Carrie Nugent: Adventures of an asteroid hunter
Carrie Nugent: En asteroidjägares äventyr
Carrie Nugent is part of a team that uses NASA's NEOWISE telescope to search the skies for and catalog asteroids. Full bio
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obeskrivligt gammalt.
and the oceans between them.
och oceanerna dem emellan.
over four billion years ago
4 miljarder år sedan
kanske inte ser så speciell ut,
may not appear special,
from earthly metals.
som bara bildas ute i rymden,
that can only form out in space
can cool extremely slowly,
av ett mycket större objekt -
of a much larger object,
after the planets formed.
efter att planeterna bildats.
mest talrika kosmiska grannar.
and most numerous cosmic neighbors.
som kretsar runt solen,
orbiting around the Sun,
och asteroiderna är överdriven
have been greatly exaggerated
are searching for these objects,
söker efter dessa objekt,
i närheten av jorden.
finansieras av NASA.
som ett stort byggprojekt,
as a giant public works project,
kartlägger vi yttre rymden
we're charting outer space,
that will last for generations.
som kommer att finnas i generationer.
som upptäcktes förra året.
discovered just last year.
near-Earth asteroids,
jordnära asteroider,
around the Sun determined.
from asteroid to asteroid,
can be predicted for dozens of years.
förutsägas för dussintals år.
predicted with incredible precision.
kan förutsägas med otrolig precision.
at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
was going to be four years in advance
asteroiden Toutatis position
8,5 miljarder kilometer.
vackra asteroidfragment
this beautiful asteroid fragment
på besök oanmälda.
over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia.
över staden Tjeljabinsk i Ryssland.
every 50 years or so.
and animal species were lost,
10 kilometer i diameter,
about 10 kilometers across,
the cruising altitude of a 747 jet.
marschhöjden för ett 747-plan.
och föreställ dig en sten så enorm
and imagine a rock so enormous
en hel minut att flyga förbi.
one full minute to fly past it.
som träffade jorden.
that hit the Earth.
a credible threat to our planet.
ett hot mot vår planet.
a focused effort underway
dessa objekt.
av detta arbete.
to be part of this effort.
som använder NASA:s NEOWISE-teleskop.
that use NASA's NEOWISE telescope.
designed to find asteroids.
för att hitta asteroider.
och se långt bortom vårt solsystem
and look far beyond our solar system
och de mest lysande galaxerna.
and the most luminous galaxies.
för sin beräknade livstid på sju månader.
for its designed lifetime of seven months.
är det fortfarande igång.
it's still going.
till att upptäcka och studera asteroider.
to discover and study asteroids.
en underbar liten rymdrobot,
a wonderful little space robot,
en begagnad bil.
har för länge sedan tagit slut,
its sensors is long gone,
its air-conditioning is broken.
luftkonditioneringen är trasig.
on the odometer,
of the sky every 11 seconds.
med 11 sekunders mellanrum.
since I began speaking to you.
sedan jag började tala till er.
i termiskt infrarött.
in the thermal infrared.
som asteroider reflekterar,
the sunlight that asteroids reflect,
eftersom vissa asteroider är kolsvarta
since some asteroids are as dark as coal
att upptäcka med andra teleskop.
to spot with other telescopes.
skiner för NEOWISE.
shine brightly for NEOWISE.
de förfogar över
every technique at their disposal
mer än 90% av de asteroider
over 90 percent of asteroids
of massive destruction to Earth.
enorm förstörelse av jorden.
kunna decimera ett mellanstort land.
could decimate a medium-sized country.
25 percent of those.
efter jordnära asteroider.
for near-Earth asteroids.
att förstå matematik
able to understand calculus
with significant early warning,
i tillräckligt god tid,
eller vulkanutbrott,
or volcanic eruptions,
can be precisely predicted
rymden nära jorden.
is map near-Earth space.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Carrie Nugent - Asteroid hunterCarrie Nugent is part of a team that uses NASA's NEOWISE telescope to search the skies for and catalog asteroids.
Why you should listen
Dr. Carrie Nugent is an asteroid hunter who works with a small team to discover and study asteroids at Caltech/IPAC. She earned her PhD in Geophysics and Space Physics from UCLA in 2013 and is a 2016 TED Fellow. Specializing in thermophysical modeling, Nugent uses observations from the space-based infrared telescope NEOWISE to better understand asteroid surfaces. Asteroid 8801 Nugent was named in her honor.
In her free time, Nugent hosts and produces Spacepod. On this weekly podcast, she invites astronomers, planetary scientists and engineers to sit, share a drink and tell the world about their corner of the cosmos.
Nugent is the author of the TED Book, Asteroid Hunters.
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