Jupiter dominates the night sky.

0:00 Speaker 1 Well, it’s Sunday morning, and every Sunday morning where with Doctor Sky otherwise known as Steve Tates, and he gives us some interesting stories that makes our minds wander. And I’m either wandering at three o’clock in the morning watching Star Trek or talk well listening Steve Case on Sunday morning. Steve, what’s new in the up in the skies?

0:24 Speaker 2 Well, John, we have a jam packed edition today. Good morning to you and the listeners of the Cats Round Table. Our journey today will take us to Mars, talking about Mars quakes, updates on some SpaceX launch numbers, and also the mystery of the week and then what people can see.

0:39 But what’s interesting we talk about Mars. Now, this is an unusual planet. It’s only about forty two hundred miles across, and we found out that about a year ago Mars had an earthquake, what we call it a Mars quake, a four point seven on the Richter scale as we measure here. But the problematic thing with that is Mars

0:58 doesn’t have plate tech time. The simple answer to that is what that is? The Earth has this crust movement that changes the position of continents, So how could this happen on the planet Mars. So astronomers, space scientists, they’re all saying that it could be due to some large stresses and rocks inside the planet. But I don’t know.

1:17 Maybe that’s just one explanation, but for many that doesn’t answer the entire situation. There. What say you on this? This is amazing?

1:25 Speaker 1 Well, you know, Mas has a lot of mysteries and someday we’re going to find out what goes on. And the biggest mysteries is still me and you talked about it. The two moons going around maz where they possibly we can be artificial or some people say hallo and maybe there’s Martians up there. Who knows, But you know what

1:49 I Mas has always been a mystery and I look forward to finding out more someday.

1:55 Speaker 2 Absolutely, John. And those moons that we talk about are demos and phobos. I’ve discovered in eighteen seventy seven, and eventually one day they’ll crash into the planet. But that’s a long way off. But we go to space now.

2:08 Update on SpaceX. Here’s something interesting from the financial side of SpaceX. According to many in the space industry, they’re squeezing out smaller satellite launch firms to launch rockets and payloads up to lower Earth orbits. But this is interesting.

2:22 We find out right now that SpaceX is charging approximately fifty five hundred dollars per kilogram. That’s two point two pounds. So like many people out there are just picking a weight, let’s say you weigh one hundred and seventy five pounds, that would cost just to lift a human at that weight some four hundred and thirty seven thousand dollars. But

2:41 the real important part about this is that they’re developing an aggressive mid inclination launch platform known as Bandwagon, so they dominate the entire industry in smaller space firms say that SpaceX could even get and even charge a lower amount or even who knows, maybe a higher amount to launch into space per kilogram, But simply it looks like

3:03 they’re putting out a lot of these other smaller companies. Wouldn’t just say they have a monopoly. That’s interesting?

3:10 Speaker 1 Absolutely, what else is going on up there?

3:14 Speaker 2 Said this week, Well, generally, what mystery of the week is what we talk about. How about this, Let’s talk about a star, a red dwarf that’s forty light years away from us, it’s called the trappest One star system, where astronomers tell us that there’s seven rocky Earth shaped planets around it, but three of the seven lie in

3:34 an area we called the habitable zone. So of all the locations that we’ve searched, the heavens for this particular star system, albeit a red dwarf, may have who knows the possibility of some type of life on it. But the James Webb telescope tells us interesting things too. That little red dwart star blasts off these giant solar flares

3:55 into those tar articular planets. So again getting our hopes up. We may be a little too soon on that, But isn’t that fascinating that we’ve detected at least as planetary systems around the star system and this one, who knows this might even have the best hopes of finding life.

4:11 Speaker 1 Well, I look, I think me and you might find out about Mars way before forty light years away.

4:19 Speaker 2 Steve takes absolutely.

4:22 Speaker 1 Because Mars has always been interesting. And what was the other planet that was interesting? Well, Saturn has that moon going around that was always suspicious.

4:36 Speaker 2 Absolutely, we talk about these even closer than forty light years, so who knows life may abound as we find out the particles from the Benu spacecraft. They’re finding out that there’s water molecules inside those rocks and carbon the building blocks of light. But what we do, John, we always end off with the livesky so people can entertain and

4:55 expand their minds and what we can see in the heavens, so as we could begin this whole new way. Think the moon continues to shine brighter in the sky in the evening. That’s a beautiful sight. But turn your heads as we’ve been talking over the last few weeks, to the eastern sky just after sunset. The bright white object

5:11 is Jupiter in the telescope. It’s fascinating. Even binoculars, if you hold them steady, can show you some of the moons of Jupiter. It’s about three hundred and seventy million miles away. More information always by going to WABC radio dot com and the Doctor Sky Experience and what do we say John, to open our minds. Always remember to

5:30 keep your eyes to the skies. And you’re radio tuned here too. Talk Radio seventy seven WABC and the affiliates around the nation.

5:40 Speaker 1 Thank you so much, Steve Kason. We’ll catch up with you again next Sunday.

5:44 Speaker 2 Have a great day, John, thank you