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Travelers in the Night Eps. 165E & 166E: Flying Peanut & Monster Telescope

Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:05:30
Publish Date: 2022-03-27 11:00:00
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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

Today's 2 topics:

- For 16 years, since its discovery at Lowell Observatory, humans knew 1999 JD6 only as a strange, spinning, moving point of light in the night sky.

- The design of this new telescope (ELT) promises to deliver objects 15 times fainter than currently operating very large telescopes.

 

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