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- 0:00Hi there, thanks for joining us again. This is Space Nuts. My
- 0:03name is Andrew Dunkley. Thanks for your company. Coming up, we will
- 0:06be looking at a couple of things. Mars quakes looks like they're happening at
- 0:12a faster and more furious pace than ever thought, and that's because we can
- 0:16detect them now with much more accuracy. Also, the Parker solar probe has
- 0:22made the news again. It is skimming around the Sun almost literally, but
- 0:27it's doing it at a thunderclap race a pace. And we'll also be looking
- 0:33at a super nova first scene in eleven eighty one, but now we know
- 0:37all about it, or at least more than they did back then. That's
- 0:40all coming up on this edition of Space Nuts fifteen second guidance in channel ten
- 0:48nine ignition sequence Space Nuts or three two one Space Nuts. When I report
- 0:59it. Bill's good and here again to furnish us with his knowledge, or
- 1:03at least help my son move furniture because he's got a new apartment in Sydney.
- 1:07Is Professor Fred Watson, Astronoment at large, high friend. Thanks Andre,
- 1:14just let me know, and yeah, we'll be there hoping. If
- 1:18we're planning the trip down he hasn't quite got it yet all the legal stuff,
- 1:22you know, well, how to deal with that? Whereabols is it?
- 1:25What suburb is in campsy more specifically a place called Clempton Park, which
- 1:32is very pretty leafy little suburb. And best of all, he's not on
- 1:36a main road whatsoever, so no traffic. Very hard to do in Sydney,
- 1:41very hard to do. We're kind of we're quite proud of him because
- 1:46he's managed to do this all by himself in the second most difficult real estate
- 1:49market in the world, which I think is really impressive. It is.
- 1:55So yes, ladies, he's a catch. Okay, there you go.
- 2:02Well, lad your friends note yeah, yeah, Now before we get into
- 2:08our stories, you've just come back from a little trip to South Australia where
- 2:13you took a tour group around and show them rocks and things. It must
- 2:17have been exciting. It was. It was a lot more exciting than you
- 2:23made it sound. So it was a round trip really. We started off
- 2:27in Adelaide, headed up to a Portagusta and then to Kuba Pede via Woomera,
- 2:34which is a name I've had in my vocabulary since I was about six
- 2:38because the you know, it was always in the news, was Woomera when
- 2:43I was growing up in the nineteen fifties, that this was the spaceport for
- 2:49British rocket tests and all kinds of other things, and it was all happening
- 2:53very much front of mine, very prominent in the media. But I've never
- 2:58been, Andrew never visited now and it's worth a look. Look you would
- 3:04enjoy it too. There's a lot of vintage space stuff there, reminiscent of
- 3:08I guess the Kennedy Space Center, but an earlier generation when rocketry was in
- 3:17its kind of the modern era of rocketry was in its infancy in the post
- 3:22World War II period. Lots to see some really interesting aircraft and missiles,
- 3:29rockets and all the rest of it. Is the Australia's first ever rocket still
- 3:34in that chuck shed. That's probably I didn't see it there somewhere apparently yeah,
- 3:42it will be, yeah, but of course it's still an active site.
- 3:46I think it's the OLAF that operates now. There's the Woomor Prohibited Area.
- 3:50It's a huge area of South Australia. I don't know how many thousand
- 3:53squareculus as it is, but they still do launches and people in the area,
- 3:59the station station dwellers, station halls, people have got sheep stations and
- 4:04things like that. They get to all every so often we're going to evacuate
- 4:08you for a day. So well they do. And it's very secret,
- 4:13so we'll just find out about any of that. But we did talk about
- 4:15the history and it was great. And then of course I should mention the
- 4:19reason it's called woomera is because that's a an aboriginal device to launch a speed
- 4:28it is gives it gives a spear a much greater and extra a great name,
- 4:33great name. They made some spaces too, we did. Yes,
- 4:39we followed the paths around two places like Williams Creek and Marie. Marie is
- 4:46interesting because it's got a it's got a man, the mari Mon, which
- 4:53when you see it from the air, is an Aboriginal elder probably has got
- 4:58a long beard and he's four kilometers long and nobody knows how he got there,
- 5:03but it looks as done by bulldozers or something like that. And then
- 5:09and then down to our karula of place where there's a dark SkyPark, and
- 5:13to a place called nil Pina, and in fact the Nilpina Ediacara National Park.
- 5:19Eddie Kara is the name of the hills in which some very interesting fossils
- 5:26were found some years ago, and these are the fossils of the first animals,
- 5:30basically the first things that moved around on beds of microbial mats in shallow
- 5:38seas. And we met the chief ranger there, Kim Goyer I think is
- 5:44the way his name is pronounced, who flashed his space Nuts t shirt as
- 5:48soon as as soon as we arrived, which was great. So it was
- 5:53good to see Kim and talk to him. And then a bit further on
- 5:56we met another space nutcase down on the Murray River. We were at a
- 6:02place called Manham at the time, but we had a lovely dark sky vet.
- 6:08All the locals came out and we did some talks and everybody dressed up
- 6:12in stars and spacey kind of stuff. One of our tour guests came fully
- 6:17cloud in an astronaut suit which she apparently needed a pump to keep the air
- 6:21blowing through it so he didn't die. Fantastic stuff. But there we also
- 6:27met Tracy Hill. There's another space nut and Tracy was very gracious in the
- 6:34fact that she took part in a charity auction which was to buy a copy
- 6:42of a book called wis Uranus Upside Down that had something to do with me.
- 6:46So she paid a handsome price for that, and Tracy well done.
- 6:50There was a slight mix up with Tracy's name when the winner was announced,
- 6:55so I had to rewrite the inscription in the book. But it was great
- 7:00to meet Tracy with a nice chart. And we'll stay in touch with both
- 7:02Kim and Tracy because these are people who are passionate about the district they live
- 7:08in, passionate about the things that they can show people wonderful. All right,
- 7:13Hello Kim, Hello Tracy, and thanks for being space Nuts followers.
- 7:16They're all over the world. I think you know, it would be hard
- 7:19pressed not to run into one these days, the way things are going.
- 7:23It fantastic to be like that, wouldn't it. I didn't run into any
- 7:27in China though when I was there. Yes, we've never had a question
- 7:30from China. I don't think more than welcome, more than welcome. Yeah.
- 7:38So you're back down to Earth now, so to speak, and back
- 7:41to normal for a little while. But Space Nuts continues, and we're going
- 7:46to talk about Mars quakes. Now. And this is a really interesting story
- 7:50because we have talked about Mars quakes before and they've been investigating them courtesy of
- 7:57the Insight mission. But now they're starting to come up with numbers that are
- 8:01a little bit bigger than they expected. That's correct. The the the analysis
- 8:09of this, Andrew, comes from a spacecraft that's no longer operational, our
- 8:16old friend Insight, which was fitted with a seismograph seismometers to measure mass quakes.
- 8:26And the bottom line with this story is that some of the mass quakes
- 8:33have been misinterpreted, which is easy to do when you're looking at a record
- 8:43of I guess little tremors that you know, you don't really have much of
- 8:50a clue with that tremor as to where they come from. We did talk
- 8:54about this recently actually because some people said, when you've only got one size
- 8:58bomby to how do you know where these tremors are coming from? And there's
- 9:03various signatures in the tremors that you can interpret as to what the what the
- 9:07path that these tremors have taken through through the you know, through the Martian
- 9:15crust, what that path is. So this is work that has been carried
- 9:20out by scientists at et h Jury, which you might know is the university
- 9:26that Einstein attended and Imperial College London, and I once did a course there,
- 9:31so it's a common ground for us in the world of astronomy. So
- 9:35these scientists, what they've done is they've essentially made a kind of estimate from
- 9:46the seismic data from Insight as to the global meteorite impacts, and that gives
- 9:56them a number of somewhere in the region quote between two hundred and eighty and
- 10:03three hundred and sixty meteorites striking the planet each year, forming impact craters greater
- 10:09than eight meters, which is about twenty six feet. So these are impact
- 10:13craters that you could detect from space, you know, with the various Mars
- 10:18orbiting spacecraft, and indeed they have they've managed to link and I think this
- 10:24is the crux of the matter. They've managed to link some of the seismic
- 10:30traces with what are obviously newly excavated impact craters, so that you can tell
- 10:39by the color if you're looking down from an orbiting spacecraft and you see something
- 10:46that has a particular color against the red of the Martian dust, you can
- 10:52get a clue as to whether that crater is a new one or not,
- 10:56whether that is the result of a recent impact. And in fact, I
- 11:01think they've been able to tie down some of the seismic traces with a particular
- 11:11new impact feature. And so basically what it means is that I think it's
- 11:18something like five times the number of impacts that we thought were hitting the surface
- 11:24is what is now estimated from this new new research and what the conclusion they
- 11:31come to. Actually, let me quote Geraldine zen Heisen from eh Turich who
- 11:41says the rate was about five times higher than the number estimated from orbital imagery
- 11:48alone. Aligned with orbital imagery, our findings demonstrate that seismology is an excellent
- 11:54tool for measuring impact rates. So there's that link between what you can see
- 11:58from orbit and what the seismograph is telling you. I'm fascinated by this because
- 12:07they're giving us numbers in the hundreds, but Earth gets hit to the tune
- 12:11of thousands a year and we don't seem to see those sorts of cratering effects.
- 12:18What's the difference? Is it because Mars atmosphere is so thin and yeah,
- 12:22chartistics, that's right. So you know, if Mark if we had
- 12:28the same atmosphere density as Mars two or three hundred, hate me to create
- 12:35us every year would be headline making news. Yeah, because we just sort
- 12:43of you really want to go anywhere without experiencing the risk of something hitting you
- 12:48all the head that could cause and ape me to create it. And so
- 12:54that's you know, that's the crucial part is the Mars's atmospheric pressure is point
- 13:01zero six sorry, it's point six percent. Zero point six percent of Earth's
- 13:07atmospheric pressure is less than one percent, So there's much less of a breaking
- 13:13influence by the atmosphere on Mars than there is on Earth. And by breaking
- 13:18that's br br a k i n G, not br e a k i
- 13:24n g. So what it means is that these meteorites always hit Mars's surface
- 13:33a very high velocity, what they call hYP hyper hypervelocity impacts, and it's
- 13:39that that really betrays the to orbiting spacecraft, that reveals that something's happened recently,
- 13:48because they they apparently cause a debris zone around the crater which is more
- 13:56than one hundred times bigger than the crater itself, so that they stand out
- 14:00from orbit. You've got to create maybe eight meters across, that's pretty big,
- 14:05but with something eight hundred meters you know, around it, that tells
- 14:09you that there's there's something's happened there. So actually the points made in the
- 14:16paper that they've written, knowing the number of impacts is going to be really
- 14:22important for the safety of any explore exploring spacecraft, whether they're robotic or whether
- 14:28they've got humans on board. And I suppose there'd be no pattern to this,
- 14:33so I guess if you had the time to analyze that, you might
- 14:37be able to figure out where and when these things might happen. But you
- 14:43know, yeah, it increases the risk. I mean, if this was
- 14:48Earth, our insurance policies just wouldn't be we couldn't afford them. But that's
- 14:52right, when you're talking space usitions in an environment that's hostile and we're not
- 14:58built to suit Mars's atmosphere, you'd want to collide as much data as possible
- 15:05to try and avoid these situations. I imagine, yes, So it's obviously
- 15:11something that will be taken into account in future future mission planning. It's a
- 15:16bit of a warning really that Mars is a rather more hostile environment than we
- 15:22expected at the same time, it's not it's not going to rule out Mars
- 15:28exploration, you know, I don't I think it's safe to say that we've
- 15:33had how many rovers on Mars? You know, it's probably it's probably,
- 15:37it's probably ten if you include the Chinese rovers, you include not just spirit
- 15:43an, opportunity, and curiosity and perseverance. They're the big four, But
- 15:48there were rovers before that Pathfinder was one of them. Maybe it's not ten,
- 15:50but perhaps six, seven or eight something like that. Rovers on Mars.
- 15:56None of them, as far as we know, have been zolked by
- 16:00incoming meteorite. So it's a risk, but it's a low risk, yes,
- 16:04yes, And I suppose we should also say that not all these earth
- 16:11tremors that have been picked up over the course of its mission are caused by
- 16:15meteorites, So yes, that's correct. There's been other factors as well,
- 16:19and some of them are still a bit of a mystery. Yes, So
- 16:23that's really the I guess, the pole point of their argument that they've been
- 16:27able to isolate the ones just by the characteristic signature. They've been able to
- 16:33isolate the ones that are caused by meteorites rather than by tectonic activity. There
- 16:37isn't much tectonic activity on Mars in that regard. Its core is much cooler
- 16:44than the Earth and so it doesn't drive the tectonic activity that we have.
- 16:48Okay, if you want to follow up on that story, it's been published
- 16:53in the journal Nature Astronomy. This is Space. That's Andrew Ankley here with
- 16:59Profess Fred what's an the piece MUDs. This next story is interesting too,
- 17:08fredd In that we've been hearing about, well, we've heard about this once
- 17:14before, but it's happened again. The Parker Solar Probe, which is orbiting
- 17:18the Sun and has been since oh gosh was it. It's been up there
- 17:23for five or six years, I think something like that. It's just achieved
- 17:29or equalled a speed record during one of its recent orbits. And we're talking
- 17:36numbers that are just mind blowing. I mean, tens of hundreds of thousands
- 17:41of kilometer, isn't it. It's amazing, it is. So. The
- 17:48Parker solo probe is interesting. It's one we've talked about much, but it's
- 17:53been it has been active, as you've said, for some years. It's
- 17:59just deleted its twentieth close approach to the Sun, and that's telling you that
- 18:06this is the the spacecraft that comes closest to the Sun. Of all the
- 18:11solar orbiting spacecraft that we have launched, this one is the closest, and
- 18:18in fact, its twentieth close approach was on the thirtieth of June twenty twenty
- 18:23four, not very long ago. Its distance was seven point twenty six million
- 18:29kilometers from the solar surface, and by that we mean the photosphere, the
- 18:33bit beyond which you can't see. The Sun doesn't have a surface because it's
- 18:37a ball of gas. That's about four point five one million miles, so
- 18:41it's you know, in terms of cosmic distances, that is grazing the surface
- 18:45of the Sun. It's very very close. And Kepler's laws tell us that
- 18:52the closer you get to the body that you are orbiting around, the faster
- 18:56your velocity is. Is how it works, and that's why we've got this
- 19:00record speed. In miles an hour, it's three hundred and ninety four thousand,
- 19:04seven hundred and thirty six kilometers per hour. It's six hundred and thirty
- 19:10five, two hundred and sixty six kilometers per hour, which, let me
- 19:15do it in my head, is somewhere under two hundred kilometers per second.
- 19:22I've got a calculator handed, but it's in that region. You divide it
- 19:26by three thousand, six hundred to get kilometers per hour into kilometers per second,
- 19:30So it seems in the region of two hundred. It's Yeah, that's
- 19:34a phenomenal velocity. And but that speed, you've really got to take relativity
- 19:41into account, not just because of the speed, but because of the gravitational
- 19:45potential that you're in. You know, you're in a strong gravitational field,
- 19:49and both of those things mean that Einstein's two theories of relativity, the special
- 19:56theory which is about speed, and the general theory, which is about gravity,
- 20:00those two absolutely start dominating your calculations. So really interesting stuff for all
- 20:07kinds of reasons. The park Asolo probe is fitted with heat shields that seem
- 20:12to bewithstanding the stresses and strains on the spacecraft that come from being so close
- 20:18to the Sun. And we look forward to hearing what data have been collected
- 20:22during that twentieth close approach to the Sun. Yeah, it seems to operate
- 20:27in a very complex orbittle pattern because it uses gravity assists from Venus in some
- 20:34situations. Just depends on what's available at the time, I think, but
- 20:38it would all be mapped out. But it will be doing its next pass
- 20:44on the twenty fourth of December, and they expect it will probably crack near
- 20:48seven hundred thousand kilometers an hour in that pass. And that's just unthinkable,
- 20:56isn't it That this has got to be the fastest thing ever? Yeah,
- 21:00that's well, that's right. It's you know, it's not the fastest that
- 21:04was launched, but because it's been wound up by all these gravity assists to
- 21:08push it so near the Sun. Yes, it probably is the fastest spacecraft
- 21:12ever. I wonder how to survive so the environment that it's exposed to,
- 21:18I mean just the radio radiation it's bombarying it for one. But it would
- 21:23be exposed to tremendous heat, wouldn't it. Yes, that's right. So
- 21:27it's got a pretty substantial heat heat shield, which if I'm remembering correctly,
- 21:33I think it the spacecraft is turned so that when it's closest to the Sun,
- 21:37the heats the heat shield is doing all the work, and you know,
- 21:42well the spacecraft kind of behind the heat shield is faking the measurements so
- 21:48yeah, very intriguing and very very successful mission. Actually, so I think
- 21:55it's got is it four more or three more close passes to the Sun?
- 22:02I think it's three more, and actually I know it's four more. It's
- 22:08got four more close passes. So the mission is sort of coming to its
- 22:14closing phases. But we will, no doubt here more about it. We
- 22:18probably should do a nice story on the parkasolo probo sometimes down the track when
- 22:22we see some of these results. Yeah, I just found that the final
- 22:26pass will be next year, the twenty fourth fly by the Sun. So
- 22:30it's mission comes to an end in twenty twenty five. And that's how long
- 22:33it takes to sort of work its way into position to do a pass.
- 22:37Because it's going so fast, it just can't just sort of stop and go
- 22:41back. It's got to go out and do another lap around whatever it can
- 22:47do. A lap around Mercury would be involved, I imagined it. Yeah,
- 22:51it's quite extraordinary, what a fascinating mission, And yes, we should
- 22:55talk more about it when they start releasing some of the data. I guess
- 23:00who knows what they could learn. There's so much we don't know about the
- 23:03Sun, which makes it such an interesting thing, and it is the nearest
- 23:06star to our planet, so we can learn a lot about things that are
- 23:10so far away and untouchable just by observing what's right next door. Fred,
- 23:15Let's get onto our final story. This one I also find intriguing, and
- 23:21this one dates back to the year eleven eighty one when there was a super
- 23:26nova recorded, but we're only now starting to learn more about it. Yeah,
- 23:32that's right, eleven eighty one. It's a time. We often associate
- 23:37these super and over ancient super and ova explosions or observations with Chinese scientists,
- 23:47and in fact, probably the best known is the super and over of ten
- 23:51fifty four, which was observed by Chinese scientists, if I can call them
- 23:57that, there were certainly a US observers of the sky. That ten point
- 24:02fifty four super and over is what produced the crab Nebula, one of the
- 24:06most famous super and ova remnants in the sky in the northern constellation of tourists,
- 24:11the Bull. The crab Nebula is well studied, and in fact we've
- 24:15in the last few months seen some extraordinary images of it from the web Space
- 24:19Telescope Gene web Space Telescope. But this one is different. The super and
- 24:25Ova of eleven eighty one was recorded. It was recorded throughout Asia, but
- 24:30mostly in Japan. Japan was, you know, again the home of people
- 24:37who were very, very clever and careful skywatchers. And it's a time actually
- 24:47when Japan was at war with you know, as often was the case in
- 24:56past history. It seems to be still the case today, but Japan was
- 25:00at war and there were records kept of that time which were put in a
- 25:11kind of it's what's described by our old friend fizz dot org, which is
- 25:17the website that's carrying this story, described as in diary format, so you
- 25:23know, it's like a journal I guess called the Azuma Kagami, I hope
- 25:29pronouncing that correctly, which chronicled what was going on, the events taking place,
- 25:36mostly to do with the war. This was all not very far from
- 25:37modern day Tokyo. But other things, including this appearance of the new star.
- 25:45They they they are called a guest stars in those ancient texts because they
- 25:52are just a guest in the sky that then goes away. And indeed there
- 25:57is a note here that they weren't that. This one was also observed in
- 26:03China and Korea as well, and was bright enough to be quite noticeable.
- 26:08It wasn't a daylight supernova, which we think the ten fifty four one was,
- 26:14but was bright. It's comparable in brightness to the planet Saturn, which
- 26:19is certainly noticeable. It's not the rightest of the planets, but it's up
- 26:23there with the with the ones that you really do notice in the in the
- 26:29night sky. Apparently it was visible for about one hundred and eighty one hundred
- 26:33and eighty days and then dimmed away and was lost, and it took a
- 26:41long time for modern day scientists to find it. They what's happened is that
- 26:52basically using the the the you know, the text of this die record of
- 27:00the supernova, the Azuma Kagami people have narrowed things down to the constellation of
- 27:08Kassiopeir, which is another It's a far northern constellation in the northern sky.
- 27:12We see it from certainly from the latitude where I am in Sydney. But
- 27:21it so that gave me scientists enough of a clue to look for a remnant
- 27:27from this explosion, and it's quite different from the remnant from the crab nebula,
- 27:33which is just like a tangle of material dust gas that's that's obviously got
- 27:42shock waves propelling through it in all different kinds of directions. This is something
- 27:48quite different. First of all, it's visible in X rays, and what
- 27:52we have is an X ray image from the XMM satellite with some infrared components
- 28:02as well from an infrared spacecraft called WISE, so we're looking at this in
- 28:07two different wavebands. And what we can see in the structure is it's,
- 28:14first of all, it's a spherical object which has some really detailed what we
- 28:23might call contours in it, where you've got things like, first of all,
- 28:29in the middle, we've got the wind bubble. This is coming from
- 28:32the paper about this. Then there's going outwards a wind termination shock, and
- 28:37then a region of unshocked ejector that's material that's come from the explosion but hasn't
- 28:42had a shock wave going through it. And then there's something called a reverse
- 28:45shock and then a forward shock, and all this complexity can be sort of
- 28:52seen in the X ray image and it sounds like my Golove game got forward
- 29:00sharks in it. I can just see you doing a reverse shop with your
- 29:08number five iron or whatever. Anyway, but that study has given enough detail
- 29:15that scientists can now work out what this super and ova was, and it's
- 29:21a very rare one, something that does not normally happen. Two white dwarf
- 29:27stars, now white dwarf stars are what our Sun will end up as it's
- 29:33basically a thing the size of the Earth with the density with the mass of
- 29:37the star, so very very dense and very hot. That's how the Sun
- 29:42will end its days in a few billion years time. But two of these
- 29:45objects apparently have collided, and that's what has caused this very unusual type of
- 29:52super and over. A lot of the work has done has been done with
- 29:56computer modeling, of course, and analyzing the observations and the rarity is this
- 30:04double shock formation that we've just spoken about, the forward shot and the reverse
- 30:08shock and then the inner shock. And so there is a sort of footnote
- 30:17to the story though that comes from these observations. The sort of winds that
- 30:23blow from this event, what we call stellar winds. They are thought to
- 30:29be relatively recent in their formation, so that they say, perhaps only with
- 30:34the past twenty or thirty years, these high speed stellar winds have been blowing
- 30:38from the surface of the star, which is quite extraordinary really just you know,
- 30:42we happen to be looking at it at the right time to see some
- 30:47of the action. Yeah, indeed, And it's you know, we get
- 30:52very lucky sometimes with observations. But I suppose we could also suggest that these
- 30:56things are happening so regularly. Maybe it's not luck. We're just picking them
- 31:02up because they're happening and at a rate of a dime. A dozen't But
- 31:06this one, this one's different. This one's been quite unusual and a very
- 31:11lucky discovery. Indeed, my hope Fred one day is we do get to
- 31:15see one for real in our lifetime, Beetle juice being the optimum candidate.
- 31:21I suppose, Yeah, that's correct. It's it's we don't want want too
- 31:26close, Andrew, But yeah, Beatle, this is about battle Jos,
- 31:32however you pronounce it. It's about seven hundred light years away, I think,
- 31:37which is it's far enough away that we would certainly see something visible in
- 31:44the daylight sky. It will be very bright, but it's not going to
- 31:48be lethal to life on Earth, which a nearer one might be. Yeah.
- 31:53Yeah, And in recent discussions we've talked about things that have happen been
- 32:00so far away from us that have actually affected our atmosphere. So yes,
- 32:02that's right. It is really mind boggling to consider that there's so much influence
- 32:09out there that is so far away and we think we're all safe and well,
- 32:14and we are, but you've just always got to consider the possibilities,
- 32:17I guess. But yeah, that story was published in the Astrophysical Journal,
- 32:22if you're interested in finding out about the SN eleven eighty one supernova. Fred,
- 32:30we've reached the end of the program. Thank you so much. Well,
- 32:34it's a great pleasure, and it's not a pleasure to have reached the
- 32:37end, but it's always a pleasure to talk about these things. The end
- 32:42is nigh. Yes'm we'll see you on the next episode. Sounds good.
- 32:47Thanks very much, and we take care and we'll speak to Fred Watson,
- 32:52Astronomer at Large, and thanks for listening. Don't forget to follow us on
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- 33:00forget to visit our web website, Space Nuts podcast dot com. Oh,
- 33:05and thanks to here in the studio who couldn't be with us today, but
- 33:08all the best to his wife who's dealing with some medical issues. As we
- 33:14all are when we reach this age and from me Andrew Dunkley, thanks for
- 33:16your company. See you on the next episode of Space Nuts. Bye bye
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