Ep. 566: When Comets Fall Apart

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

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🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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566: When Comets Fall Apart Astronomy Cast 566: When Comets Fall Apart by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay As everyone knows, the Universe owes us a bright comet. There have been a lot of promising candidates, but in the end, they always fail to live up to our expectations. Comets keep on breaking up with us.

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0:00.0	A Stormy Cat Episode 566
0:05.0	Welcome to a Stormy Cat, we're in the backspace of Germany because we're good
0:11.0	Cosmos, where we help you understand not only what we knew but how we know what we knew.
0:15.7	I'm Frisier Kane, publisher of Universe today with me as always is Dr. Pamela Gay, a
0:20.2	senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmos Quest.
0:24.6	Hey Pamela, how you doing?
0:26.2	I'm doing well. Spring keeps playing with our minds here.
0:30.9	I know.
0:31.9	It is glorious and fully flowered and like six degrees Celsius.
0:38.3	Oh really?
0:39.3	It's like 40-ish. It's supposed to get below freezing tonight.
0:44.4	I am bitter. Our apple trees and full on bloom and there are no bees.
0:49.4	Yeah, we have tons of bees.
0:51.4	Okay.
0:52.4	Do you have, do you get the mason bees?
0:55.8	Yes.
0:56.8	Yeah, so we have little mason bee houses that we keep in the garage every wintertime
1:04.0	and then in the springtime, unless we forget and then we have a garage full of bees.
1:09.8	But we in the springtime take the mason bee houses out and put them in the various places
1:14.3	in the orchard and then the bees will come out and do their thing and it's so cool.
1:19.5	They're so great.
1:21.0	Yeah, our mason bees just keep finding things to put holes in.
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