Producing Planets

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2009

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On this week's Naked Scientists, we seek the start of the solar system. We'll be finding out how clouds of gas and dust can clump and diversify to become stars, asteroids and the planets we know so well. Plus, we find out what happens to sculpt the surface of planets, and how the Rosetta mission will be the first craft to land on a comet! Also,how the smell of old books can help to preserve them, deleting old memories to make room for new ones and the frightening rate of Greenland ice loss. Plus, in Kitchen Science, Ben and Dave explain how margarine and meteorites tell us about Earth's... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Boldly going where no science show has gone before.
0:05.0	The Naked Scientists.
0:08.0	Hello, welcome to this week's naked scientists with Diana O'Carroll.
0:15.0	Hello, Diana.
0:16.0	Hello!
0:17.0	And also with me, Chris Smith.
0:18.0	Coming up, diagnosing literary decay,
0:22.0	scientists have found a much faster way to sniff out old books that need urgent
0:25.5	restoration and that's to stop them falling apart. Also we've got a new way to spot distant
0:30.1	stars that could have planets orbiting around them and it's all down to the magic
0:33.7	chemical lithium we'll find out how it works shortly and how about this for a
0:37.6	conundrum what's green and losing 273 billion tons in weight every single year. I would say my mother and
0:44.9	nor but I'm not that unkind. The answer is actually Greenland and its weight loss
0:48.6	is all down to melting ice and we'll find out what the consequences of that might be
0:52.4	in just a minute.
0:53.4	Diana.
0:54.4	Yes, thanks Chris.
0:55.4	This week we're turning our telescopes on the heavens to discover how stars and planets
0:59.7	form in the first place and the processes that are modeling Mars today and can they
1:04.3	tell us anything about Earth too that's all on the way. Thanks Diana and sticking with
1:08.9	the space theme this week's kitchen science has got Ben and Dave discovering the origins of the solar
1:13.8	system in a tub of microwaved margarine. So if you want to have a go at
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