Podcasts about near earth objects

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How likely is an asteroid to impact Earth? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice sit down with planetary scientist Rick Binzel, the creator of the Torino Scale, to discuss asteroid hazards, the results of the asteroid sample return, and the search for Planet 9.NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/show/asteroids-headed-towards-earth-with-rick-binzel/Thanks to our Patrons Euclid A LoGiudice, Todd Thedell, Girolamo Castaldo, Scott E Mann, Stephen Luick, Lou Perreault, Tom Womack, jonas dravland, Carla Garner, Matthew Smith, Marcy Hansen, Dale Schurman, David LoMonaco, Manoj Chugh, Lynn Cade, James Dudley, Gaterdog44, Ally Whitchurch, George Pipe, Collin Brumm, Amanda Phillips, George Murray, Daniel Persaud, Jason Bennett, Damon, Dutt Bobba, Gregorio Sanford, Dre Adamenko, rohit chaudhary, Krys Kap, Lukasz Kosturek, Nicholas Smith, Martin Wegner, kaley knowles, SciFiGriffin, Lucas Sanjuan, Jacob Hodges, BRET ANDERSON, Irina Cher, R B, Norway man, Wayne Gosson, and Fireworks for Buddha for supporting us this week. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of StarTalk Radio ad-free and a whole week early.Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus.

Preview: Planetary Scientist Professor Richard Binzel of MIT describes the Torino Scale that rates the peril of Near Earth Objects 1-10. More tonight. 1940

Sintonía 1: "Mirage-Still!" - Les HommesSintonía 2: "Todo chévere" - Rio 18"Maybe Man" (feat. Silvia Machete), "Esa tristeza" (feat. Nina Miranda & Little Barrie) y "Oh minha querida" (feat. Moreno Veloso, Domenico Lancellotti & Kassin), extraídas del nuevo álbum de Carwyn Ellis con Rio 18 titulado "Radio Chévere" (Legere Recordings, 2024)"Keep Right On", "Chronic Tonic" y "Other Ship", extraídas del tercer álbum, "Near-Earth Objects" (Cosmosium Records, 2024) de The Boom Yeh"Sonorissima Bay", "Cosi Cosi" y "Waltz-A-Scope", extraídas del 4º álbum, "Si, Cosi" (Sudden Hunger, 2024) de la banda británica Les Hommes"Diplomata", "Choro para Paquito", "Hannah" y "Nina", extraídas del álbum del pianista sueco Jan Lundgren y el guitarrista brasileño Jamandú Costa (en este disco, escrito al revés: Costa Yamandu) titulado "Inner Spirits" (2024)Escuchar audio

Dos visitas, dos. El grupo Cápsula, argentino asentado en Bilbao, nos trae canciones de su nuevo disco “Primitivo Astral”. Y Joan Valent, pianista y compositor de bandas sonoras para películas de Ha compuesto música para varias películas con directores como Álex de la Iglesia, Antonio Chavarrías, Alejandro González Iñárritu Agustí Villaronga, Sigfrid Monleón o el documental reciente producido por Michael Douglas y ha trabajo igualmente con Montserrat Caballé, Bunbury o Serrat; Valent ha sido galardonado con varios Premios de la Música, y nombrado su candidatura a los Goya, Globo de Oro, Premio Gaudí… siempre abordando diferentes lenguajes musicales desde la música clásica y la ópera al pop, flamenco o electrónica. DISCO 1 THE BOOM YEH  Near Earth ObjectsDISCO 2 JACKSON BROWNE Everywhere I LookDISCO 3 CÁPSULA PremoniciónDISCO 4 CÁPSULA Spelling LoveDISCO 5 CÁPSULA Rayo OscuroDISCO 6 JOAN VALENT Taksim WalkDISCO 7 JOAN VALENT RebirthDISCO 8 JOAN VALENT April 24Escuchar audio

We love to hear from you. Send us your thought, comments, suggestions, love lettersDr. Dora Föhring, planetary defense scientist at ESA, discusses Earth's cosmic shield against asteroids. From observing elusive space rocks to actively deflecting them, she shares insights on near-Earth objects, the groundbreaking DART mission, and the future of planetary protection.Key Topics:Challenges and importance of near-Earth asteroid detectionEarth's asteroid impact history and future risksThe DART mission: Humanity's first asteroid deflection testCurrent state and future of planetary defenseSearch for extraterrestrial life in our cosmic neighborhoodPersonal journey and adventures in astronomyTimestamps: 00:01:49 - Observing near-Earth asteroids: Challenges and techniques 05:22 - Importance of studying Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) 08:09 - Frequency and potential impact of asteroid collisions 10:21 - Asteroid sizes: From meter-sized to planet-killers 17:22 - Apophis: The asteroid making a close approach in 2029 19:42 - Getting an asteroid namesake: The naming process 22:30 - Inside the DART mission: Changing an asteroid's course 25:17 - Are we ready for regular asteroid deflection? 27:20 - The search for alien life: Where should we look? 29:08 - An astronomer's travelogue: La Palma, Hawaii, Italy 32:06 - From sci-fi to reality: Dr. Föhring's path to astronomy 35:24 - Would you go to space? Thoughts on cosmic travelNotable Quotes: "If you wait long enough, something's bound to hit you." - Dr. Dora Föhring on large asteroid impacts"I think there are crazy people, I'm crazy, there are people doing crazy things all the time. Just I guess the question would be like, what are you trying to achieve with that?" - Dr. Föhring on space travelEspresso for the Mind: Be a "yes person." Embrace new challenges and experiences, stepping out of your comfort zone in both personal and professional life. Dr. Föhring's journey from stargazing child to asteroid defender exemplifies the rewards of saying yes to the unknown.Guest's Song Choice for the Aspiring Astronaut's Playlist on Spotify: "Hell on Earth" by Iron MaidenFollow-up:Explore ESA's planetary defense initiatives: https://www.esa.int/Safety_Security/Planetary_DefenceWatch DART mission impact footage: https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/dartDive into the Near-Earth Object database: https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/Space Café Podcast Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/47P7oLrueWMvhYGxcerIw6?si=75b7feef7f144e23You can find us on Spotify and Apple Podcast!Please visit us at SpaceWatch.Global, subscribe to our newsletters. Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter!

I denne episode af RumSnak ser vi nærmere på såkaldte Near Earth Objects – nærjordsobjekter, eller bare NEO. Betegnelsen dækker over asteroider og kometer, der i løbet af deres baner kommer tæt på Jorden, eller i hvert fald inden for 1,3 astronomisk enheds afstand fra Solen – cirka 200 millioner kilometer. Udover alle de ting som objekterne kan fortælle os om Solsystemet udvikling og opbygning, så er det også objekter det kan være smart at holde øje med, netop fordi de er så tæt på og kan risikere at ramme Jorden. Vi har talt med professor Carrie Nugent, der til hverdag arbejder på Olin College of Engineering i Massachusetts, knap 30 kilometer vest for Boston – men som i foråret var gæsteforsker på Aalborg Universitet. Carrie arbejder altså med nærjordsobjekter, og hendes særlige fokus er at lave software, der kan hjælpe med at opdage og tracke de mange millioner objekter. I de korte nyheder følger vi op på Polaris Dawn og Starliner, og så skal vi også høre om tyngdebølger og penge til danske rumfirmaer… Lyt med

Dr. Jen and Dr. Shane host a celebration for the Day of Immunology with three distinguished guests. First, Lauren Howson from WEHI's Immunology Division delves into the roles of "unconventional" immune cells in human disease, aiming to guide new therapeutic strategies, particularly for inherited primary immunodeficiency (PID). Then, Dr. Alexander Davenport, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at WEHI, focuses on enhancing T cell killing of tumour cells, targeting novel protein targets for pediatric brain cancer immunotherapies, notably Diffuse Midline Glioma (DMG). Lastly, writer and poet Alicia Sometimes explores dark energy and gravitational waves through art installations and collaborations with scientists, culminating in her book "Stellar Atmospheres" which combines physics, science communication, and personal experiences like her battle with breast cancer.Program page: Einstein-A-Go-GoFacebook page: Einstein-A-Go-GoTwitter: Einstein-A-Go-Go

PREVIEW: #APOPHIS: Conversation with colleague Bob Zimmerman of BehindtheBlack.com re a rendezvous with Near Earth Object #Apophis (next near passage in 2029) -- this proposal, Bob explains, is for a private enterprise, a spacetug company, sometime the year prior in 2028.  Mention that Apophis closest passage next will be late 22nd Century.  More later. 1910 Halley's Comet

A Talk by Dr. Robert Jedicke (U of Hawaii)Oct. 11, 2023Near-Earth objects present both an existential threat to human civilization and an extraordinary opportunity to help our exploration and expansion across the solar system. Dr. Jedicke explains that the risk of a sudden, civilization-altering collision with an asteroid or comet has markedly diminished in recent decades -- due to diligent astronomical surveys -- but a significant level of danger persists. At the same time, remarkable strides have been made in advancing technologies that pave the way for a new vision of space exploration – one that involves missions and outposts within the inner solar system fueled by resources extracted from near-Earth asteroids. These objects contain exploitable extraterrestrial resources delivered free to the inner solar system, and they have been naturally preprocessed into objects the ideal size for industrial operations. Robert Jedicke obtained his Ph.D. in experimental particle physics from the University of Toronto and held post-doctoral positions at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and at the University of Arizona's Lunar & Planetary Laboratory. At the University of Hawai`i's Institute for Astronomy for the last 20 years, he managed the development of the Moving Object Processing System for the Pan-STARRS telescope on Maui.

On today's show, Andrew Bridgen will discuss with Lembit BBC's biased coverage of the parliamentary debate. Later, Jay will tell us his thoughts on the statement by the former leader of the UFO project at the UK's Ministry of Defence that it is 'outrageous' that ministers are not taking 'meaningful action' on UFOs. Are UFOs a real threat? GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Andrew Bridgen is a Member of Parliament for North West Leicestershire UK since 2010 and is very active in standing up against the COVID narrative. Initially elected in 2010 as a member of the Conservative Party. Andrew Bridgen is a member of the Reclaim Party. His website is www.andrewbridgen.com GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Jay Tate is Director of the Spaceguard Centre. The Spaceguard Centre is the National Near Earth Objects Information Centre (NNEOIC). It is the only organisation in the UK dedicated to addressing the hazard of Near Earth Objects.

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D.U.M.B.'s Deep Underground Military Bases and the Bible-- Yep we are linking the 2 together not only that but also Near Earth Objects, AI and more- We also get specific on the Antichrist and the Beast.

I'm continually amazed by the immensity of the world that a small poem can conjure. In just a few lines or words, or even just a line break, a poem can travel across time and space. It can jump from the minuscule to the incomprehensible vastness of the universe. And in these inventive leaps, it can create, in our minds, new ideas and images. It can help us see connections that were, before, invisible.John Shoptaw has conjured such magic with his poem, “Near-Earth Object,” combining the gravity of mass extinction on Earth with the quotidian evanescence of his sprint to catch the bus.John Shoptaw grew up in the Missouri Bootheel. He picked cotton; he was baptized in a drainage ditch; and he worked in a lumber mill. He now lives a long way from home in Berkeley, California, where I was lucky enough to visit him last summer. John is the author of the poetry collection, Times Beach, which won the Notre Dame Review Book Prize and the Northern California Book Award in poetry. He is also the author of On The Outside Looking Out, a critical study of John Ashbery's poetry. He teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.John has a new poetry collection coming out soon, also called Near-Earth Object.This episode of Chrysalis is part of the Chrysalis Poets series, which focuses on a single poems from poets who confront ecological issues in their work.You can listen on Substack, Apple Podcasts, and other podcast platforms.Please rate, review, and share to help us spread the word!John ShoptawJohn Shoptaw is a poet, poetry reader, teacher, and environmentalist. He was raised on the Missouri River bluffs of Omaha, Nebraska and in the Mississippi floodplain of “swampeast” Missouri. He began his education at Southeast Missouri State University and graduated from the University of Missouri at Columbia with BAs in Physics and later in Comparative Literature and English, earned a PhD in English at Harvard University, and taught for some years at Princeton and Yale.  He now lives, bikes, gardens, and writes in the Bay Area and teaches poetry and environmental poetry & poetics at UC Berkeley, where he is a member of the Environmental Arts & Humanities Initiative. Shoptaw's first poetry collection, Times Beach (Notre Dame Press, 2015), won the Notre Dame Review Book Prize and subsequently also the 2016 Northern California Book Award in Poetry; his new collection, Near-Earth Object, is forthcoming in March 2024 at Unbound Edition Press, with a foreword by Jenny Odell.Both collections embody what Shoptaw calls “a poetics of impurity,” tampering with inherited forms (haiku, masque, sestina, poulter's measure, the sonnet) while always bringing in the world beyond the poem. But where Times Beach was oriented toward the past (the 1811 New Madrid earthquake, the 1927 Mississippi River flood, the 1983 destruction of Times Beach), in Near-Earth Object Shoptaw focuses on contemporary experience: on what it means to live and write among other creatures in a world deranged by human-caused climate change. These questions are also at the center of his essays “Why Ecopoetry?” (published in 2016 at Poetry Magazine, where a number of his poems, including “Near-Earth Object,” have also appeared) and “The Poetry of Our Climate” (forthcoming at American Poetry Review).Shoptaw is also the author of a critical study, On the Outside Looking Out: John Ashbery's Poetry (Harvard University Press); a libretto on the Lincoln assassination for Eric Sawyer's opera Our American Cousin (recorded by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project); and several essays on poetry and poetics, including “Lyric Cryptography,” “Listening to Dickinson” and an essay, “A Globally Warmed Metamorphoses,” on his Ovidian sequence “Whoa!” (both forthcoming in Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Environmental Imagination at Bloomsbury Press in July 2023).“Near-Earth Object”Unlike the monarch, though the asteroid also slipped quietly from its colony on its annular migration between Jupiter and Mars, enticed maybe by our planetary pollen as the monarch by my neighbor's slender-leaved milkweed. Unlike it even when the fragrant Cretaceous atmosphere meteorized the airborne rock, flaring it into what might have looked to the horrid triceratops like a monarch ovipositing (had the butterfly begun before the period broke off). Not much like the monarch I met when I rushed out the door for the 79, though the sulfurous dust from the meteoric impact off the Yucatán took flight for all corners of the heavens much the way the next generation of monarchs took wing from the milkweed for their annual migration to the west of the Yucatán, and their unburdened mother took her final flit up my flagstone walkway, froze and, hurtling downward, impacted my stunned peninsular left foot. Less like the monarch for all this, the globe-clogging asteroid, than like me, one of my kind, bolting for the bus.Recommended Readings & MediaJohn Shoptaw reading from his collection Times Beach at the University of California, Berkeley.TranscriptionIntroJohn FiegeI'm continually amazed by the immensity of the world that a small poem can conjure. In just a few lines or words, or even just a line break, a poem can travel across time and space. It can jump from the minuscule to the incomprehensible vastness of the universe. And in these inventive leaps, it can create, in our minds, new ideas and images. It can help us see connections that were, before, invisible.John Shoptaw has conjured such magic with his poem, “Near-Earth Object,” combining the gravity of mass extinction on Earth with the quotidian evanescence of his sprint to catch the bus.I'm John Fiege, and this episode of Chrysalis is part of the Chrysalis Poets series.John Shoptaw grew up in the Missouri Bootheel. He picked cotton; he was baptized in a drainage ditch; and he worked in a lumber mill. He now lives a long way from home in Berkeley, California, where I was lucky enough to visit him last summer. You can see some of my photos from that visit at ChrysalisPodcast.org, alongside the poem we discuss on this episode.John is the author of the poetry collection, Times Beach, which won the Notre Dame Review Book Prize and the Northern California Book Award in poetry. He is also the author of On The Outside Looking Out, a critical study of John Ashbery's poetry. He teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.John has a new poetry collection coming out soon, also called Near-Earth Object.Here is John Shoptaw reading his poem, “Near-Earth Object.”---PoemJohn Shoptaw “Near-Earth Object”Unlike the monarch, thoughthe asteroid also slippedquietly from its colonyon its annular migrationbetween Jupiter and Mars,enticed maybe byour planetary pollenas the monarch by my neighbor'sslender-leaved milkweed.Unlike it even whenthe fragrant Cretaceousatmosphere meteorizedthe airborne rock,flaring it into what mighthave looked to the horridtriceratops like a monarchovipositing (had the butterflybegun before the periodbroke off). Not much likethe monarch I met when Irushed out the door for the 79,though the sulfurous dustfrom the meteoric impactoff the Yucatán took flightfor all corners of the heavensmuch the way the nextgeneration of monarchstook wing from the milkweedfor their annual migrationto the west of the Yucatán,and their unburdened mothertook her final flitup my flagstone walkway,froze and, hurtlingdownward, impactedmy stunned peninsularleft foot. Less likethe monarch for all this,the globe-clogging asteroid,than like me, one of my kind,bolting for the bus.---ConversationJohn Fiege Thank you so much. Well, let's start by talking about this fragrant Cretaceous atmosphere that metorizes the airborne rock, which is is really the most beautiful way I've ever heard of describing the moment when a massive asteroid became a meteor, and impacted the earth 66 million years ago, on the Yucatan Peninsula. And that led to the extinction of about 75% of all species on Earth, including all the dinosaurs. This, of course, is known as the fifth mass extinction event on earth now, now we're in the sixth mass extinction. But but this time, the difference is that the asteroid is us. And, and we're causing species extinctions at even a much faster rate than the asteroid impact did, including the devastation of the monarch butterfly, which migrates between the US and Mexico not far from the Yucatan where the asteroid hit. And in your poem, these analogies metaphors parallels, they all bounce off one another. parallels between extinction events between humans and asteroids between planets and pollen, between monarch eggs and meteors between the one I absolutely love is the annular migration of asteroids in the annual migration of monarchs. But in some ways, the poem puts forward an anti analogy a refutation of these parallels you know, you say multiple times things like unlike the, monarch unlike it, not much like the monarch less like the monarch. So So what's going what's going on here? You're you're giving us these analogies and then and then you're taking them away.John Shoptaw The ending of Near Earth Object is a culmination of fanciful comparisons. In this regard it resembles Shakespeare's Sonnet 130. And you probably know this, John, And that poem proceeds—Shakespeare's—through a series of negative similarities, which I call dis-similes. And at the end, the poem turns on a dime in the final couplet, which is, “and yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare.” Now, I didn't have Shakespeare's poem in mind—probably good—when I wrote Near Earth Object, but I was certainly familiar with it. And my poem goes through a series of far-fetched similarities between a monarch butterfly and the Chicxulub asteroid, we follow the lifecycles of these two and then a third character, the first person I enters the poem comes out the door, and then gets, you know, hit by the asteroid monarch on penisular left foot. That turn at the end, to comparing the asteroid to me, one of my kind, would seem equally farfetched. What can I have to do with the globe-clogging asteroid? Before climate change, the answer would have been nothing. This poem couldn't have been understood, wouldn't have made sense. Now, we're caught out by the unlikely similarity that, you know, humankind has the geologically destructive potential of the life-altering asteroid.John Fiege I love that the idea of that turn partially because it's so much pulls out the power of poetry, and the power of poetic thinking, where, you know, so much environmental discourse is around rationality, of making rational, reasonable arguments about this is how things are, this is how things ought to be. But when you have this kind of turn, you're you're kind of highlighting the complexity, and the complicated nature of understanding these things, which are really complex. And it really, you know, in such a short poem, you can encapsulate so much of that complexity, which I think benefits our ultimate understanding of, of what we're grappling with, with these environmental questions.John Shoptaw Yeah, that's very well put. I think that this poem is a kind of psychological poem as well, and that I'm playing on the readers expectations. And I think the reader probably has less and less faith in this persona, who keeps keeps being lured into these weird comparisons between the asteroid and and the and the monarch butterfly. And then at the end, we're thinking, well, this, too, is absurd. And then we're caught up, like I say, and that's the psychological turn, you know, early on, when people and people still many people doubt. The existence of climate change. It's just  because of a matter of scale. How can we affect Mother Nature, right? It's so big, it's so overwhelming. It does what it wants. We're just little features on this big, big planet. So that it's so counterintuitive. So that's why yes, we grapple and this poem is meant to take you through that kind of experience. That without saying that explicitly, and I think that's something that, yeah, it sets this apart from both the psychological essay and an environmental essay,John Fiege Right the other line I want to pull out of this is slender leaved milkweed. Which I love. and there is a musicality to it. How do you about that? sonorous aspect of the poem and the musicality and the rhythm of it.John Shoptaw Yeah, Thank you for that question. Its one of the ways I beleive that poetry is like music. We do have a musicality and one of the wonderful things about poetry and music is that it it works below the level of meaning. A way a song often does. You know you often will before you even know all the words will get the song. And understand what the song is comunicating and sometimes I am communicating delicacy in slender leaved milkweed. Not only by the image, but by the sound. Its a quiet line. Whereas when I say airborne rock, that's very tight. And very definitive, like globe clogging asteroid or bolting for the bus. These are dynamics that I can play with, and I can accentuate them by changing the rhythms making to very hard plosive as an explosion, you know, b sounds far from each other. And this is something that poetry can do, that prose can't. So well. And that, you know, it's one reason why you have soundtracks and film to help bring things across.John Fiege Yeah, and then in the midst of, of some of these grand images that you have in the poem of like monarch colonies and asteroid colonies, there's also your presence, and the glimpse of them of what seems like a moment in your life, potentially, you run out the door and catch the 79 bus, which goes through Berkeley where you live. And and you encounter a monarch butterfly, which also has a California migration route. The monarch impacts your, as you say, stunned, peninsular left foot. And so now you're shifting the metaphor from human as asteroid to human as Yucatan peninsula, which is the site the site of the impact. And the way you you play with scale. In this poem, I find quite remarkable moving from the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars to your foot. And in your peninsular foot makes me feel as if humans are both the perpetrators of the sixth mass extinction, but also one of its victims. And so I was curious, was this moment with the butterfly is something that actually happened? And how do you understand it? In relation to that, you know, this small moment with the butterfly? How do you understand that in relation with the broader context of the poem?John Shoptaw Yeah, thank you. I, I think, one way I proceed. And in poetry, which is something like chance operations that John Cage and poets following John Cage would use as I become very receptive to things happening around me. And if something happens around me while I'm writing a poem, then it gets to come in the poem, at least I am receptive to that possibility. And as I was going for the bus one day, on the walkway, I came across a dead monarch butterfly was very startled to see it. And I thought, Oh, my God, that pet needs to be in the poem, this butterfly has fallen out of the sky like the asteroid. And so and it turned out that the third thing I needed to link our personal, small felt scale with the astronomical and the geological timescale. And it's exactly the problem of scale, both in space and time. I'm constantly zooming in and zooming out. I actually wrote one poem in which I compare this surreal or unreal feeling that we have, if not a knowledge but a feeling of climate change behind the weather as a hit the Hitchcock zoom, where the background suddenly comes into the foreground, right?John Fiege Yeah, and it seems like, you know, the problem of climate change is a problem of scale like, like it's so it's so foreign to our kind of everyday human senses of, of what is danger, and what is something we should be concerned about or care about it. And that problem of scale both, both spatially and temporally. It really prevents us from wrapping our heads around what it means and how to respond.John Shoptaw It does. That's our challenge. I take it as my challenge, for the kind of poetry I write. And I think of of poetry as a science of feelings. And one of the feelings I'm thinking about and trying to understand and work through is denial. You know, people usually think of denial as refusal, you refuse to admit, but look at the facts just face the facts. But as you say, climate is on such a different scale. It's often a problem of incomprehension.John Fiege Yeah, and I think this idea of denialism I mean, we tend to talk about it in very narrow terms of, you know, people of particular political persuasions deny the existence of climate change. And that's one like, very narrow view of denialism. But it really pervades everything in our culture, you know, anyone who eats a hamburger, or flies on a plane, or, or even turns on their, their heat in their house, you know, is is in is kind of implicated in some system of denial. That, you know, ultimately, our societies completely unsustainable. And we have to function we have to move forward, even though even if we know how problematic those various things are. And so just living in the world requires, you know, some sense of denialism.John Shoptaw It does, if you think of the word we commonly used today, adaptation, though, it's really another word for denial. If you see what I mean, we're, we're moving into accepting, partially accepting the reality as it is, so we can live into it. And again, if we think of relativity, flying less, not giving up flying, emitting less, not stopping all the way emissions on a dime, right, but moving as fast as we possibly can, these are things we can do and without being incapacitated by despair. And again, I think, you know, hope and despair are two other very fundamental concepts that poets if they're serious about feeling, can think about and think through and help people we understand.John Fiege Yeah, and I love this idea of impurity that you bring in. Not just with poetry, but, you know, I feel like environmentalism in general is, it's really susceptible to this kind of ideology of purity. And it becomes about, you know, checking all the boxes of, of, you know, lifestyle and beliefs and votes and all kinds of things where solutions, solutions don't come with some kind of attainment of purity. They come with it a shift of a huge section of the way the culture works. And that's never going to be perfect or consistent or anything. It's going to be imperfect, and it's going to be partial, but it can still move.John Shoptaw That's right. So when people say net zero, carbon offsets, recycling, this is all greenwashing. I say, listen to the word all. Yes, there is some greenwashing going on there. There is some self promotion and maintenance of one's corporate profile at work. But there's also good being done. You can recycle aluminum, and you get 90% aluminum back. You can recycle plastic, you get 50% back, but you still get 50% back.John Fiege Well, in the poem, you also give life to what we ordinarily see as inanimate objects. So let me let me reread a section of the poem enticed maybe by our planetary pollen as the monarch by my neighbor's slender leaves milkweed unlike it, even when the fragrant Cretaceous atmosphere media rised the airborne rock, flaring it into what might have looked to the horrid Triceratops like a monarch ovipositing. So in your words, the lifeless, inanimate asteroid is given life and a soul really? Why take it in that direction?John Shoptaw To make it real, to make it real for us. And you will see poets, giving a voice to storms to extreme weather events, seeing things from potentially destructive point of view. And that's what I was doing here is seeing things fancifully from the the meteor's point of view, but I wanted to give that personification to make the link that this is personal. What's happening at this scale, is still personal, it still has to do with us and links with us.John Fiege Yeah, and you wrote this great piece for Poetry Magazine called “Why Eco Poetry” and you bring up these these topics a bunch. And there's one line. I really love, you say, to empathize beyond humankind, eco-poets  must be ready to commit the pathetic fallacy and to be charged with anthropomorphism could could you explain this, this concept of John Ruskin's pathetic fallacy and how you've seen these issues play out?John Shoptaw I think Ruskin had certainly the good sense of what the natural world was. And many artists and poets laziness, when it came to the describing the natural world. storms were always raging, winds were always howling, the words were always that's really what he was getting at. And I appreciate that. You want to make these things real, right. But there is there is a place for pathetic fallacy. But on the other hand, strategically, we often need for that monologue of the lyric poem, to be overtaken by this larger voice, almost like a parental voice from on high, speaking to us and saying, Listen to me, this is real. This is happening. I'm out here. Right? So you've forced me to take over your poem and talk to you about anthropomorphism is, is related phenomenon. And it's it's a word that I, I still find useful and making us really consider and experience the outside world, the world, particularly of other creatures, as they actually are. However, it's a belief it's not a scientific idea. And the idea being that we are ascribing qualities or human qualities to animals or plants, or even inanimate objects, like like meteors. When in fact, when it comes to animals, for instance, we're often identifying qualities behaviors, actions, motivations, we share anyone who owns pets knows pet they have a range of feelings that to say, my dog is happy. My dog is bored. My dog is feeling bad because it feels it's disappointed me in some way, you know, these things are real. And you need to act accordingly to keep things going along. In the canine / human cup, you know, partnership that you have going there.John Fiege Yeah, Descartes must not have had any dogs or cats or ever encountered another animal besides a human in his life.John Shoptaw That's right. It's partly, you know, one feels, how can we know that other world? We shouldn't be so arrogant in our knowledge. And so it seems like we're being modest, and it's a good thing. And we have this anthropological attitude toward the relativity of, you know, consciousness. On the other hand, it's a form of denial, right? anthropomorphism is a form of denial of what we share and poets need to overcome that denial.John Fiege You mean, you mean anti-human anti-anthropomorphism?John Shoptaw Yeah, it's what I know. We don't have the language for it. We don't have that word of the problem.John Fiege Anti-anthropomorphism, it just slips right off your tongue.John Shoptaw That's right.John Fiege Well this point you make about anthropomorphism reminds me really strongly of a story. I've heard Jane Goodall tell many times, she was hired to observe chimpanzees in the wild, and she gave them names. But she was reprimanded by by many in the scientific community, who said, a researcher should use numbers to identify chimps or any other animals they're studying, because scientists must be dispassionate to not confuse animal behavior with human behavior. And she identifies one of her most significant contributions to science as recognizing the individuality and personality and really the souls of non human animals. And that recognition fundamentally changed. Our scientific understanding of chimps and other animals in allow these massive breakthroughs in the field. And you seem to be arguing that with poetry, we're in a similar place in relation to the Earth where we need to find a new language that allows us to empathize more profoundly with the other than human residence of the planet. Does that sound? Does that sound right to you?John Shoptaw Very much, and really, with thinking and realizing that I'm an animal, as a human being. brought on a conceptual paradigm shift for me, unlike anything I've experienced, in my adult life, everything changed. And when I think, what are the animals think about this? How are they dealing with climate change? Etc. It's always revelatory for me to ask that kind of question. I'm looking at a book by Jane Goodall right now on my shelf called the Book of Hope. And something I've been thinking about a lot in relation to this, because animals have not given up and they don't give up until they they have to. An animal with say, a song bird in the clutch of a hawk knows it's over, and you shut down in order to minimize the pain and suffering. They know that, but they know not to do that prematurely. And I think, you know, often we met we think of hope and despair, as antonyms, but they're very intertwined with each other. I mean, the word despair, contains hope. It means that the loss of hope and there as there is a sense of false hope, where you, you keep hoping beyond the point of hope, where reality tells you there's no point in hoping there's also what I would call a premature despair. I don't know if you have run across the Stockdale paradox. I find it helpful. There's a writer on Jim Collins, who talked to Admiral Stockdale who was taken prisoner of war in Vietnam. And he, he survived through seven years and several incidents of torture. And he said, he was asked by Jim Collins, well, who didn't survive? And he said, well, the optimists who said the optimists were saying, Oh, we're going to because we're gonna be led out by Christmas. In the winter that didn't happen and say, Oh, well, we'll be released by Easter. When that doesn't happen and Christmas comes around again. They die. They die of a broken heart.John Fiege Oh, wow. I have heard that in broad terms. I don't remember that story, though. That's great.John Shoptaw Yeah, and the paradox is that you have hope, which is resolute. It's not pie in the sky hope, but it's hope that faces reality. And it's hoped that is more like courage. It's more like resoluteness hope. Hope is not easy. And it does not deny despair, and even allows you to relax for a moment and maybe weep. Maybe you say, Oh, my God, it's over. Before you come back and say, No, I'm still here. I can still help I can do what I can.John Fiege Right, right. Yeah, and I love how you say that. Eco poetry can be anthropomorphic, but it cannot be anthropocentric, which which flips both of these assumptions that are so deeply embedded in our culture.John Shoptaw Now, maybe I could say something about anthropocentrism.John Fiege Yeah, for sure.John Shoptaw It's a word that, I think is maybe in the dictionary now, but maybe not so familiar word, but you know, thinking of everything in the world, a revolving around us and and the universe. We're the universe's reason for being right. That would be the kind of the strongest sense of anthropocentrismJohn Fiege Another another form of heliocentrism.John Shoptaw Yes, that's right. That's absolutely right. That's why I one reason why I, at the beginning of Near Earth Objects, see things for the asteroids point of view, right? To give that kind of scale, but also shifting perspective. On the other hand, lyric poetry is inevitably anthropocentric. We as humans are inevitably anthropocentric. So our moving out of anthropocentrism in poetry is always going to be relative and strategic, and rhetorical and persuasive, never absolute.John Fiege Right and totally. Well, another interesting issue you confront in the article is didacticism and the risks of moralism in eco-poetry. And in talking about this, you evoke two poets. The first is Archibald MacLeish, the renowned modernist poet who wrote "a poem should not mean but be." But then you write, poetics wasn't always this way, for Horace, a poem both pleases and instructs. And I feel like this issue of moralism, and didacticism goes way beyond poetry to encompass environmentalism more broadly. How can a poem please instruct without preaching and being didactic?John Shoptaw Yes, that's, that's a question. Where there's no single answer every poem, for me poses the question differently. And part of the excitement part of the experimental nature of poems is you find a new answer every time to that problem, how not to be preachy, but to leave readers in a different place at the end of the poem, than they were at the beginning. my poem to move people from unlike to less like., if I if I can get them there, in a poem, I have moved him in a way and that's enough for me.John Fiege Well, let's look at the end of the poem. You write less like the monarch for all this, the globe clogging asteroid than like me, one of my kind bolting for the bus? It seems in some ways that you might be settling on an analogy in the midst of of all these intersecting parallels, the asteroid is less like the monarch and more like us, us who have killed the monarchs. Where Where do you feel like the poem lands in terms of making a statement like this and and offering up many conflicting ideas that readers have to contemplate themselves?John Shoptaw What would I say? I think when it comes to guilt or responsibility, as I was saying before, we don't want to think in absolute terms, where I'm as guilty as Exxon, I am not. But I still am right. I am still part of this, this world. That monarch butterfly died naturally after it planted its eggs. Its its, its days, her days were numbered. So, that that is part of this. But yet, I do. I do want to say and this is part of, I think, part of the one of the gestures of poetry in the Anthropocene, the era of climate change, a gesture of saying, I take responsibility, I take responsibility. And this is, this is one of the problems of saying, I give up, you know, there's no point in doing any more. We don't have that option. It's irresponsible to give up to ever give up. So I still, though want to say, even something who that has global potential for damage is connected with me good little me, had taking taking the bus because I'm wondering, I'm one of humankind, and we have this destructive potential. And on the other hand, we have this corresponding responsibility.John Fiege Yeah. And looking back on the title of the poem, it feels as if we, as humans, have what you might call like, a dual contradictory existence? As, as both we're both Earth objects. And we're near Earth objects. Oh, what do you what do you think about that?John Shoptaw Yes, I do. I like that ambiguity. I think, one of the, one of the chances, and the happy accidents of the monarch appearing in my poem, as I was writing it, without planning to have a monarch in it, one of the accidents was to take the monarch also, as a Near Earth Object Near Earth Object is one of these scientific concepts of usually a very large object, like a, like a comet, or an asteroid entering the Earth's gravitational pull. With potentially hazardous effects. But, you know, it can be anything near the earth. And if you take object, also in the title as a goal, my object is to bring us near the earth. not have us simply abstract ourselves, how do we do that - we abstract ourselves by saying, we're special.John Fiege I really like that too, because that also ties into this question of scale. You know, you can be near the earth by being, you know, 1000 miles away. Or you can be near the earth by hovering, you know, centimeters over it. And it can be conceptual to, you can be oblivious to the fact that you live on Earth, or you can be extremely aware that you are of in within and near the earth at all times. Yeah, I really like that. That's beautiful. I love how so many meanings come from this tiny little poem?John Shoptaw Well, may I say I was not in a godlike position with this poem. For me. poems are like gardens and that they're less intended and tended, and they they grow of their own and I just tried to be the best collaborator with the poem that I can and not to ignore when it's trying to tell me something like, I need a monarch in here. Not to ignore that.John Fiege Yeah. Well, can you end by reading the poem once again. I can thank you very much.John Shoptaw Poem“Near-Earth Object”Unlike the monarch, thoughthe asteroid also slippedquietly from its colonyon its annular migrationbetween Jupiter and Mars,enticed maybe byour planetary pollenas the monarch by my neighbor'sslender-leaved milkweed.Unlike it even whenthe fragrant Cretaceousatmosphere meteorizedthe airborne rock,flaring it into what mighthave looked to the horridtriceratops like a monarchovipositing (had the butterflybegun before the periodbroke off). Not much likethe monarch I met when Irushed out the door for the 79,though the sulfurous dustfrom the meteoric impactoff the Yucatán took flightfor all corners of the heavensmuch the way the nextgeneration of monarchstook wing from the milkweedfor their annual migrationto the west of the Yucatán,and their unburdened mothertook her final flitup my flagstone walkway,froze and, hurtlingdownward, impactedmy stunned peninsularleft foot. Less likethe monarch for all this,the globe-clogging asteroid,than like me, one of my kind,bolting for the bus.ConversationJohn Fiege John, thank you so much for joining me today. This has been fabulous.John Shoptaw Thank you, John, for the opportunity. And I love conversing with you.---OutroJohn Fiege Thank you so much to John Shoptaw. Go to our website at ChrysalisPodcast.org, where you can read his poem “Near-Earth Object” and also see some of my photographs of him at his house in Berkeley and find our book and media recommendations.This episode was researched by Elena Cebulash and Brodie Mutschler and edited by Brodie Mutschler and Sofia Chang. Music is by Daniel Rodriguez Vivas. Mixing is by Sarah Westrich.If you enjoyed my conversation with John, please rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform. Contact me anytime at ChrysalisPodcast.org, where you can also support the project, subscribe to our newsletter, and join the conversation. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.chrysalispodcast.org

Astronomically speaking, there are a number of ways in which life on Earth could be wiped out. For example, a giant asteroid could hit Earth with such energy that the oceans are boiled off.This lecture will assess which astronomical events are likely and which are not. [It will not consider anthropogenic means by which life on Earth might end].A lecture by Katherine Blundell OBE recorded on 29 March 2023 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London.The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/end-lifeGresham College has offered free public lectures for over 400 years, thanks to the generosity of our supporters. There are currently over 2,500 lectures free to access. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds. To support Gresham's mission, please consider making a donation: https://gresham.ac.uk/support/Website:  https://gresham.ac.ukTwitter:  https://twitter.com/greshamcollegeFacebook: https://facebook.com/greshamcollegeInstagram: https://instagram.com/greshamcollegeSupport the show

More NEOs, or Near Earth Objects. An asteroid passed by at 175,000 kms. A close shave! What can we do about these threatening lumps of rock?

En este noveno programa de "Obsesión por el Cielo: Punto Focal" platicamos sobre los asteroides. En particular nos enfocamos a comentar sobre los asteroides que pasan cerca de la Tierra, los llamados NEOs por sus siglas en inglés (Near-Earth Objects), y la subclasificación de los asteroides PHA (Potentially Hazardous Asteroids), o asteroides potencialmente peligrosos porque en ocasiones pueden pasar extremadamente cerca de nuestro planeta. Estos últimos pueden llegar a tener alguna probabilidad de impactar con la Tierra y por lo tanto es importante el monitorear sus órbitas y caracterizarlos lo mejor posible para poder desarrollar estrategias que mitiguen el peligro de impacto. En el programa cubrimos algunos temas como la clasificación de estos objetos por sus órbits, algunos ejemplos relevantes de asteroides NEOs, las escalas de Torino y Palermo que miden el peligro potencial de impacto, las estadísticas que nos sugieren la cantidad de asteroides NEOs existentes en el Sistema Solar según su tamaño, los programas de detección de estos objetos, las misiones espaciales que han visitado asteroides NEO para caracterizar mejor su composición y estructura, etc. 

It's just a matter of time before it happens. Some catastrophic event that wipes out a large percentage of the Earth's population; and forces the human race to "reset". Maybe one of the 30,000 "Near Earth Objects" being tracked by NASA finally hit the Earth. Causing an extinction event on par with what wiped out the dinosaurs. Or Earth's poles finally shift. And, without its magnetic field, the planet is exposed to the raw destructive power of the Sun's radiation. Or maybe, on his deathbed, a dictator decides to go out in a blaze of glory; and launches his entire nuclear arsenal. It's just a matter of time before one of these, or one of another dozen doomsday scenarios plays out. And when that happens, world leaders like the President of the United States and Vice President will be immediately taken to underground facilities designed for this event. Key members of Congress and the military will also be taken to secure locations. But what about civilians? There ARE facilities around the world designed to house many thousands of people. But who gets saved while the rest of us are left behind? Who makes that decision? And where are these facilities? Well, I don't know where VIPs go if they live in Europe or Asia, or Australia. But in the United States, these chosen few? They go to Denver. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thewhyfiles/support

The story of nord stream has been nothing short of sensational, truly sensationalised and wholly biased. Seismologists? reported 2 “blasts” that to them looked like sabotage, no mention of the potential source of the “blast” wave and no information that led them to believe it was induced by humans. There is also a distinct lack of information nor acknowledgment that zero fuel had been delivered via the pipeline since 3rd sept [nord-stream.info], the gas that is venting is presumed methane? to maintain pressure and such? Russia closed the pipeline for what they call maintenance in july and august, perhaps a geological issue was observed in the location of the pipes? hence the entire line was closed. I mention as the 2 earthquakes mentioned by danish seismologists have not been recorded, yet based on recent seismic activity an earthquake in that region would be in line. Eastern Turkey has seen a significant increase in activity as has Iceland, substantial earthquakes measured in the last 2 weeks in Chile, Mexico and Indonesia registering in the region of 6 - 7.5 magnitude. An earthquake occurred 70km off Sweden close to the region in which the pipeline runs, so seismologists in that region should really share their data. I also took a look at DART, the NASA mission from 17 odd years ago that ended but was then resurrected in the public mind on Sep 26th. In fact, the autonomous “space craft system” and the asteroid impact were previously DART and Deep Impact, both resurrected under the DART moniker so it was at least the 2nd time a craft was purposely slammed into a body to determine effect. To me, it seemed like a poor distraction, as a planetary defence system it takes years to launch and years to analyse the impact. Consider, 6x Near Earth Objects are making a close approach today alone [Sept 28th] and they had only been discovered in 2022, some as recent as August. As a method of defence it is completely unrealistic, requiring years to plan, execute and analyse.

Welcome to episode 36 of the Thicc Bois podcast.(0:00) - Intro(0:29) - Dragon Ball(15:35) - Space talk(18:59) - Black holes and space time(22:03) - Near Earth Objects(26:15) - Younger Dryas impact theory(30:28) - Ancient Religion(36:25) - Lucid Dreaming(45:05) - Human reproduction selection (1:02:57) - Raising a kid(1:07:30) - Super Cringe Thursday(1:17:00) - Kidz Bop(1:20:41) - First thing we did when we got our drivers licenses(1:21:46) - Resurgence of rock(1:34:32) - People that are the best at what they do(1:44:17) - OutroHere is the YouTube video of the guitar player that we spoke about in the episode:https://youtu.be/9_gkpYORQLUThank you so much for the continued support! If you enjoy the podcast please leave a like, rating and subscribe on your favorite platform. If you want to connect with us you can follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ThiccBoisPodcast, on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TBPocast or email us at thiccboipodcast@gmail.comAdditionally, if you would like us to send you a pair of stickers connect with us at our Facebook account or email us!

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #NASA; The surprises of the Near Earth Object Asteroid Bennu. Harold Connolly, Mission Sample Scientist, NASA. David Livingston Spaceshow.com  https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm1018

Astronomia Semplice è un programma per neofiti, curiosi e principianti, per chi alza lo sguardo verso il cielo e vuole saperne di più

On this Science Edition, Rick Pantaleo talks about the work of NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office with Dr. Thomas Statler and NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission with Drs. Nancy Chabot and Andrew Rivkin from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

In this episode, Senior Fellow in Defense Studies Peter Garretson interviews Jean-Jacques Tortora, Director of the European Space Policy Institute in Vienna. They talk about European space policy, the organization and roles of the European Space Agency (ESA), European Commission (EC), NATO, and member states. They discuss changes in how Europe is thinking about the security dimension of space. They also cover European perspectives on natural and man-made threats (Near Earth Objects, Solar Flares, Debris, Congested Traffic, ASATs), and a vision for global governance in space. They discuss the Russian ASAT test, change in NATO posture, French Defense Space Strategy, China & Russia's International Lunar Research Station, the Artemis program, Artemis Accords, a vision for space commerce, and opportunities for U.S.-European space cooperation. Jean-Jacques: https://www.iafastro.org/biographie/jean-jacques-tortora.html https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-jacques-tortora-3b32645a/ ESA: https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Corporate_news/ESA_facts#:~:text=Us%20%2F%20Corporate%20news-,The%20European%20Space%20Agency%20(ESA)%20is%20Europe's%20gateway%20to%20space,organisation%20with%2022%20Member%20States. EU Space Policy Web Page: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-space-programme/ European Space Strategy: https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Business_with_ESA/ESA_and_the_European_Union_adopt_a_common_strategy_for_space https://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/eu-space-strategy-2021 https://espi.or.at/publications/espi-public-reports/send/2-public-espi-reports/549-european-space-strategy-in-a-global-context-executive-summary NATO: Space as an Operational Domain https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_175419.htm NATO's Overarching Space Policy :"Such attacks could lead to the invocation of Article 5. A decision as to when such attacks would lead to the invocation of Article 5 would be taken by the North Atlantic Council on a case-by-case basis"https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_190862.htm French Defense Space Strategy: https://www.defense.gouv.fr/english/layout/set/print/content/download/574375/9839912/version/5/file/Space+Defence+Strategy+2019_France.pdf UK Proposal: https://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/C.1/75/L.45/Rev.1 https://www.orfonline.org/research/assessing-the-british-proposal-on-space-security/

NASA says there are some 28,000 comets and asteroids in our planet's neighborhood, with more being discovered every day. Fortunately, the space agency also says the probability of a major collision is quite small. Dr. Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, joins Rick Pantaleo on the Science Edition of Press Conference USA to talk about asteroids and other near-Earth objects.

A new telescope is being commissioned in Sutherland, which is part of the ATLAS project. This is a worldwide survey looking out for Near Earth Objects, or asteroids, which could threaten Earth. A recent move, Don't Look Up, treats this subject with dark humour.

A new telescope is being commissioned in Sutherland, which is part of the ATLAS project. This is a worldwide survey looking out for Near Earth Objects, or asteroids, which could threaten Earth. A recent move, Don't Look Up, treats this subject with dark humour.

In questa prima puntata del 202(0)2 Silvia e Marco parlano dei desideri che gli ascoltatori hanno per l'anno nuovo, del James Webb Telescope e Romina parla di persone con multipotenziali.Puntata 389, numero primo e prima dell'anno, con Silvia Kuna e Marco.Silvia Kuna ci presenta una selezione delle aspettative del pubblico per l'anno 2022: tra queste, facciamo due chiacchiere su patriarcato nella scienza, sui Near Earth Objects, sulla prospettiva di cure per il Covid e sulla questione della fiducia nella scienza.Nell'intervento esterno sconfiniamo un po' parlando di psicologia. Romina, infatti, intervista Carla Pantaleone, una psicoterapeuta che ci parla dei multipotenziali, cioè quelle persone che non capiranno mai cosa fare da grandi, oltre che dell'importanza di ascoltarsi e conoscere le proprie attitudini.Chiudiamo con una chiacchierata sul James Webb telescope e di come potrebbe cambiare le nostre conoscenze sull'universo.

Un astéroide surnommé 1998 OR2 s'est approché à 6 millions de kms de notre planète, incitant les scientifiques à le qualifier d'objet proche de la Terre.Traduction:An asteroid dubbed 1998 OR2 came within 6 million kms of our planet, prompting scientists to qualify it as a near-Earth object.

Today we are joined by Dr. Vishnu Reddy. Dr. Reddy is an Associate Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona. Prior to serving as faculty, Vishnu was a research scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson. He is a co-investigator of NASA's Near Earth Camera Mission to discover 90% of Near Earth Objects larger than 140M. In addition to his work with NASA, Vishnu is part of the space- situational awareness program at UArizona where he has developed a network of small optical sensors to characterize orbital debris and active resident space objects for the US Air Force Research Laboratory. Dr. Reddy’s research focuses on understanding the behavior of space  objects (both natural and artificial) using a range of Earth and space-based assets.   In this episode, Dr. Reddy shares his amazing and unorthodox journey of becoming a planetary scientist. We discuss in-depth the threats that near earth objects like asteroids and comets pose to our society, and revisit catastrophic and regional impact events from the past. Dr. Reddy discusses his current research and the changes in congressional support for asteroid research in more recent years. Vishnu's passion for planetary science and teaching is palpable, and I hope you enjoy this episode.

Most writers say they want to eventually adapt their books for the screen. Well here is your chance to ask questions about formatting, technique, and the business of Hollywood on Write2Live! Writer-director Brooks Elms has written over 20 scripts, recently selling a sci-fi thriller called Near Earth Object to Adam Goodman's Dichotomy Creative Group. As a director, Brooks is packaging a film called Montauk Highway, an urgent coming-of-age love story set in the Hamptons against the tensions between the locals and the summer crowd. East Hampton is Brooks' hometown.

Space is mostly, well, space. What are the chances the beautiful blue planet Starwhale has just discovered--with all of its life--might be in the path of a giant asteroid? Slim. But possible. And when he spots an asteroid headed toward it he does what he can to save the planet. There are some sad parts to this story but a happy outcome in the end.  Themes: Asteroids, Near-Earth Objects, Craters, Dino Extinction Listen & Subscribe Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify iHeart Radio Stitcher Anywhere

Lørdag 5. desember 2020 landet en romkapsel, med prøver fra asteroiden Ryugu, i Australia. Det er en passende anledning til å snakke om asteroider og hvordan vi utforsker dem med romsonder. Det handler om Hayabusa 1 og 2 fra Japan, om NASAs Dawn og Osiris-ReX og ikke minst om NEOs. Near Earth Objects er asteroider som en dag kan treffe Jorda, og som NASA og ESA nå skal lage et forsvar mot!

Why shear a sheep in winter when it's cold? And can animals count? Why do geese and turkeys chase people? Also, how does coronavirus infection alter our sense of smell and taste? How do artificial sweeteners work? And when it comes to survival of the fittest, what constitutes "the fittest"? What brings asteroids onto a collision course with the Earth? Dr Chris joins Kieno Kammies to answer this week's crop of farmyard-inspired - and other - questions... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Why shear a sheep in winter when it's cold? And can animals count? Why do geese and turkeys chase people? Also, how does coronavirus infection alter our sense of smell and taste? How do artificial sweeteners work? And when it comes to survival of the fittest, what constitutes "the fittest"? What brings asteroids onto a collision course with the Earth? Dr Chris joins Kieno Kammies to answer this week's crop of farmyard-inspired - and other - questions... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Grazie a immagini ad altissima risoluzione e a modelli digitali, un gruppo di ricercatori è riuscito a studiare nel dettaglio alcuni massi presenti sulla superficie dell'asteroide Bennu, stimandone la resistenza agli impatti, ovvero la "quantità di energia che un materiale può sopportare a seguito dell'applicazione di una forza improvvisa e quasi istantanea prima di subire una frattura". Lo studio è stato pubblicato sulla rivista Nature e le immagini e i dati sono stati raccolti dalla strumentazione a bordo della sonda OSIRIS-REx.Capire come gli oggetti presenti su di un asteroide abbiano subìto impatti nel tempo (oltre a rilevare quanti e di quali dimensioni fossero gli oggetti che hanno impattato), ha consentito per la prima volta ai ricercatori di stimare il tempo trascorso da quando Bennu ha lasciato la fascia degli asteroidi principale ed è diventato un Near Earth Object: ovvero circa 1,75 milioni di anni, con un'incertezza di 750 mila anni. I Near Earth Object (NEO), sono corpi celesti, come comete o asteroidi, la cui orbita attraversa il sistema solare interno, ovvero quella parte di sistema solare compreso tra il Sole e la cintura di asteroidi e dentro la quale orbitano Mercurio, Venere, Terra e Marte. I ricercatori hanno quindi stimato quando Bennu sia diventato un nostro (relativo) vicino di casa, attraverso lo studio della sua superficie, in modo analogo - provando a semplificare - a come la pelle di un individuo può aiutare a comprendere parte della sua storia. Degli asteroidi tuttavia non conosciamo ancora molte cose, eppure sono considerati mattoni primordiali importanti per comprendere parte della storia del sistema solare. Anche per questo è così importante studiarli.L'intervista a Maurizio Pajola dell'Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (Inaf) che ha partecipato allo studio--Credit foto: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio. Data provided by NASA/University of Arizona/CSA/York University/MDA.

If you fancy a trip out into the Karoo where you can look through telescopes, visit the Leeuwenboschfontein Observatory. To find out when it's open to the public see https://www.facebook.com/LeeuwenboschfonteinObservatory/. The festival of astronomy to mark the 200 year anniversary of the founding of the Observatory in Cape Town continues. See https://www.saao.ac.za/saao200/ for details. Also see https://www.scifest.org.za/astrophotography-and-astro-art-competition/ for details of the competition mentioned in the podcast. Lastly asteroids! Kechil mentions a Near Earth Object which came close to Earth last week plus the success of NASA's sample return mission to the asteroid Bennu.

If you fancy a trip out into the Karoo where you can look through telescopes, visit the Leeuwenboschfontein Observatory. To find out when it's open to the public see https://www.facebook.com/LeeuwenboschfonteinObservatory/. The festival of astronomy to mark the 200 year anniversary of the founding of the Observatory in Cape Town continues. See https://www.saao.ac.za/saao200/ for details. Also see https://www.scifest.org.za/astrophotography-and-astro-art-competition/ for details of the competition mentioned in the podcast. Lastly asteroids! Kechil mentions a Near Earth Object which came close to Earth last week plus the success of NASA's sample return mission to the asteroid Bennu.

In todays show AnotherSpaceNut, Mikko, and Ryan talk upcoming launches, near earth objects, human landing systems, and SpaceX Starship. (more…)

The goal of the NASA Near Earth Object Program is to provide an early warning should an asteroid be found to be on a path bringing it close to planet Earth. Look at the Near Earth Object websites and you will know about any close approaches as soon the calculations are made.

The goal of the NASA Near Earth Object Program is to provide an early warning should an asteroid be found to be on a path bringing it close to planet Earth. Look at the Near Earth Object websites and you will know about any close approaches as soon the calculations are made.

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 23 Episode 99*First flights from Southern Launch’s new Australian rocket range a big successSouthern Launch has undertaken its first flights from its new rocket test range in western South Australia.*263 new Near-Earth objects detected over the past monthThe latest data from the European Space Agency’s Near-Earth Objects co-ordination centre indicates there are now at least 23 thousand 423 asteroids and 111 comets on orbits which bring them close to Earth’s orbit around the Sun.*Another successful test for SpaceX’s new Starship prototypeSpaceX has successfully conducted a sixth test flight of a prototype test article for Elon Musk’s long dreamed of Starship interplanetary colonial transport.*The Science ReportNew claims COVID-19 was invented in a Chinese government laboratory.A massive 110 square kilometre chunk of Greenland’s ice cap has broken off.How the death of a family pet can trigger a sense of grief that is profound and prolonged.The new DNA study to determine which Vikings plundered and pillaged which countries.The imagined threats of 5G are causing real-world harm.Sponsor Details:This episode of SpaceTime is brought to with the support of NameCheap.com….your online presence begins with a great domain name. Find your perfect one with NameCheaps powerful tools. Visit spacetimewithstuartgary.com/namcheap for more details and help support the show. For a great VPN deal visit www.tryexpressvpn.com/space Keep forgetting passwords? Then you need LastPass password manager….it’s one we use and is a lifesaver. Check it out for free at spacetimewithstuartgary.com/lastpass and help support the show. For more SpaceTime visit https://spacetimewithstuartgary.com (mobile friendly). For enhanced Show Notes including photos to accompany this episode, visit: http://www.bitesz.com/spacetimeshownotesGet immediate access to over 200 commercial-free, double and triple episode editions of SpaceTime plus extended interview bonus content. Subscribe via Patreon or Supercast....and share in the rewards. Details at www.patreon.com/spacetimewithstuartgary or Supercast - https://bitesznetwork.supercast.tech/RSS feed: https://rss.acast.com/spacetime Email: SpaceTime@bitesz.comTo receive the Astronomy Daily Newsletter free, direct to your inbox...just join our mailing list at www.bitesz.com/mailinglist or visit https://www.bitesz.com/astronomy-daily Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/spacetime. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

– How many near-Earth objects do we need to worry about? The definition of a near-Earth object is any solar system body whose closest approach to the Sun is 1.3 astronomical units. – Does The Goblin change our thinking about the hypothetical Planet 9? Well, maybe – but it doesn’t change our thinking much. On the first of October 2018, the discovery of a new solar system body was announced – called 2015 TG387. The TG is just a catalogue reference, but since it was discovered just after Halloween someone decided that should stand for The Goblin.   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too! Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://astrogear.spreadshirt.com/ for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by Astrosphere New Media. http://www.astrosphere.org/ Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.

A comet is visiting from the most distant parts of our solar system, making a once-in-a-lifetime appearance.

In this week's episode: Near Earth Object from Utrecht. With a 25 year career under his belt, you know this mix is going to be a belter. Near Earth Object on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/earthobject/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/near_earth_object/ Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/near-earth-object Social media: https://links.sonof8bits.com Send techno promos to: promo@sonof8bits.com For bookings: bookme@sonof8bits.com Episode archives Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/sonof8bits/playlists/infinity-podcast/ HearThis: https://hearthis.at/sonof8bits/set/infinity/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/infinity/id1447983654

In this week's episode: Near Earth Object from Utrecht. With a 25 year career under his belt, you know this mix is going to be a belter. Near Earth Object on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/earthobject/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/near_earth_object/ Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/near-earth-object Social media: https://links.sonof8bits.com Send techno promos to: promo@sonof8bits.com For bookings: bookme@sonof8bits.com Episode archives Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/sonof8bits/playlists/infinity-podcast/ HearThis: https://hearthis.at/sonof8bits/set/infinity/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/infinity/id1447983654

Space is a big place, and mostly empty — but there's no shortage of objects which, should they float our direction, could end life as we know it. A new national plan for detecting and handling such objects was proposed today, and it includes the possibility of nuclear strikes on the incoming asteroids and other “planetary defense missions.

It appears somebody powerful wants to use the hidden history of 9/11 to pressure the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia--and the Saudis are pushing back.  King Salman has let it be known that he will sell off the kingdom's holdings of US Treasury bonds--the third largest reserve in the world--if a bill in Congress that would allow the Saudis to be held accountable for whatever role they might have played in the events of September 11, 2001. Also: Deadly earthquakes in Ecuador and Japan; more provocation from Russian military pilots; and NASA finds 72 previously unknown Near Earth Objects.

On this episode of Talking Space we discuss release of the Cygnus capsule from the ISS and an upcoming SpaceX Falcon 9.1 Dragon launch. Also the most recent test flight of the SpaceX Grasshopper and the reusability it may provide. Sierra Nevada readies for a drop test of their Dreamchaser test vehicle. Did you hear about the concern raised on twitter that the Near Earth Object discovered Oct 8th could hit earth on a future pass in 2032. Odds are 1 in 63,000  of a hit from this 1300 ft long object. Gene says don't worry, rest easy and check the facts from sources like NASA or the B612 Foundation. Want to be part of the Mars Artic 365 Mission? Crew of 6 volunteers will spend 365 days at Flashline Mars Artic Research Station at Devon Island near Resolute in Nunavut, Canada. See http://ma365.marssociety.org/ for all the details. There has been a launch delay of a Minotaur 1 from Pad 0B at Wallops Flight Facility due to the US Government shutdown. Original launch date was Nov 4 and is now scheduled for Nov 19. Also a Delta IV was scheduled to launch on Oct 23 but is being delayed to look into possible problems following an Oct 2012 Delta IV launch due to reduced thrust the second stage RL10B-2 engine. How about a sleeping trip to the Red Planet? Well the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program announced 2013 Phase I and II Selections. One of which included a proposal from Spaceworks Enterprises Inc. for research on a "Torpor Inducing Transfer Habitat For Human Stasis To Mars". See http://goo.gl/gBGnce for links to all selections. Jellyfish born in space have difficulty adapting when returned to earth. Swimming does not come naturally in 1 G following birth in microgravity. Sawyer brings us the story "Debugging a Live Saturn V". Take a few minutes and read this for yourself from the memoirs of a Saturn V "Rocket Scientist", it is phenomenal! http://www.zamiang.com/posts/2013/10/13/red-team/ Host this week: Sawyer Rosenstein. Panel Member: Gene Mikulka, Mark Ratterman Show Recorded 10/21/2013

On this episode, we invite on special guest, Apollo 9 astronaut and founder of the B612 foundation as well as a member of the Association of Space Explorers, Rusty Schweickart. Having logged thousands of hours in high performance jets as well as having performed an EVA (a spacewalk), Rusty comes on to discuss his role in the future of asteroids and their potential of impacting the earth, as well as working to avoid an impact if necessary. Also discussed was the future of manned space flight, where humans should go next, as well as other countries participation in the hunt for asteroids. Rusty's foundation, the B612 Foundation, is located online at http://www.b612foundation.org/ He has also authored the preface to the Association of Space Explorer's book The Home Planet, which is available on Amazon. Host this week: Gina Herlihy. Panel Members: Gene Mikulka, Mark Ratterman, Sawyer Rosenstein, and special guest Russell "Rusty" Schewickart Show Recorded - 7/26/2010