StarTalk Live! at the Beacon (Part 1): Chasing Comets

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🗓️ 3 June 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Eugene Mirman explore the early solar system and go chasing comets with the help of cosmochemist Dr. Natalie Starkey (ESA Rosetta Mission) and comedians Ilana Glazer and Scott Adsit. Recorded live at the Beacon Theatre in NYC.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	Star Talk Live!
0:17.0	It is my very great pleasure to introduce your host,
0:24.0	a very geneal and excellent science communicator,
0:29.0	and destroyer of planets, the galactos of Earth,
0:35.0	ladies and gentlemen, Neil deGrasse Tyson!
0:40.0	You, Jean.
0:44.0	So who's next?
0:46.0	Yes, you have two guests of your own.
0:48.0	I do.
0:49.0	It is my great pleasure to bring out from Broad City,
0:51.0	Alana Glazer, and from NBC's 30 Rock, Scott Adcett!
1:02.0	A tonight's topic is on the Solar System,
1:07.0	comets, and other vagabonds, including Pluto.
1:13.0	Yeah!
1:18.0	And we comb the world to find someone who has just that kind of expertise.
1:23.0	And I found in England, there is a woman who will soon be moving to California,
1:28.0	bringing her expertise, state side.
1:31.0	She's one of the principal investigators on the Rosetta mission to a comet,
1:35.0	where we landed a probe on the comet.
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