Carrie Nugent: Adventures of an asteroid hunter
Carrie Nugent: Przygody łowczyni asteroid
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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and the oceans between them.
ponad cztery miliardy lat temu,
over four billion years ago
may not appear special,
może nie wydawać się wyjątkowa,
from earthly metals.
that can only form out in space
zdolne utworzyć się jedynie w kosmosie,
can cool extremely slowly,
ochładza się wyjątkowo wolno,
of a much larger object,
częścią większego obiektu,
after the planets formed.
pozostałych po stworzeniu planet.
and most numerous cosmic neighbors.
i najliczniejsze kosmiczne sąsiedztwo.
orbiting around the Sun,
asteroidy bliskie Ziemi,
został znacznie zwiększony,
have been greatly exaggerated
are searching for these objects,
as a giant public works project,
we're charting outer space,
that will last for generations.
które przetrwa pokolenia.
discovered just last year.
near-Earth asteroids,
bliskie Ziemi asteroidy,
around the Sun determined.
from asteroid to asteroid,
can be predicted for dozens of years.
przewidzieć na wiele lat do przodu.
predicted with incredible precision.
można przewidzieć z niesłychaną precyzją.
at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
z Laboratorium Napędu Odrzutowego
was going to be four years in advance
8,5 miliarda kilometrów.
this beautiful asteroid fragment
over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia.
nad miastem Czelabińsk w Rosji.
every 50 years or so.
and animal species were lost,
i zwierząt zostało zniszczone,
about 10 kilometers across,
10 kilometrów średnicy,
the cruising altitude of a 747 jet.
samolotu pasażerskiego 747.
and imagine a rock so enormous
one full minute to fly past it.
potrzeba całej minuty lotu.
that hit the Earth.
która uderzyła Ziemię.
a credible threat to our planet.
a focused effort underway
to be part of this effort.
that use NASA's NEOWISE telescope.
designed to find asteroids.
and look far beyond our solar system
and the most luminous galaxies.
for its designed lifetime of seven months.
it's still going.
to discover and study asteroids.
a wonderful little space robot,
małym kosmicznym robotem,
its sensors is long gone,
do chłodzenia czujników
its air-conditioning is broken.
że klimatyzacja się zepsuła.
on the odometer,
of the sky every 11 seconds.
since I began speaking to you.
odkąd zaczęłam do was mówić.
in the thermal infrared.
the sunlight that asteroids reflect,
odbitego od asteroid,
since some asteroids are as dark as coal
to spot with other telescopes.
shine brightly for NEOWISE.
every technique at their disposal
wszystkich dostępnych technik,
historyczny przełom.
over 90 percent of asteroids
ponad 90 procent asteroid
of massive destruction to Earth.
ogromne szkody na Ziemi.
could decimate a medium-sized country.
25 percent of those.
na razie tylko 25 procent.
for near-Earth asteroids.
able to understand calculus
with significant early warning,
odpowiednio wcześnie,
huraganów, czy erupcji wulkanicznych,
or volcanic eruptions,
can be precisely predicted
dokładnie przewidzieć
is map near-Earth space.
przestrzeń bliską Ziemi.
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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