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Astronomy Cast

Weekly Space Hangout Feb 15, 2013

Astronomy Cast

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2013

⏱️ 51 minutes

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Weekly Space Hangout for Friday, February 15th, 2013, the Space Rock edition.

0:08.8

So I don't know what you guys were all doing last night, but I was reporting a non-stop

0:16.4

on a meteor that exploded over Russia, I guess, last night.

0:23.5

And as well as we've got a huge, I guess, asteroid passing very close to the Earth.

0:28.7

We give a very tiny asteroid.

0:31.4

A huge, a very tiny, a building sized.

0:35.0

Anyway, yeah, an asteroid passing very close to the Earth today, which actually just passed

0:38.8

us.

0:39.8

So it's all safe.

0:40.8

Everything's fine.

0:41.8

So joining us for this very special Space Rock edition, we've got a team of dedicated

0:47.5

astro-astronomy journalists.

0:49.9

So we've got Dr. E. N. O. Niel from Discovery.

0:54.3

We've got Nancy Atkinson from Universe today.

0:57.8

We've got Nicole Galucci, Dr. Nicole Galucci, aka The Noise Eustronomer, Dr. Pamela Gay

1:03.0

from CosmoQuest.

1:04.6

We've got Scott Lewis from CosmoQuest, and we've got Dr. Thadzebo from Suridus College.

1:13.6

And yeah, and so we had all kinds of stuff we wanted to talk about today.

1:16.5

We wanted to talk about, we wanted to talk about, anyway, comets, asteroids, others, stuff

1:23.6

that's happening on Mars, and all of that just got white completely clean last night.

1:28.0

With the impact of this media over Russia.

1:31.0

So I'm going to guess that Ian is looking the most sleep deprived and has probably been

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