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PLANETARY SCALES: How Scientists Weigh Planets⚖️🪐

Fun Kids Science Weekly

Fun Kids

Education For Kids, Kids & Family, Science

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

It's time for another trip around the solar system on the BIGGER and BETTER Science Weekly!

This episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly we continue our bigger and better podcast where we answer YOUR questions, have scientists battle it out for which science is the best & learn all about an immersive show promoting the Isle of Man's vast wildlife

Dan starts with the latest science news, where we learn about a dinosaur skeleton going in an auction for £34 million, scientists discovering a cave on the moon and MIchelle Jamieson & Chloe Shimmin from the Let's Get Wild tell us all about what they're latest immersive production is doing to promote wildlife on the Isle of Man.

Then we delve into your questions where Dan answers Amelia's question on how wood is turned into paper & Ed Turner from the National Space Centre answers Ansho's question on how scientists weigh planets?

Dangerous Dan continues and we learn all about the deadline parasite Dracunculus medinensis better known as the Guinea Worm

The Battle of the Sciences continues where Dan chats to Gillian Forrester from the University of Sussex about why Cognitive Science is the best kind of science?

What do we learn about?

- The most expensive dinosaur skeleton of all time

- A cave being discovered on the moon

- An immersive show showcasing Isle of Man's vast wildlife

- How scientists weigh planets?

- Is Cognitive Science the best type of science?

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0

Welcome along wherever you are on planet Earth, explorer.

0:04.0

Let's leave planet Earth. It's time for a brand new fun kids science weekly.

0:08.0

My name is Dan, this is the show where we search through the solar system to discover

0:14.5

some science secrets left behind. And this week we'll answer a big question.

0:20.4

It's huge. Seriously, it's a question bigger than planet Earth. You can find out how scientists manage to weigh planets even though they've never been to them.

0:30.0

The best way of finding out how heavy a planet or a moon is is to actually send something

0:38.7

there, send spacecraft there.

0:40.9

We have sent spacecraft to every single planet in our solar system.

0:45.6

Also our quest to find the best science ever takes us to the very start of humanity.

0:52.0

You'll hear all about cognitive science. I get to

0:56.0

investigate the brains and behaviors of children as well as other great apes

1:00.8

including guerrillas

1:02.7

and orangatines and I get to try to figure out how we humans

1:06.7

became upright walking talking and tool using great apes.

1:10.9

And our dangerous Dan takes us inside your gut and up through your skin.

1:17.2

It's a gruesome one in a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly.

1:21.1

Let's start off with your science in the news then and a large dinosaur skeleton

1:28.5

has fetched 34 million pounds at auction. The Stegiosaurus, nicknamed Apex, is 3.5 meters tall,

1:36.7

over 8 meters long and beautifully put back together. It was discovered by chance two years ago in America in a town called

1:46.1

Dinosaur some things are meant to be and also 34 million pounds is the highest

1:51.5

amount ever paid for a fossil so apex is a record

1:55.1

breaker and scientists have for the first time discovered a cave on the moon

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