Are All Asteroids Really Gray?

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We have questions from our fan base. It's a Patreon fan base. So you just pull these out of the ether right here. Yes. They can't hide the conspiracies because they got to reveal the answers right then. The asteroids are actually quite dark. We measure, you know, how dark they are in something, there's something called Albedo. And it is how much of the sunlight they reflect. There is one type that is really like almost like a little marble. It's an instant type. That's totally from the QVC channel. I don't believe you're now, Maria. You've been watching too many infomercials and not enough space travel

Neil has his own asteroid?! On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Marcia Belsky answer fan questions about different types of asteroids with Marina Brozovic, orbital dynamicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Photo Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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