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Good morning, Y'all! Hope all of you are having a wonderful morning like her, or evening depending on where you are or when you are watching or listening! Please remember to follow the Collision Course Podcast on your favorite streaming app. Drop a like and maybe a comment or answer a poll or question that comes with each, new episode. Every action you take makes it possible for more listeners and viewers to get a chance to choose Collision Course as a great source of outer space news that they can relate to! So, thank you in advance for that follow, like, comment, or answer! THANK YOU! We're already at lucky episode 13! This episode brings back Marco Velli to talk about the dynamics around the Sun and the Parker Solar Probe mission Parker Solar Probe (jhuapl.edu) in particular. I enjoyed being able to ask some questions that did not relate to the Parker Solar Probe but were relevant to understand the role that plasmas play in our Universe. I really enjoyed being able to hear that in his view, the Universe was working like I had believed too. Mass and rotation are the main driver of the way bodies in the Universe behave, but minus mass and rotation, you are left with energized electromagnetic space that is channeling energy along magnetic field lines and boundaries which can accelerate anergy at very high levels or at least propel them extreme distances. Today the Parker Solar Probe is on the other side of the Sun heading toward Venus. It will use a tug backward from Venus to drop it in to an even lower orbit with the Sun. Each new perihelion closer than the last, new territory with each, new orbit around our star. The mission continues. January 10,2023 it was announced in a paper that some of the science that has been extracted from the data from an assortment of missions including the Parker Solar Probe are the introduction of the phrase "Jetlets" to describe an activity which can, when combined with an overall activity level across the whole surface of the sun, an activity which interacts with the solar corona and is able to accelerate particles up and through the corona.  As well as that, there recognition of enormous waves of energy. "Switchbacks" that curl like a whip or a road that traverses the highest mountain. back and forth up the same hillside until you get to the top... When released they can express energy at extreme speed and can cover a lot of the corona at one time. The notion that acceleration of particles was a one-off event which accelerated all the particles at once is now a misnomer and it should be seen more as an ebb and flow that maintains the energetic side of our closest star. I want to thank Professor Velli for his time. Anything that I can add to the discussion is an addition that can help others understand the topic too. #ParkerSolarProbe #Sun #astronomy #science #fyp #interview #MarcoVelli If You Would Like to Support the Show, you can use send a tip to my ($) Cashapp or my (@) Venmo! I appreciate all your support tremendously! Thank you! $FrancisWalsh @FrantheMan77429

Tonight, is a Collision Course Comet Night!  I am going out with the neighbors to try and see the comet through an 8" SE Celestron Computerized Telescope! Wish us luck!  Carl is an expert AND a fan of transient objects. His whole career has had something to do with surveying the night skies and charting asteroids and comets as they move the solar system! Besides the short introduction and intro to his work, we go over the different comets in the sky right now! I hope you enjoy this first, video episode! Time sensitive info was just recorded! LIVE! #astronomy #comet #transientobject #orbit #magnitude #stargazing Carl William Hergenrother (born 1973) is an American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets. As credited by the Minor Planet Center, he has discovered and co-discovered 32 numbered asteroids at the Bigelow Sky Survey during 1993–1999. He has also discovered a number of comets including the long-period comet, C/1996 R1 (Hergenrother-Spahr), and three periodic comets, 168P/Hergenrother, 175P/Hergenrother and P/1999 V1 (Catalina). He is also a member of the science and operations team of the 2016-launched OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, a sample return mission to study near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu. The outer main-belt asteroid 3099 Hergenrother was named in his honor on 3 May 1996 (M.P.C. 27124). Carl Hergenrother Astronomy Working Group Lead & Strategic and Tactical Scientist University of Arizona, Tucson Carl Hergenrother | Astronomy Working Group Lead & Strategic and Tactical Scientist – NASA Solar System Exploration

Good morning! Tuesday, January 24th 20231  It's a great day to give you an update regarding the comet that is blazing across the sky as we speak. Of course, that's comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)! It's a comet that was first discovered on March 2, 2022. It was first captured in images from the Zwicky Transient Facility at the Palomar Observatory in California. Palomar is the famous observatory built by George Ellery Hale who was the person most responsible for the building of Palomar Observatory. A graduate of MIT and a founder of Caltech, in 1928 he secured a grant of $6 million from the Rockefeller Foundation for the fabrication of a 200-inch reflecting telescope. During the 1930s, he assembled a remarkable team of engineers and designers from academia and industry. Under his direction, these people set to work on the mirror, on the mounting, and on the dome and its support facilities on Palomar Mountain. A triumph of innovation, insight, persistence, and precision the telescope was dedicated in June 1948 ten years after Hale's death. This is the Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory, an instrument that after many decades of service continues to play a leading role in the advancement of astronomy and astrophysics. Welcome to Palomar Observatory (caltech.edu) History of Palomar (caltech.edu) Stellarium Astronomy Software I am going to recommend everyone download this free astronomy software for your desktop or laptop. There is mobile version, but it is not free. Once you have this downloaded, you can add Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) to the database like this! Go to Configuration (F2) Click ‘Plugins’, select ‘Solar System Editor’, then click on ‘configure’ Click ‘Solar System’ and Click “Import orbital elements in MPC format”. Click ‘Online Search’ and search for ‘C/2022 E3’ (Note that the search is case-sensitive) Check the box next to the comet then click ‘Add objects’ You can now search on C/2022 E3 to find its position in your sky and estimated magnitude. The comet is rapidly reaching perigee, its closest point to Earth, which makes it easier to spot in the night sky. The comet, discovered in March 2022 by astronomers Frank Masci and Bryce Bolin using the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) at the Palomar Observatory in California, has been brightening since November with it's bright green coma and up to three tails. To see the comet for yourself, look to the north just after sunset and look for a faint greenish glow. Under the right dark sky conditions, the comet could be visible to the unaided eye, but binoculars will certainly make the job easier. Why do comets turn green? Comets, for example take on a green hue because of the gas tail that forms as they approach the Sun. Most of the gas consists of hydrogen, but other compounds such as cyanide (CN 2) and carbon (C 2) can be contained in the tail as well. These molecules emit light at green wavelengths and can be bright enough to be seen with the naked eye. #comet #astronomy #CollisionCourse #fyp #howto #comethunting #stargazing #cometwatching #avertedvision #binoculars #telescope #greencomet #zwickytransientfacility #c2022e3ztf #CosmicObsessionKerrville #observatory #palomar 

Why Was 'Oumuamua Different Than Other Space Rocks Orbiting Inside Our Solar System? We cannot emphasize enough the importance of this information. It is too easy to quickly forget something as important as the discovery of the first interstellar traveler to enter the inner solar system. The information discussed in this episode covers how our guest was critical to the story of 'Oumuamua. Being one of the astronomers on site made it possible for her to receive the first reports of data that proved to be a new, highly interesting, object with origins that take it outside of our own solar system. To date there had not been an observation like this. Even though astronomers and astrophysicists had theorized the probabilities, there had not been an object that came from outside our solar system Like 'Oumuamua.  It came in moving at 26,000 MPS (miles per SECOND!) and it wasn't discovered until it had already made its close approach to the Sun meaning that it was already moving away from us and not toward us. The scientific community was not left with an enormous amount of time to observe the new object. It had many peculiarities about it that we are still trying to understand. I have more scientists coming on to give us reports on the latest research that, while not investigating 'Oumuamua directly, has implications for understanding what it could be and what we should expect in the future if it was indeed alien technology. Being a new, previously unknown object, designating, classifying, and naming the object was immediate requirement. How we ended up with 'Oumuamua is important. I believe that this could be one of those opportunities to reveal truth in a way that it reveals the truth, but it offsets the importance by omission. I promise to continue to follow up and correlate new and existing information to bring this research full circle before the truth turns bad.. #astronomy #oumuamua #interstellartraveler #alien #technology #ETC #CollisionCourse #scout #recon #enemy #battle #hawaii #astronomer #KarenMeech Please follow Collision Course on your favorite podcast host. Listen, Like and Review where asked or where you can! STAY TUNED! WE HAVE AN EXCITING YEAR PLANNED! 2023 WIL BE GREAT FOR ASTRONOMY AND COLLISION COURSE $FrancisWalsh @FrantheMan77429 DIrect DONO! Karen J. Meech is an astronomer and astrobiologist who investigates how habitable worlds form and explores the questions of whether there is life on other planetesimals, rocky or cometary bodies other than Earth. LIsten because: Astrobiologist Karen J. Meech uses the pieces of information gleaned from observations of our solar system. She researches how a cometary object's formation can help us to understand how habitable planets are made. Her curiosity about life beyond earth was inspired as a child watching science fiction shows on TV. Meech has a PhD in planetary physics from MIT. She is now an astronomer at the University of Hawaii, where she leads the astrobiology group, and she is passionate about being a scientist and an educator. Meech started her astronomy career researching comets. Comets are the icy leftovers from the birth of our solar system and solar systems outside our own. Her work led to an understanding of many of the processes that cause a comet tail to develop far from our Sun. She was co-investigator on three comet missions. Her discoveries provide information that test our understanding of how planetary systems assembled. Her work embraces the power of interdisciplinary science, and she combines geological field work, geochemistry, astronomical observations, theory and space mission concepts to address fundamental questions about how earth got its water.

Renu Malhotra (born 1961) is an American planetary scientist from India, known for using the orbital resonance between Pluto and Neptune to infer large-scale orbital migration of the giant planets and to predict the existence of Plutinos in resonance with Neptune. The asteroid 6698 Malhotra was named for her on 14 December 1997 (M.P.C. 31025). Francis and Dr. Malhotra discuss the latest information coming from the scientific community regarding the discovery of yet to be discovered planetesimals Planet 9 and Planet 10 (X). Hear how the work she and other scientists are performing are giving us a better understanding of far-flung objects residing out near Neptune. These objects are so far away and so dispersed that even with years of observing the motion of known planets and transient objects, the information still doesn't point a finger at any particular object or place in the solar system. Learn how the presession of the planets effects orbits of small rocky bodies orbiting inside the solar system. We touch on the gas giants' migration during the early times of the solar system, and we discuss the "Great Bombardment" as well. This was an enlightening discussion, and we hope to hear more from Dr. Malhotra again soon! So, STAY TUNED! As always, please like, follow, comment, and review the Collision Course podcast whenever asked as it helps us reach more listeners! Thanks for all your help and for your friendship! We have many more episodes coming as we get ready for the total solar eclipse of April 8th, 2024! #planetnine #planetten #planetX #planetary #astronomy  For direct donations go to: $FrancisWalsh @FrantheMan77429

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