Ep. 545: Weird Issues: Are comets asteroids or are asteroids comets?

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

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🗓️ 5 November 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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545: Weird Issues: Are comets asteroids or are asteroids comets? Astronomy Cast 545: Weird Issues: Are comets asteroids or are asteroids comets? by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Things used to be so simple. Comets were snowballs from the outer Solar System, and asteroids were rocks from the inner Solar System. But now everything's all shades of grey. Astronomers have found asteroids that behave like comets and comets that behave like asteroids.

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0:00.0	Astonomycast Episode 545 Weird Issues
0:11.4	Our comments asteroids or our asteroids comments.
0:15.8	Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos where we help you
0:19.5	understand not only what we know but how we know what we know.
0:22.5	I'm Fraser Kane, publisher of University Day with me as always, Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior
0:27.5	scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of CosmoQuest.
0:32.3	Since the word science a lot there, you've just noticed.
0:35.8	It's true, I'm all about that science.
0:38.4	It's really all about science, yeah.
0:42.8	Any news, Pamela?
0:43.8	Or do we get right into the episode?
0:47.0	I will be at QCon which is a software conference in San Francisco next week.
0:54.0	I'm probably going to do some sort of a meetup if I can figure it out.
0:57.6	I haven't figured it out yet, so if anyone has suggestions, hit me up.
1:02.2	I can be found as Star Strader pretty much anywhere on the internet.
1:06.7	Let's all hope you can figure it out.
1:10.8	People who watch Letter Candy will get that reference.
1:12.9	Alright, things used to be so simple.
1:16.8	Comments were snowballs from the outer solar system and asteroids were rocks from the
1:20.8	inner solar system, but now everything is all shades of gray.
1:24.7	Astronomers have found asteroids that behave like comets and comets that behave like asteroids.
1:29.4	Pamela makes sense of this for me.
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