Asteroid Hunting w/ Carrie Nugent

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

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Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2017

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Cara sits down with the author of "Asteroid Hunters," Dr. Carrie Nugent (professional asteroid hunter and Staff Scientist at Caltech/IPAC). They discuss recent and historical asteroid impacts and misses, as well as future plans for preventing an asteroid collision with Earth.

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0:00.0	Hello. Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy.
0:17.0	Today is Tuesday August 22nd and I'm your host Kara Santa Maria.
0:22.0	Now the reason I didn't post this episode on Monday
0:25.8	August 21st is because Monday August 21st was a very very special day. It was the day of the North American
0:35.2	eclipse and I didn't want this episode to be eclipsed. Hardie Har by the
0:40.9	eclipse. But really I was super lucky I got to come up to Central Oregon
0:45.6	and I was able to observe the Eclipse in all its glory. I was actually in the path of totality. I had an entire minute and a half of
0:56.4	totality to observe the eclipse and it was actually a really special experience
1:01.8	because I was invited to come up to Oregon by National
1:06.9	Geographic and Air B&B who together partnered to do a live stream on the internet.
1:15.2	So I was live streaming during this absolutely incredible,
1:21.2	incredible event.
1:23.0	You can actually watch that live stream anytime you'd like.
1:27.3	If you go, it's actually, obviously archive now, it's no longer live, but all you have to do is visit Facebook.com slash
1:35.8	national geographic or YouTube dot com slash national geographic and you can watch
1:41.2	that stream I co-hosted it with former NASA astronaut and
1:46.4	space shuttle commander Terry Verts and you guys I'm not going to lie, I cried. It was incredibly emotional. It was really intense. It was beautiful. It was a little bit scary. It was all of the feelings. And just today. Today was a really big day. So I'm recording
2:08.1	this super late at night right at the end before I go to sleep. This will be airing on Tuesday morning for your
2:14.4	enjoyment. Now for this special episode I I actually had a chance to chat with an incredible scientist. Her name is Dr. Carrie Nugent and she, I keep calling her
2:30.4	throughout the episode an asteroidologistologist but that's not a real
2:33.2	word she's actually an asteroid hunter and a staff scientist at IPAC Caltech and so what she does is hunt asteroids she looks for them she plots their
2:48.5	path and she works on the framework that will help protect us if there is ever a potential asteroid
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