Comet watch (16 October 2024)

With the one-in-80,000-year comet hopefully visible, Marcus covers all things space (including other comets, meteorites, and space junk)

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus Lush Nights podcast from News Talks.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'd be.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
There is some pretty interesting stuff on the Internet, but
one of the most interesting things I find that I
am drawn to is videos of people ice fishing. When
you go out onto the ice and then you drill
a hole and you put your tent over the hole.
I think you put the tent up first, then you
drill a hole, then you fish in that hole. I'll

(00:34):
do that. If anyone's actually ever done that, I guess
it's something you do in the Great Lakes. You wouldn't
do it in New Zealand because you'd go through the ice.
I don't think it's big for it's not something that's
part of Elk anyway. I just checked it out there.
If anyone's ever been ice fishing, looks tremendous, doesn't it,
Because you're actually in a tent on the ice. Looks free, civilized.

(00:57):
They're not going to do four hours on ice fishing.
But I don't think enough of us would have done it.
They'll be lucky that probably zero point one of a
percent people have done ice fishing on this all alliance,
and there's probably ten people and bearing in mind. Only
about ten percent of people or five percent of people
will call. We might see that might be one of

(01:20):
my KPIs for tonight to get one call about someone
that's been ice fishing. Anyway, how are you going people?
Eight to eight? My name is Marcus, always, will be
here till twelve. Not gonna change my name anytime soon.
Tonight's the night we're gonna make it happen. Not a
true bliss song, but we're gonna talk about the comet.
You'll be hitting your way, you'll be weakending in your
way to the west coast, so you go to the

(01:41):
west coast about now. In fact, if you're at the
beaches on the west coast, let's talk them off. Ninety
mile Beach, Bailey's Beach. You might be at Ticopru Is
that a beach. You might be at glinks Gully. You
might be at Mudaway or Piha or Cuddy Cuddy or

(02:05):
Clark No, not Clark's Beach, all that when I can
ever pronounce. That's west of Wyuku. You might be there
any of those beaches. If you are there, I need
to hear from you. Are there people?

Speaker 2 (02:15):
There?

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Are there people there looking for the comet Because it's tonight.
So you got to go to a West coast beach.
Carry or tahi. Oh there's another eye in there. That's
what gets me. Carryui Tahi. You might be there or
any of those beaches right down the neth of the country,
even as far down as Audity Beach or in fact
Mason's Bay and Stewart Island. That'd be a good place

(02:38):
to be. So you go there. You go to the
beach on the west coast, and you look for the
first star that appears after sunset. But the trick is
it's not a star, it's Venus. So look for Venus
in the sky, which will bear a twinkling star that's
actually a planet. And from there you come down towards

(02:59):
the horizon, and then about halfway down you go to
the right and there you should see the comet. I'd
love to, but I'm at work and I don't think
the comet's a big enough deal yet to say to
the bosses. I'm going to broadcast from the beach because
one thing I know about broadcasting, one of the golden

(03:20):
rules about broadcasting. I'll put this in the book. The
key to broadcasting is to be able to control what
you can control. Very rarely does it warrant doing an
outside broadcast because what normally happens with people in outside
broadcast the sound is terrible, and halfway through the think

(03:41):
I'll actually go back to the studio because no one
can hear it. That's front of mine for me when
it comes to outside broadcast. But if you are on
the West Coast beach, let us know what you can
see the trouble, Dan, and I'd like you to do
something about this, Dan, as I try and think of
something brilliant to say, is anything on Twitter? As anyone
saying they've seen it? I don't even know what you'd Google?

(04:02):
Has it got to handle because it's got a recomplicated name, right,
what would you search for on Twitter? We just Dan
said long and confoluted. I'm going to just do it myself.
But let's talking to the audience, not that you do
anything wrong. Dan, I'm thinking, actually, I just put Comet

(04:22):
and I'll see if anyone's posted anything on Twitter or
anything else, because I want to bring total coverage for this.
No nothing Comet blocking clouds coming around sunset. This was
shot from Beluga Point. There will be other opportunities with

(04:46):
this clouds later this week in South Auckland Central Where's
Beluga Point. Another text on Twitter says if you c
K I n G clouds, then there's a third tweet
from Scott Maline. You'll be looking this at the same
time as me.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
Dan.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
I'm sure that's cgi because I'll tell you what. Down
south it is an the most extraordinary day in Southland.
It's a day that's just filled me with the love
of life. The farm has dried out, but I'm seeing

(05:23):
some amazing shots online. Someone's done a shot of the
comet and Hawaii and it looks amazing the image of that.
But whether that it's got Carolyn Barber, MD, schamdical and
science writer, but no one's retweeted that. But mind you,
she might forbid retweeting. It's an extraordinary image. So people

(05:49):
are posting shots of it. If you've seen it, can
you see it? Let us know it's been spotted in Arizona.
It should be out there people, so get in touch.
If you are on the west coast beach has let
us know we're hitting that way. Eight hundred and eighty
Teddy and to the text, my name is Marcus. I
thought more people have seen it by now. But for

(06:10):
what I can see, sun set in gray Mouth is
at eight point fifty nine, so you should be out
there now. So this is big news for us, guys,
because it's at the nighttime and we like things in
the stars. I've come and too hyped, haven't I. But

(06:35):
it's a beautiful night down here. So if you've seen
the comet, let us know if you're looking at it
or hitting out west. Very important to me that someone
sees it. I'll tie the texts.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
For you.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Marcus been ice fishing many times we living in British Columbia, Canada.
Mostly caught cocony type of trout, very tasty. Sometimes use
marshmallows for bait. Great experience. Marcus looking looking out west
at Ahipara and it's just dirty gray clouds. No comment
regards Stephen. Too much cloud cover and Westport. I think

(07:16):
it would be very easy to see an invert cargo
or at all ety beach because the night is like
that tonight, guys. It's one of those great nights. So
if you are looking, let us know, Oh eight hundred
eighte Teddy and nine two nine two to texture, or
if you're heading out that way. I thought by the way.

(07:38):
If it's not seen tonight, it'll get better later on
in the week. But no one's posting about it that
I can see. But do get in touch. By name's Marcus, Welcome,
looking for information about this comet. You should be out there.
Oh eight hundred eighty tady and nine two nine two
text anyway we have to go. Oh, by the way,

(08:01):
Gary has sent me an email which I'm just bringing up.
I've got too many things open on a computer. I
thought we'd start out with someone seeing the comment. I'm
slightly disappointed about this. Apparently on the TV three news tonight,

(08:29):
Melanie was interviewed and she is the woman from She
is the race committee from the America's Cup. This is
the race committee. She's got their very mysterious sounding voice.
So interviewed her tonight, which means I've interviewed everyone. Because
America's Cup will be tonight, which is ready tomorrow morning
from about one o'clock. Be very interesting. We could go

(08:50):
five four or five nil up. I think four or
five nol up because it's a bit of a walk over.
Hopefully they come back. Anyway, do you get in touch
if you can see the comment? Moneame as Marcus, welcome
or if you're heading out to see the comment, or
seat yourself up for it. Marcus, Totonga has a pride
rainbows crossing. Who needs a comet? Comet spelt with an eye. Yeah,

(09:16):
no comet at p eighty m Marcus, unlikely tonight. It's
mag three and unlikely to burst through the intensity of
twilight all the way to twenty one hundred hours will
not be lower than two point five degrees above the horizon,
and extinction issues not stopping me trying for second night running,

(09:41):
though I'm shooting more for the colorful hues of twilight
under clearboo sky. Cromwell, Central Otago, Marcus, here at backbach,
you Plymouth, many people here after gorgeous son Sa beautiful
clear skies waiting to see the comet. Tannia and Stephen
shout out to you guys, clear and white to that

(10:02):
beautiful night can see. Venus. Not sure why you need
to go to the beach. I suppose you don't have
to go to the beach, Marcus. Too cloudy here in Poknui,
in the far far north, chairs justin. I think the
most specific text was that one from Cromwell, Central Otago,

(10:23):
I don't know what meg three is, but this person
seems to know what. They seem to be an astronomer.
Does Totong get to see this thing? I don't think so.
I think you've got to look to the west unless
you've got a clear view of the west and the horizon.
But you live the kaimis in your way, and Totong,
I would think so. I think you've gotta be able

(10:44):
to see the horizon. That would be my because it
comes down quite low. Because I think you still need
the I don't know about the light of the moon.
Gorgeous moon tonight though, but if you are comment watching,
I'd like to hear from you. It's important to me.
Good evening, Bob. It's Marcus.

Speaker 5 (11:05):
Welcome, Hey, easy, Marcus. I'm just going through booker A
Bay and there's a little car park at the bottom
of the bay which overlooks it fron Seat to the
South Island, and there's quite a few people parked up
down there, so it's a beautiful light up here and waiting.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Hey, just tell me something because this is important to me.
At Pookato Abbey, people being considerate and turning their lights
off so other people can see it it's.

Speaker 5 (11:31):
Still quite light here at the moment, and there is
an incredibly bright food tonight.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
You know, I think it's going to help in some
ways because I'm looking where you are at the car park.
You're looking more to the north direction of you've gone
around from the beach or where about to are you?
You're an ocean.

Speaker 5 (11:53):
Really north. But I look back that car park on
the space in south Okay, basically looking across the.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
Nelson Okay, okay, can you see venus.

Speaker 5 (12:06):
Not hit them? Overent, But Jesus was a beautiful night
this morning.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
When I come, will you hang out there a while
and see if you can see it?

Speaker 6 (12:18):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (12:18):
Well, make my way up to wau whatever.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
You are you're driving, Yeah, Roger, Oh, thank you for
your service. Bob. I didn't realize. I thought you are
just the commuter. But I appreciate you coming. It's begin
tell for me. Thank you good on your comment. Watching Bob,
he's got a double What do you say he had
a double concist or something? Keep it going. My name
is Marcus. If you've got some information about the comment,

(12:44):
I just want to be the first person in this
country to broadcast it. Someone s I think I can
see it, and I said, where they've texted back, might
be a plane. Waite to that l O L clear
night in the Company coast, beautifully beautifully cloudy night to
need a no moon, no comment, no venus. I was

(13:06):
at the top of the farm before I came to
work and there was not a cloud in the sky,
and that's got three sixty views, so I could see
white round but there was tending of it. Braggy, isn't it.
But no comet because the sun was still up. I
think the sun's probably still up down here. Get in
touch eight hundred and eighty Teddy nine to nine, two

(13:27):
ticks if you can see the comet, Yeah, get in touch.
One of the biggs from Australia is that there was
a instant in the railways. Two tradations were closed and Victoria.
They thought it was an act of vandalism, but they've

(13:47):
gone back to see SEECTV footage and it appears an
amorous couple and a stewhell just lodged a sprinkler and
then they've put their photos of them on the which
I think is violation of their privacy, but there you go. Goodness,

(14:08):
amorous couple caused major flooding at two Melbourne train stations.
So this probably is the best thing that someone's texted through. Marcus.
Venus clear as in Papamoa. No comet mind you, you're
not on the right side of the island. That's near
Todonger Angela. It's Marcus. Welcome and hello, Oh.

Speaker 7 (14:28):
Good evening, Marcus. I live in Atua and up high
above them, the lake looks straight west and Venus is
very bright. There's very little cloud and no sign of
the comet. The milk the Southern Cross is just starting
to appear.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
It's a great report from you. So if you look
at vertical, being vertical on the horizon being how how
far above the horizon is Venus? Oh well it is
halfway up or acord of the way up.

Speaker 7 (15:04):
Yeah, I'll pull your third up. Yeah, okay, Yeah, I'm
higher than Mountain Nomataha. I can see over Mountamata. So yeah,
and there's fear. There's only a few little clouds that
further down on nearer the horizon for the night sky
is quite and I live in the countryside, so there's
no you know, no pollution.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
From the light from the spot you've got.

Speaker 8 (15:31):
It's lovely.

Speaker 7 (15:31):
We look straight out to mccoir Island.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
Are you on Are you on the west of the island.
Are you the west of the lake?

Speaker 7 (15:39):
Yes, like not about five k's north of the airports,
near the fuck Attorney turn off. Okay, well on State
Hildway thirty three.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
I can copy that. Oh you keep an eye tomorrow
and the next night. You're in a perfect spot for that.

Speaker 7 (15:54):
Yes I am. I am in a really good spot.
You know, I get I get a you know nothing,
no intending view. I've got, you know, like one hundred
and eighty gree view of the of the western sky.

Speaker 9 (16:06):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
And it's it's it's a it's a farm property, is it.
It's not bosh?

Speaker 7 (16:11):
Well just eight akers.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yeah, sounds gorgeous. And you're nice to talk. Thank you, Janus.
It's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 10 (16:19):
Hi.

Speaker 8 (16:19):
How are you.

Speaker 11 (16:20):
I'm looking at the window through my binoculars and all
I can see is one star in the sky, but
it's all different colors.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
Red'll be Venus.

Speaker 11 (16:29):
It's Venus. There's nothing else in the sky, not one
single star at all.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
Okay, Well, they'll come out soon. I presume your.

Speaker 11 (16:35):
Rural Yeah, I mean it looks mounted.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
But you I mean I presume you are urban. I
said the wrong word.

Speaker 11 (16:41):
Yeah, yeah, so I'll keep my eyes out. Do you
think it'd be very soon or.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
What we what do we know about things that happen
in space that you can't put a time. You can't
put a timeline on.

Speaker 11 (16:52):
It's very clear here, so it's good.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that is. I'm pretty sure that
is Venus. Tell me it's colours again.

Speaker 11 (16:59):
It's gone red through the binoculars. It looks like red.
Then there's blue, green, all different colors through the monoculars.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
Yeah, they can be read. I think it can be read.
I don't really know the full details there, Janus.

Speaker 11 (17:15):
It sort of goes all spark toy, like a diamond,
you know, all different literate. Now it's going all sort
of all the colors are coming out or look just
like a diamond, diamond ring, all different shiny colors coming
out of it.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
Okay, well I presume that's Venus. I it's the only
thing you can say.

Speaker 11 (17:29):
Yeah, yeah, okay, thanks.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
MICUs, thank you, Jennie, it's all Comet watched the comment
with I wish they should have given it a name
so we could say, oh, have you seen I don't
know what a name could be for it. There a
catchy name have you seen? And cer catchy name there?
And see we've got this AC two three seven two seven,
so it's like a bad number plate. Glynnot's Marcus.

Speaker 12 (17:49):
Good evening her, Marcus, how's it going good?

Speaker 3 (17:53):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (17:53):
Glynn.

Speaker 13 (17:56):
Well, speaking of the name of the comet, I'm pretty
sure it's like soue chinned cham so. I think that's
the name of the China.

Speaker 3 (18:04):
Yeah, that's right. Yeah, And that probably sounds a slightly
racist thaying about that, but I'm talking about more than
the AC two three, just the AC and the numbers
as what's yeah, as the like.

Speaker 13 (18:20):
Yeah, no, same, but the comet was very much there
tonight really came from yep so I stand Papakura and
all week I've thought to look to the eastern sky
around seven thirty so driving back, the sun was just
going down. I think it was about seven thirty, so
the best time to catch it. You're not going to

(18:41):
catch it now, but the best time to catch it
is seven thirty. Make sure you're up on the hill
and with clear skies in the in the west, and
so as I'm driving I could see a streak in
the sky a yellow streak and I thought, now that's
this is what I've been waiting for. And then there

(19:02):
was a slow as uber driving in front of me
because I was trying to get to the hills. This
hell around the corner from me in Papakura Cold White
Or Road all the way to the top of Old
White Or Road, and I had my I already had
my telescope in the boot, got up there and just
missed it.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
Wow.

Speaker 13 (19:23):
But I did see it with my eyes though.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
So you're like, so you'll get to see it tomorrow
night because you'll be up there. You'll be more organized,
will you.

Speaker 13 (19:32):
I've definitely organized yet. But if anybody wants to see it,
it's seven thirty seven thirty to seven forty five. It
will only last it will only be visible for fifteen minutes.
So you got that time frame seven thirty to seven
forty five. But it was definitely visible in the sky,
and that was with the naked eye. That's seeing it.

(19:53):
With the naked eye, you get no one.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
Can you take photos through your telescope for tomorrow?

Speaker 14 (20:01):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (20:02):
I will try you to be honest. I've only just
bought it, so it's like I'm still really trying to
figure it out, and I took it up there tonight,
and I have to google on how to use it,
to be honest, but apparently you can. You you can
see it, okay, using binoculars as well, so I might
I might just have to buy a pair of binoculars

(20:23):
and otherwise I'll probably take forever trying to sort out
the telescope and then missed it completely. So yeah, okay,
but it was definitely there. It was definitely there tonight,
definitely up there.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
I'm interesting where I saying when to sing it to
the experts, to say, you're supposed to see it before sunset.

Speaker 13 (20:48):
Just as the sun is going down. I have read
I've also read on there that you got into eight
thirty to see it, and I'm thinking to myself, well,
I didn't see it at eight thirty tonight. Definitely didn't
see it after eight, because sometimes I'd look over and oh,
it's not there now, like yeah, but no, seven thirty

(21:12):
to seven forty five. Well, according to today, I think
it was seven thirty to seven forty five.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
According that's according to what you saw.

Speaker 13 (21:21):
Right, according to what I saw, Yeah, definitely was the comet.

Speaker 12 (21:26):
The streak.

Speaker 13 (21:26):
It was a vertical streak, and yeah, I was just
beside myself because I was really almost thought it was
a missile or whatever. That thing doesn't exist, because I've
taken so many trips this week, like three trips to
Kitty or Tahi Beach, three trips there and back. Every
time I went there it was cloudy and I was like,
damn it, so missed the aurora, missed the comet. And yeah,

(21:50):
but the enthusiasm was there.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
Okay, well yeah, well get a shot little but I
appreciate you coming through. It does say according to the
guy from the Observant Tree, I don't want to diminish
what that I said to me. You sound like I
knew what he was on about. But the information I'm saying.
Stardom astronomer Josh Raki told stuff that the comet could

(22:14):
be seen from anywhere in the country, but a clear
view of the western horizon is essential. If you go
the west coast, for example here in Auckland, you have
nothing in your way blocking your view. It's basically really
your need. The beach is out in west like mudaway
p Harkadi Kadi would be the best because you're away
from the light. He also added that while the comet
would be visible starting Wednesday, might be visible stady on Wednesday,

(22:38):
it will become easiest spotlight on the week as it
rises around the sky, and the ideal viewing time is
a one hour window immediately after sunset. The easiest way
to find the comet, Ardaki explain, is to look for
the bright planet Venus after sunset. There's a really bright
looking star directly west and you can't miss it, and

(22:59):
that's Venus. If you look to Venus and you look
below and then to the right, you might see a
little fuzzy patch table coming off it, and that's tail.
I think that hasn't been corrected, and that's the comet.
So I think it does say to look certainly after sunset.
That was always my wisdom was dis distem But yeah,
I'm not denying anyone because people see what they see

(23:22):
there want to be a comet denier. Josh. It's Marcus.
Good evening and welcome, hi, Josh.

Speaker 15 (23:26):
Yeah, hey Marcus. Hey, there are some diagrams online with
the comet thing, and the comment's actually just chasing the sunset,
so it should be sort of just after sunset. You
should see it for a few minutes because it's very
low on the horizon. I didn't see it myself. I'm
looking online trying to figure out how it's all going.

(23:50):
But yeah, that's what I saw that. You can look
up this and diagrams and it's like it's just chasing
the sun. So when the sun goes down, it appears briefly,
like just afterwards.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
Because that's the funny thing that talk about, Josh. You
deal with people that of re element with what they've
seen and strong in their beliefs. Oh my god, I've
seen it. Everyone's wrong. It's got to go before sunset. Well,
clearly it's not because he one says it's after, but staring.

Speaker 15 (24:16):
You don't want to be staring at the sun because
you won't see it, right, It's got to be like
just after Marcus, I was going to ask you, are
you going to bring up the subject of ACC this evening?

Speaker 3 (24:31):
Is it? Is there something in the news about ACC?
Is it? Is it?

Speaker 15 (24:35):
Do you?

Speaker 11 (24:37):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (24:37):
You missed it?

Speaker 15 (24:37):
Okay, So the seven billion dollars in the red and
the rejig what we're paying for ACC?

Speaker 16 (24:46):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (24:47):
Sorry, this was really recent. This was like came out
at like five o'clock.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
Or something.

Speaker 15 (24:52):
But they did bring it up on the news.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
It doesn't tend to go terribly well with a talkback
topic because it's one of those things that's got quite
a lot of specifics too that people understand. Yeah, okay,
the A c C. I thought that that that it
was a private insurance scheme that was incredibly well subscribed
to and was like a financial miracle.

Speaker 15 (25:14):
Oh yeah, no, it's it's brilliant. But hey, look, our
sons were thinking that GEST might be going up, but no, no,
gst's going to stay where it is, but ACC will
be going up. So that's that's all I wanted to say.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
About that.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
I don't know are you are you? Do you pay
a CC for yourself? Josh?

Speaker 15 (25:36):
Oh, we all do, man, anyone who's employed paying the market, but.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
Self employed people are more aware of what they've got
to pay.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Right.

Speaker 15 (25:45):
Look, man, we're all invested in ACC, and we're all
invested in you.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
And do yourself know how much your levy is.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
At the stage?

Speaker 15 (25:55):
Yes, I don't know what it's going up to, and
I'm just I'm just speculating on whether or not they'll
cover the cost or whether they'll put in a little
bit of a margin than there also, so I guess
I have to wait to find out.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
Okay, we thank you for being at our attention, Josh.
I do appreciate that nineteen to nine the Comet and
acc get in touch. Marcus. Till twelve oh eight hundred
and eighty eight nine two nine, I would imagine that
the levees for broadcasting will be quite low, would they?

(26:32):
There are any broadcasts? Well, not many radio people injured
on the job. I can't think of anyone. I mean
people have died broadcasting with heart attacks. Was that going
ready Pacific a few years back on? I think it
was a housing what was his name anyway, But that's

(26:53):
not going to get through to midnight? Is it talking
about broadcasters? Marcus? Which is your favorite berry fruit? And why? Strawberry, raspberry, gooseberry, blueberry, cardarkerberry.
That's a good question that yes, me and my daughter
have just seen it just as the sun was heading
down from pukiatur and the waka or just above the horizon.

(27:17):
Wasn't there for long? Was just the right of the sun,
so but hard to look for, but definitely seeing the
glow in one or two. What direction do we look?
Everyone looks west, everywhere in the country. You look the
same direction. Can I go inside now? Yes? Please? Marcus,

(27:40):
I swear Janice is the What day is Father's Day?
Lady over neat for recognizing voices? What a key religion
she is? Cheers? What's the what day is Father's Day?
Where's that from? Is that some sort of virality thing? Okay?
Where's that? Was it a radio competition or something? Okay?

(28:01):
Ambly here no comment out to the west. I think
the callers Venus is actually just Jupiter to be yes,
you could be right for a cambridge, very clear view
of the Venus. No comet visible, should be close to
the horizon. Oh when people say ambly, I think it
might be the town rather the person. Good Ambly, someone says,

(28:22):
I hope the comet doesn't collide with Venus. Me too, Marcus,
is you're looking at the space station which blinks red
and green. Get in touch by Name's Marcus. My nineteen
year old son set off to the Yukon, northern British
Columbia horse wrangling with a hunting company, met a German girl.
They spent pics of them camping and ice fishing on

(28:43):
a lake called a Lovely Trout The highlight was my
son wearing short real Southern man goodness talking ice fishing,
not because I wanted to, but just because that seems
to be what people want to talk. Well texts. It's
pretty interesting all those black bulls that roll up on
the beach in Australia, these perfectly spherical black bulls, and

(29:08):
they closed the beach. It was in Kuldjie, which some
of you will know, and they couldn't work out what
they were. But now they've realized they are tarbules. Yeah,
I've never heard of tarbles, quite spectacular looking things. I

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think tarbules are formed when oil comes into contact with
debris and water, seen following an oil spill or a
seepage incident. There you go. Nothing i'd heard about before,
but amazing what the sea will actually bring to the surface.
Tarbules quite a good size, some of them as big

(29:51):
as a shot put. So there we go. That's Koujie
Beach closed due to pollution. I did read the big
article today about ah. I was happy enough seeing Venus.
Now you're telling me it could be a space station.

(30:12):
I don't know. I mean, I just said I don't know.
Venus twinkles red I thought it was more yellow and
silver venus, but it does sparkle, Marcus. How closely do
you think potential celestial strikes of other planets in our
Solar system are monitored. It'd be interesting to know what
the consequences for us would be if another planet got
wiped out. I'll be good night for talkback. I don't

(30:37):
know how long we'd know that one of the comments
was wiped out, unless the explosion was spectacular, Marcus. Sorry
to change the subject, but finding those three children more
pressing than a comet reckon they're living in the cave
question Mark. Yeah, absolutely, and of course too, when the

(30:59):
things we talk about we don't necessarily adhere to the
pyramid of concern. It's not the most thing that we're
worried about. We always talk about. Sometimes it's the thing
I find that people are most interested in, like the Chase.
If you've read that article on the stuff website today

(31:19):
about the Chase. But there's people that are up in
arms about people's tactics, and I'd like to say, from
my viewing of the Chase, people take it too seriously.
But what you've got to bear in mind when you
watch the Chase and This is always something that I
remind myself of is that the people don't know each other.

(31:40):
They're not going as a team, they're going in as individuals.
So when it when it comes to game theory, you've
really got to play for yourself. So of course, of
someone you're with a brain box and they've been off
at fifty grand, you go in there low to get there,
so you go to seat at the table for the
final money go round, even if you're a thick. Oh,

(32:01):
there's always one question you could probably do. But the
other thing is if you're there, what haves. The more
people are there, the more points you get, So just
by qualifying already one point up. I think it's quite
a nice subtlety about the chases. They have that extra point,
like if you start with four people, you're on four points,

(32:23):
which four points, which to me is counterintuitive because I
always thought too, the more people, the least you should
start with because there's more of you, you know more,
but seems to work well with the subtlety of the game.
Someone says, do you know how much the going rate
is to buy fresh white bait? Is it difference between
the North and South Islands. I don't buy white bait,

(32:45):
but someone might let me know. I think a lot
of that happens on marketplace, So ifnyone's got some information
about that, feel free, or about tactics for the chase.
The comet seems to have not appeared tonight. There have
been no sightings of it. But it gets better Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Sunday the night. So you go west, you see Venus,
you go below Venus after sunset, and then you go

(33:07):
to the right and there's the comet. It's only a
comet because it's got a tail, so that's important also,
otherwise it's just a bright object in the sky. It's
the tail that's amazing. I don't know how big, because
the reason we love comets is Helly's comet, and I

(33:29):
think Helly's comet lit up the whole sky. But I
don't know if there's any footage of it. I think
there's kind of itchings I miss. It must be photographs
of it, but night photography was it its infancy when
it came was at nineteen eighteen or something. So that's
why people are mad on comets because of Helly's comet.

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But Helly, by the way, rhymes with Valley, Frankie Vally, Helly.
I don't know if there many people would be alive
that saw Helly's comet, but that was the show. I
don't think this one's going to be anything like that.
But it hasn't been seen tonight, and of course there'll be.

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In two hours, it'll be visible in Australia and in
five hours visible in parts of Asia. So and for
that time it becomes closer and closer. So we should
get some warnings as the planet revolves, we should get
some potential sightings to know if they we're in for
more visibility tomorrow. I think that's how it works. I

(34:38):
think the media should have made more of it. Marcus,
have a look at stellarium dashweb dot org. Allow your location.
We'll open a web page of the comet has almost
set tonight, but have a look on the website tomorrow night.
Stelarium dashweb dot org. I'm going to type it in delarium.

(35:06):
That's the time, little dash, the one in the middle.
I've just put an underscore to Weere's a tricky one,
isn't it says?

Speaker 2 (35:16):
This?

Speaker 3 (35:16):
Can't this? I've put STEALI I've put a typo in there,
so it's s T E L l A r i
U M Stellarium, dashweb dot org, stella as in stella
McCartney reem as in can't think of a word that

(35:40):
means dash web know your location, I'll put alow. I'm
loving this so far. Wow, look at this, it's all
go and there's the comet. What shows you what a
great thing that is? Goodness me, Stellarium. Do you have
to put in the comet or is it gone below?

(36:00):
That's very good? Thank you for that. Wow. So that's
a great website. I'd want to spend more time on
not on here to look at that, but stilarium, dashweb
dot org. I've been reading about Halle's comet. Howe sounds
like Valley. When Halley's Comet came in nineteen ten, Earth

(36:21):
went right through the tail of the comet, so people
were freaked out. They thought it was going to be
the end of life itself. So and there was a
toxic gas called cyanogen that was in that tale that
was discovered, so it was a big deal when it
came through. How bright it was I'm unclear, but if

(36:42):
Earth went right through the tail of it, I presume
it was very, very bright. And it was bright for
ten days. It was the first comet ever where photographs
of it existed. So yeah, members of the public book

(37:04):
gas masks, and some people bought quack anti comet pills.
Sounds familiar, So it was a huge deal. So that's
a situation. But by the way, there was also ten

(37:29):
days beforehand, there was the Great January Comet of nineteen ten,
which was the daylight Comet. So within that year there
were two comets. So the Great January Comic or the
Daylight Comet outshone venice and was the brightest comet of
the twentieth century. So it happened then. And of course,
as people said by a text, Hallie's comic came again

(37:51):
in nineteen eighty six. But it was a squib, It
was a dud. There was all sorts of hype for it.
There was a group that set up a viewing platform
north of Auckland. I went up to see it. There
was nothing, there was tiny. I read the text I
look forward to you called it peers is though we
just got one confirmed text of someone that's seen it tonight.
But I'll read the text as I've got them ambly.

(38:15):
Here Halley's comet came through nineteen eighty six. It was underwhelming.
There was another comet in six or seven that filled
the whole sky on the Mackenzie Basin, very spectacular. It
was the same night that Roger's Waters played at Lancaster Park.
That was McNaught. A next text, I presume this word
is Mudaway, and I apologize if I'm wrong because it's

(38:38):
spelt Middleway. But I presume that to Taypo, I don't
know there's another place called Middaway. I'll check that, Marcus.
I'm on the highest point in Mudaway and spotted the
long tail of the comet with an Air New Zealand
Boeing seven eight seven flying below it. Crystal clear night
would be a stunning photo. Old school though, and still

(38:58):
use the Nokia thirty three ten and that doesn't have
a camera. However, has an excellent ancient Empires and Diamond
Rush Games, both in nineteen seventies, black and white. So
that's from Middleway. I'll just google up Middlewy to make
sure I haven't got because that would No, I don't
think it's a place called middle Wi. No, it's middle Way.

(39:21):
So that's a text. So thanks for that. And a
lot of people tell me that Halle's comp was last
year in eighty six years. I'm really aware of that,
but it wasn't much good when it was here last time.
Sarah ats Marcus, Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 17 (39:39):
Oh hey, I was just ringing because I was wondering
if anyone else seen that big giant fireball that came
down maybe fourth of October, two weeks.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
Ago, sure whereabouts?

Speaker 17 (39:57):
So it was the Tasman region, top of the South Island,
and it was you know when you've seen it was
probably like the size of the bus or someone.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
What was the date?

Speaker 2 (40:10):
I think it was the.

Speaker 17 (40:11):
Fourth of October, like a couple of weeks ago. It
was huge. It was just a big fire ball and
the sky coming down, but and it was going sort
of slow, but once it went by on the hills,
that was that you couldn't see where it went.

Speaker 3 (40:25):
Did you say, what was the date? The fourth?

Speaker 17 (40:28):
Yeah, the fourth of October.

Speaker 3 (40:33):
Because there is a website for that stuff.

Speaker 17 (40:37):
Oh yeah, I looked it up and I couldn't find
anything about it. But I've seen it, but maybe someone
else seen that.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
Yeah, I there is a website called Fireballs New Zealand.

Speaker 17 (40:53):
Oh yeah, So what are though, they're just bulls of
fire from space.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
No, no, where they come from.

Speaker 9 (41:04):
They cut their rocks, oh yeah, from space.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
Yeah, and they burn up through the atmosphere so there's
not much left when they come in.

Speaker 7 (41:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (41:16):
Well this one was huge and I was just corn
up and see if anyone had seen it.

Speaker 3 (41:23):
So they're normally rocks that have come from out of space.

Speaker 17 (41:27):
Yeah, So it's not like debray or anything from rockets
or nothing.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
I think that can be space junk comes through as well,
but meteorites. I think with meteorites they burn up as
they come through the atmosphere with a friction and the light,
so they become a lot smaller. And I think Sarah
that in New Zealand there's only ever been about four
or five meteorites that ever have been found because because

(41:51):
they're hard to see otherwise it just looks like a
rock in the forest. So this website, so this website
called metia map right, or this website called Fireballs Dottie
and z what their plan is to do is to
find as many of these meteors as they can because
they talk about you can tell what the other space

(42:13):
is made out of because it's different metals and stuff
or different minerals. But what this website does on fireballs
and Z is your report any fireballs to them and
then they get dash cam footage and footage from security
cameras to get images of it and try and work
out where they land to go and find them.

Speaker 17 (42:36):
So if you find it, do they pay you? It's
with a fortune, With a fortune, yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:44):
I think I think I think it'd be seven figures.

Speaker 17 (42:48):
Oh, seven figures.

Speaker 3 (42:49):
Oh yeah, okay, I think it'd be I think it'd
be worth millions of dollars.

Speaker 17 (42:54):
And then there's the New Zealand website.

Speaker 3 (42:57):
Yes, oh yeah, and I'll tell you this because I
like you. Okay, this group they found one in twenty
twenty four, right yeah, and take upon the South Island.
The last one was found twenty years before that, and
an awkward where it came through someone's roof of their

(43:20):
house in Mount Wellington and they ended up on the
Letterman Show talking about it. The one before that was
in Combultant in nineteen seventy six. So in the whole
history of New Zeum there's only been one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
ten have been found.

Speaker 17 (43:35):
So what if you didn't have footage, but you found
the rock.

Speaker 3 (43:40):
Oh, they would know.

Speaker 17 (43:42):
They would know.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
Yeah, you go to the head biscuit of the university
and they look at it. They could tell it was
because I think the rock has become quite smooth because
it's been heated. Once it's come through, they look different.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (43:53):
Yeah, Okay, Well that's good to know because I've seen
one and maybe someone else seeing that.

Speaker 3 (43:58):
Yeah, but it was.

Speaker 17 (43:59):
Big in the skylight. It was like the size of
you know, a bas or someone when you've seen it
coming down. Obviously the rock wasn't the actual ball of
fire itself.

Speaker 3 (44:08):
So we're in Tasman, are you, Sarah?

Speaker 17 (44:11):
I won't say that now that I know it's where
South Island somewhere.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
Yeah, good, like you're lot Sarah. Thank you. So the
only other thing I know about meteorites is that an
ancient Egypt didn't they use meteorites to make the handles
for weapons like daggers and stuff, Because I think in

(44:38):
the desert it's quite easy to spot them in the
sand because they stick out, So they use meteorites for
that or did they use space gold? I might have
been confused there, but ancient Egypt, I think knew about meteorites.
The only other thing I know about meteorites is that
Rolex the yacht company, the watch company, brought a meteorite

(44:59):
and they made watch faces out of them, which are
quite sought after. But I'm very happy to talk about
space and meteorites. Nights seem to be on that vibe
with comets, and talking to that last woman, it seemed
as though she had quite a bit of curiosity about those.
An ancient egypt, iron harvested from meteorites was used to

(45:21):
create ritual objects associated with royal and power. An iron
dagger from the tomb of King tut Comun is one
of the oldest Egyptian objects verified to be of meteoric origin.
So it's some really interesting stuff here to talk about.
Have I got the people to talk about it? I
hope so so tonight it's about comets and things from space. Now,

(45:46):
I hate to use you as a personal factotum, Dan,
but you can't go through that thing about the meteorite website,
and I find it quite a hard website to use
that one. Yeah, I was. You didn't getting luck with it,
did you?

Speaker 5 (46:00):
No?

Speaker 3 (46:00):
I didn't neither, because that'd be great if we could
find that, did you, because there seems to be this
heaps of sightings every day. Ah fure, let's hear from
your people. My name is Marcus, welcome Hitdle twelve. But
of a bit some Bobby Knights and those were asking
answering questions about meteorites and the likes of that. Well,

(46:21):
this is I mean, this is not my specious topic,
but I'm interested. I'm interested that the ancient Egyptians used
iron for meteorites. That fascinates me. And I was fortunate
enough to go to Antarctica one time, and an Antarctica
is a good place to find meteorites because there they
stick out in the ice. Well, I suppose i'd stick

(46:43):
out in the ice. I suppose there's great holes in
the ice. So anything about steroids or meteorites and the
comet and Halle's comet in nineteen ten, in nineteen eighty six,
but nineteen ten, I don't know how bright it was.

(47:03):
But if Earth went through the tail, maybe that's where
I'd go on a time travel machine would be back
to nineteen ten. Get in touch Oha eight hundred eighty
taty and nineteen ninety two to text. So yeah, that's amazing.
I didn't realize that until I googled that when that
woman was talking that the group this website, right the

(47:29):
asteroid website that I was telling you about. Fireballs and
this is a I think it started by Denien University.
They've already found one. They've found news Edend's tenth meteorite,
so it's been twenty years since they found one, and
the last one was the one that came through the
woman's roof in Mount Wellington. So yeah, unbelievable. But the

(47:52):
website's quite easy. It's just fireballs dot and did if
you want to go there. Also, Marcus, my grandfather saw
Halle's comment nineteen ten and eighty sixty. See, it was
nothing like the first time he saw it. He died
in two and was ninety three. Yes, I think my
grandfather saw it twice because he lived to a good

(48:14):
age in ninety six. I think pretty sure. Ah, I
just can't remember what year he died. It'd be around
about nineteen eighty six. Actually, he was probably after that.
The other by the way, the other for those people
in Southland, one of the meteorites that was discovered, one
of the ten in New Zealand was the rue for Makarewa.

(48:36):
Didn't know that. That's new to me. Nineteen past nine,
the numbers eight hundred and eighty ten. It's all about
comets tonight and space junk and meteorites. Someone says, seeing
quite a few meteorites while driving the tractor late at
night in Southland. I'm sure you will. So one thing
I missed about working nineteen You know out they're looking

(48:57):
at the sky. Oh, but the good things stack up
for it anyway. Ai lad, it's Marcus. Welcome, good evening,
thanks for calling o A you good, thank you.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
I witnessed a Halle's common in eighty six in the
Donde and observatory. Yeah, that's pretty cool. It was very
it was very exciting, extremely exciting. I've seen it buzz
across the sky light through that telescope. It was amazing.

Speaker 3 (49:32):
But it wasn't fast moving, was it? I mean it
was only it was moving as quick.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
I just got it, just guard it across the sky. Okay,
it was spectactive. It was the once in a lifetime
thing and I will never say it again.

Speaker 3 (49:45):
You're young, though, are you.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
No? I'm fifty now.

Speaker 3 (49:49):
Oh cheap is okay? Because you won't you won't see
the next one, will you.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
I'd like to think I would.

Speaker 3 (49:56):
Well, they might, they might, they might develop, they might develop.
They reckon could lift to one hundred and fifty.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
When's at nytime? Around eight seventy three as a seventy something.

Speaker 3 (50:09):
Twenty sixty six or something.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
Give it a go.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
Did you had you booked in for the observatory?

Speaker 2 (50:18):
Wait? Were there through a school excursion?

Speaker 12 (50:20):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (50:20):
Good on?

Speaker 3 (50:20):
The school? What school?

Speaker 2 (50:23):
It wasna? Intermediate?

Speaker 3 (50:25):
Good on there, that's what you That's what you want
a school to be doing, is booking into observer? Where
is the where is the an observatory?

Speaker 2 (50:33):
That's on the hell up above? Let's just that's under
as near Rossland.

Speaker 3 (50:40):
Brilliant. Nice to hear from you, lad, brilliant. You wouldn't
we go as an adult? Matthew, it's Marcus.

Speaker 12 (50:49):
Welcome today, Marcus. I was interested that woman call her
previously said she'd seen that, all right, so I rest
Yet I couldn't see anything because we can see the
western sky on the north part of it, so I
didn't see it. But what I found about was, are
you aware have you heard of there's two theories? Let's

(51:14):
find out that all the gold on the Earth as
a result of comets, all asteroids hitting asteroids hitting the Earth. Yeah,
and have you heard that theory. I think it's the theory.

Speaker 3 (51:27):
Look, Matthew, from my knowledge and I read a book
about this in nineteen eighty six. I remember I got
out of the Sydney livery wow. And it was all
about because all metals are made in the collapse of suns.
So every metal in his every metal in the planet
has come and been created in the meltdown of a
sun when they become a dwarf star or whatever they are,

(51:51):
and that's when the metals are made. Then they blow around,
well in some form. I don't know what happens to
them then quite what the process, they find their way
to our planet. And it seems amazing that all metals
could come from collapsing stars.

Speaker 12 (52:06):
That's right, because our core, you know, we've got an
iron or you know, the planet and the plates float
on float on that. But well, not not the actual
I think the cause solid. I think it's not really mine. Yeah,
she's just focused on the other area I've heard is
that the moon, the Earth's moon was originally wasn't always

(52:30):
there that it was, wouldn't you know that it's somehow collided.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
I think I think I think a commet hit well,
something hit Earth and it broke it off.

Speaker 12 (52:42):
Right and it got yeah formed and stayed in.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (52:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (52:50):
But but mate, that thing about the fact all all
all heavy elements above zirconium have come from neutron stars.
But when that was discovered, it never really seems to
be a bit of a theory that's kind of taken
on for you never hear people talking about that.

Speaker 12 (53:07):
But unlike the evolution, which has been adopted as fat
yeah and.

Speaker 3 (53:10):
Like all sort of and I guess it just seems
too far fetched for people that well I don't know why,
but but it's been around for about fifty years and
it's proof.

Speaker 12 (53:19):
Maybe it's just hard to have to get head around. Well,
the gold thing comes up in my mind when I'm
watching you know, I quite like there's gold programs in
Australia where they're finding it in the streams of the
river in Tasmania. And then that I think other here
is that they're excavating and then they're going down mines
and that's what that's what got me.

Speaker 3 (53:40):
Oh yeah, I can't believe if there's any show about mining,
gold mining or whatever. I'll watch it because I find
it fascinating. But then when you start thinking that so
far in the Earth, but it's come from other it's
come from collapsed stars, it's it's hard to comprehend.

Speaker 12 (53:56):
Yeah, well that comprehend that. That was my sort of
encommon is what I like about space is that you
know the boundaries of space. When you and we'd comprehend
the boundaries of space, it's like, we can't comprehend it.
It it verges with or the colors the boundaries of

(54:16):
our mind. You know, it's a space goes so far
that we don't know, and our mind can't convent, can't
get around it. We can't comprehend it the boundaries of it,
you know, as a species, as an animal. But that's
the limit of our brain power. That's what I like
about space.

Speaker 3 (54:34):
For me, it would be easier for me to believe
that we are in a simulation than to believe that
the Earth is as that the universe is as vast
as it is with billions and billions of stars. I
just can't comprehend that vastness. Would make more sense to
me that we are that there is no such thing,
and where it's all just an algorithm. But yeah, it's
all about space tonight Marcus didn't realize it's been song.

(54:57):
But the space station Corlab Skylab came back to Earth
in July nineteen seventy nine. It was big news. I
remember that. Well, we're all scared that was going to happen.
And it was a big deal because I think they
offered huge money for the bits that came through London
and Western Australian bits were found. Anyway, get in touch

(55:18):
by name is Marcus Headle twelf. Also talking about where
you were when you saw Halle's comet, Marcus, I saw
Halle's comment in eighty six on a fong a new
girls college is a border our matron had a telescope.
What a good matron that is, and we all stood outside,
look turned, took turns looking at the comet, just like
the way the last call described it. Thanks BRender Jeepers,

(55:43):
your pregnant pause in got me looking for the right channel.
Some people say I don't pause enough. It's where doesn't
I think I'm by kept six when you just stop pausing, Well,
I don't even knew I did, Peter. It's Marcus. Welcome
good evening.

Speaker 4 (55:57):
Yeah, Marcus, I'm just traveling on the Southern Motorway Orphan
and I'm pretty certain that being at the comment out there.

Speaker 3 (56:07):
Now, Wow, okay, and it's out to the west of
where you are.

Speaker 4 (56:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah it is. I can't see any other
stars out there unless is it right? Is it Venus
or sat or something that's that's right that way?

Speaker 3 (56:23):
That's Venus. It should it should be below Venus.

Speaker 2 (56:26):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (56:27):
Well yeah it maybe Venus. It looked like it had
a bit of a tail or. Is that just my
eyesight of this?

Speaker 10 (56:36):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
It might be it might be a duty wind, might
be a dirty windscreen, is it?

Speaker 4 (56:42):
Yeah, I'm trevored south. That's not the wind screen.

Speaker 3 (56:46):
Okay, Well keep past posted previous see anything else? Like
to talk to you? Twenty nine to ten, Marcus. My
father was born in nineteen ten, the fifth of the fifth,
and my grandmother was in labor. She said that people
were supposed to be helping her. We're looking at the
comet because it was spectacular that night. You think it'd
be more people called Hallie, Marcus. I saw how these

(57:07):
comment two nights in a row and nineteen eighty six,
first night in fang Are next night at a school
camp north in Kitty Kitty, when I woke the teachers
to view it too. My father saw it in the
nearly nineties and wanted to see the second time, but
died earlier the early nineties. Tens, it must be that
one's I'm made a bit of a hash of reading that.
So we're talking about where gold comes from and meteorites

(57:30):
and comets. I'm enjoying this Muchly get in touch and
people might remember Skylab nineteen seven. I forget what the
offer was. I think someone offered they would exchange the
weight of sky Lab or gold. So there was huge

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amounts of people out looking for it and it landed
in Western Australia. I don't fully know what Skylab was.
I think it was a space station. I don't know
if it was a man's space station. I presume it
probably was. But huge news because people thought, get hit.
There's a child when you're ten or twelve or something

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got hit by a comet. Goodness man, it's not it
doesn't make for well. I mean, I don't think we're
not obsessed with it, but there was a chance that
could hit New Zealand. I think it was kind of
in some of the visualizations of it, it says on Wikipedia.
Skylab's demise in seventy nine was an international media event

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with t shirts and hats with bull's eyes. Odd like
one of those it's a great thing to have hat
with a bull'seye. The San Francisco Examiner offered ten thousand
dollars prize for the first piece of Skylab delivered to
its officers, and San Francisco Chronicle offered two hundred thousand

(58:50):
dollars if a subscribers suffered personal or property damage. A
Nebraska neighborhood painted target, so the station we have something
to aim for. Wow, it was pretty amazing. But there
were bits found. Debris landed three undred miles east of Perth,

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between Esperance and war Lena, Yep. Stan Thornton found twenty
four pieces of Skylab at his home in Espirants after
obtaining his first passport. He flew to San Francisco after
waiting one week for Marshall Space Flight Center toward thirdicate
the wreckage. He collected the Examiner prize and another one

(59:33):
thousand dollars from a Philadelphia businessman who had flown his
family and girlfriend there.

Speaker 12 (59:39):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (59:41):
I was rock fishing on Waihiki one night. I heard
a wish and saw a trail of smoke leading towards
the sea. This happened one hundred meters from me. The
trail of smoke was a potpproxym on hundreds long. Didn't
here a splash, though, I can only assume it was
a meteorite. Lotto wasn't one twenty six million, so lotto

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wasn't one not quite twenty six million, will be twenty
six million dollars on Saturday night someone did when strike.
They brought their ticket from a video store in Wellington,
and the immediate question was does Willington slive a video store?
It might be that I couldn't believe that. By the way,
driving to work today, I see in the space of

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empty shops because they open them all so the shops
are empty. We're getting a brand new vape shopping in
Vicago for goodness sake. Saw them stacking up their shelves.
Here's an interesting text. Science guesses everything about space. Science
can't prove what they say. They teach the kids at school,
and their kids grow up and believe what school taught. Science. Literally,

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the definition of science literally is you have to prove
what you say. That's the whole point of science. Literally,
Goodness me, Marcus. There is a theory also that fungus
arrived from a comet.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
It's a good theory. People shouldn't look at commets. That
is what years ago caused a lot of people to
lose their sight and allowed the triffids to take over.
Who would make me read the Triffids as a child?
What a terrifying book that was? Goodness me. I don't
think the books they made me read were as punishment.

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I was traveling in Shellebink's Russia in twenty thirteen when
the metea event occurred. Oh, that's right, that was a
big deal. I was just outside the city in the
house I was in had its windows shattered, and it
was a sound I will ever forget as far as
I'm aware. It was the biggest metea ever in living memory.
But I may be wrong. And incredible thing to witness,

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I'm pretty sure it was. The footage of that was unbelievable.
Marks Donyone. Remember the meteor that flew over christ Church
on the twelfth September two thousand and six and broke
the sound barrier three times. It happened at three oh five.

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I don't know anything about that. Tell us more if
you can find out more about that. It's amazing the
work teachers did to get the kids to see Halle's comment.
I've got an email or a text from Nadan Hi
fellow listens. I remember viewing Halle's comet. Me and fifty
fifth formers were lucky enough with our two geography teachers
and our bus driver Spud to see it. I live

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at Wellington Tighter College. Our teacher flew us kids down
to christ Jutch women camping in South Candor. Our teachers
woke us up about three in the morning and we
had to climb a hill. We all got an awesome
view of Halle's commet. Thank you for your time, Nardine.
Amazing what people will do and teachers. Goodness. I have

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a gold crowd and my mole is spooky to think
it's from space. I've got a gold crown too, and
often think about the goal. I love having a gold tooth.
I'm quite sure what happened to the teeth that it
collapsed like that, but I've never for a moment regretted
having gold in my mouth. Actually wish I had more
of it where it feels good under the tange the gold.

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It's quite a sizeable chunk. I shouldn't say that, should I?
With the cremation and everything. Kevin, Hello, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 18 (01:03:28):
I'm sorry. I was sort of got macked up on
what you're talking about that space debris.

Speaker 14 (01:03:32):
But when I when I was.

Speaker 18 (01:03:34):
An o techy into horror, uh And I was actually
had a deck in the morning, not quite early in morning,
like two o'clock, and I saw this big glow go
through the sky and it was you could just about
it was very very close to your roof, and it

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was a mere say station. So I went, I re
bet to be and I said, I just saw this
big thing go for on pass but it wasn't just debris.
And never got the dominion. The next day and I
read about it and they said yeah, and they said
it sighted Wellington and they went all over. The crashed
over in the South Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand.

Speaker 11 (01:04:23):
What year were you in?

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
What year were you in Tihuro?

Speaker 18 (01:04:27):
I was in I was thereship nineteen eighty nine to
about twenty twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
Yeah, yeah, it was.

Speaker 18 (01:04:38):
Two thousand and one. Yeah, yeah, the march it was
a match. Yeah, I was just saving the deck because
I used to gate the deck and you know, rather
than go toward you said, we're in the country and
just ever win because we're in a lost old block
and it was there was no lights or anything. It's
just dead, pitch black, and I saw the thing go.

Speaker 3 (01:05:01):
Yeah, and it went down Kevin. Yeah, after fifteen years
in space on March twenty three, two thousand and one.

Speaker 18 (01:05:13):
Yeah, I was living there on Swamp Road to her
and it went.

Speaker 3 (01:05:19):
Down about seventy five miles to the east of New Zealand,
so you will have seen it.

Speaker 18 (01:05:25):
Yeah, definitely a fear.

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
You know.

Speaker 18 (01:05:28):
I happened to be at the right time. And when
I went to tell my wife, she thought, oh, what
are you talking about it? And she goes, she's a
bit bit sleep and I said, because if he hadn't
seen you, I'm just happened to be there at the
home at the right moment. It was so amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:05:43):
Oh, you're blessed, Kevin. That's a good story. How's your
memory so good?

Speaker 18 (01:05:48):
Well, you don't forget things like that because it's like
it's all my sob and sit by UFO go in
flying past year.

Speaker 3 (01:05:55):
I'm okay, nice to talk Kevin. Thank you, Jackie. Good evening, Yeah,
good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 19 (01:06:02):
I just thought you might like to know. Is a
meet your museum in a German town called Nerdlingen, and
it's about an hour's drive north of Munich, and it's
just just on these yours And.

Speaker 11 (01:06:18):
How I know as I've been.

Speaker 19 (01:06:20):
I've been to visit it, but my daughter's host family.
He the father, was the the in charge of the whole.
It's a big museum, it's not just a little place.
And he's visited a lot of the metical sites around
the world. But I don't know what you I just

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thought you might like to know.

Speaker 3 (01:06:43):
Jackie, you've been there? You said, yes, are there a
lot there?

Speaker 19 (01:06:49):
Well, the ones that I can't remember it was a
few years ago now, but yeah, they were, you know,
some large, some small, and then all sorts of things
related to it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:01):
How big was the biggest you saw there?

Speaker 19 (01:07:05):
I think it was probably the size of a two
rugby bulls together.

Speaker 3 (01:07:15):
Because I know there are meteor chases, just like these
tornado chases and everything chases, and it's incredibly competitive to
try and find them. Now there is people that you
know that will, oh, yes, do whatever they can.

Speaker 8 (01:07:26):
And I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:07:27):
I don't even know that the law around meteors. I
don't know if you find them, if they're yours, or
if you have to hand them to authorities or it
varies from country to country.

Speaker 19 (01:07:39):
No, I don't I don't know, but I imagine they
cost a lot of money to buy. I think this
museum must have been run by it wasn't a private concern.

Speaker 16 (01:07:50):
I don't think.

Speaker 19 (01:07:50):
I think it was the government, but I wouldn't be sure.

Speaker 3 (01:07:55):
And they're very and they very a great deal.

Speaker 6 (01:07:57):
I'm locks, don't they Yeah, well they're just like rocks, really.

Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
Yeah, just different.

Speaker 3 (01:08:05):
I'll have a look online. Jackie, thanks so much for
coming to When we were last year at the Sydney Museum,
they've got extremely good geology department there. There's a whole
lot of meteorites and that they're amazing to look at.
It was a fantastic. In fact, I went begrudgingly. I
was on the trains of it. I said, oh, well
we've been to the we just look we've been. You've
got to come to this museum. It's oh no, When

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there was unbelievable. It was fantastic, nothing like the real
artifacts in the museum. A yeah, get in touch if
you want to talk. Oh eight hundred and eighty eight ten,
what about gold fillings be pricing now, wouldn't they they?
What's the price of gold through the roof? I'd given

(01:08:47):
the gold mine around today he's hitting off again because
the price of gold through the roof it's at three
thousand dollars. It's a lot. I think it's three thousand,
now it's four thousand dollars. It's a big price. It's

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gone up a lot twenty years, isn't it? From five
hundred to four and a half thousand? Boy oh boy,
good investment. Hard to know where to put it when
you vest in gold. So you've got people digging up
the safe in your backyard. Last ten years, last eight years,

(01:09:33):
last three years. Actually, Celebrity Treasure Island has finished. The
final three have gone, or the final three have gone?
This one when A.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
JB.

Speaker 3 (01:09:42):
Foliarchy is the winner of that too. Quite a moving
final episode apparently, so he is the winner, although I
think the money all goes to charity. On hundred thousand dollars,
it's a situation. JP Foliarchy, James Roliston and Christian Callen
were the final three in a situation. So people seem
to the people I know that it seemed to love it.

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So that's happened. Get in touch of your talk on
here eight hundred and eighty nine to text meteorites, space junk, comets.
So we're at tonight, we'll be going big on the
comet tomorrow night too, Marcus. I've been at Castle Cliff
Beach and Fuanganui tonight since sun was sitting with my friend.

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I got very excited to see what I thought was
a comet and leaped under my cud of video with
my friend. Jumped out of the seat. That's a stick,
and so it was a car arriving at the beach
had illuminated tall stick upright in the sand. We both laughed.
I might try again tomorrow evening. They've taken a screenshot
of the stick that is brilliant, looks like a comet.

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It also looks like a stick because it continues into
the water. It's about the comet, about meteorites, about space junk,
about gold, all that and war. But only ten meteors
or meteors have ever been meteorites have ever been found
in US, which seems amazing because it was such a

(01:11:19):
big country. Just ten, just ten, and only three of
those have been seen to fall. So the rest were
just found one of the wided upper one in Makerewa,
one in McCoy and f Hanganui, two in Canterbury, one
in Gisbon, one on the West coast Dunganville, one in Kimbolton.

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Of the one are two, one in Auckland that came
through their house roof and the one in Canterbury which
they saw on the it's on the screen. The one
in mccoya and Fonganui was seen. That's quite a famous meteorite.
I think it's in the Fongane Museum. I did some
research about that. By the way. Dunganville, I'm not quite
sure where that is, but I'll google that up. It

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sounds like a classic mining town on the coast, doesn't it.
Dunganville sons like I need to go there. I'm actually
compiling a bit of a holiday of places suggested to
me by talkback callers. Well things have come up in discussion.
Dungan Villas out of the backer beyond really how to
describe where it is. I think I have been there,

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but it's just out from Marsden, behind shantytown Sawn. It's
Marcus Good Evening.

Speaker 16 (01:12:37):
Some years ago, probably over forty odd years ago, we
used to go and do it and then your trip
in the outpack in Australia and one.

Speaker 12 (01:12:47):
Tip.

Speaker 16 (01:12:48):
One year we camped in an old meteor crater and
it was supposed to be fifteen miles across Wow, and
that would be right around the perimeter. There were big
like it gave the impression of a hollow, so I

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don't doubt the veracity of the fifteen miles but it
was supposed to be quite a unique place. And yeah,
and we camped there and were uneasy all night because
we weren't meant to be there.

Speaker 3 (01:13:25):
Oh okay, because.

Speaker 16 (01:13:29):
It was the Aboriginal land and not we went to
camp on it or something. But anyway, we stayed and
got out earlier next morning. But it was quite an experience,
just even for just being on edge all night.

Speaker 3 (01:13:47):
Yeah, Hey, Sean, you don't remember what it was called. Nope,
I if i'd said something, would your Well it wasn't
Wolf Creek.

Speaker 11 (01:13:56):
Was it.

Speaker 16 (01:13:58):
No, that wouldn't mean a thing to me.

Speaker 3 (01:14:00):
Okay, okay, and tell me something. So did you say
it was fifteen miles across or was it the diameter?
Fifteen miles across?

Speaker 16 (01:14:06):
The diameter?

Speaker 10 (01:14:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:14:10):
So did you feel you're in a dip? You could
see the edge around you? Could you yep?

Speaker 2 (01:14:15):
Wow?

Speaker 16 (01:14:19):
And it would have been a you know, probably thousands
and millions of years ago. But it's what we were
told what it was, and that's why we stayed there.

Speaker 3 (01:14:32):
H Do you know what, Sean, do you know what
state it was in?

Speaker 8 (01:14:38):
And the.

Speaker 16 (01:14:41):
Queensland up in northern Queensland, I think.

Speaker 3 (01:14:44):
Okay, really, thank you so much for coming through. Sean. Well,
never spoken to something that's kempt in the crater and
that was a good answer. I said, well, you know
what stated, only could have said, well untouched away tid
eighty say ten Laurie Marcus, welcome II Marcus.

Speaker 10 (01:15:03):
You're thinking down the Entarctic. The the University of wait
Kato field party ninety nine they found a two hundred
kilogram meteorite sort of very much the largest located at
the time.

Speaker 12 (01:15:22):
It was.

Speaker 10 (01:15:23):
They had enormous trouble getting it into They called up
Scott Base at the time. I mean in a lot
of excitement, a big murder. All the main scientists were
sort of quighly excited about it. They sent two helicopters out,
but they were so dense that even about you know,

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if that sort of four guys were trying to lift
it into the helicopter with difficulty. Sort of that particular one,
I think that sended up in the Smithsonian Institute. But
that area where they're working, they found quite a few,
it seems other ones.

Speaker 3 (01:16:04):
Laurie, how heavy to how have you.

Speaker 10 (01:16:07):
Two hundred kilograms?

Speaker 11 (01:16:09):
Ye?

Speaker 3 (01:16:10):
And where was it found?

Speaker 2 (01:16:12):
This?

Speaker 10 (01:16:12):
This happened that what they called Northern Victoria Land. It
was up in the what they call the Darren Mountains. Yep, yeah,
it's yeah, I don't know. Remember in the back of
those choppers there were those sort of fabric seats. Supposedly
they tried to lift it up and put it in
sitting on one of those, and it just shredded the material.

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They had to take all the spear equipment out of
the thing to get the wait right so that the
thing could be flying out.

Speaker 12 (01:16:40):
Were you there?

Speaker 3 (01:16:41):
Were you there when they found it? Larry, No, No,
it wasn't.

Speaker 10 (01:16:44):
No, that was seventy eight seventy nine. I had been
down earlier seventy one, seventy two, but I was I
did find one back in about nineteen eighty nineteen eighty
eighty two. Yeah, we found one up on the head
of Ferra Glacier here and we were out, we were

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out surveying an area, but there was a Swedish scientists
had been come down specially to find meteorites. It's spent
all these life looking for meteorites and hadn't found one.
So he came along with us and in the sort
of Ablacian areas that sort of the edge of the
polar plateau is where they lightly define them, they sort
of rolled out and sort of just lay there. Basically,

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you know, there's no they don't get covered with snow.
And you say, there was a procedure we spotted from
the chopper come down and landed, and he had a
special they were issued with special tongs and a little
leather bag. He had to put it in number it
and a lot of the locations and that sort of stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:17:45):
But yeah, and Laurie, just when you say there's no snow,
because it doesn't snow there right, No, no, Okay, so
it just it just rolls out of Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:17:57):
Well they've probably landed out on the pole of plateau somewhere, yes,
and then they've worked their way down, you know, over
hundreds of thousands of years, and then the worth gravity
they move out towards the edge of the polar plateau.

Speaker 3 (01:18:10):
With snow, with ice melt and things like that, that
would just work its way down, okay.

Speaker 10 (01:18:15):
And then when you get out to the edge, you know,
sort of the hitting towards the edge of the Transentatic
mountains or sort of the edge of the plateau, you
get a shiny ice area and they call it an
ablation area. Anyway, there's sort of no accumulation and the
snow gets when the ice gets worn away by wind

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and that, and that's where those meteor rights that they
pop out there and they just roll some of them,
I think, you know, some areas they found they will
roll down if there's a higher around, you know, and
I think the particularly Japanese scientists, they were picking them
up by the seckful for some areas. You know, this
is when they first clicked there was a good place

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to find media rights.

Speaker 2 (01:18:59):
You know.

Speaker 10 (01:19:00):
Suddenly the world's supply of meteorites sort of skyrocket, you know,
by amazing amount.

Speaker 3 (01:19:06):
Yeah, but Laurie Hang, I haven't finished with it with
that two hundred kilogram one. Do you know if it
was easy to find that it was sticking out like
the proverbial?

Speaker 10 (01:19:15):
Did they was it?

Speaker 3 (01:19:16):
Did they? Did you know anything about the finding of it?

Speaker 2 (01:19:20):
They?

Speaker 10 (01:19:20):
Yeah, well, just looking at it, looking at a photo
of it, and apparently that they found some small fragments
of some smaller ones from one to thirty kilograms, and
then they called the other two men to join the hunt,
and to their amazement, they fell upon a large and
nearly spherical sample which was later found away two hundred kilograms,
and compared with the American discoveries of the time, these

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were quite large, and the news of the fines were
ready to squad base.

Speaker 12 (01:19:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:19:46):
So yeah, it's obviously in an area where they were accumulating. Yeah,
at the edge edge of the plateau.

Speaker 2 (01:19:55):
Yeah, but could you.

Speaker 3 (01:19:57):
Think one that was that heavy would it arrived? It
would have been caused a crater and would have been Yeah.
I can't kind of imagine how that would have.

Speaker 10 (01:20:05):
Yeah, because in the areas you find them where were
they're obvious because there's no why any other rock could
be there. There's no lun attacks or anything else around,
so they have to have come.

Speaker 2 (01:20:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:20:19):
Well yeah, but they just quickly with that stelarium. I
had a look at it.

Speaker 2 (01:20:26):
I set it up.

Speaker 10 (01:20:26):
You can change the clock on it, so I'd set
it up earlier on and it was tracking, yeah, tracking
that commodore right, and you get the exact time and
bearing of it. It was sort of I think at
about ten past eight. It was around about bearing about

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two hundred and seventy nine degrees and about nine degrees
above the horizon. So you can probably plug that in
constellarium for tomorrow night and you'll be able to see
exactly where it is and then see if you can
duplicate it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:02):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 3 (01:21:04):
Whereabouts is the time? Whereas about the ability to move
the time? Is it down the bottom?

Speaker 10 (01:21:08):
Down the bottom? Yeah, yep, because normally when you load
it sometimes it seems that if your computer knows your
your location, it sets it up for that, and then
it will set up for the particular the right times out.

Speaker 3 (01:21:21):
Okay, will you go will you go looking at for
it tomorrow?

Speaker 10 (01:21:27):
Possibly? Yeah, I'll see what the wis like. It would
have been a good the man we're two coasts tonight
it was quite quite clear. I did have a look
from town, but I wouldn't have been you'd have to
be virtually. It was seemed to be where I was
looking at It was from the parent altitude between nine
degrees and twelve degrees above the horizon, which is quite low,
so you'd need to be have, you know, sort of

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as I said, looking at it the horizon pretty much.

Speaker 3 (01:21:52):
And nice to talk Larry. Let us know if you
see anything tomorrow. Nigel, it's Marcus. Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 9 (01:22:02):
Hello Marcus. How are you tonight?

Speaker 3 (01:22:03):
Good Nightge'll thank you. Nice to hear from you.

Speaker 2 (01:22:06):
Good.

Speaker 11 (01:22:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:22:07):
I'm just bringing up from Western Australia and just let
you know from what I gather. The law in Australia
says that in Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and the
Northern Territory. Apparently the law states that meteorites found or

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observed to fall belong to the state that you find
them in.

Speaker 3 (01:22:34):
Okay. I like that because it's the state you find
them and in the state you find them in, which
which makes sense to me.

Speaker 9 (01:22:42):
Yeah, that's how I think it applies.

Speaker 3 (01:22:49):
They are incredibly important from a science point of view,
so I kind of yeah, I wonder how the negotiations go.

Speaker 9 (01:22:58):
I'm not too short to be honest.

Speaker 2 (01:23:01):
Do you hear it?

Speaker 3 (01:23:02):
Do you hear it?

Speaker 11 (01:23:03):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (01:23:03):
Are you living rural? Are you like in the desert?

Speaker 5 (01:23:08):
Are not?

Speaker 9 (01:23:09):
There's itself arm I live in a cropping region on
the southern Southern coasts. Yeah, not far from the South
Australia border. Well, yeah, still a reasonable distance away, but yeah,
it's one of the last main places before you get
to the South Australia border.

Speaker 12 (01:23:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:23:31):
The reason I ask Nigel is do you hear of
people going meteorite hunting?

Speaker 9 (01:23:39):
I think people do. Possibly. I have a vague recollection.
There was a TV show on TV years ago through
Discovery Channel or where it was where even some American
people came across and actually did a show that was

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filmed in Western Australia, and.

Speaker 2 (01:24:04):
I think they did some.

Speaker 9 (01:24:07):
I think it's more up north. I believe there's yeah,
a couple at least one old creator from Oh yeah,
I'm not sure how old it is, but fairly old.

Speaker 3 (01:24:23):
Yeah, okay, I'd love to have a meet you, right,
But I see there's quite a lot of a sale
online but yeah, it's intur I don't know where those wee.
Countries must have different kind of I'm sure there's a
lot of fakes, but countries must have different kind of
laws about whether you can on sell them or what
you can do.

Speaker 9 (01:24:39):
I think there is some sort of federal law which
states what can and can't happen. But oh without locking
it up and being properly informed of what it states are,
I couldn't hear you, to be honest.

Speaker 3 (01:24:54):
Nice to hear from your Nightge. I appreciate your calling
tonight to thank you. Twenty three past ten, Ellen, it's Marcus.
Good evening.

Speaker 14 (01:25:02):
Good evening, Marcus. I've got a couple of things that
your listeners might like to hear about. One involves a
meteorite and one involves a lava blowout alholely Campden. The
first is the largest meteorite. I think I'm right in

(01:25:22):
saying this that's ever been found that remained intact that
hit the earth exists just east of the Atasha Pan
in Namibia. And I used to take tour groups to
South Africa to the Rugby, and we always used to
include taking them up to it, taking them midweek into

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the Atasha area which is northern Namibia, and it's at
the eastern end. And this meteorite's big enough. We used
to have group photographs standing on top of the meteorite.
It's a big iron meteorite. It's called the Hober meteorite.
And I'm sure it'll be highlighted on the web somewhere.

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It's about six or seven meters square and I'm not
quite sure how thick, but there's at least about a
meter and a half that sticks out of the ground.
And apparently it remained intact because it came in like
a flying saucer and the projectory was such that it

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wasn't likely to explode because it was coming sort of
near vertical towards the earth. It came across a vast
area and just descended like a plane coming into land.
And it just sits there as a tourist attraction, about
ten miles from the eastern gate of Atosha.

Speaker 3 (01:26:57):
Pans wonderful and looking at it, it's an amazing looking thing.
It almost looks fat on the top of its fore side,
it almost looks square, and it's in the kind of
an area in a sunken area where they've made it's
not in the wild. They've made some sort of accommodated tourists.
You can walk down steps to it, and it looks
like it's about a guy sits. It looks like it's

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about probably three meters by three meters and about a
meter high.

Speaker 14 (01:27:22):
No, it's bigger than six meters, and it's got like
a lot of seats around, sort of like an amphitheater
that it's formed. Beau. Yes, yes, that just sits there,
but you can actually climb on top of it. Some
American once apparently applied to Namibian government to become the

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owner of it and try and export it, to take
it home to America, But fortunately the Namibian government moved
on him and said, no, that'll stay.

Speaker 3 (01:27:56):
Put a great what a great thing to go and see.

Speaker 14 (01:27:59):
Oh it is it's it's I mean it's eerie, this
huge thing that's come from out of the sky, you know,
from god knows where, and remained intact. And it is
as hard as nails. I mean, it's like standing on
a boulder of diamond. It's that hard. But it's all iron.

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It's sort of mainly black and rust brown where the
you know, the fairest oxide has got into the surface
of it.

Speaker 3 (01:28:33):
Oh, thank you very much for you cool and it's fascinating.

Speaker 2 (01:28:36):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:28:36):
If you're looking at a Wikipedia the Hober meteorite h
o B a Hober meteorite two point seven meters by
two point seven meters by point nine meters, So there
we go.

Speaker 2 (01:28:48):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:28:50):
The guy said she's a good size. Someone says, which
would bring more monetary value a meteorite or ambigris? Really
good question. And gold fillings. I like the discussion about
never anyone complain about the gold fillings, Marcus. Not quite
space but on not enough space. A screenshot of my

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daughter's flight from Dubai to Auckland last night. Why'll be
showing this to my sister who was a real fear
of flying, and looks like this about one hundred flights
taken off from Dubai At the same time, I can
understand that the skies look crowded. Thank you for that.
Good evening, NOL. It's Marcus. Welcome Marcus.

Speaker 6 (01:29:30):
Interesting program tonight. Just the thing about gold and golden teeth.
Do you realize you're living in an area that was
very much moles full of gold?

Speaker 3 (01:29:42):
That leads bluff beg your pardon?

Speaker 6 (01:29:46):
Did you who were aware that there was a stage
when the people working at Bluff lets with all their
money in gold teeth. Tell me more about when the
island was built at Bluff it was done by the Chinese,
and the Chinese when and went to gold teeth, that

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was everyone was taking their wages.

Speaker 3 (01:30:12):
Yeah, okay, I think I've got a pocket, I hope
about the construction of the island Harbor and Bluff which
I have read and I don't necessarily know that. You
say it was all built by people from China.

Speaker 6 (01:30:25):
Yeah, a lot of attorneys were involved in it. Yeah,
I know, Okay, I lived himself and and yeah, that
was their way of taking their money home was gold
in the mouth.

Speaker 3 (01:30:38):
Yeah, I know that there was a huge workforce came
to make the island Harbor, people from all around the world.

Speaker 6 (01:30:44):
Yeah, that the Chinese were the ones they took care
money or their wages in gold in the tea here.

Speaker 8 (01:30:55):
Well know did you were?

Speaker 3 (01:30:56):
You were you working there as well?

Speaker 2 (01:30:58):
Neil?

Speaker 3 (01:30:58):
No, No, I was a t y Okay, Okay, Yeah,
I wonder how much gold? I want a much gold
you could fit in your mouth?

Speaker 12 (01:31:07):
You are there?

Speaker 3 (01:31:09):
Yeah, if you take just one probably I don't know
how I don't know how much. I think it was
about seven hundred dollars about twenty years ago.

Speaker 6 (01:31:18):
Yeah, what's the word now, Well, I don't know, but I.

Speaker 3 (01:31:25):
Mean there's nothing you can do because they've got to
take they've got to make a model of it.

Speaker 6 (01:31:30):
Oh yeah, it's amazing how they do it. Really, they
do it three D printing. Now then there with gold.

Speaker 3 (01:31:37):
Well imagined, they probably would.

Speaker 6 (01:31:40):
Yeah, yeah, amazing what they can do with that sort
of stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:31:45):
It's amazing how your solid is within your mouth. I mean,
it is the best material for it.

Speaker 12 (01:31:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:31:54):
No, I had a chip way back that. No, I
didn't get gold, and it's too much pave of me.

Speaker 3 (01:32:02):
Good on you. They are nice to talk. Thank you,
Steve Marcus.

Speaker 8 (01:32:04):
Welcome about meteorites. So I've got a friend in Auckland
that's a rockhound and he's got four that I know
of in his collection. They're not worth anything. They're sort
of more a curio.

Speaker 3 (01:32:20):
So where has where he is from?

Speaker 8 (01:32:25):
Now? He's brought them through his Rocky Hounds group.

Speaker 3 (01:32:29):
You know they.

Speaker 8 (01:32:31):
People that have picked them up from places is there
are in all different colors. There's black, quite size of
a golf boy. He's got one. He's got another one
that's a very dark brown, another one that's a very
light brown, and he's got a clear one like grass.
But you can definitely tell it's that four times the

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weight of a you know, a piece of you pick
up a drink bottle, he's got a weight to it, Yes,
a bit piece that's clear, almost clear. It was about
thought about the way to four drink bottles. Very heavy,

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very dense. He says. It's it's you know that they are. Yeah,
he's got it. Although we're people that are into collecting
bits of rock, they all know about them, but more
a curio than anything.

Speaker 3 (01:33:36):
It's a real obsession, those rock hounds. I can imagine
how they get obsessed with rocks.

Speaker 8 (01:33:41):
Yeah, well he got picked one. Apparently he was. He
picked one up on the top of the climb ies,
was lying in the middle of the road. He thought
it was just a piece of rock. When he picked
it up, he said, oh no, this is this is
too heavy to be just an ordinary piece of rock.
It's about about the size of a golf ball.

Speaker 3 (01:34:01):
Yeah, okay, yeah, okay, but.

Speaker 8 (01:34:05):
Yeah, it's just say if people say that there words
a lot probably to a teaching like a universal.

Speaker 3 (01:34:15):
But Steve, if we look at the fact there's only
been ten meteorites found in New Zealand.

Speaker 8 (01:34:21):
No, that's not true.

Speaker 3 (01:34:23):
No, Steve, I don't want to start Steve. I don't
want to start an argument with you, right, But it
says in total, nine meteorites have been found in New Zealand,
most Discoverboy Farmers and one more recently has been found
in twenty twenty four. So I know you can buy
you can buy them internationally, but as far as New Zealand,

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there's only ten that have been found, So I don't
know what. I don't know what he's doing.

Speaker 8 (01:34:50):
So he found one up on the climb line and
nobody seems to know too much of it anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:34:55):
Okay, yeah, but that's what the internet says. I'm not
doubting him or your friendship, but yeah, yeah, yeah, but
we'll find out, will fact chick, just as far as
it's commented on a Google search of c Slash two
two three at gap A three and there are some
great shots of the comic this. The Guardian's got a
whole kind of portfolio of different photos. There's some amazing
shots from around the world, but none of them are

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from New Zealand. So it's clearly there, and it's been
photographed I suppose with people with spectacular cameras. Probably one
of those photos are through telescopes. It's hard to know
whether through the naked eye or not, but certainly arrived.
It's not fake news like some people are sending me, Marcus.
I guess the light pollution played a part in nineteen
eighty six. Is that why not many people enjoyed the

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comic competed to nineteen ten. I think it didn't come
as close. I think nineteen ten Earth went through its
tail for almost a part of it. The last time
it wasn't as exciting at all. Because and also two
between nineteen ten and nineteen eighty six, TV movies, color photography.

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There's a lot more things to be an area of
Star Wars. Well, one of the Stars Wars is being
her sound of music. A lot of things that probably
wailed us more than a light in the sky. That
would be my take, Marcus. No one has brought up
Tunguska in nineteen o eight and nineteen oh eight are

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very large. Something passed over an air of Siberia with
a tiny population. It temporarily blocked out the sun. It
appeared to be getting lower and lower. It crashed in
a large expanse of peat, bog and fir trees. No
one living there. No investigation was done till about twenty
years later, and that was a scientific expedition which returned

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with amazing photos of what they found. Whole square kilometers
where the trees had been blasted back bog water was realblack.
No attempts were made to cut through the surface, but
black and white photos real clearly showed the blasted leaning
trees in all directions. To my knowledge, no further expeditions
have gone back to the site. Nothing unusual poked up

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through the surface. There you go, amongst so many in
various theories, was one that had damaged in spacecraft had
tried to put down. But since nothing more has been
discovered of the water, I assume that none of them
survived the landing. That's from Mike. I don't think anyone's

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ever been killed by a meteorite, which is also very interesting.
I think a dog was killed, but never never a human.
That might be different after the one was came to Russia.
But in about ten years, how no one's ever been killed.
So is that interesting. I think that's interesting. No single

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confirmed case of death by space rock. There's always someone
trying to ensure themselves against it. There is some evidence
that someone died by a space rock in eighteen eighty eight.
In fact, they might have uncovered evidence of that, and

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that's pretty interesting in itself. And that's from a recent
news story. Researchers say they've confirmed the first on You
Know and death by falling meet to you write in
eighteen eighty eight in Turkey.

Speaker 16 (01:38:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:38:31):
Wow, So they've gone looking for it and they've found
an explanation. The night's flowing. Why it's such a good
night's seat last night? That'll do it, man, The Sleep
of Champions wore. It was good, unbelievably good.

Speaker 1 (01:38:46):
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