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All listed times are Central Daylight Time.
Bill Hecke’s latest weather update and forecast airs during the last 15 minutes of every hour.
Three minute long news updates from the Associated Press air at the top of every hour from 4am to 9pm.
StarDate at 5:57am & 4:57pm
One of the giants of the outer solar system is at its best this week. Neptune lines up opposite the Sun in our sky. From that position, it rises at sunset and is in the sky all night. And it shines at its brightest. It’s the Sun’s most remote major planet, though — about 2.7 billion miles away — so you need good binoculars or a telescope to see it.
The Sound of Texas at 6:30am & 12:30pm
Joey and Vona Adams of Amarillo
EarthDate at 9:30am & 3:30pm
Each year, millions of pebble-sized meteors strike Earth’s atmosphere and burn up harmlessly.
But once a century, a house-sized meteor makes contact—and explodes in the air with devastating results.
Science and the Sea at 10:30am & 2:30pm
In the summer of 1741, a Russian expedition was in trouble. Led by Vitus Bering, it had crossed the northern Pacific Ocean from Siberia to Alaska, and was on its way home. But after months at sea, Bering and many of his men were suffering from scurvy. When a storm hit, they were shipwrecked on an island they’d discovered a few months before.
SoundBeat at 11:30am & 1:30pm
Community Contact at 6:15pm
Warren Hart of the Mayborn Science Theater
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