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I do each week, I just start off with some solar weathers based on real asteroids. And then right after that, tonight I think POM is coming in, W838WX with the climate update. Solar wind, 455 power per second, so we're just under a threshold to interrupt solar storm activity. That's the 4.64 kt per cubic centimeter, so that's just 85. Index 146 on Fox 129, we have some fairly large ones. We have AR4153 right through to 55 at 57, and then at 51, 55, 66, 67, and then start of shield clusters up there. Ancient propagation, 80 in 40 meters for a day and a night right now. 30, 20, 17 and 15 all good for a day and night right now, and 12 and 10 there during the day and for at night. Takes us now to space debris. This is just the amount of object that's traveling overhead our planet. There's basically a cloud of debris that's been left up there since satellites and rocket ships have been going up. 31,259 objects are trackable these days, and I will mention there's much, much more than this, but these objects here, as I'm mentioning, each week are within just a certain size. These are the larger ones. And my location, just for context, is 1,983 today. Lots of things going up there. We'll look more about these tonight too, as I mentioned earlier. There's now some tangible evidence coming from radio astronomers. Now I'm not showing their images how these star-length constellations are now interfering with research. After all, I always include a few of these near-earth objects each week. None of these tonight are presenting any real problem for us. Today, or actually tomorrow, we'll have asteroid 2025 going 12, 5.9 lunar distance away, 4.4 kilometers a second, 7 meters of diameter. lunar distance? Just the distance the moon is away from us, so we use that measure for these objects of 5.9 times that. Just drop it. That's kind of the zone where once these larger objects come within, you can start keeping an eye on them. At that point, the gravitational effects of the Earth become much more pronounced, so you don't want to be dragging these large objects. Also at 2025, OV6, 6.3 lunar distance is 4.1 kilometers a second, 8 meters of diameter. At 2025, W3, 7.7 lunar distance is 13.9 kilometers a second, and 21 meters of diameter. None of those, particularly the 7-meter and 8-meter ones, present any real problem. The 7-meter one is probably the most likely to make it through the atmosphere, likely in the universe. I didn't get a chance to work out the destructive force of one of those. Maybe I will, and I'll just quickly, as the net goes on, take the smaller of the 7-meter one and see if I can come up with the hypothetical.