Cosmic Queries – Asteroids and Comets

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🗓️ 26 April 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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They could be transporters of life or harbingers of doom – Neil deGrasse Tyson answers fan-submitted questions on comets and asteroids with science author and cosmochemist Natalie Starkey, PhD, and first-time comic co-host Mark Normand. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/cosmic-queries-asteroids-and-comets/ Illustration Credit: European Southern Observatory/M. Kornmesser.

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0:00.0	From the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and beaming out across all of space and time.
0:09.0	This is Star Talk, we're science and pop culture.
0:14.0	This is Star Talk, I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:30.0	And today is a cosmic queries edition of Star Talk.
0:35.0	And I've got with me co-host Mark Norman, Mark.
0:39.0	Nice.
0:40.0	The first timer.
0:41.0	Hey, hey, big fan.
0:42.0	Have it be here.
0:43.0	You're local in New Yorker?
0:44.0	Local got lost in the museum like an idiot.
0:46.0	If you had to get lost anywhere, let it be the American Museum of Natural History.
0:50.0	That's true.
0:51.0	In the day.
0:52.0	Yes, so that would be terrifying.
0:53.0	You don't want to get lost at night.
0:54.0	No, I sadly I was using my night at the museum knowledge.
0:57.0	Oh, I've seen the movie.
0:59.0	You're using your coordinate system from that movie.
1:03.0	Yeah.
1:04.0	No, but you got here in one piece, which is excellent.
1:07.0	Today's topic is comments and asteroids.
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