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astronomy cast episode six-fifteen the search for planet nine.

Welcome to astronomy cast are weekly facts based journey through the cosmos where we

help you understand not only what we know but how we know what we know. I'm Fraser

Kane, publisher of University Day with me as always is Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior scientist

for the planetary science institute and the director of Cosmic Rust. Hey Pamela, how

you doing? I am doing well. There is so much going on right now. The day after record

this Saturday, it's International Observe the Moon Night. Next weekend is Hangout

The Thon, Fall is here, Halloween. For those of you watching the video, Felix the

Dragon is hanging out behind me celebrating October. Life is good. Life is good.

So I want to shamelessly self-promote the Sun today, which is of course we're

entering. We've left the solar minimum. We are now driving towards the solar

maximum and that means Rorahs. So we had an incredible Rorah display that hit a

big chunk of the earth in the last couple of days from when we were recording this.

I was really lucky I had surprisingly clear skies and could see a Rorahs off on the horizon.

Beautiful display I was able to catch on my phone of all things. But people as like in New

York state, people in sort of some of the middle latitudes were able to see it as well. So

now is the time. If you are interested, if you've never seen an Rorah and you live,

I would say above the 35th parallel, then you have a good-ish chance, a couple of times a year

of being able to see an Rorah, but you've got to be prepared. So get yourself acquainted with

Noah's Rorah alert. Find an app that you can put on your phone that will tell you when there's

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