190. Craters
The Allusionist
Helen Zaltzman
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
"It's quite a big undertaking going through every named feature in the whole solar system and trying to find out who that person was."
When PhD student Annie Lennox discovered a crater on Mercury, she got the chance to name it. Which sent her on a bigger space mission.
Content note: this episode contains mentions of, but not descriptions of, sexual violence.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the illusionist in which I, Helen Zoltzmann, sell language and monorail. |
| 0:09.0 | No refunds. |
| 0:11.0 | In this episode we're headed to the planet Mercury. Bring a pack lunch and your strongest sunscreen. |
| 0:16.0 | And on the subject of space I'm excited to say that there will be a live space-themed |
| 0:22.0 | illusionist performance on the 18th of April in the |
| 0:25.9 | planetarium at the HR McMillan Space Center in Vancouver, BC. |
| 0:31.1 | I have wanted to do a show in a planetarium for so long. And your ticket includes |
| 0:37.0 | not just a delightful dose of Celestial Illusionists as you watch Nebulae swirling over your head but also a talk by astronomer Marley |
| 0:45.7 | Lacock about space words such as spaghetti occasion and you get to see all of the |
| 0:50.9 | space centers exhibits and science demonstrations. |
| 0:53.7 | Tickets are on sale now. I've linked to them at the Illusionist.org |
| 0:57.1 | slash events early bird pricing until 28th of March. |
| 1:00.8 | Content note this episode contains mentions of, but not descriptions of, |
| 1:06.0 | sexual violence. |
| 1:08.0 | On with the show. It really all came to light when I got the opportunity to name my first feature on Merckney which was a side note one of the most exciting things like to to find something that is |
| 1:28.8 | scientifically significant and then to get the chance to name it on another planet. |
| 1:33.0 | Super cool. |
| 1:34.0 | Very cool. |
| 1:35.0 | You can't just go about naming anything you want Millie Willie. |
| 1:38.0 | You have to find something that has some sort of scientific significance. I'm Annie Lennox. I'm a third year |
| 1:47.2 | PhD student with the Open University. My background is in terrestrial geology, so earth-based stuff, but with my PhD I found |
| 1:55.9 | myself more moving into planetary geology, specifically the planet Mercury. |
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