That's the 3-million-year-old skeleton of one of our early ancestors discovered in the 1970s. In fact, the spacecraft is named after the Lucy fossil. LEVISON: So these things really are the fossils of what planets formed from, right? We understand planets formed as these things hit each other and grew and competed, and these are the leftovers of that.īYRNE: Those leftovers will help us understand how our early solar system evolved, even our own planet. Levinson (ph) says they're different colors, which could offer clues about where these asteroids came from. It's only about the size of a small car but has these massive circular solar arrays that make it look like a mouse.ĭONYA DOUGLAS-BRADSHAW: You deploy those amazing solar arrays, cutting-edge solar array, and on end, the spacecraft spans about four stories.īYRNE: Lucy's 12-year journey will take it to eight asteroids. The $981 million spacecraft came together in about 14 months, says NASA's Donya Douglas-Bradshaw. It's doing an intricate orbital dance and is going farther into the solar system than any other solar-powered spacecraft. Levinson (ph) is leading the Lucy mission, sending a spacecraft to the Trojan asteroids. So if you put an object there early in the solar system history, it's been stable forever.īYRNE: They've been stuck there like a collection of cosmic fossils. HAL LEVISON: They're held there by the gravitational effect of Jupiter and the Sun. But NASA's Hal Levinson (ph) said some have clustered into areas near Jupiter. But a tiny bit of that cosmic stuff is still out there in asteroids and meteors and comets. Most of that material became what is now our sun. Some 4.5 billion years ago, a dense cloud of gas and dust collapsed, spewing material all around. From member station WMFE in Orlando, Brendan Byrne explains.īRENDAN BYRNE, BYLINE: The birth of our solar system was messy. It's on the hunt for cosmic fossils that might hold the key to how our solar system was formed. It will travel billions of miles into our solar system.
Start listening here.A spacecraft called Lucy is set to launch tomorrow from Cape Canaveral on a 12-year journey.
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Watch the full conversation via the player above!įor more info on Trip the Witch's self-titled debut album, go here. It's so ambiguous - is her name Trip? Or are we actually literally gonna ," Dean says. "Scott sings, "Trip the witch and ride the shame, " and I always loved that line. Dean points to STP's song "Ride the Cliché," from 1996's Tiny Music.Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop. The project/album title Trip the Witch came from another singer dear to Dean's heart: the late- Scott Weiland. but he surely still sounds like he did in '76." "I'll tell you, when I got that track back from Jon, immediately tears came down my cheeks," Dean recalls. Dean says hearing Anderson's voice on the track "brought me to tears," like so many Yes songs had before it. The album is almost entirely instrumental, with the exception of the song "Saturn We Miss You," which features progressive rock icon and Yes co-founder Jon Anderson. Trip the Witch is a perfect example of musicians bringing the best out of one another through collaboration, he says. And he plays exactly what I want to hear."ĭean says he learned a lot working with Bukovac and he highly recommends Bukovac's growing YouTube channel Home Skoolin' to guitar players looking to learn something new. "He just plays exactly what I wish I could play. "In my humble opinion, I think he's the finest musician and guitar player I've ever heard," Dean says of Bukovac. Dean tells Q104.3 New York's Out of the Box that the majority of the material on the Trip The Witch album was born out of the excitement from the fresh collaboration. They struck up a friendship and wrote, recorded and produced an album together, yet they have never met in person.
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Millions of Americans, both professional and amateur, picked up instruments and began putting their thoughts and feelings to music.īut Stone Temple Pilots guitarist Dean DeLeo's new collaboration with Nashville session ace Tom Bukovac is perhaps the most 2020 of any post-pandemic album so far.ĭean and Tom were introduced last year via email. A parade of new music was inevitable after the pandemic shutdowns of 2020 brought touring to a standstill.