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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poems “Quiver in Thought”, “Unlocking History, One Asteroid at a Time” (written on the date of the discovery of the 2nd asteroid), and “Video Killed the Radio Star”, live 5/18/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poems “Quiver in Thought”, “Unlocking History, One Asteroid at a Time” (written on the date of the discovery of the 2nd asteroid), and “Video Killed the Radio Star”, live 5/18/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “Tanya’s Story”, then her poems “Zircon, Gemstones, Baubles and Bling”, “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can”, “Zucchini Versus Sausage: different choices today”, “Vibrations Echo”, “Unlocking History, One Asteroid at a Time”, and “Glacial Ice” from the 3/21 Down in the Dirt v181 book “Prayers and Bullets” 3/3/21, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “Tanya’s Story”, then her poems “Zircon, Gemstones, Baubles and Bling”, “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can”, “Zucchini Versus Sausage: different choices today”, “Vibrations Echo”, “Unlocking History, One Asteroid at a Time”, and “Glacial Ice” from the 3/21 Down in the Dirt v181 book “Prayers and Bullets” 3/3/21, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).   #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can” and “Unlocking History, One Asteroid at a Time” from the “Prayers and Bullets” section of the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Excerpts from the Plague Years”, read 6/2/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram

See this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can” and “Unlocking History, One Asteroid at a Time” from the “Prayers and Bullets” section of the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Excerpts from the Plague Years”, read 6/2/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Unlocking History, One Asteroid at a Time Janet Kuypers edited 3/27/19 (written on the anniversary of the date Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovered the 2nd asteroid, “2 Pallas”) People who love the night sky also have a special love affair with anything not from this planet... I even display a few catalogued asteroids in clear display boxes, because these are what we choose to call precious stones, because... they are. They unlock Earth’s — & the Solar System’s — history. Looking back, astronauts believe that is was a massive asteroid that collided with the Earth so many years ago, creating the most giant crater in the ground and scattering debris throughout all of the atmosphere, which killed off the dinosaurs, and left a thin layer of Iridium all over Earth. And on this day over 200 years ago, German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovered and named the 2nd asteroid ever found, Pallas — and back in 1802, they didn’t even know what asteroids were, so it was counted as a planet, just like other asteroids found in the early 19th century. So back in the day Pallas had a minor-planet designation, but if you call it “2 Pallas”, you know that this second asteroid he discovered (after Ceres) in the Solar System is one of the largest asteroids. And yeah, 5 years later he discovered the asteroid Vesta, which is even larger than Pallas. But since back then the word “asteroid” didn’t exist, these “minor planets” were called planets. But back then, it was double-plus cool that Olbers actually imagined the asteroid belt, as this magical place all these objects orbit. So, after all this time, it’s fitting that I keep these little shards of rocks well-cased and on display. Because asteroids explain history. They reveal more than this world.

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