we are speaking with ronald hampton a long time metropolitan washington d.c. police officer now a university criminal justice professor and ronald it's been exactly a year since they sent me home to do my show i here in rhode island when the pandemic hit and miss seeing you i always enjoyed bump in india with the broadcast center in washington and like many americans i was so sad to see what came down on january sex and even now to see the u.s. capitol the people's house all fenced in with razor wire the way it is described the mood there in the district take us to the streets of washington what's it feel like to be there now. well. in some parts of it it is probably business as usual but when you go down near the capital you had to be very aware of what it is that the fence is up you you see it you see the. national guard and the police officers the other day when they had. their concern about the. problem all over again i think it was all march to for when it was predicted right you know they sent extra police officers but i think they're doing residence here

metropolitan police officer turned criminal justice professor ronald hampton if you missed that recent show it is on demand or you'll find all our shows at youtube dot com slash the big picture artie and just days ago we dodged a bullet of another sort the asteroid named 2001 f. 032 1st spotted in 2001 was in the neighborhood about a 1000000 and a quarter miles nearby by comparison the moon is just 238000 miles away still nasa called this particular hunk of rock the size of 3 football fields hurdling through space at 77000 miles an hour potentially hazardous poll showed us director of the center for near earth objects studies calls this the closest predicted approach in 2021 for any moderately large asteroid where moderately large means at least several 100 meters in size this asteroid now continues its journey around the sun and won't be back near earth until 2041 when nasa says it won't be as close to us then as it was several days ago meantime here's another save the date date and you heard it 1st here from astronomer and author bob berman it has happened before and it will happen a