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How Do You Trace a Meteorite Back To Its Home?
[…] It’s virtually impossible to tell where a meteorite comes from, but in 2018, scientists were able to pull a feat of forensic astronomy and do just that. Host: Reid Reimers […]
The Day Dinosaurs Died – 2nd Asteroid Impact Provides More Clues
[…] Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the most famous extinction event and new discoveries about the impacts that caused the demise of dinosaurs Paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/conte… […]
Visualization of How Fast a Ball Drops on Various Solar System Bodies | Kottke
This is an animation of how quickly an object falls 1 km to the surfaces of solar system objects like the Earth, Sun, Ceres, Jupiter, the Moon, and Pluto. For instance, it takes 14.3 seconds to cover that distance on … Continue reading
What would happen if we removed the Milky Way’s black hole?
Weirdly, the galaxy would be completely fine, and here’s why! Also, head to https://kiwico.com/drbecky50 for 50% off your first month of any Kiwi Co subscription crate. 00:00 – Introduction 00:50 – What you’d expect 02:41 – Black hole mass fraction … Continue reading
TRUE Limits Of Humanity – The Final Border We Will Never Cross
[…] Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources… The original Limits of Humanity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL4yY… Is there a border we will never cross? Are there places we will never reach, no matter how hard we try? It turns out, there are. Even with … Continue reading
Time: Do the past, present, and future exist all at once? | Big Think
Everything we do as living organisms is dependent, in some capacity, on time. The concept is so complex that scientists still argue whether it exists or if it is an illusion. In this video, astrophysicist Michelle Thaller, science educator Bill … Continue reading
Dr. Becky Smethurst On Being An Astrophysicist, English Accents, And the Cosmological Crisis
I recently sat down with Dr. Becky Smethurst where were talked about the Cosmological Crisis for Monday’s video, what it’s like to be a super-dope scientist, and make fun of each other’s accents. Check out her channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYNb… Here’s … Continue reading
ESA’s Incredible Adventures of the Hera Asteroid Mission | The Kid Should See This
Can we shove an asteroid? Do we have the technology to knock one off its path through space, deflecting it from a future impact? This is the question that Hera and two CubeSats, Milani and Juventas, are trying to answer. … Continue reading
41 micrometeorites in less than 2 minutes | The Kid Should See This
“The solar system is a dusty place,” explains Project Stardustfounder Jon Larsen in the caption of one of his videos. “Every day approximately 100 tons of cosmic dust fall down on Earth, mainly as micrometeorites…” “Most of these mineral particles (iron, … Continue reading
Dinosaurs Lived on the Other Side of the Milky Way, NASA Scientist Shows
NASA scientist Jessie Christiansen mapped out dinosaur evolution through the Milky Way’s rotation, showing that dinosaurs roamed Earth when it was in different parts of our galaxy.
