{"podcast":{"title":"Travelers In The Night","slug":"travelers-in-the-night-1048610","podcast_index_feed_id":1048610,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/1335265/episodes/feed","website_url":"http://travelersinthenight.org","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/80c14f73da04cdff5cfaef4dcc1c596f.jpg","author":"Albert D. Grauer","episode_count":1000,"summary":"A real \"Science Snack\" for anyone who is interested in the extraterrestrial. Dr. Al Grauer is a member of the Catalina Sky Survey which has led the world in near Earth asteroid discoveries for 17 of the past 19 years. The music is \"Eternity\" by John Lyell. Astronomy Asteroids Space NASA Comets Earth Impact Aliens","last_synced_at":"2026-07-29T06:18:51.297654+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/travelers-in-the-night-1048610"},"episode":{"title":"897-Kacper's Comet","slug":"897-kacper-s-comet","published_at":"2026-05-01T16:00:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/travelers-in-the-night-1048610/897-kacper-s-comet","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/travelers-in-the-night-1048610","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/897-kacper-s-comet--70819035","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/70819035/897_kascper_s_comet.mp3","summary":"In 2007 a small icy object moving in the constellation of Ursa Minor crossed the orbit of Pluto at a speed of approximately 4.2 mi/s starting its journey towards the inner solar system. It was between the orbits of Saturn and Jupiter traveling at some 9 mi/s towards the Sun, when my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Dr. Kacper Wierzchoś discovered it on March 3, 2024, while asteroid hunting, in the constellation of Draco, with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona. Kacper studies comets passionately was thus excited to observe that it has a coma and a tail.On its way out of the solar system, in 2045, Kacper's COMET C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) will cross the orbit of Pluto heading in the direction of the constellation Ursa Major and is destined to wander between stars in the Milky Way till the end of time.","meta_description":"In 2007 a small icy object moving in the constellation of Ursa Minor crossed the orbit of Pluto at a speed of approximately 4.2 mi/s starting its journey…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":121,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/travelers-in-the-night-1048610/episodes/897-kacper-s-comet/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/travelers-in-the-night-1048610/897-kacper-s-comet.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}