EPISODE · May 8, 2024 · 45 MIN
The Low Down on Big G and the Young Moon of Dinkinesh
from Walkabout the Galaxy · host Josh Colwell, Addie Dove, Jim Cooney, Audrey Martin
NASA's Lucy mission discovered a surprising moon of the small asteroid Dinkinesh on its way to the orbit of Jupiter. New studies of that moon, a contact binary, suggest it may have a surprisingly young age. Meanwhile, cosmologists continue to wrestle with various seemingly contradictory measurements. One model suggests a modification to that old Physics 1 standby, the gravitational constant (or is it?) G. Join us for all the astronomical news near and far, including space news updates and trivia.
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