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Travelers in the Night Eps. 867 & 868: Daytime Fireball & Inside Venus
Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. travelersinthenight.org
From September 2025.
Today's 2 topics:
- Dr. Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office reports that on June 26, 2025 shortly after noon a beachball sized meteoroid traveling at approximately 30,000 miles per hour broke up about 27 miles above the town of West Forrest, Georgia.
- Astronomers have discovered some 1.4 million asteroids. Approximately 35,000 of these space rocks come…
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