Wed. 04/13 - That's A Big Ol' Comet

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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A very big comet. How sewage monitoring could transform public health beyond just its applications for COVID-19. Plus, libraries are relinquishing local library card requirements for eBooks in a bid to fight back against book bans. And a new National Park annual pass that won’t be valid for 150 years. Sponsor: The Jordan Harbinger Show, jordanharbinger.com/start Links: NASA Just Confirmed The Largest Comet Ever Detected, And It's Truly Gargantuan (ScienceAlert) Hubble Confirms Huge Incoming Comet Has Largest Known Nucleus (Gizmodo) Hubble pics reveal the mega comet is wider than Rhode Island (Mashable) Hubble Confirms Largest Comet Nucleus Ever Seen (NASA) The secrets hidden in sewage (Vox) Books For All (NYPL) NYC libraries are offering free digital library cards to people across the US (Time Out) Yellowstone is Offering a $1,500 Annual Pass That You Won't Be Able to Use for 150 Years (Backpacker) h/t Kottke.org Inheritance Pass guarantees entrance to Yellowstone in 150 years (Billings Gazette) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.6	It's Wednesday, April 13th, 2022.
0:39.2	I'm Jackson Bird today.
0:41.5	A very big comet.
0:44.3	How sewage monitoring could transform public health beyond just its applications for COVID-19.
0:51.6	Plus, libraries are relinquishing local library card requirements for e-books
0:56.6	in a bid to fight back against book bans. And a new National Park Annual Pass that won't be
1:04.0	valid for 150 years. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.
1:11.9	The Hubble Space Telescope has just confirmed that a comet that's been traveling towards the sun for over a million years is, in fact, the largest comet nucleus ever discovered.
1:24.7	Named Comet Bernardinelli Bernstein, or maybe Barron Stain, depending on which Mandela
1:30.9	effect timeline you're living in, it's bigger than the famously huge and bright Hailbop
1:36.7	comets. Heck, it is more than twice as wide as Rhode Island. Halebop, the giant comet of the
1:43.9	90s, was about 46 miles across. Comet
1:47.4	Bernardinelli Bernstein is almost twice as wide, clocking in at about 85 miles across. That is
1:54.5	50 times bigger than most comets we know of, with an estimated mass 100,000 times greater than most comets we know of.
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