Speaker 1: Walter Sterling, Oh what and doctor Sky. Doctor Sky. Now,
Speaker 1: the reason doctor Sky is on with us is because
Speaker 1: he needs a cover. He's deep in the woods of
Speaker 1: the Southwest, as many witness protection people are. His name
Speaker 1: changes fairly regularly, and doctor Sky spells his name with
Speaker 1: an E at the end. Yet he's not Polish. Good morning, Walter,
Speaker 1: doctor Sky. You're on today because there are three enormous
Speaker 1: astronomical events. Doctor Sky is a weekend host, which is
Speaker 1: in radio perjorative term, but in fact, Casey Caseum was
Speaker 1: a weekend host, and I think you should view yourself
Speaker 1: in the same league with Casey Caseum, another weekend host,
Speaker 1: Doctor Sky.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much. Good to be with you, Walter.
Speaker 2: A lot of activity is we're going to be talking.
Speaker 1: He earned six million dollars a year at ABC, just
Speaker 1: to have a point of reference at your next negotiation
Speaker 1: with the Catsmetites. Now, yeah, but maybe they'll throw in
Speaker 1: coupons and beans, you know, Goya beans, the whole package,
Speaker 1: gift package of goia beans. Now listen to thank you.
Speaker 1: You're darn right you do. Now listen. There are three
Speaker 1: major celestial events, and doctor Sky is an expert on Obviously,
Speaker 1: Sky things, and he's brilliant at it. He gets the
Speaker 1: best guests about it. I hope you listen to him
Speaker 1: on the weekends because you won't have a better time.
Speaker 1: But something amazing happened on the Moon yesterday and right
Speaker 1: now if you look up, there's spectacular gifts from the universe.
Speaker 1: So please let's start on the moon, doctors guy.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Yes, Walter. As we mentioned before, and we
Speaker 2: had the other interview earlier in the week, we were
Speaker 2: all expecting big things, the big boom on the Moon.
Speaker 2: And in case people are just tuning in and never
Speaker 2: heard about this, SpaceX intentionally had a large booster the
Speaker 2: upper stage of what they call it the alpha stage.
Speaker 2: It's about forty five feet long by twelve feet wide.
Speaker 2: And though it's history right now, there was a impact
Speaker 2: with that particular body. At around two thirty five a
Speaker 2: m Eastern day lifetime, a day ago. I was out
Speaker 2: with the big telescope, and many people who have telescopes
Speaker 2: understand that you really need to set these things up
Speaker 2: ahead of time. I was looking at the Moon at
Speaker 2: exactly the moment here in these very horrible temperatures that
Speaker 2: we're having in the Southwestern and Phoenix through partial monsoon clouds.
Speaker 2: So the report I can give you on the other
Speaker 2: side of midnight is I saw nothing. How about that
Speaker 2: for honesty. But it's interesting because I doubted from the
Speaker 2: beginning that you would see any kind of a flare,
Speaker 2: and the media was talking about the possibility of this,
Speaker 2: and we're now confirming nothing was actually seen. Now I
Speaker 2: have people that have emailed me things and they say, look,
Speaker 2: I have an image from another telescope, and look at
Speaker 2: this bump doctor Sky on the side edge of the moon,
Speaker 2: exactly where the impact is. And I can tell you,
Speaker 2: Walter in the audience, from observing the moon for so long,
Speaker 2: there is a bump where there was a bump on
Speaker 2: the edge of the moon. And what we were seeing
Speaker 2: is a very rare sight. It's a mountain region on
Speaker 2: the left edge of the moon that we rarely never
Speaker 2: get to see. It's called the Rook Mountains, and it's
Speaker 2: part of a basin called the Oriental the orient Pisin. Now,
Speaker 2: if you hold your hand and have your fingers straight up,
Speaker 2: and don't do this if your driving, if you hold
Speaker 2: that hand and just tilt it a little to the
Speaker 2: left and the right, the moon occasionally gives us a
Speaker 2: little bit further view, either view of east or west
Speaker 2: of the Moon. So that's what people were seeing. So
Speaker 2: no confirmed you know, explosive material from the Moon, no ejecta.
Speaker 2: But yet there's a spacecraft called Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter that's
Speaker 2: actually going to look and see the exact location where
Speaker 2: this impact occurred and show us. The whole purpose was
Speaker 2: to see what happens when a body like that is
Speaker 2: intentionally smashed into the Moon, what sized craters are created.
Speaker 2: So the best is yet to come from the Lunar
Speaker 2: Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Speaker 1: Now, doctor Sky, you were looking with a high powered
Speaker 1: telescope and very trained eye at the Moon at the
Speaker 1: exact spot where the rockets should have hit. Is that right?
Speaker 2: That is absolutely correct?
Speaker 1: And you saw nothing.
Speaker 2: I saw nothing, and a lot of other people they
Speaker 2: were tremendous walter amounts on the web. How many people
Speaker 2: may have watched this on YouTube? They had all these
Speaker 2: live feeds from around the world. Now, there's a few
Speaker 2: images that I saw that show something like I don't
Speaker 2: know if somebody photoshopped it or what have you. Why
Speaker 2: would they do such a thing like that? Right where
Speaker 2: there was some sort of a little gas image on
Speaker 2: the edge of the moon. But ninety nine percent of
Speaker 2: the things that I've been looking at for the last
Speaker 2: twenty four hours no visible material. But some of the
Speaker 2: giant telescopes waltered down in Chile. They claim that they
Speaker 2: have some image, not images, but they take the spectroscope
Speaker 2: and they can actually put it under the edge of
Speaker 2: the Moon, and it can give us an example of
Speaker 2: what chemical elements might have been around in the atmosphere
Speaker 2: of the Moon, which hardly has an atmosphere. And they
Speaker 2: claimed there might be something, but no visible flash, nothing
Speaker 2: that we could see. But it goes back to Canterbury monks.
Speaker 2: If we go back in time, there were claims back
Speaker 2: in around eleven seventy eight. They'd wrote in their most
Speaker 2: prosaic way, of course, in the early days, some fiery
Speaker 2: dragon appeared on the edge of the moon. And if
Speaker 2: that's possible, I mean, if that was what they saw, Walter,
Speaker 2: there have been other sightings in the past in history. Now,
Speaker 2: if that was true, they didn't have telescopes, but can
Speaker 2: you imagine asteroidal bodies slamming into the Moon would have
Speaker 2: created such a thing like that. But lucky for us,
Speaker 2: we haven't seen anything from the outer parts of the
Speaker 2: Solar system. This was just a man made rocket.
Speaker 1: Now, is it possible that you, with your trained eye
Speaker 1: and your excellent telescope and your minimal ambient light because
Speaker 1: of where you are secretly, is it possible that it
Speaker 1: didn't happen at all, that this was a story.
Speaker 2: It's possible, Walter, But I think watching the thing that
Speaker 2: gives gives credence to the whole story is we're actually
Speaker 2: watching live feeds from the you know, the three letter agencies,
Speaker 2: the four letter agencies like NASA, and they're actually showing
Speaker 2: the data from what they have of the countdown to this.
Speaker 2: They're showing where it should be, where it impacted. I
Speaker 2: believe it did happen, but then again, you never know.
Speaker 2: But why would they want to trick us? Right? Well,
Speaker 2: think about that. That's amazing. We've been tricked before, but
Speaker 2: maybe not in this case. So no visible sighting of
Speaker 2: the space X rocket booster at this point in time,
Speaker 2: and the reason that people are wondering, why are they
Speaker 2: even smashing something into the moon. Yes, we're looking. I
Speaker 2: know this sounds so ridiculous. Why are we doing this
Speaker 2: to destroy the moon and put space junk? If we
Speaker 2: have enough space junk in orbit. The simple answer, and
Speaker 2: it's really complicated if you get to go deep into it.
Speaker 2: We want to know when we do man habitation. We
Speaker 2: mentioned this last time. The south pole of the Moon
Speaker 2: has the water ice. This is a great place to look.
Speaker 2: But the reason they're doing this at the south pole
Speaker 2: of the Moon is the sun never rises deep inside
Speaker 2: those craters. So what you'd have to do is you
Speaker 2: could set up permanent solar stations up on the top
Speaker 2: of the mountain, let's say, or the ridge or the mesa,
Speaker 2: and you could be in permanent darkness because the moon
Speaker 2: every time. If you and I went to the Moon
Speaker 2: right now with the listeners, a lunar day is fourteen
Speaker 2: earth days, so you'd see the sun rising along the
Speaker 2: lunar limb and you'd have to watch it for fourteen
Speaker 2: days before it's set, and a lunar night is fourteen days.
Speaker 2: So well, let's hope they want to know what happens
Speaker 2: when these objects strike the Moon, because who knows. You
Speaker 2: don't want to be in a lunar habitat and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden something comes down out of the sky.
Speaker 2: Because remember there's no sounds in space. It would be boom,
Speaker 2: and they want to understand what size objects come in
Speaker 2: to create craters. And that's a whole nother long story
Speaker 2: that we could talk about some other time.
Speaker 1: I'm sure doctor Sky brilliant expert on celestial events. Tonight,
Speaker 1: my daughters are at the outer banks of North Carolina
Speaker 1: and they have sent me video of the sky because
Speaker 1: they said, we see shooting stars.
Speaker 2: We see shooting stars?
Speaker 1: Are they what are they seeing? Doctor Sky?
Speaker 2: Well, Walter, this is the time of the year in
Speaker 2: the best media show. I have to be careful because
Speaker 2: I've done this for so many years and every time
Speaker 2: I tell people, wow, it's going to be a really
Speaker 2: great event at the big meteor shower. What they're probably
Speaker 2: looking at, the percied meteor shower, Walter is one of
Speaker 2: the best of the year comes from a constellation Perseus.
Speaker 2: If we go back into the whole story, he's the
Speaker 2: guy that apparently does not supposed to look at Medusa
Speaker 2: from mythology, he does something nasty, he cuts her head off,
Speaker 2: and in the mythological way, that's another story. But this
Speaker 2: meteor shower called the Perseans is starting to ramp up
Speaker 2: and it peaks on the evening of the twelfth and
Speaker 2: thirteenth of this month, because the moon will cooperate. It'll
Speaker 2: be at new phase on the twelfth. So if you
Speaker 2: have an opportunity to get out and there's no clouds,
Speaker 2: those nights the twelfth into the thirteenth and the thirteenth
Speaker 2: into the fourteenth might be best. Look in the northeast
Speaker 2: sky after midnight. Walter, I've had the luxury of observing
Speaker 2: the shower for over forty years, and I'll tell you,
Speaker 2: sometimes the sky just pours forth with amazing numbers of meteors,
Speaker 2: and sometimes they don't do much at all. And a
Speaker 2: great comet observer, a good friend of ours here in Arizona, gentlemen,
Speaker 2: that many people in the astronomy world may know, David Levy.
Speaker 2: He said something, because all these meteors, or as I say,
Speaker 2: these little particles, and no kidding, they're about the size
Speaker 2: of my least favorite cereal grape nuts, these little tiny
Speaker 2: pellette size objects that you'd see as cereal. That's about
Speaker 2: the size of this debris. All these meteors come from comets.
Speaker 2: So David Levy said something very interesting. He said, comets
Speaker 2: are like cats. And I said to him, well, how's
Speaker 2: that well, they said, they both have tails and they
Speaker 2: do exactly what they want to do. So the bunch
Speaker 2: daughters are looking at more than likely. And I hope
Speaker 2: everybody in the vast audience of the station all over
Speaker 2: the Earth, this is amazing. And the danger is part
Speaker 2: of this danger danger, he is something interesting. They all
Speaker 2: come from comets, and this particular shower is known to
Speaker 2: come from a comet cold comet swift tuttle, discovered in
Speaker 2: the late eighteen hundreds. It's been pumping out. Think of
Speaker 2: it like the exhaust of a vehicle, a gas powered
Speaker 2: or with all the carbon monoxide and particles coming out.
Speaker 2: When these comet orbits intersect the Earth, we collide with that.
Speaker 2: So every year around this time we get a visibility.
Speaker 2: But here's a weird fact of any object in the
Speaker 2: Solar System that could be dangerous to the Earth. It's
Speaker 2: the nucleus of this comet swift tunnel. Now, not to
Speaker 2: alarm people, it's said that maybe hundreds or even a
Speaker 2: thousand years from now, the orbital intercession of the nucleus
Speaker 2: of this comet, which could be twenty miles across. Could
Speaker 2: you imagine something like that. No comets go super fast
Speaker 2: so they're saying that that object when you see the
Speaker 2: little shooting stars, count your blessings because that's an object
Speaker 2: that continues to pump material out. And it's one Walter,
Speaker 2: of what millions of comets. Isn't it amazing that the
Speaker 2: Earth hasn't been hit? And that's hopefully something that doesn't
Speaker 2: happen and quite a long.
Speaker 1: Time now, Doctor Sky. There was a third item we
Speaker 1: were going to talk about.
Speaker 2: Sure there's an eclipse again, people say eclipses. This one's
Speaker 2: another total solar eclipse. And Walter, have you ever seen
Speaker 2: a total solar eclipse? This is interesting?
Speaker 1: I want to ask you total solar eclipse. I don't
Speaker 1: think so well.
Speaker 2: This is something that everybody and I don't work with
Speaker 2: any travel agents, but I'll tell you something. I've been
Speaker 2: addicted to this. I've seen seven of these and you
Speaker 2: travel all over the world. Oh, this is amazing because
Speaker 2: if you want to learn about what the beauty of
Speaker 2: nature really is, you have to go to one of these.
Speaker 2: Now here's the next one, August twelfth. Next week, people
Speaker 2: in Spain, the entire nation. They get the after part
Speaker 2: of where the shadow is racing across the Earth. It
Speaker 2: goes fast, so what happens at a total solar eclipse.
Speaker 2: The Moon will be new, meaning it's invisible to us,
Speaker 2: so it's going to move across the disk of the Sun.
Speaker 2: And however close the Moon is indicates and however close
Speaker 2: we are with the moon, total eclipses can occur best.
Speaker 2: They can only occur when the Moon is closest to
Speaker 2: the Earth, so what covers the Sun up. So lucky
Speaker 2: people in that area of Spain will get to see
Speaker 2: an eclipse that probably lasts only about maybe two and
Speaker 2: a half minutes. But if you really want a big one,
Speaker 2: here we go. August two, twenty twenty seven. Walter is
Speaker 2: probably the best eclipse for all of us in our lifetimes.
Speaker 2: If you were going to go deep into Egypt, a
Speaker 2: place called luxor the Valley of the Gods, the pas Pyramids,
Speaker 2: you would see a total eclipsed Walter of over six minutes,
Speaker 2: which is unheard of. That will be quite spectacular.
Speaker 1: Are you going to go do that? Are you going
Speaker 1: to go there?
Speaker 2: No, it's a little out of my moment of travels
Speaker 2: because I'm a little concerned about that, and not not
Speaker 2: because of any terrorist threats or anything. Who knows, but
Speaker 2: there was an incident that happened there a long time ago.
Speaker 2: If people look at it, I don't want to scare
Speaker 2: people not to go to Luxor. But the point is
Speaker 2: right now, these people who love eclipses, and I'm one
Speaker 2: of them, and many listeners out there I'm sure are too.
Speaker 2: They book these things year things.
Speaker 1: Is that right? Oh my gosh, Hey, doctor Scott, this
Speaker 1: was a great update. It's twenty past the hour time.
Speaker 1: You sure terrific. Always an honor to have you on
Speaker 1: the S Show. I will promote your weekend program heavily,
Speaker 1: but I don't want it to be minimized by the
Speaker 1: word weekend. This is a great radio show from a
Speaker 1: spectacular broadcaster, Doctor Sky, visiting on the other side of
Speaker 1: midnight from the Red Apple Audio Network.