Ep. 595: Planet Hunting - Revisited

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

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🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 595: Planet Hunting - Revisited by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay This is gonna be another one of those evergreen topics where we come back again and again. Finding planets. Every time we talk about this now it seems like we've gained thousands of new planets. Well, buckle up! New techniques will grow that by tens of thousands and even millions!

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0:00.0	A Tronomy Cast Episode 595 Planet Hunting Revisited
0:14.4	Welcome to the Tronomy Cast, our weekly facts based journey through the cosmos where
0:17.4	we help you understand not only what we know but how we know what we know.
0:20.5	I'm Fraser Kane, publisher of Universe Today with me is always his Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior
0:24.9	scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of CosmonQuest.
0:28.9	Hey Pamela, how you doing?
0:29.9	I'm doing cold.
0:32.4	I'm out here in the American Midwest at that southern edge of this great cold blight
0:39.8	that followed in all of the snow.
0:42.8	But it's February and this means that the crocuses are starting up and when the ground
0:49.2	thaws it shall be muddy season followed by gardening.
0:52.9	Oh, thank you.
0:54.9	It's the same, but here it's way better.
0:58.4	It's finally sort of turning the corner.
1:00.0	We're coming into our spring I think.
1:02.2	It's still, I mean February can be hit or miss, but I'm now able to go for walks with just
1:06.6	a couple of layers and not like my big warm coat.
1:10.6	I'm Canada.
1:11.6	So, you know, so we all have big warm coats and off the word gloves, it's good.
1:17.4	But yeah, exactly.
1:18.4	Same thing.
1:19.4	I'm seeing the crocuses come up.
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