GETTING CURIOUS | Can Asteroids Rock Our World? with Christina Hernández and Terik Daly

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

It's a beautiful night—the sky is clear, the stars are twinkling. You see a shooting star! Or is it a comet! Maybe a meteor? Whatever it is, it’s gone in an instant. But what if that whirring bit of space were headed... straight towards the Earth, not past it? Yeah, not so cute. This week, Christina Hernández and Terik Daly of NASA join Jonathan to talk about asteroids, what they’re made of, and how we could protect the planet if one came hurtling towards the place we call home. Christina Hernández (she/her/hers) is a systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She currently works on Psyche, NASA’s mission to a metal world, as a flight systems engineer. She previously spent over 6 years working on NASA’s Perseverance rover mission as a payload systems engineer. You can follow Christina on Twitter @estrellasycafe. Dr. Terik Daly is a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He is the deputy instrument scientist for NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, which is the world’s first planetary defense test mission. For more information on NASA’s upcoming missions, including those mentioned in this episode, you can follow @AsteroidWatch on Twitter. Interested in the worlds of our solar system? Visit @NASASolarSystem for the broad picture and @NASAPersevere to check in on our neighbor, Mars! Join the conversation, and find out what former guests are up to, by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Love listening to Getting Curious? Now, you can also watch Getting Curious—on Netflix! Head to netflix.com/gettingcurious to dive in. Our executive producer is Erica Getto. Our associate producer is Zahra Crim. Our editor is Andrew Carson. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIÑ; for more, head to TheQuinCat.com. Getting Curious merch is available on PodSwag.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness, and every week I sit down for a gorgeous conversation
0:04.8	with a brilliant expert, or like this week, two brilliant experts, to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:11.6	On today's episode, I'm joined by asteroid experts
0:14.5	Christina Hernandez and Terec Daily. One note before we get started. We recorded
0:20.4	this episode in advance and since then there's been an update.
0:24.2	You'll hear Christina talk about a mission called Psyche when we spoke it was scheduled to
0:28.0	launch in 2022.
0:30.2	We've now heard the launch date is drum roll up in there.
0:34.4	You can stay tuned to NASA for more information and updates.
0:38.4	Without further ado, here's our episode with Christina Hernandez and Terryerec Daily, where I asked them,
0:44.0	can asteroids rock our world and should I be very scared?
0:48.0	Welcome to getting curious, this is Jonathan Vanes.
0:52.0	This is such a good episode.
0:53.8	We have updates on a previous episode,
0:55.9	but we're also going into a gorgeous new world
0:57.7	that I've been terrified of ever since I saw Don't Look Up.
1:01.2	We are getting into asteroids. So welcome to the show, Christina Hernandez,
1:05.2	who is an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She joined this.
1:09.9	I'm getting curious last year to talk about NASA's Mars Perseverance Mission, which was like,
1:14.0	oh my God, I still think about that episode,
1:15.6	learn so much.
1:16.4	She's now back to share her work on NASA's
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