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85E-97-A Large Strange One

85E-97-A Large Strange One

FromTravelers In The Night


85E-97-A Large Strange One

FromTravelers In The Night

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Length:
2 minutes
Released:
Jul 14, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Recently my, University of Arizona, Catalina Sky Survey, teammate, Jess Johnson, was searching for Earth Approaching asteroids when he discovered a faint slow moving object in the night sky. Six nights of followup observations revealed that this new object's path is out near the planet Neptune. It takes approximately 173 years for it to travel once about the Sun so it will take observations over the next few years to pin down its orbit. With a diameter of approximately 43 miles it is much larger than the Earth approaching objects we normally encounter.
Released:
Jul 14, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Space, Asteroid Hunting, and Astronomy, an insider view.The music is "Eternity" by John Lyell.Astronomy Asteroids Space NASA Comets Earth Impact