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Cosmic Queries: Asteroids, Comets and Meteor Storms

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Scientist, Nasa, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Climate Science, Earth Science, Nature, Astronomy, Science, Multiverse, Spacetime, Astrophysicist, Space, Education, Cosmos, Astronomer, Startalk, Quantum Physics, Physics, Universe, Astrophysics, Star Talk

4.614.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2013

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Can’t tell the difference between asteroids, comets, meteoroids, meteors and meteorites? Never fear… Neil deGrasse Tyson explains them all in this episode of Cosmic Queries.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Star Talk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.

0:10.4

Star Talk begins right now.

0:12.9

This is Star Talk, the Cosmic Query's edition.

0:25.4

I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson, in studio with Chuck Nice.

0:29.0

Hey, Neil.

0:30.0

Hey, Chuck.

0:31.0

I am good to see you, man.

0:32.0

This is not our first rodeo.

0:33.0

No, it is not.

0:34.0

It is not.

0:35.0

What have we done?

0:36.0

We've collected questions from our fan base, basically.

0:39.5

Those who like us on Facebook, or Twitter, or Google Plus, and we've solicited questions

0:48.3

from them on the topic of Asteroids.

0:51.0

Asteroids.

0:52.0

Yes.

0:53.0

Great video game back in a day, by the way, I just got to say.

0:57.2

You're dating yourself.

0:58.2

Yeah.

0:59.2

And that in pong, you were totally rocking the bar scene, I'm sure.

1:05.5

No, I like Asteroids too, and I have a bit of trivia about Asteroids later on if you're

1:08.7

interested, the game Asteroids.

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