On the radio
On Sunday evening I will be doing another long appearance on Coast to Coast with George Noory. I expect the first hour will talk about SpaceX and commercial space, and the second on some of the more recent planetary missions, both on-going and forthcoming.
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On Sunday evening I will be doing another long appearance on Coast to Coast with George Noory. I expect the first hour will talk about SpaceX and commercial space, and the second on some of the more recent planetary missions, both on-going and forthcoming.
Readers!
My annual February birthday fund-raising drive for Behind the Black is now over. Thank you to everyone who donated or subscribed. While not a record-setter, the donations were more than sufficient and slightly above average.
As I have said many times before, I can’t express what it means to me to get such support, especially as no one is required to pay anything to read my work. Thank you all again!
For those readers who like my work here at Behind the Black and haven't contributed so far, please consider donating or subscribing. My analysis of space, politics, and culture, taken from the perspective of an historian, is almost always on the money and ahead of the game. For example, in 2020 I correctly predicted that the COVID panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Every one of those 2020 conclusions has turned out right.
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Robert, great to hear you are going to be on Coast again, especially for two hours! I will not miss it.
For everyone who didn’t stay up late on Sunday night…
Coast to Coast AM
9-4-16
https://youtu.be/2U01pyZ6rc8
“In the first half, space historian Robert Zimmerman provided updates on the latest space news. He reacted to the recent accident at the SpaceX Launchpad in which an explosion destroyed a rocket and a satellite that was about to be launched.”
Per the inquiry on the show about what to do about fallen possible space debris, this article seemed to have some advice.
http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/space-debris/falling-satellite/retrieving-space-debris-world-interview-dan-reichel/
Amusing and interesting article.
“Reichel explained that the best approach whenever a suspected space debris object is found is to immediately notify CORDS and NASA since they are easy to contact online and have a vast database of orbital debris. They will also notify DoS, who will notify the UN of the found debris. The objects retain the ownership of the launching state, so, even if a Chinese debris is found on US soil, there is a good chance that the Chinese will ask the UN and the US Government for its release back to them.”
CORDS is a private company http://www.aerospace.org/cords/
NASA has an office https://www.orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/
DoS is the Department of State.
J Fincannon– thanks for that info!
Finally had a chance to listen to the entire CtC show, and I was pleasantly surprised as to the quality of the questions. (I was expecting UFO’s and anatomical-probing, stuff.)
(The Youtube replay btw, has no commercials, “priceless!”)
For the gentleman in Georgia, I think it was, with the potential piece of a meteorite. My wife was a Geologist & she occasional had inquiries about “strange rocks.”
“Easy” stuff she could ID immediately but she would often refer people to the Geology department at our local Community College or one of our many State Universities. (They were more than happy to help.)
(and yes, she owned a very-nice 3 gram cube of an iron-nickel meteorite I bought for her on our 20th anniversary. Diamonds might be forever, but meteorite chunks are truly, out-of-this-world.)
generalized meteorite identification–
http://geology.com/meteorites/meteorite-identification.shtml
International Meteorite Collectors Association
http://imca.cc/
Wayne: The gentleman from Georgia emailed me after the show, and we corresponded about his rock. He even sent me pictures. Very quickly, after doing some research, we determined it is not a meteorite.