Travelers in the Night Eps. 359E & 360E: One in 100,000 & Finding Spacerocks

Travelers in the Night Eps. 359E & 360E: One in 100,000 & Finding Spacerocks

Published: December 21, 2025

Duration: 6:03

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

From October 2025.

Today's 2 topics:

- Friday the 13th appears to continue to be a lucky day for the human race. When astronomers first discovered Apophis in 2004 it appeared possible that this 3 million ton, 1,200 foot diameter asteroid traveling at 8 mi/s could impact our planet creating a crater a several miles diameter and more than a half mile deep. Additional observations over the years have...

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