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Travelers in the Night Eps. 849 & 850: Europa Clipper & Who Owns A Space Rock?
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 May, 2025. Today's 2 topics: - NASA's Europa Clipper was launched October 14, 2024 on a mission to conduct a detailed study of Jupiter's Moon Europa. The space craft will travel some 1.8 billion miles and should reach Jupiter in April 2030. This mission will begin to tell us if life as we know it can occur relatively close to home. - Since there is a world wide market for meteorites…
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