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33: Q&A - The Year in Space

The Supermassive Podcast

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The Dart Mission - I'm Really Excited to See What It Finds

There's something called the bouncing barrier which is where they get sort of pebble sized and if they crash into each other high speed you know do they just break apart. together with the electrostatic forces basically charged forces that happens in space a bit as well. The smaller objects some of them are a bit like rubble piles we think they are less coagulated together so it varies depending on the size the object but certainly things like comets can be much more fragile than bigger ones. Richard regular listeners the bath astronomers have sent in the questions oh shout out bath astronomers we love bath astronomers and then Robert will give his verdict on new star link, blue walker three and satellite light poll

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