Avoiding Armageddon With Dr. Carrie Nugent

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4.6 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week is all about looking for pieces of space, whether they’re in orbit or in Antarctic ice. First, asteroid hunter Carrie Nugent talks about chasing down elusive celestial bodies and why she doesn’t like talking about what it’s like to be a woman in science. And then we talk about meteorite hunting with the hosts of Undiscovered, a new podcast from NPR’s Science Friday team.

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0:35.2	I'm Greta Johnson.
0:36.3	And I'm Trisha Bobita.
0:37.7	And before we go any further,
0:40.3	this week we need you to hear something very important.
0:47.1	What hit us? Small asteroid fragments. This morning. How big with those?
0:53.9	Those were nothing. The size of basketballs and Volkswagen's. This new one you're tracking.
0:54.7	How big?
0:56.4	It's the size of Texas, Mr. President.
0:59.4	It's what we call a global killer.
1:00.5	The end of mankind.
1:03.4	Half the world be incinerated by the heat blast.
1:05.4	The rest will freeze to death, a nuclear winter.
1:07.5	Basically the worst parts of the Bible.
1:13.6	In case you couldn't tell, that is the trailer from the 1998 hit film Armageddon.
1:18.7	This is like a sci-fi romance, which has Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler.
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