Rosetta & Philae
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In this episode, we talk about the recent comet landing (AKA the only comet landing ever!). We cover:
-What's up with all the weird names of these spacecraft and this comet
-Why we care about studying comets (and asteroids and space in general)
-What’s the difference between comets, asteroids, meteoroids, and other things?
-The story of the 4.4 thousand million mile journey to the comet
-What was achieved (and what went wrong!)
-Other cool space-related stuff like the planned human missions to Mars, "Interstellar", and Isaac Asimov
https://archive.org/download/Show4RosettaAndPhilae/Show%204%20-%20Rosetta%20and%20Philae.mp3
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