Meteorites, Satellites and Avoiding Asteroids
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 958 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2006
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | Live. Live from the BBC The Naked Scientists. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello and welcome to this week's edition of The Naked scientist with me Dr. Chris Smith and with Phil Rosenberg |
| 0:45.8 | Hello Chris on this evening show Space Science we're going in search of our origins. We're looking at the science of meteorites the science of |
| 0:53.9 | satellites and also finding out how we can avoid Armageddon what happens if a massive |
| 0:58.5 | great thing is going to slam into the earth can we avoid disaster that's all |
| 1:02.3 | coming up tonight if If you have any |
| 1:03.4 | questions for us our guests on tonight's show include space scientist Maggie |
| 1:07.2 | Adairin, good evening Maggie. |
| 1:08.7 | Good evening. Maggie is a lovely lady and she would love to hear from me about |
| 1:12.0 | anything to do with how you make |
| 1:13.1 | satellites because you're designing one? Yes. You're going to talk about how you actually put |
| 1:17.4 | them in orbit and all that kind of stuff and how they work? We make very small |
| 1:20.4 | substances for European Space Agency satellites but I can tell you about what we're doing. |
| 1:25.0 | Brilliant. Our other guest this evening is Ian Sanders, who's come all the way from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. |
| 1:31.0 | Good evening, Ian. |
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