142: The biggest clock with Rob Seaman

142: The biggest clock with Rob Seaman
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Rob Seaman of the Catalina Sky Survey talks about time, and why you need to know the time to discover asteroids and comets. He explains how he installed a highly accurate clock, and makes the case that "natural time" is better than "cold, heartless …

Rob Seaman of the Catalina Sky Survey talks about time, and why you need to know the time to discover asteroids and comets. He explains how he installed a highly accurate clock, and makes the case that "natural time" is better than "cold, heartless atomic time."

Above: Self-portrait of Rob Seaman, taken during the commissioning of a spectrograph for calibration purposes.

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