The Skeptics Guide #273 - Oct 6 2010

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

Skepticism, Paranormal, Fringe-science, Psuedoscience, Skeptic, Science

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🗓️ 8 October 2010

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

News Items: 2010 Nobel Prizes in Medicine, Chemistry and Physics, 2010 IgNobels, Diesel from a Stone; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Mass and Gravity, Science Education, Laughing Hyenas; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:07.3	Your escape to reality.
0:11.1	Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:13.3	Today is Wednesday, October 6, 2010 and this is your host, Steven Novella.
0:19.2	Joining me this week are Rebecca Watson.
0:21.3	Hello everyone.
0:22.5	Jane Novella, hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.
0:26.2	Hello everybody.
0:27.2	Bob has the night off, but Evan you're going to tell us what you're special about today.
0:33.3	That's right, so you're listening to this podcast on October 9th and it was in fact October
0:38.8	9th in 1992 when a great meteor seen from Turkey to New York was observed around 8 o'clock
0:44.8	at night, landed on the hood of a car in peak skill New York.
0:51.3	And there is famous video footage of that meteorite falling from the sky over a football
0:58.5	game that was going on that night.
1:01.1	You guys, I don't know if you remember seeing that.
1:03.4	Absolutely.
1:04.4	It's very dramatic.
1:05.7	It is.
1:06.7	It's amazing footage.
1:07.7	It's only the fourth recovered meteorite for which detailed data exists on its trajectory.
1:12.7	Wow.
1:13.7	There's only four.
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