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85E-97-A Large Strange One
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Length:
2 minutes
Released:
Jul 14, 2020
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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
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