Collision Course Francis Walsh

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


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Sonic Geometry - Watch Sonic Geometry
Imagine if geometric shapes were numbers and sounds. If you knew how each shape has a number, the sum of the degrees in the angle. If you could do that, you will know the diameter of the Moon, or the number of stones in the Great Giza pyramids. How is it possible that by simply extracting the measurements of geometric shapes could you answer questions you never even thought you could. It's really quite amazing. Sacred Geometry allows you to do just that. You will learn how easy it is to answer questions about space and time that might take someone else down an entirely different path to their answer. Listen to this introduction to sacred, Sonic Geometry by Eric Rankin, the man behind the sacred numbers of angles and how to connect those numbers to answers about the world we live in and the Universe that lies in the Space Outside our Atmosphere.
ABOUT - Sonic Geometry
Throughout history, numerous clues and hints regarding geometry and frequency have been staring at us, calling to us, and waiting for us to put them into place like pieces of a giant puzzle. Here at the dawn of a new age, this sonic-geometric puzzle is finally nearing completion, revealing the building blocks of a language based on energy, frequency and form.  How will we use it? With whom will we be communicating? Now that we know the basics of this new language, maybe we are ready to begin the conversation.... again?
Sonic Geometry
Eric Rankin is credited with making the groundbreaking discovery that elemental geometric forms reveal very specific – and mathematically perfect – musical harmonics. This significant discovery reveals that, if our universe is a geometric construct, then it is also a beautifully harmonic system. Eric’s research has been featured on Gaia TV, as well as History Channel’s “Ancient Aliens” series. He has been invited to speak at numerous conferences such as Contact in the Desert, Portal to Ascension, Star Knowledge and Disclosurefest. His work has been studied at many different learning institutions and think-tanks and featured in film and television documentaries.
https://ascensionconference.com/eric-rankin/

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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






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This is our second of three talks with Avi Loeb, the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University. With our first discussion focusing mainly on the first Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua, I took the time to go back since the second known interstellar traveler had graced us with its presence. The topic of today's discussion was all things Interstellar. From objects to new discoveries to old science and new. We asked questions that crossed over all of Avi's best research and ideas. His knowledge about where humanity is on its quest for interstellar travel is as cutting edge as you can get. His involvement in the development of spacecraft that can reach our nearest star has been critical. His open mind has given him insight into the science of today. His choices are our choices as we follow along with those who design and create. Our future lies in the hands of people like Avi Loeb. He and thousands of scientists like him are uncracking the code, ending the ignorance. We have to be happy that men like him are taking time out for us to talk to, to learn. Our brain is his and only when we can ask the questions can we get the answers we need to be better informed, even ahead of the rest.

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Avi Loeb | Center for Astrophysics (harvard.edu) Research Papers linked from this page.

Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University and a bestselling author (in lists of the New York Times,Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, L'Express and more). He received a PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel at age 24 (1980-1986), led the first international project supported by the Strategic Defense Initiative (1983-1988), and was subsequently a long-term member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (1988-1993). Loeb wrote 8 books and over 800 papers on a wide range of topics, including black holes, the first stars, the search for extraterrestrial life and the future of the Universe. He had been the longest serving Chair of Harvard's Department of Astronomy (2011-2020), Founding Director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative and Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (2007-present) within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics . He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the International Academy of Astronautics. Loeb is a former member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) at the White House, a former chair of the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies and a current member of the Advisory Board for "Einstein: Visualize the Impossible" of the Hebrew University. He also chairs the Advisory Committee for the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative (2016-present) and serves as the Science Theory Director for all Initiatives of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. In 2012, TIME magazine selected Loeb as one of the 25 most influential people in space.

Breakthrough Starshot: A voyage to the stars within our lifetimes | Astronomy.com

#astronomy #interstellertravel #lightsail #starshotInitiative #alphacentauri #FRB #FYP #light #radiowave #cometborizov #oumuamua 




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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 


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Parker Solar Probe: Man's First Solar Probe with Professor Marco Velli
It's a perilous trip to the edge of the Sun to unlock the mysteries of its atmosphere. The Parker Solar Probe will interact with Venus’ gravity during seven flybys over nearly seven years to gradually bring its orbit closer to the Sun. The spacecraft will fly through the Sun’s atmosphere, sometimes called a "Fry-by", it's as close as 3.8 million miles from our star’s surface, well within the orbit of Mercury and more than seven times closer than any spacecraft has come before. (Earth’s average distance to the Sun is 93 million miles.)

It will orbit into the outermost part of the Sun's atmosphere, known as the corona. For the first time, Parker Solar Probe will employ a combination of in situ measurements and imaging equipment revolutionizing our understanding of the corona and expanding our knowledge of the origin and evolution of solar wind. It also makes critical contributions to our ability to forecast changes in Earth's space environment that affect life and technology on Earth.



Professor Velli's research has focused on space plasma physics and solar magnetic activity with particular emphasis on:


the stability of magnetic structures anchored in the photosphere such as coronal loops.
wave propagation and shock formation in inhomogeneous and stratified plasmas
nonlinear evolution of current sheets and magnetic reconnection
the properties of turbulence in dynamically forced, open systems.
wave particle interactions in the solar corona and heliosphere

He is principal investigator of Heliospheric Origins on the Solar Probe Plus mission, the first spacecraft to fly within 9 solar radii of the Sun's surface, directly studying the outer solar corona and acceleration region of the solar wind. SPP is part of NASA's Living with a Star Program, designed to understand aspects of the sun and Earth's space environment that affect life and society. As the mission's observatory scientist, he will provide an independent assessment of scientific performance and act as a community advocate for the mission.

Prof. Velli has taught mechanics, electromagnetism, astrophysics, and plasma physics courses at the University of Florence, and mentored 7 students for their Laurea Thesis in Florence, directed 5 PhD theses at the University of Florence and 2 at the University of Paris XI Orsay. He has been member of peer review committees for NASA research and payload proposals as well as for ESA, member of the science definition team for Solar Orbiter (2003) and is presently a member of Solar Probe science and technology definition team, responsible for drafting the Scientific Objectives and requirements. Dr. Velli was chair and main scientific editor for the international conference Solar Wind 10, Pisa, June 2002. He has published over seventy peer-reviewed research papers involving many collaborators both in Italy and abroad, as well as invited papers and lecture notes. He holds a joint appointment the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

#ParkerSolarProbe #Astronomy #Sun #Probe #fyp #science #outerspace #spacemission #spacecraft #research #Spaceweather #particlephysics #acceleratedparticles #teach #learning #astronomical #lessons #howto #citizenscience #citizenspaceforce 


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