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23 Nov 2020

Mars Asteroid Kin Of Moon?

An enormous asteroid sharing the same orbit as Mars, may very well be a lost chunk from our moon. Not only does it possess a completely different composition than other asteroids orbiting Mars and nearby planets, but it also has an identical structure of some parts of the lunar surface.

Anton Petrov, host of What Da Math, says the Mars asteroid-moon connection is theory at the moment, but definitely warrants a space mission to gather samples from the rock. “We might be able to discover other mysteries about the moon and, of course, the Earth as well,” he says. Here’s more with Petrov.

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18 May 2020

Scientists Discover Super Earth

Employing  the seldom-used gravitational lensing technique, scientists has discovered what they are calling a “Super Earth,” smack in the middle of our Milky Way Galaxy, near the galactic bulge. Anton Petrov, host of “What Da Math,” says the discovery was an extremely rare event, since the host star of the planet is a red dwarf, which are usually small and dim. The star is approximately 12 percent the mass of the sun and the Super Earth is about four masses of Earth. “We don’t really know if it’s a gas world, but it’s somewhat more likely to be an unusual, somewhat ice-like planet with similar conditions to maybe Neptune or Earth.”

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10 May 2020

The Closest Black Hole to Earth

The European Space Observatory has just announced that it has discovered the closest black hole to Earth. The discovery is in the star system HR6819, about 1,000 light years (each light year is equal to about 6 trillion miles) from our planet. Host Anton Petrov provides the details in this episode of What Da Math.

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07 Apr 2020

Ultra Rare Black Hole Found

Finally, science has confirmed the existence of a distant, intermediate massive black hole in a  galaxy approximately 740 million light years away. The first hint of this discovery actually came in 2006, when scientists detected some X-ray bursts powerful enough to indicate something was being destroyed. With the help of the massive Hubble Space Telescope, it was confirmed there was only one plausible explanation for this activity–it was likely an intermediate massive black hole destroying a star, creating a tremendous amount of energy in the process. Host Anton Petrov brings us more in this episode of What Da Math.

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05 Apr 2020

Pandemics And Solar Activity

Surprisingly, the Asian Flu of 1957-58 and the Hong Kong Flu of 1968-69 each killed more than 1 million people and coincided with the solar maximum, the sunspot activity when solar activity is at its highest. With the onset of COVID-19 and Swine Flu earlier in the century, it makes you wonder if there’s some sort of a relationship between these pandemics and solar activity that we’re not seeing. In a 1990 article, Nature magazine explained that there are a lot of viruses in our upper atmosphere, which are carried closer to the surface of the planet by solar winds, thus increasing the chance of infections and pandemics. But is there solid evidence to prove the connection or is this just coincidence? Host Anton Petrov of What Da Math explains further and reaches a conclusion.

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17 Mar 2020

The Largest Galaxy

Our Milky Way Galaxy is enormous, almost 126,000 light years in length. To put it in perspective, that’s approximately 756 trillion miles long! Amazing. Thing is, we are labeled an intermediate galaxy in our known universe. And we are very tiny in comparison to IC 1101, the largest galaxy with an approximate diameter of 6 million light years, a little more than 60 times larger than our Milky Way. In this episode of “What Da Math,” host Anton Petrov takes us on a surreal journey through IC 1101.

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