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Ep. 540: Weird Issues: How Do (or Don't) Planets Form?

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Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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540: Weird Issues: How Do (or Don't) Planets Form? Astronomy Cast 540: Weird Issues: How Do (or Don't) Planets Form? by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay As astronomers started to discover planets orbiting other stars, they immediately realized that their expectations would need to be tossed out. Hot jupiters? Pulsars with planets? We're now decades into this task, and the Universe is continuing to surprise us.

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, producer Susie here. We greatly appreciate your support listening to

0:05.4

astronomy cast. And we'd like to ask another small favor you can do to support

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our work. Just go over and subscribe for free to our CosmoQuest channel at www.youtube.com

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slash c slash CosmoQuest. And while you're there, subscribe to Fraser Cane's

0:23.2

channel too so you can check out his guide to space. Thank you!

0:30.0

Welcome to Astronomy Castor Weekly Fact Space journey through the Cosmo. It's a

0:40.7

really help you understand not only what we know but how we know what we know. I'm

0:44.4

Fraser Cane, publisher of Universe Today with me as always, Dr. Pamela Gay, a

0:49.2

senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of CosmoQuest.

0:53.6

Pamela, how are you doing? I'm doing well Fraser, how are you doing? Good, there is a

0:57.8

typo in my introduction and I look over it every single time. It says

1:04.7

and Director of CosmoQuest but actually you're the Director of CosmoQuest and I

1:08.7

make that mental change every single time but it's too difficult for me to go

1:12.3

and edit the thing so I'm just gonna keep going. It keeps the mind sharp I think

1:16.3

is what I'm saying. It does. Before we get into this we set

1:19.7

episode. Is there any interesting things to talk about? Yes, we have two, two

1:27.4

count them two things that need to come up. The first one is on October 5th.

1:34.1

Everyone should go out, look up at the moon and celebrate International

1:39.5

Observe the Moon night. The second thing is we have a new podcast over at

1:47.0

CosmoQuest. This is the daily space and we are putting out short roughly 10

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minute episodes, most Mondays through Fridays, that will help you understand

2:00.4

the latest news. These are episodes that basically give you a quick rundown of

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