Using Planetary Science To Tell Us More About The Origins Of Our Solar System With Stefanie N. Milam
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
What could the chemistry of comets and interstellar objects tell us about the nature of our Solar System? Stefanie N. Milam is a planetary scientist that studies this intriguing subject using specialized ground- and space-based telescopes…
Stefanie is the James Webb Space Telescope Deputy Project Scientist for Planetary Science at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Here, she spends her time researching the compositional makeup of primitive bodies to better understand their connection to the formation and evolution of planetary systems.
Click play to discover:
- How creating a comet in a lab can tell researchers more about their chemistry.
- What the James Webb Telescope can tell us about our Solar System and beyond.
- The difference between comets and asteroids.
- What happens when comets enter Earth's atmosphere.
- How the James Webb Telescope is different from the Hubble Space Telescope.
You can find out more about Stefanie and her research by clicking here!
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| 0:00.0 | Some of them do go into the sun and some of them will collide with planets and you know self-destruct |
| 0:05.7 | But a lot of them just are happy orbiting around the sun and living their best life |
| 0:11.6 | Either in the cold far reaches of the solar system or in the case of asteroids happily in their asteroid belt sitting there getting a sunburn |
| 0:20.5 | Now that we've done that now that we know that we can do that now that we know what a common environment actually looks like and how it varies as |
| 0:27.1 | It comes in and around the sun to the outer reaches of its orbit. We really want to go to a sample now |
| 0:33.1 | Scoop up some of the dust off the surface dust and ice hopefully and then bring that back to earth so that we can study it in our laboratories |
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| 1:15.4 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the finding genius podcast now part of the finding genius foundation |
| 1:24.6 | I have a really great guest Stephanie Mylam PhDs. She's the James Webb Space Telescope deputy project |
| 1:31.5 | Scientists for planetary science at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. So we're going to talk about her work in |
| 1:38.8 | Astrochemistry of which she works in a lab there on that and |
| 1:42.6 | Her other observations and other work. So Stephanie. Thanks for coming. Thank you so much for having me |
| 1:47.8 | Yeah, tell me about you work with with NASA. What do you do there? What are some of the projects you're working on? |
| 1:52.7 | Um, my primary goal at NASA is to study the chemistry of |
| 1:58.1 | Comments so I observe comments both from our solar system and now in our stellar objects |
| 2:06.6 | With ground and space-based telescopes and we're trying to understand you know how |
| 2:12.1 | pristine comets are so whether or not they're really the true cookie crumbs left from when the planets formed in our solar system |
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