Travelers in the Night Eps. 337E & 338E: Seeds & Double Trouble

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 May 2025.


Today's 2 topics:


- When a fleet of interstellar spaceships leaves our solar system
for a planet circling a nearby star the most important of all of
the riches that human explorers will carry with them will be
libraries of our planet's DNA and the seeds of plants. They are
the connection between past life, the inorganic world, and future
life.


 


- When I discovered 2014 JO25 with the NASA funded Catalina Sky
Survey's 60 inch telescope on May 5, 2014, it appeared as a
single point of light as it moved past us. As 2014 JO25
approached the Earth from the direction of the Sun in 2017,
no-one had any idea that it is really a double asteroid system
nearly a mile in diameter.


 


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