SHUTDOWN FULLCAST - The Astronomy Episode
Le Batard & Friends Network
Dan Le Batard
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🗓️ 11 October 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's an eclipse, which is where I want to make sure I'm getting these terms right. |
| 0:09.4 | But an eclipse is where either the moon passes between the earth and the sun. |
| 0:15.1 | That's a solar eclipse, or a lunar eclipse, you switch the, you switch them around. |
| 0:23.3 | And on lunar eclipse, the reason the moon turns fun colors is because the earth is the one in the |
| 0:28.5 | middle. Yes, right. So the earth is passing between the sun and the moon. But then there's something |
| 0:34.0 | called a transit. Okay. So now we are getting into astrology. Yeah. And a transit is when |
| 0:42.9 | another celestial body, a transit is like a baby eclipse is like the easiest way of thinking |
| 0:50.4 | about it. Right. But we don't call them an eclipse. Right. Because an eclipse means it's like, |
| 0:56.1 | so like the definition of eclipse is covered up. And in our case, we're talking about Mercury |
| 1:01.2 | or Venus passing between the sun and the earth. And they're not big enough. We're not close |
| 1:04.9 | enough to Mercury. Venus for them to blot out the sun. So when you call it has this, it's this |
| 1:09.4 | very like, you refer to it in a much fancier way for some reason. It's called like the transit |
| 1:14.6 | of Mercury or the transit of Venus. But they, they only, you get much fewer of those than you do |
| 1:25.6 | of the other kind, especially with especially a transit of Venus. Also, there are partial |
| 1:32.1 | transits of Mercury and Venus that you can't even see because it's this time like a partial |
| 1:37.6 | lunar or solar eclipse you can see because there's a slice taken out of the corner of it. |
| 1:41.1 | Right. But if like a corner of Venus passes over a corner of the sun, you're not going to see |
| 1:45.9 | that from here. Okay. And then there's a conjunction which is different again, which is where |
| 1:52.3 | Mercury or Venus are close enough to the sun at the time of an eclipse that you can see that |
| 2:03.8 | planet. But they are, they are not the thing causing the obfuscation of the sun. So the conjunction, |
| 2:12.0 | conjunctions are like probably the fuzziest thing. Yeah. A conjunction, the only reason, |
| 2:19.9 | and let me start over, all that has to happen technically for a conjunction is that two astronomical |
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