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161: Dusty mysteries with Prof. Hartzell

Oct 6, 2019 · 21 min · Episode 161 · 26.1 MB
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Prof. Christine Hartzell tells us about the bizarre ways dust and rock behave on asteroids. She explains, "asteroids are complicated because our intuition fails." Tools like shovels become useless, forcing spacecraft designers to innovate.