Travelers in the Night Eps. 791 & 792: A Fireball and Its Gifts & Closest Approaching Comet

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 April 2024.


Today's 2 topics:


- It all started when Krisztián Sárneczky at the Konkoly
Observatory near Budapest, Hungary reported the position and
brightness of an unknown asteroid rapidly moving through the
constellation of Lynx. Three hours later , the object, now called
2024 BX1 exploded harmlessly in our atmosphere.


- P/1999 J6 (SOHO) was discovered 10 May 1995 by Mike Oates as
part of the Citizen Science Sun Grazer Project in which
volunteers from all over the world have the chance to discover a
comet in images taken by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
or SOHO for short.RADAR studies of the daytime Arietid (
AIR-ee-uh-tids) meteor shower stream which peaks every June 7
indicates that  P/1999 J6 (SOHO) could be one of the
potential parent objects.


 


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