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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Meteorites, Satellites and Avoiding Asteroids

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6958 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2006

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week we look to the solar system as Ian Sanders discusses where meteorites come from and how we can find them, astronaut Dr Stan Love describes how to avoid Armageddon asteroids, Maggie Aderin talks about satellites that monitor wind speeds, Richard Preece recounts the sticky tale of the hitchhiking snails, and Derek and Dave make water fibre optics in Kitchen Science. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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Live. Live from the BBC The Naked Scientists.

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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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