26: NASA's Artemis Woes, Chinese Debris, and Global Space Industry Shifts. Bob Zimmerman discusses NASA's Artemis program, noting Administrator Sean Duffy is using a social media feud with Elon Musk as a "shiny object" to distract from the Orion capsule's unt
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 25 October 2025
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| 0:30.6 | This is CBS. I'm the world. I'm John Bachelord. Bob Zimmerman is here. He's taking us toward the sun, toward Venus, inside Venus. What have you discovered, Bob? |
| 0:36.2 | Well, I haven't discovered it, but an astronomer using |
| 0:40.9 | ground-based telescopes has discovered only the second asteroid ever found that circles the sun |
| 0:48.5 | within the orbit of Venus. It's very hard to find asteroids that are closer to the sun than the Earth because the sun's glare makes it hard to look. |
| 0:58.0 | And so we haven't found many, and it's not clear how many there would be. |
| 1:01.9 | And of course, there's an issue because if there are big ones down there out of sight, they could be a threat to us. |
| 1:08.8 | And we don't know they're there. |
| 1:09.8 | Well, this is the second one discovered. |
| 1:12.4 | It's about a half mile across. |
| 1:14.4 | Its orbit takes it just beyond the orbit of Venus at its farthest point from the sun. |
| 1:20.0 | The models about asteroids in it closer to the sun than Venus says there won't be a lot of them, |
| 1:26.8 | because the sun's radiation |
| 1:28.0 | and light will act to drive them away or make their orbits unstable so they'll fall into the |
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