Solve A Moon Mystery! With Radiolab

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🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

All summer long, we've been on a 10-episode odyssey through the changing universe (check out the series). But there was one big set of objects that we skipped over: moons. So now we're back, with special guest, Radiolab's Latif Nasser, to talk about yes, our moon — and the many moons and quasi-moons beyond it. Where did our Moon come from? How many moons are out there? What's this "quasi-moon" of which we speak and why is it "dancing" around space?

Also, Latif tells us about Radiolab's contest to name a quasi-moon. Read all the details and submit a name here!

Lunar questions or otherwise celestial musings you think we should cover? We'd love to hear about it! You can reach us by emailing [email protected].

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0:30.0	Hey Shortwaivers, Emily Kwong here, and me me Regina Barber and M all summer long we've been on this like 10 episode Odyssey through our changing universe
0:39.1	We've covered planets, stars, and living in space and even like how it's all going to end. But there's one big set of
0:46.6	objects in space that we've totally skipped over. We're going to take care of that in this episode
0:50.8	where we bring our space camp series back to our solar system.
0:54.4	With a very special guest, a maestro of mayhem just like us, Lutif Nasser, co-host of the Radio
1:01.0	Lab Podcast from WNYC.
1:03.0	Hey!
1:04.0	Thank you for having me.
1:05.0	I'm like, I feel so honored to be a space camp.
1:07.0	This is the space camp I never got to go to.
1:09.0	Yeah, us either.
1:10.0	Yeah, you are welcome, Lutif.
1:12.0	Okay, so about a year and a half ago, Lutof, you were solving a space mystery.
1:17.0	It all started with this one poster. What happened?
1:20.0	Yeah, I was putting my kid to bed. We had a solar system
1:23.7	poster we bought from the internet on his wall at a corner of my eye. I saw that
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