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16: Mysteries of the Kuiper Belt

16: Mysteries of the Kuiper Belt

FromThe Supermassive Podcast


16: Mysteries of the Kuiper Belt

FromThe Supermassive Podcast

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Length:
41 minutes
Released:
Apr 23, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

“It’s like the evidence left over after a crime.”
 
This month Izzie and Dr Becky venture into the outer Solar System to explore a sea of weird rocks, a squashed snowman and ice volcanoes on a demoted planet. 
 
They are joined by Dr Meg Schwamb from Queen’s University Belfast and Alice Bowman, Mission Operations Manager for the New Horizons mission at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.
 
Becky also explains the science behind a possible ‘fifth force of nature’ and Dr Robert Massey takes on your questions and tells us what to look out for in the spring night sky. 
 
You can send your questions or space book club recommendations to podcast@ras.ac.uk or tweet @RoyalAstroSoc using #RASSupermassive.
 
 The Supermassive Podcast is a Boffin Media Production by Izzie Clarke and Richard Hollingham. 
Released:
Apr 23, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (66)

This is The Supermassive Podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society. Every month, science journalist Izzie Clarke and astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst take you through the universe with the latest research, history from the society’s archives and astronomy you can do from your own home. You can send your questions to the team via podcast@ras.ac.uk or tweet @RoyalAstroSoc using #RASSupermassive The Supermassive Podcast is a Boffin Media Production by Izzie Clarke and Richard Hollingham.