110226 ~ November Skywatch! - Dr. Buddy Stark
Episode Ep 1847 8 min 29s

110226 ~ November Skywatch! - Dr. Buddy Stark

November 2, 2026 ~ Lucy Ann Lance is joined by Dr. Buddy Stark with the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History Planetarium, for the November Skywatch! Dr. Stark previews the supermoon that looks only slightly larger than an average full moon, and a close Mars-Jupiter conjunction visible in the early morning around the 14th through the 16th. He also discusses a newly found icy dwarf planet, about half the size of Pluto, spotted by the Vera Rubin Observatory hiding within the Milky Way, and explains why such objects are classified as dwarf planets.

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