122: How to make a comet with Dr. Michel

Episode 122 of the Spacepod podcast, hosted by Carrie Nugent, titled "122: How to make a comet with Dr. Michel" was published on April 8, 2018 and runs 32 minutes.

April 8, 2018 ·32m · Spacepod

0:00 / 0:00

Episode Description

Dr. Patrick Michel talks about comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, which was visited by the Rosetta spacecraft. This comet's shape was puzzling. It looked like it had survived a collision, but how could a fragile icy comet survive a high-energy impact? A new study by Dr. Michel and his team sheds light on this mystery.

Share this episode

Similar Episodes

Rocket Ranch -- Episode 30: Commercial Crew Reaches Milestone

Apr 16, 2021 ·16m

Rocket Ranch - Episode 29: First Space Shuttle Flight

Apr 7, 2021 ·28m

Rocket Ranch - Episode 28: Women in STEM

Mar 18, 2021 ·22m

Rocket Ranch - Episode 27: Being Black in the NASA Family

Feb 19, 2021 ·28m

Rocket Ranch - Episode 26: Perseverance Rover

Feb 4, 2021 ·14m

Rocket Ranch - Episode 25: Lessons of Loss

Jan 26, 2021 ·25m

Similar Podcasts

The Rocket Ranch National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Welcome to the Rocket Ranch, the official podcast of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Take a listen for a behind-the-scenes sneak peek into the inner workings of the world’s premiere spaceport. Talents, Incorporated Murray Leinster Bors felt as if he'd been hit over the head. This was ridiculous! He'd planned and carried out the destruction of that warship because the information of its existence and location was verified by a magnetometer.But, if he'd known how the information had been obtained--if he'd known it had been guessed at by a discharged spaceport employee, and a paranoid personality, and a man who used a hazel twig or something similar--if he'd known that, he'd never have dreamed of accepting it. He'd have dismissed it flatly! (Summary from the Gutenberg text)

URL copied to clipboard!