lapse of Asteroid 2010 WC9
Slooh members watched live last night as we trained our telescopes on a fast moving asteroid as it prepared to make its close approach to Earth. The time-lapse above shows the asteroid with an estimated size of between 174 - 394ft at a distance of 644,184 miles. Asteroid 2010 WC9 will make its closest approach to Earth tonight at 6:05 EDT (22:05UTC) traveling just 126,098 miles away, at a speed of 28,655mph. For comparison, the distance from the Earth to the Moon is 238,900 miles, or roughly halfway between.

The secret history of the Mongol Queens by Jack Weatherford

Title of the book: The secret history of the Mongol Queens

Original title: The secret history of the Mongol Queens

Author's name: Jack Weatherford

ISBN: 978-0-307-40715-3

Original language: English

Genre: historical narrative

Editorial: Crown Publisher

Years editions 2010

Year of Reading: 2010

Additional Information: 2016

I have taken the liberty of creating a trilogy, to make a dive in the unknown history of the Mongol Empire.
I recommend that you read first The Secret History of the Mongols, then the Secret History of the Mongol Queens and finally The Art of War of the Mongols: Genghis Khan and Mongol military system.
If you follow this chronology going to see how fascinating and unknown that was the Mongol Empire. I hope you like it.

Summary of the book:

In my opinion it is a great book I recommend reading as it allows us to see not only one side of Genghis Khan very unfamiliar, if not the role that the daughters and wives of Genghis played in the Mongol Empire.

In this book we see Genghis Khan, was almost the inventor of the modern era, it is more, there are countries today (which we believe are Westernized) that are more backward than the Mongol empire of the thirteenth century, which is really sad.

In this book we will see one of the most brilliant strategies in political alliances, which were his daughters, who became the spirals that helped lay Gengis and expand their empire.

But unfortunately also tells us the decay of this empire, one of the largest in history, the recipe is almost always the same for all empires. Inept, drunk and useless come to power and with them the end of the golden era.

But all hope for the Mongol empire is not lost, because grace Mandukhai Khatun who was regent until Dayan Khan was old to govern, these two characters succeed in restoring the glory of the empire Mongol and bring order to chaos.

The epilogue is great, please read it. What I liked most is the story of Christopher Columbus, as I did not know.