Name a Quasi-Moon with Radiolab Host Latif Nasser

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🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Science journalist and Radiolab host Latif Nasser found himself at the center of a space mystery. A space poster in his child’s room showed Zoozve, a moon circling Venus. Only Nasser had never heard of Zoozve—and neither had anyone else. Nasser brings us the story of Zoozve the quasi-moon and brings listeners the opportunity to name a quasi-moon of their own. Recommended listening Zoozve Name a Quasi-Moon with Radiolab Quasi-Moon Contest E-mail us at sciencequickly@sciam.com if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Discover something new every day: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for Today in Science, our daily newsletter. Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman with special guest Latif Nasser, Radiolab host. Our show is edited by Elah Feder, Alexa Lim, Madison Goldberg and Anaissa Ruiz Tejada, with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Most people know Latif Nasser as one of the hosts of Radio Lab.
0:10.6	Hey, I'm Latif Nasser, this is Radio Lab.
0:13.0	But about a year and a half ago, his nose for a good science story took him on a wild side
0:18.9	quest.
0:19.9	And yeah, it did end up turning into a really cool episode of Radio Lab.
0:25.0	But Lut have also found himself playing an active part in the scientific process.
0:30.0	For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman.
0:34.0	And today we're talking about the time
0:36.2	Latif accidentally helped name a quasi-moon
0:39.5	and how you, yes, you, can name a quasi moon of your very own.
0:45.8	We're thrilled to have the man himself here today
0:48.2	to tell us more.
0:49.2	I would love to hear a little bit about how you got interested in quasi moons or
0:57.2	quaising moons depending on who you ask.
0:59.6	It started totally by accident. I was putting my kid to bed one night in his
1:04.2	crib and we had bought for him online this like solar system poster and I was
1:09.1	looking at the solar system poster sort of out of the corner of my eye as I was
1:12.0	putting him in his crib and I saw like that Venus had a moon and I was like that's weird like I never learned that in school that Venus had a moon? I was like, am I crazy? And then I looked it up. I just
1:27.2	scouled on my phone. Does Venus have a mood? And then the first result was from
1:30.7	NASA, and it was like, Venus does not have a moon.
1:33.6	And I was like, I'm like crazy?
1:35.4	Like what is going on here?
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