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Understanding Asteroids and Comets

Understanding Asteroids and Comets

05/10/2017

SCIENCE!

Understanding Asteroids and Comets

Episode 17009 | 1m 31sVideo has Closed Captions

Understanding Asteroids and Comets

At NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, research scientists categorize hundreds of thousands of asteroids and over a hundred comets. Through the NEOWISE mission (or Near Earth Object + Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer), principal investigator, Amy Mainzer, studies the similarities and differences between comets and asteroids and how whether or not they will impact Earth.

05/10/2017

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SCIENCE!

Understanding Asteroids and Comets

Episode 17009 | 1m 31sVideo has Closed Captions

At NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, research scientists categorize hundreds of thousands of asteroids and over a hundred comets. Through the NEOWISE mission (or Near Earth Object + Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer), principal investigator, Amy Mainzer, studies the similarities and differences between comets and asteroids and how whether or not they will impact Earth.

05/10/2017

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