Comet A3 Visible in the Night Sky and TDIH - The World's First Rocket Propelled Flight

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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A spectacle in the night sky can be seen now and it will only get brighter and on This Day in History, the world’s first rocket-propelled flight – a publicity stunt, but also an inspiration for future inventors. Brightening Comet 2023 A3 set to light up autumn sky (bbc.com) Comet A3 Tracker For The Week Ahead — Where And When To See It (forbes.com) Fireworks forecast if comet survives risky sun flypast (phys.org) Car maker Opel’s 1929 publicity stunt to fly world’s first (key.aero) Today in Engineering History: First Manned Rocket-Propelled Plane Flight (designworldonline.com) Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.6	Welcome to another edition of Cool Stuff Ride Home, Marcus Paff, with Reggie Rizzou as always.
0:51.6	And on today's episode, a spectacle in the night sky can now
0:55.4	be seen and will likely only get brighter.
0:58.0	We'll have the details and on this day in history the world's first rocket propelled flight,
1:03.2	a publicity stunt at the time but also an inspiration for future inventors.
1:08.2	That's coming up on Cool Stuff.
1:10.2	On Cool Stuff Ride Home, we've covered several stories lately about comets and asteroids
1:14.8	that are flying by Earth. Well, here's one more. While the asteroid 2024 PT5 is currently
1:20.4	considered a mini moon for several months, it won't be visible unless you have special equipment.
1:25.7	If you want to see something light up the sky,
1:28.1	you might want to be on the lookout for C-123A-3, which people are calling C-Comet A-3 for short.
1:34.7	There is speculation that comet A-3 could be one of the brightest comets in years.
1:38.7	It was first noticed in January of 2023 by the Chet Shinchan Observatory in China, and then independently seen by NASA's
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