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OSIRIS-REx & Asteroid Mining with Natalie Starkey

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4.614.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Will an asteroid hit Earth in 2182? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice learn about asteroid mining, OSIRIS-REx sample-return, and the origins of life with cosmochemist Natalie Starkey.

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0:00.0

Coming up next on Stark Talk, our go-to Cosmo chemist Natalie Starky from the UK returns.

0:06.4

And we talk about NASA's Osiris Rex sample return mission from the Earth Crossing asteroid

0:14.3

Benu. Well, we learned how did we accomplish this feat? What do we hope to find?

0:21.8

And we'll asteroid Benu ultimately hit Earth in the year 2182.

0:30.0

All that and more on Stark Talk.

0:34.8

Welcome to Stark Talk. You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.

0:43.1

Stark Talk begins right now.

0:47.7

This is Stark Talk. You'll digress Tyson here. You're a personal astrophysicist.

0:53.0

We're doing cosmic queries. Cosmic queries today. And you know I can't do that without

0:58.9

Chuck Knies. Chuck, how you doing, man? Hey, Neil, what's happening, buddy?

1:02.3

Yeah, yeah. Guess who we have as a guest today. I'll play along even though I can see

1:09.0

her on the screen right now. Who could that be? Who could that be? She is our resident

1:17.4

Cosmo chemist. Yes. How many people get to say that? Nobody gets. We get to say that.

1:22.1

No, yeah. Not even a people who work at Cosmo get to say that they're a Cosmo chemist.

1:26.2

Yes. Yes. Natalie Starkey. Thanks for coming back to Stark Talk.

1:31.0

No, no problem. I love to be here. I want to chat. I want to chat. Cosmo chemistry.

1:36.0

Oh my gosh. That's your professional expertise. And you know, people don't think that the universe

1:42.8

involves other fields, right? I used to start out as a geologist. And of course there's geology

1:48.2

on rocky planets. And then you want to know what the chemistry is. We got to tap people who've

1:54.4

got these kind of expertise. And you're just that kind of person that plugs one field into another

2:00.1

or cross-polytes. Well, I never realized to myself. You know, when I start out, I just liked

2:03.9

rocks, I liked volcanoes. And then slowly you start to learn more. And then you realize, of course,

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