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Astronomy Cast

363: Where Did Earth's Water Come From?

Astronomy Cast

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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AstronomyCast 363: Where Did Earth's Water Come From? by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

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This episode of Astronomycast is brought to you by Swinburn Astronomy Online, the world's longest running online astronomy degree program.

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Visit astronomy.swin.edu.au for more information.

0:18.0

Astronomycast, episode 363. Where did the Earth's water come from?

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Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts based journey through the cosmos, through help you understand only what we know, but how we know what we know.

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My name is Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of Universe Today and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and the Director of Cosmacost. Hey Pamela, how you doing?

0:44.0

I'm doing well, how are you doing, Fraser?

0:46.0

Good, and we are at this point at the time that we are recording. We do not know what happened with the SpaceX launch and if it's going to land on a floating platform in the ocean, but by the time you listen to it, you will know if it happened.

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So, hooray or too bad. We're sorry. Yeah, we're sorry, and maybe next time.

1:06.0

But awesome technology attempt. Yeah, absolutely.

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And also, which is a little housekeeping in order, which is that you should subscribe to the astronomy, the newly formed astronomy cast YouTube channel.

1:19.0

So if you want to watch the full videos, you want to see the preamble where we prepare for the show and then record the show live and then we stick around afterwards and we answer questions from users, then you're probably going to want to watch that you can just go to astronomy cast.

1:37.0

No, we don't have that yet. So what you want to do is bounce off of our Google plus page or look at our Twitter feed or just look at any of the videos that are embedded on astronomy cast.

1:49.0

I'll make sure the link is all over on astronomy cast.

1:52.0

So the more subscribers we get, the more likely we are for YouTube to actually give us that pretty URL that we so desperately desire.

2:02.0

I'm sure we have it somewhere in our collection. I'm sure we've registered it. I'm sure we own it somehow.

2:07.0

It's their thing. Yeah, Google you baffles. We love you. You baffles.

2:13.0

But yeah, go go follow your YouTube link to astronomy cast and keep up with all of the live raw press. It hasn't made me sound more intelligent.

2:24.0

We love you Preston shows that are out there and get all of the outtakes before their outtakes.

2:31.0

Awesome. All right, let's get on with the show.

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