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Severe Geomagnetic Storm Watch Tonight! · Made of Stars

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  Speaker 1: Warning. The following podcast contains an entertaining look at astronomy, physics,
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  Speaker 1: and space news throughout the known universe. Listeners have been
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  Speaker 1: known to learn about astronomical phenomenon the scientific method, and
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  Speaker 1: expanded vocabulary to include terms like quasar asterism and uranus. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: that's your own risk.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: When made of stars, made them stars, madies. When made
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  Speaker 3: of stars, you could be from high they would New Mexicomus,
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  Speaker 3: where all stars.
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  Speaker 4: When we are made of stars. I'm Wes Carol, joined
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  Speaker 4: by my good friend doctor Sean rus In from Columbus
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  Speaker 4: State University's Coca Cola Space Science Center.
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  Speaker 2: Hey Sean, Hey, we's good to be here today. So
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  Speaker 2: it was.
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  Speaker 4: Months ago, I think five months ago that we did
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  Speaker 4: a show where we were a couple of days before
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  Speaker 4: that little like almost to the day, I guess when
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  Speaker 4: it happened, But the day before, a couple of days before,
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  Speaker 4: we told everybody, hey, there's a chance that some crazy
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  Speaker 4: stuff is going to happen in the night sky, and
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  Speaker 4: we tried to prepare everybody. Now, at the time, we
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  Speaker 4: didn't imagine it would be quite what it was. I
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  Speaker 4: don't think anybody really Maybe somebody did but nobody involved
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  Speaker 4: with our show was saying, you know, we're going to
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  Speaker 4: see Aurora borealis in the skies in the Chattahoochee Valley
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  Speaker 4: and down to Puerto Rico and all that. But then
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  Speaker 4: that happened, and I remember people saying, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 4: I wish we had known, and I thought, well, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we did talk about it. Now, in their defense, we've
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  Speaker 4: talked about it before. We've said, hey, there's a chance
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  Speaker 4: that this could happen, you know, with lights maybe coming down,
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  Speaker 4: maybe not quite as far down as us. But we
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  Speaker 4: talk about the geomagnetic storms, we talk about solar flares,
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  Speaker 4: we talk about seams. So here we are again, five
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  Speaker 4: months later in a situation where as we're recording, there's
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  Speaker 4: some crazy stuff going on in the sky now, and
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  Speaker 4: I'll let you relay exactly how much crazier it is
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  Speaker 4: than it was even five months ago. But all of
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  Speaker 4: this has like a twelve hour window. So tonight we're
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  Speaker 4: trying to give the heads up again there's a possibility,
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  Speaker 4: there's a chance we could get a little show in
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  Speaker 4: the sky tonight. It's possible, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And here's the thing about the event that Wes is
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  Speaker 2: discussing friends. That was the May tenth, twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 2: Aurora Borealis breakout that occurred. It was the strongest auroral
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  Speaker 2: storm or the strongest northern light display in about one
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  Speaker 2: hundred years, So it was not trivial, right, So so
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  Speaker 2: us telling you, you know, maybe the day or two,
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember. I think it was just one day
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  Speaker 2: maybe prior to that happening that that you know, there's
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  Speaker 2: a good reason to go up and look in the sky.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we were right, And I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: harp on though we were right. Part what I want
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  Speaker 2: to harp on is there's a person that I know
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  Speaker 2: very very well who simply did not listen to this
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  Speaker 2: advice and almost missed this display. And that was me.
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  Speaker 2: So so we we know, we got on our podcast
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  Speaker 2: and we said these things, Wow, this is a really
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  Speaker 2: powerful geomagnetic storms. Coronal mass ejections. There were two of them.
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  Speaker 2: They they simultaneously cut one caught up with the other
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  Speaker 2: one and simultaneously passed the Earth. And we said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you know, this is happen and it's probably going to
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  Speaker 2: cause a pretty good geomagnetic storm. You might want to
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  Speaker 2: go out and look for auroras. So we said that
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  Speaker 2: on our you know, Thursday podcast as I'm recollecting here.
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  Speaker 2: And then on Friday the next you know, on the tenth,
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  Speaker 2: I was watching TV sitting on my couch and I
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  Speaker 2: kind of stretch get getting ready to go to bed,
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  Speaker 2: and I told my wife, I said, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of nice outside. Why don't we walk down the
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  Speaker 2: driver real quick before we go to bed. Let's just
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  Speaker 2: walk down the driveway and just enjoy the night time
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  Speaker 2: sky for a minute. And I get out there and
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  Speaker 2: I look up, and sometimes I'm the dumbest smart person ever.
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  Speaker 2: I look up in the sky and there are these
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  Speaker 2: like streaks of white light on the sky. And my
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  Speaker 2: first thought was not, Hey, that's the Aurora borealis you
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  Speaker 2: were just talking about on your podcast, Sean.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: My first thought was, I wonder who has a search light?
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  Speaker 2: They're shining it up there on the sky. It's a
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  Speaker 2: search light. It's like, wait a minute, there are no
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  Speaker 2: no major cities in the direction that I'm looking right
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  Speaker 2: now until you get to Atlanta, which is way too
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  Speaker 2: far away for a searchlight. And you know, all of
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  Speaker 2: these thoughts are happening in probably about eight to nine
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  Speaker 2: seconds but you know, it took me a full eight
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  Speaker 2: to nine seconds to go, oh, wait a minute, perhaps
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  Speaker 2: that's northern lights because I'm looking north. So yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: took me that long. And so had I not just
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  Speaker 2: decided to stroll down the driveway, I would have completely
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  Speaker 2: missed the strongest auroral display in one hundred years. Well, friends,
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  Speaker 2: we don't want to repeat this, No, we don't. And
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  Speaker 2: if you're listening to the podcast right now, because we're
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  Speaker 2: Wes is going to post this ride on up here.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're listening to the podcast on the tenth
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  Speaker 2: of October in twenty twenty four, you should really go
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  Speaker 2: out tonight and look. And if you didn't catch this
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  Speaker 2: podcast on the tenth of October, I'm sorry. Maybe you know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe check spaceweather dot com and the archive and kind
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  Speaker 2: of see what's happened. They'll have pictures up on the eleventh.
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  Speaker 2: But right now, as we speak, there has been a
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  Speaker 2: wave of charge materials arriving from the Sun, a coronal
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  Speaker 2: mass ejection. It's striking the planet right now. I know
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  Speaker 2: this because I got an update. There's a parameter that
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  Speaker 2: space weather scientists use to determine one of the ways
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  Speaker 2: they determine how significantly the Earth's magnetic field is being
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  Speaker 2: impacted is by a parameter called the Z component of
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  Speaker 2: Earth's magnetic field, or they call it B sub z.
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  Speaker 2: And if you don't you know that doesn't mean anything
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  Speaker 2: to you, that's fine, but just know this that B
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  Speaker 2: subz is usually zero. And then sometimes Earth's magnetic field
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  Speaker 2: gets gets disrupted in kind of a positive way. And
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  Speaker 2: I mean that positive like positive charge, like plus and
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  Speaker 2: minus that kind of thing. And it can, you know,
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  Speaker 2: bend up to a plus five, or it can get
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  Speaker 2: affected in a negative way and can down to negative five.
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  Speaker 2: And these kinds of things happen with just variability in
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  Speaker 2: the sun processes and things like that. But when there's
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  Speaker 2: a really good storm coming and if it's anti aligned,
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  Speaker 2: if it's magnetic field is ligned opposite the Earth's magnetic field,
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  Speaker 2: which is the best way to produce auroras, you can
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  Speaker 2: get all the way down to a minus ten, which
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  Speaker 2: is what happened back on May tenth that caused the
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  Speaker 2: strongest role display in one hundred years. I got a
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  Speaker 2: text message about an hour before we're recording this podcast
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  Speaker 2: that says today October tenth, twenty twenty four, that b
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  Speaker 2: sub z component is a minus twenty five. That was.
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  Speaker 4: That's currently that's where we are now, is that right.
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  Speaker 2: Right now as we're recording the show. Now, it's in
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  Speaker 2: the daytime here in Columbus, Georgia, But this storm could
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  Speaker 2: last anywhere from twelve to eighteen hours.
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  Speaker 4: Which means if much life back in May, if you
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  Speaker 4: missed the show the day that we released it, which
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  Speaker 4: is another reason to just set it up to automatically download,
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  Speaker 4: so you have it ready to go that you like a.
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  Speaker 2: Little dingy bell that's just dingsy when we post the
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  Speaker 2: podcast and you listen to it right.
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  Speaker 4: Away, and you know, we're not one of those shows
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  Speaker 4: where they're always telling you to like and subscribe and
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  Speaker 4: all that stuff. We're not doing all that, although it
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  Speaker 4: might be in your best interest, especially if you think, wow,
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  Speaker 4: I would have loved to have seen some aurora in
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  Speaker 4: my hometown outside in my yard, or like to let
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  Speaker 4: my kids see it, because you know, it's something that
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  Speaker 4: happens so rarely that it might never happen again in
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  Speaker 4: my or their lifetime, you know, one hundred years. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: maybe you know, throw us a little subscribe on there
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  Speaker 4: and download it, or you know you could, you know,
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  Speaker 4: just make it a point to listen. Both would be great.
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  Speaker 4: But anyway, so we're warning you now this is the
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  Speaker 4: second time. And I do like the fact you describe
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  Speaker 4: yourself as you can be a dumb smart guy, because
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  Speaker 4: I often describe myself as a smart dumb guy. So
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  Speaker 4: I think that's why we balance each other.
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  Speaker 2: Out, probably meet in the middle somewhere.
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  Speaker 4: That's what makes the show work. So for the next
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  Speaker 4: twelve to eighteen hours, which is well into darkness tonight,
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  Speaker 4: there's a chance that this is going to light up
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  Speaker 4: the sky. There's a possibility, and there's no way to know.
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  Speaker 4: Conditions have to be just right on a number of levels.
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  Speaker 4: We can't promise anything for you tonight, but as we said,
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  Speaker 4: there's a chance to see this thing that only happens
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  Speaker 4: once every hundred years twice in five months.
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  Speaker 2: I would say there's a pretty good chance. And in fact,
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  Speaker 2: if people, you know, if people are not in the
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  Speaker 2: continental US, still go look, right, I mean, still go look.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as it gets dark, go look, and maybe
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  Speaker 2: go look more than once tonight. Hey, there's a great
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I'm pulling my data from spaceweather dot
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  Speaker 2: com because that's my favorite sun monitoring website. But there's
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  Speaker 2: another website called spaceweather live dot com and spaceweatherlive dot com.
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  Speaker 2: It's really kind of a data site. It's where the
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  Speaker 2: data is coming in and being displayed from all of
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  Speaker 2: the NASA satellites and other things that monitor the KP
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  Speaker 2: index and the b s of Z index and a
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  Speaker 2: variety of other things. It shows you the aurora oval
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  Speaker 2: and so from these data you can kind of look
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  Speaker 2: to see what's happening like right now. It'd be the
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  Speaker 2: equivalent of watching a hurricane on the National Hurricane Center's
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  Speaker 2: website and seeing the progress right So this is kind
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  Speaker 2: of a live update web page for monitoring the interaction
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  Speaker 2: between solar flares on the Sun and the Earth's magnetic field,
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  Speaker 2: which can spark the northern lights. Go to spaceweatherlive dot
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  Speaker 2: com and absolutely check out spaceweather dot com. They will
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  Speaker 2: keep you up to date with all the latest images
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  Speaker 2: and cool stuff coming from this solar interaction.
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  Speaker 4: So this is not the only thing that could cause
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  Speaker 4: you know, neck pain from looking up at the sky
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  Speaker 4: over the next few days, because there's other reasons to
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  Speaker 4: tilt your head. Don't think of it as you know,
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  Speaker 4: forcing your neck to look up. Think of it as
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  Speaker 4: kind of undoing all of the staring down at your
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  Speaker 4: tablets and phones that you're doing. This is the reverse
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  Speaker 4: of that, except you get to see cool stuff in
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  Speaker 4: the sky. But there's other things to see in the sky,
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  Speaker 4: not only a comet that we've been talking about, but
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  Speaker 4: also there's a brand new comet that has only just
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  Speaker 4: been discovered since we've done a show a week ago.
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  Speaker 4: So this is pretty exciting. More stuff to look up at.
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  Speaker 2: It is a cornucopia, a veritable cornucopia of skysights here
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  Speaker 2: that we don't want you to miss out on, friends,
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  Speaker 2: and so yes, this you know, October is a nice
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  Speaker 2: time to go out under the night sky anyway. If
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  Speaker 2: you're in northern latitudes, it hasn't gotten too cold yet.
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  Speaker 2: If you're here in the south, it's finally starting to
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  Speaker 2: get a little bit cool and the bugs are kind
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  Speaker 2: of dying down. So it's just a nice time for
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  Speaker 2: skywatching and friends. Nature is providing a veritable corn ucopia
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  Speaker 2: of things to go see, not only those northern lights
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  Speaker 2: we were just talking about, but the comet that we've
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  Speaker 2: been talking about, on several of the past few shows,
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  Speaker 2: we've taken the calling it Comet Tea Atlas, but the
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  Speaker 2: Tea is pronounced chu Chin Shan, which is a Chinese
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  Speaker 2: word that means purple Mountain, because it was discovered at
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  Speaker 2: the Purple Mountain Observatory or the Chu Chin Shan Observatory
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  Speaker 2: in China. And along with the Atlas program. We'll talk
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  Speaker 2: more about Atlas in this a moment. Anyway, that comet
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  Speaker 2: is actually making its way around the Sun. Right now,
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  Speaker 2: it's passing by the Sun. It's whipping or it's got
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  Speaker 2: its closest to the Sun on the twenty seventh of September,
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  Speaker 2: but right now it's at the right angle that it
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  Speaker 2: showed up on the Soho coronagraph. Again, friends, spaceweather dot com,
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  Speaker 2: go check it out there. It's a great place to go.
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  Speaker 2: Check out this photograph of basically looking in the direction
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  Speaker 2: of the Sun looking for coronal mass ejections explosions coming
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  Speaker 2: from the Sun. But then a giant interloper jumps into
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  Speaker 2: the frame and that is this massive bright comet called
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  Speaker 2: Chu Chin Chan Atlas or Tea Atlas. It is making
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  Speaker 2: its way around the Sun through the coronograph view to
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  Speaker 2: come into Perihelion. I'm sorry, not Parihuid Perigee, which is
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  Speaker 2: closest point to the Earth on October the twelfth, So
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  Speaker 2: that's just a couple of days from now as we're
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  Speaker 2: recording the show. So this comet is big enough and
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  Speaker 2: potentially bright enough that you might be able to see
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  Speaker 2: it with the unaided eye, in other words, no telescope
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  Speaker 2: in twilight, not even a dark sky, And you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: need to look for it in twilight because it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be very near to the sun. It's gonna be setting
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  Speaker 2: right after the sun, so the sun will go down.
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  Speaker 2: You need that clear western horizon without a lot of trees.
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  Speaker 2: So identify that place that you can go look. And
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  Speaker 2: as soon as the sun starts to get low and
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  Speaker 2: it's twilighty over that direction, look in the direction of
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  Speaker 2: the sun, scan the horizon and you should see a
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  Speaker 2: fuzzy object up in that direction and it could be
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  Speaker 2: Comet Ta Atlas. So this is allegedly one of the
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  Speaker 2: brightest comets to have favored the Earth's skies in the
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  Speaker 2: past twenty years.
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  Speaker 4: So, and you were going to talk about the Atlas
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  Speaker 4: part of it, and I guess that ties over into
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  Speaker 4: the discovery of this next comet, because this one just
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  Speaker 4: recently discovered, and yes, Atlas plays a part in trying
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  Speaker 4: to be more aware of what might be coming in
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  Speaker 4: our direction, right yeap.
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  Speaker 2: The University of Awaii has an asteroid project that's called
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  Speaker 2: Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System. In other words, they're
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  Speaker 2: looking for asteroids that are potentially hazardous to the Earth
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  Speaker 2: and they want to find them and locate them. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it'd be good to find them before they hit the Earth, right,
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  Speaker 2: I guess once they hit the Earth, you found it.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, oh, it's there. There it is anyway. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they're looking for those potentially hazardous asteroids with the ATLAS system,
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  Speaker 2: which is the acronym for Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so that's what Atlas is. Atlas was one of the
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  Speaker 2: cofinders of comet t Atlas, which is why Atlas is
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  Speaker 2: in the name. But while they were looking around up
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  Speaker 2: there for that comet, they also found another comet and
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  Speaker 2: they just found it on the twenty seventh of September,
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  Speaker 2: just a couple of weeks ago. They located this other
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  Speaker 2: comet and it looks like it's on a path to
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  Speaker 2: Grays extremely close to the Sun. It's going to make
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  Speaker 2: a pass by the Sun that's less than a million
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  Speaker 2: miles away. It's only seven hundred and sixty five thousand
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  Speaker 2: miles away, which, again, and the in the scale of
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  Speaker 2: the Solar system is really really close. And comets that
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  Speaker 2: zip that close to the Sun typically don't make it
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  Speaker 2: around the other side. That heats them up so much
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  Speaker 2: that they break apart. Okay, But before it does any
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  Speaker 2: of that, it's actually going to make a decently close
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  Speaker 2: pass by the Earth. And so on the twenty fourth
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  Speaker 2: of October, which is its closest pass by the Earth,
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  Speaker 2: it's only going to be eighty one million miles away.
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  Speaker 2: And that sounds like wow, it's eighty one million miles.
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  Speaker 2: That's a long distance. That's not even the distance from
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  Speaker 2: the Earth to the Sun. So it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: closer to us than it is to the than we
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  Speaker 2: are to the Sun, i should say. And so so
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  Speaker 2: that is a very close pass by yet another relatively
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  Speaker 2: bright comet. And because this comet is the size and
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  Speaker 2: distance that it's going to be at that end part
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  Speaker 2: of October, this one is likely to be visible to
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  Speaker 2: the unaided eye as well, well, although don't look in twilight,
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  Speaker 2: this is going to take some dark skies to see it.
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  Speaker 2: But still two potentially naked eye visible comets in the
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  Speaker 2: same month, friends, So you have the incredible opportunity for
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  Speaker 2: possibly a gigantic auroral storm that's basically tonight and tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: night October tenth, October eleventh, then Comet te Atlas October twelfth,
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  Speaker 2: and then for the next several nights a couple of
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  Speaker 2: weeks there you can be able to see that comet
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  Speaker 2: toward the western part of the sky. And then at
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  Speaker 2: the end of October another comet which has not been
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  Speaker 2: named yet, or at least they're not sharing the name yet.
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  Speaker 2: But this this comet has a catalog name already, which
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  Speaker 2: is called CE twenty twenty four S one see twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty four S one. So that comet see twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: four S one, which will probably end up being called
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  Speaker 2: Comet Atlas, is going to be visible towards the end
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  Speaker 2: of this month. So what a great month for skywatching friends,
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  Speaker 2: comments and auroras and chaos.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my, I'd like to nominate that we call it Edmund.
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  Speaker 2: I'm for that. Actually, I'm alright with that.
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  Speaker 4: I always wanted to know a guy named Edmund and
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  Speaker 4: a Clyde. I'm not known a Clyde or an Edmund.
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  Speaker 4: I'd like to know people with both of those names.
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  Speaker 4: So if you're listening and you have one of those names,
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  Speaker 4: I'd love to get to know you. That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: Coming up after a quick break, we're going to talk
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  Speaker 4: about the hair spacecraft, and we'll also talk about things
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  Speaker 4: going on with James Webb because we're learning some stuff.
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  Speaker 4: That's what it's there for. After this, there's a lot
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  Speaker 4: that's going on. I'll be see here on Earth. When
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  Speaker 4: it comes to the weather, the hurricanes that have come
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  Speaker 4: through the southeast, the second one has now gone through Florida.
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  Speaker 4: There's been a lot of talk about how this would
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  Speaker 4: have an impact, like on the space coast and all
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  Speaker 4: these things, especially here with Milton but looking over because
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  Speaker 4: the ESA had their hair spacecraft that they wanted to
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: get launched, and we've talked a little bit about Hara
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  Speaker 4: and its mission, but let's kind of recap that and
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  Speaker 4: talk about this launch.
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  Speaker 2: So the Hara mission is a European Space Agency mission,
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: but it is basically a partner mission to a NASA
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  Speaker 2: mission that took place a couple of years ago, and
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: that was the Dart Mission. And if you've listened, if
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: you're a regular listener to this show, you know that
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: we love the Dart Mission.
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  Speaker 4: We are big fans of the Dark. Yes, real life
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: asteroids the game, yes, exactly, or Froger one of the others,
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  Speaker 4: that's sure. And think about there are some Frogger similarities.
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  Speaker 2: Just too young for the Froger joke just looking up online.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway, Well, you probably don't know asteroids either, So if
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: you don't know Froger, they were probably.
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  Speaker 2: On the same gaming system anyway. So the hair Emission friends,
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  Speaker 2: the Hair Mission, European Space Agency. It's gonna go out
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  Speaker 2: and check out a pair of asteroids. There's an asteroid
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  Speaker 2: and it's moonlit asteroid. And the asteroid is called Dimorphous. No,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, the asteroids called Didymus, and the moon asteroid
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: that orbits around Edimus is called dimorphous. And the Dart
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  Speaker 2: Mission was a spacecraft that we sent out there just
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: to basically punch Dimorphous right in the eye. We just
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: flew a spacecraft out there with no other purpose but
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: to harass and destroy it to as much as we
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: could an asteroid. And that is all in the name
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: of planetary defense. You see, NASA really wanted to test
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  Speaker 2: and see how much deflection or quite honestly, how much
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: destruction they could cause to an incoming asteroid in case
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: somebody like the Atlas program found one of those earth
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: crossing asteroids on the way in and we could actually
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: do something about it. While we could fly a spacecraft
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: out and hit it and see if we could deflect it,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: well does that work? We don't know. Well, in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty two NASA found out because they flew this dark
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  Speaker 2: spacecraft directly at this little asteroid called Dimorphous and they
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: hit it and two things happened. Number one, they fairly
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: radically adjusted its orbit around its parent asteroid called Didamus.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: And number two, they decreased its mass. They knocked a
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: bunch of stuff off. Now how much exactly did they
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: decrease the mass, Well we don't know exactly because the
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: dark spacecraft was no longer out there because it just
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: slammed anyway, So we don't know. So the haramission by
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: the European Space Agency is designed to go back out
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  Speaker 2: and visit that asteroid pair and do detailed measurements on
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  Speaker 2: the dimorphous moonlit asteroid to see how much mass reduction
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  Speaker 2: that the dark spacecraft actually did to that asteroid upon
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: impact back in twenty twenty two. In other words, how
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: efficient was that dart impact not just at adjusting the orbit,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: but also lowering the mass of that of that asteroid.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: And of course, once again we're trying to learn these
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: things for the purposes of planetary defense, so we can
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  Speaker 2: better understand how we can use spacecraft to potentially protect
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: our planet in case of an incoming asteroid. And oh,
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: by the way, I buried the headline. This mission was
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: trying to launch as Hurricane Milton was coming ashore on Florida, right,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: So they were just barely able to get it up
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: earlier this week and get it up and out of
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: the Canal Cape Canaveral air Station down there in near
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Titusville and get it on its way before this giant
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: hurricane came in. And by the way, thoughts and prayers
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: to all the people out there in Florida being affected
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: by this, and continued thoughts and prayers for the Helene
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: victims as well. This are two really bad storms back
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: to back.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, And I guess I'm curious. Uh, the so we
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: know that there were some issues with SpaceX with their
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: launches and there were questions about when this might be
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: able to launch. Does that mean everything sorted out with that?
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: I assume.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: I mean they launched, so that that and they were
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: on hold. So the fact that they were able to
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: launch and uh, you know obviously significantly launched before this
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: hurricane obviously successfully, So that's that's all good.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: One can imagine that when the hurricane was coming on shore,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: any kind of FAA hold ups were trying to they
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: try to sort those out as quickly as possible so
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: they could actually get this mission off the ground.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: Let's talk about James web because you know, it's not
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: just there for pretty pictures, although it's given us many
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: pretty pictures, but it's also there so we can, you know,
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: learn things, and this is another one of those times
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: where we've learned something pretty significant.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So a bit of an esoteric story, but because
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: as Wes said, it's not just like a pretty picture, like,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: oh look at the pretty picture. It's an actual science
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: mission of the James Webspace Telescope. But somewhere in this universe,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: about every three thousand, I'm sorry. Somewhere in this universe
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: every second, about three thousand new stars are formed, So
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: the birth rate of stars in the universe three thousand
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: per second. So it's a fairly common event in the
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: entire universe. Unfortunately, don't happen quite that often just within
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: the confines of the near part of the Milky Way
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: galaxy where we can actually study them detail. And so
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: we need something like James Web that helps us see
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: further more, far back into time to be able to
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: better study these kinds of environments where stars are being formed,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: because quite frankly, some things must happen during star formation
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: that we haven't figured out yet. And this is trying
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: to rectify what models predict based on the mathematics of
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: gravitation and hydrodynamic pressures versus what we actually see happening. Right,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: So we haven't been able to get our models to
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: quite fit the kinds of star formation that we can
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: actually take pictures of. In other words, well, all right,
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: so what mysterious forces are acting on clouds that allow
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: for star formation to take place, because we haven't quite
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: figured all of that out in our modeling yet. Okay,
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: so there's the setup now incomes the James web Space
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  Speaker 2: Telescope and a group of researchers led by Ilaria Pascucci
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  Speaker 2: for a professor of astrophysics and planetary science from the
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona. And
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: if you want to know more about this story, check
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: out Universe today dot com. But I'm not about to
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: read a quote from the scientist that I read on
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Universe Today, which is this, our observations strongly suggest that
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  Speaker 2: we have obtained the first detailed images of the various
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  Speaker 2: wind components that can remove anger momentum and solve a
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: longstanding problem of how stars and planetary systems form, she said.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: She goes on to say this, we believe they could
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  Speaker 2: be common, but with four objects it's a bit difficult
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: to say. We want to get a larger sample with
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: James Webspace Telescope and then also see if we can
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: detect changes in these winds as stars assemble and planets form.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: So what they've been able to do they've been able
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: to use the James webs Space Telescope to figure out
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: that things like gravitational fields but also magnetic fields around
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: stars are driving these flows of gas through giant clouds
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: called nebulae in order to kind of shape and sculpt
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: the protoplanetary discs over time. So a new headline, new
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: investigation being done by James Webb, and one more way
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: that in addition to just pretty pictures, the James Webspace
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Telescope is helping us understand some of the mysteries of
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: the universe and better understand the process of how baby
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: stars and baby planets are born out there in our galaxy.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: All right, let's talk about the Coca Cola Space Science Center.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: You know, it's almost convenient that there is an astronomy
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Night coming up in the midst of all of these
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: amazing things happening in the sky. That might be a
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: great opportunity to do some stargazing, you know, at Astronomy
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: Night in all.
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  Speaker 2: And astronomy nights are the place you want to go
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: to be able to see this. Friends. What we do
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: here at Space Science Center is we take our telescopes
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: up and set them up out in the community, and
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: we also set telescopes up here at the Space Science Center.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: We have upcoming Astronomy Night. You can check out the
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: website to find out all the details on the upcoming
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: astronomy nights being held. But the idea is that you
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: want to be able to go out with the pros
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: once in a while and have them show you around
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: the nighttime sky. Not only these kind of temporal phenomenon
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: that we've been talking about here, there's a lot of
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: beautiful things to be seen in the fall sky. We
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: have beautiful views of the Milky Way Galaxy. You have
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: what we call the Summer Triangle rising, and you have
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: the planet Venus making early appearance just after sunset. As well,
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: if you stick around long enough, the planet Jupiter's rising
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: up over in the east. And so these are all
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  Speaker 2: things that you could potentially view with our astronomy team
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: here at Space Science Center. Again, check out the website
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  Speaker 2: for the details on upcoming astronomy nights here in the fall.
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  Speaker 2: Check out www dot cc s SC dot org. Charlie
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Charlie SamSam Charlie dot org. And by the way, while
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: you're there, you can find out about tickets for our
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: music under the Dome series. Our first concert was a
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: smash hit. This is where students and faculty from our
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Schwobes School of Music here at Columbstate University come in
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: and perform live music inside our planetarium and the beautiful,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: beautiful images up on the dome were provided by local
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: artists or not so local artists who we collaborate with
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: to produce original graphics for these shows. It's a great
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: concert experience and you can find out all about this.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: So find out about our Astronomy Nights, our Music under
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: the Dome series, and all of the things taking place
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: at Columbus State University's Coca Cola Space Science Center at
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: the website www dot cc s SC dot org. Charlie,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Charlie SamSam Charlie dot org.
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  Speaker 4: Sean and I thank you for listening, and we will
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: do this again next week.
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