***** Or some weird astronomical phenomena that we don't really understand, like the alcubierre drive and it's relation to "faster-than-light" travel that *doesn't* break the laws of physics.
Phil Plait FTW! It's kind of funny, this feels so far removed from all other crash course series. Phil and John are both delightful but I'm a little biased towards astronomy :)
Technically, all of us have an object with our name floating around, orbiting the sun in space. It's us! Each and every human being orbits the sun. Phil is special because there's TWO things with his name floating around in space! ;)
How do I get my name in space. I have free weekends. How do u distinguish a named object from an unnamed one. I will officially make my parents proud too. 9-5 job for 30 yrs in mess of global issues isn't going to make me famous(ordinary fame may last 3 gen).
***** we actually hit by asteroid every day, yes.... EVERY SINGLE DAY, even though most of those asteroids only as big as grain of sand or the largest of "daily asteroid" are just as big as palm of adult hand.
IndraEMC I smell a smartass here. I should have mentioned: "went extinct by an Asteroid impact..." I know, that earth is hit by space debris every minute.
Why would people thumb down this video? I've been into Astronomy for about 20 years now & these videos help newer people to understand what's out there.
Vladimir Putin I beg to differ Mr Putin. Probably arrogant atheists who think they could do better ;) In all honestly lets just assume that some people can't appreciate a good video when they see one. Nothing to do with religion.
Vladimir Putin I dunno. I disagree, but that's ok- so long as we respect each other. I'd say majority (at the very least a large portion) of christians aren't solid on the belief that the universe is only a few thousand years old. There's too much evidence to suggest otherwise AND the Genesis account is written in such a way that it makes just as much sense to take it as figurative poetry than as a historical account. Often it's easy to tell, but in the case of Genesis 1, there are differing opinions. :) Anyway we can all agree on 1 thing: that these videos are awesome!
I don't even think you have to respect each other, I ask that you're cordial to one another because it's a thread I started but even that's merely a request & as easy to ignore as anything else on the interwebs. I'm with Gandalf though, the Crash Course Astronomy videos are great. Sci-Show Space is pretty good with Astronomy as well
Everytime I'm scrolling through my RU-vid feed, I'm hoping to see a new Crash Course Astronomy upload, and whenever I see one, it feels like Christmas! Keep it up!
Moritz Durtschi I know, but with too many things I look forward to watch, it's hard to remember days... I just look through my feed everyday, looking for interesting things.
You are one of the coolest astronomers ever. I absolutely love learning from these videos! Thank you so much for sharing your expertise and keeping science fun!
After you finish the current series could you do some on the different space missions? Half the time you mention something being discovered by something I've never heard of it
StaticV Not sure what's coming next just yet, and requests for one-off videos is a bit tricky, since we always operate off of a syllabus. However, a good place to start looking for more information would be SciShow Space! They're pretty cool ;) -Nicole
I love watching this show. Really. Not just because I love space and planets and the unknown of the universe but because Phil seems to love these things so much that you can't help but share his excitment.
I'd just like to say thank you for doing these videos. They are so helpful while studying and so much for to learn about something you're interested in. Thank you all so much
You really go beyond standard curriculum material. The level of some of the details you point out really stretches into BSc stuff, which is really cool. My praise is thine, keep up the good work!
One of the most beautiful, and I guess frustrating as well, is how much astronomy seems to grow; Phil Plait admits to the information he's sharing about asteroids possible being obsolete one the Dawn probe comes with information, and THAT'S beautiful. The universe isn't static, and learning is mutable.
I love this series of Crash Course. I find myself gazing into the stars nearly every night, seeing if I can spot our neighboring planets. I'm saving up for a modest little telescope now just so I can get a better look. All of this is thanks to this series.
I think everyone that hosts crash course episodes john green,hank green,phil plait you name them they are all brilliant and everyone else on crash courseyou are all GREAT.
So right after telling us that Trojan Asteroids have a Homeric naming scheme, you identify one of them by the name 2010 TK-7. Yes, he was one of my favorite characters in the _Iliad._
CrashCourse Hello guys! I just wanted to point out a little typo: the guy who discovered Ceres was Giuseppe (not Giuseppi) Piazzi. Btw, this series is awesome! Greetings from Italy :)
I would just like to say thank you very very much because a few days before my exam on 'Observing the Universe' last summer I was very confused and didn't think I knew much at all. With help from this series (which made me want to understand more) and a revision guide, I managed to get an A* in that exam- my final GCSE exam. I am proud of that mark and I am extremely grateful :)
I love these videos. Got hooked with the Chemistry series, and anchored by the Astronomy. The only thing I anticipate each week is the next video! Well done team.
I am loving SO HARD on Crash Course: Astronomy!!!! Thank y'all for getting me, a lit nerd who spends her nights managing a restaurant and days reading all the books, excited about space. Cheers to sharing the knowledge. :)
I was really hoping for a kind of parallel of Ceres with Pluto. Most people nowadays remember Pluto being classified as a planet. But not very many (0, I expect) remember Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta as planets. Their classifications as planets changed as it became more and more obvious they weren't as unique as we originally thought they were.
Pluto was a planet for quite a long time, maybe it still deserves an episode? Also the objects behind it are pretty interesting too! Maybe someday we will see an episode about them?)) Great series, thank you very much for it!!!
i think it's great that PBS is sponsoring shows like this. Maybe it'll get more young americans and people around the world interested in the sciences again
Vesta and pallas are the only 2 asteroids in the main belt aside from ceres that were at one point round, but due to constant collisions they have been effectively warped from their once round shape and haven't rounded back out due to them being more solid than they were when differentiating. It can be debated that both should be dwarf planets because they are massive enough to be round and had to be round at one point. This wasn't really touched on, but it's something to keep in mind when talking about large asteroids in the main belt.
Your mistake was thinking the spaceships are dodging through an asteroid belt when most such sci-fi instances call them an "asteroid field." Clearly a different designation for an area of space with a much higher density of asteroid. My hypothesis is that they are from recently dead planets or moons.
shreddaily101 Earth is hundreds if not thousands of times larger (maybe even millions) than anything within its orbital path besides the Moon. Pluto is not. Pluto shares its orbital path with the Plutinos, other trans-Neptunian objects that are influenced far more by Neptune than they are Pluto.
I love it when I learn something new. Like with the five Lagrange points. I knew of the two close ones on the line between sun and earth, but I didn't know of the two at 60° to these line or the “distant” one on the “other side” of the sun. The term Lagrangian is known from mathematics to me, but as I suck at it, I never really understood it (and less so QM, at least from a mathematical point of view). Also, congratulations on your "own" asteroid, I imagine this must be something for an astronomer! You do a Great job in popularizing Astronomy with these videos!
To be fair to science fiction, most those asteroid dodge sequences aren't in our solar system. Dense belts might be an anomaly, but when you've got all of space to play with, anomalies are plentiful :)
Whether it's a real thing or not, Bode's Law does a largely good job of describing where you find the orbits of the planets and many of the major dwarf planets, with the notable exception of Neptune. I kinda wonder if Neptune originally formed in the asteroid belt and was later flung out by Jupiter to near the Kuiper Belt, thus leaving the gap that's been taken up by Ceres and messing up the orbit of Pluto. Just a random hypothesis.
