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I'm Kim.
Today is Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025.
And we begin with two giant asteroids making a flyby today.
The first is almost the size of a school bus.
According to Live Science, QV5 will zoom past us at 13900 miles an hour from a safe distance of 500000 miles, which is twice as far away as the moon.
It's a regular visitor but won't be this close for another 100 years.
QD8 is bigger the size of an airplane traveling twice as fast and will swing past a whole lot closer than its cosmic companion.
Space.com reports an arrival time of 10.57 a.m.
Eastern this morning.
Space buffs in our audience can catch QD8's flyby in real time on a YouTube channel hosted by the Virtual Telescope Project.
We've put a link on our resource page.
If you live in the vicinity of Old Town Maine, police are asking you to be on the lookout for a very large lizard.
The scaly runaway named Blue is a tegu, which can grow to four and a half feet long.
They have long claws, sharp teeth and a strong bite and, while not naturally aggressive, could lash out if scared or provoked.
Blue ditched his human's home more than a week ago.
Experts thought he'd surfaced to sunbathe by now, but hasn't.
Once found, they plan to use a guide pole to get him into a crate and return him to his owner.
In the meantime, police are urging residents not to approach it.
We'll be right back.
It was an April Fool's joke with the copy reading we have consulted with our new chief Riz officer, the Rizzler, to bring the most Riz-enhancing drink known to man.
According to the Wall Street Journal, 10 million views on that one post and lots of questions about where Rizberry could be found made the company realize they had to make the fake flavor for real.
It rolls out next month and our listeners already know this.
But an FYI for parents The fourth grader, with all this social media savvy, has a signature Riz face, which involves rubbing his chin, and is now repping Nintendo ATT, MGA and a half dozen other companies.
He's also made an appearance on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon.
Another much-hyped college football debut, another dud.
Six-time Super Bowl winning coach Bill Belichick, who's now manning the sidelines for the University of North Carolina, suffered a first-game beatdown by TCU Monday night.
The final score, 48-14.
After the game, the notoriously short on words coach told reporters they outplayed us, outcoached us and they were just better than we were tonight.
That's all there was to it.
They did a lot more things right than we did.
Give them credit for being the better team.
Mr Belichick and his Tar Heels may have more luck with their next opponent, the University of Charlotte.
Does it seem like the songs and tweets of birds are waking you up earlier and lasting longer into the evening?
You're not imagining it.
New research finds that our fine feathered friends are singing an average of 50 minutes more every day.
The reason is believed to be light pollution caused by streetlights and other human made gadgets.
Apparently they're messing with the bird's biological clocks.
As reported by Gizmodo, scientists from the University of Southern Illinois analyzed 60 million bird songs across nearly 600 species to discover that city birds who live where the lights are brightest sing longer than their country cousins where it's naturally darker.
More study is needed, they say, to see how the birds' longer days impact their overall health.
Still to come, how a grown man in Batman pajamas stopped a crime in progress.
But first we want to shout out three of our listeners Annabelle Adeline and Allison Pearsall in Wichita, Kansas.
The sisters ran a lemonade stand this summer and raised 300 for Fisher House in Kansas City, which offers a home away from home to the families of military members undergoing treatment at the Kansas City Veterans Medical Center.
Well done, girls.
Now, today's Kid News quiz.
How big is the asteroid QD8 that's making a flyby today?
It's the size of an airplane.
What kind of lizard is on the lam in Maine?
A tegu, which can grow to four and a half feet long.
What's the name of the fourth grade influencer who helped turn a fake drink into a real one?
Christian Joseph Sevasta, aka The Rizzler.
Because of light pollution, how much longer per day are birds singing?
About 50 minutes, according to scientists from the University of Southern Illinois.
In today's Kid News Kicker, you can't make this up.
A Florida resident wearing Batman pajamas thwarted a burglary and caught the suspected bad guy.
Kyle Mivet of Cape Coral says he was sound asleep in his superhero onesie last week when security cameras acting like a bat signal alerted him to someone breaking into his truck.
Still sporting his PJs.
Kyle sprang into action and detained the alleged thief, who by then, was reportedly rummaging through his neighbor's garage.
Police say it was quite a sight when they arrived and made sure they snapped a photo with the sleepy caped crusader before taking the suspect to jail.
It's shout-out time for our teachers, Ms.
Petrini, Mrs. McCabe, and Mrs. Bradley, and all their bulldogs at Bell in Papillion, Nebraska.
Ms.
Potral and her house teams, Valor, Forte, Altruismo, and Akili at Callison in Round Rock, Texas.
Mom Jamie Daniel at Daniel Home Learning where they're raising and releasing monarch butterflies in Avon, Indiana.
And Mrs. Travis and Ollie the Owl at Valley Life Charter School in Visalia, California.
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