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Speaker 1: Now these Sunday students from Charles Darwin University are going

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Speaker 1: to be joining a team of NASA funded scientists and

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Speaker 1: astronomers to observe Pluto pass in front of a distant

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Speaker 1: star in Catherine.

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Speaker 2: Now joining me on the line.

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Speaker 1: To tell us a little bit more about exactly what's

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Speaker 1: going to be happening is stem Pathway's professor Karla Eisenberg.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Carla. Good morning, Carla.

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Speaker 1: Tell us exactly what's going to be happening well on

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Speaker 1: Sunday in Catherine.

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Speaker 3: So we have this team of NASA scientists coming all

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Speaker 3: around the world to do some measurements of Pluto. And

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Speaker 3: that's like you said, it's because of what they call

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Speaker 3: the occultation night, when there is the planets between Earth

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Speaker 3: and a very bright stuff and the best place on

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Speaker 3: Earth to see this is going to be Catherine.

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Speaker 4: Next week.

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Speaker 3: You won't have fifteen minutes to do it properly to

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Speaker 3: have those measurements then, so they have to practice and

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Speaker 3: train with the big team to make sure they have

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Speaker 3: everything in play. So on Sunday will be their first

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Speaker 3: training night, and they are so awesome that they actually

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Speaker 3: open their training nights for everybody to want to have

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Speaker 3: a look. They're going to talk about about Pluto, about

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Speaker 3: what they're doing here, and also the people will be

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Speaker 3: welcome to have a look at them setting up the

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Speaker 3: telescopes and when everything is sad, they're going to they

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Speaker 3: promise they're going to show some really cool stars and

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Speaker 3: planets to the telescope.

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Speaker 2: How awesome.

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Speaker 1: So Cala Catherine, of all places around the world, is

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Speaker 1: going to be the best location to see this.

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Speaker 3: That's right, And we are really liking in Artern, Australia

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Speaker 3: because I haven't been this job for since twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 3: The second time now be comes here, it's because this

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Speaker 3: kind of event usually have the best places around the equator,

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Speaker 3: so it doesn't work if it's in other places, in

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Speaker 3: a lot of other places, and that one doesn't work

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Speaker 3: in the sea.

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Speaker 4: So it's the second time they're coming over.

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Speaker 3: That time wasn't Pennet Creek, And the time's in Catherine,

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Speaker 3: the best place in the whole world to see I always.

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Speaker 1: Reckon, you know, it does feel like the stars are

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Speaker 1: brighter and that you can think see things much brighter

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Speaker 1: in the sky the more regional you go. But I

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Speaker 1: just thought that was me thinking that there wasn't as

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Speaker 1: much pollution around the place.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I think that is the case.

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Speaker 3: I think for this one, we were just like you

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Speaker 3: that the Pluto and the stars are all alive. Literally

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Speaker 3: they started a line for Catherine next week.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 4: Specific for a point.

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Speaker 2: Of view, Yeah, how wonderful, so Calor.

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Speaker 1: Obviously you've got the NASA funded scientists and astronomers that

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Speaker 1: are going to be in Catherine.

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Speaker 2: How many are we talking? How many people are going

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Speaker 2: to be there?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 3: I think we had a lot of a thirty astronomers

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Speaker 3: coming from mostly the US and other.

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Speaker 4: Places of US Tria. But we also have five.

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Speaker 3: CD students that have been recruited they're doing engineering, doing

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Speaker 3: research and engineering.

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Speaker 4: IT and science to join the team and be part

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Speaker 4: of the research.

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Speaker 3: And I think it's such an awesome opportunity for them

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Speaker 3: to learn new SKUs and interact with this really cool scientist.

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Speaker 2: I think it's fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Now, Carla, did you say that it's going to be

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Speaker 1: like a fifteen minute window when you're best going to

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Speaker 1: be able to best going to be able to observe

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Speaker 1: Pluto pass in front of a distant starr in Catherine.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, don't caught me on the exact time, but it's

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Speaker 3: a role. It's not very long.

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Speaker 4: The window is very brief.

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Speaker 3: And that's why they have to practice many days before

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Speaker 3: they go to the exact place when it happens, which

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Speaker 3: is the middle of next week. Yeah, it's very brief

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Speaker 3: and it needs to be perfect conditions and needs to

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Speaker 3: be clear skies. Last time they did it, they build

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Speaker 3: up and rain on the day, so that wasn't a

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Speaker 4: We're in the middle of the dry season, so I.

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Speaker 3: Think the the chances are really good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Now, why is this so exciting? Why is it

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Speaker 1: such a great thing to be able to see? And

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Speaker 1: is it going to be visible to the naked eye

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Speaker 1: like to a normal person as well.

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Speaker 3: Now, unfortunately you need this really cool telescopes that they're

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Speaker 3: going to be used. They're really big and they're not

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Speaker 3: a normal telescope em and if you have a normal telescope,

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Speaker 3: isisn't likely you'll be able to see what they're seeing.

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Speaker 3: But I think the cool thing about going there on

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Speaker 3: Sunday is that they will be able to show you

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Speaker 3: some stars and tell you a little bit more about

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Speaker 3: and you'll be able to see them better.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's a greally great opportunity.

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Speaker 3: So it will be at six thirty at the Catering

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Speaker 3: Rural Campus, six thirty in the evening at the Catterying

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Speaker 3: Rural Campus, which is around sixteen k's not of catering,

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Speaker 3: and that's what people are welcome to come and join us.

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Speaker 2: And that's on what night? Is that on that on Sunday?

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Speaker 3: On Sunday, that's right.

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Speaker 2: I reckon this sounds wonderful.

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Speaker 1: I mean the fact that we've got thirty people from

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Speaker 1: well from the US and other parts of Australia descending

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Speaker 1: on Catherine for this very exciting situation.

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Speaker 2: I reckon it sounds wonderful.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're already looking forward to go there. I think, yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's a wonderful place and I think they're going to

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Speaker 3: have a great time done there.

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Speaker 2: Oh good stuff.

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Speaker 1: Well, Stem Pathways Professor Karla Eisenberg, it's lovely to speak

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Speaker 1: to you this morning.

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Speaker 2: I really appreciate your time. Thank you, Thanks very much,