Comet ISON is coming!
Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists
English - October 25, 2013 00:00 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MB - ★★★★ - 8 ratingsAstronomy Science Physics space science astronomy cosmology astrophysics rocketry planets stars galaxy telescope space boffins Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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As Comet ISON draws near to its close approach with the Sun in November, much uncertainty remains over how brilliant it will be. Dominic Ford speaks to Matthew Bishop at the Lowell Observatory to find out more. He also talks to Apostolos Christou from the Armagh Observatory about a group of asteroids which closely follow the orbit and Mars, and appear to fragments of a much larger pair of asteroids which collided. Tamela Maciel from the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge reports on the lonely exoplanet which doesn't seem to have a parent star, and Kirsten Gottschalk from the International... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists