China's Space Junk // Graphene on the Moon // Best Meteor Shower Is Here

It’s time for the Perseids meteor shower, Gaia has found hundreds of asteroid moons, Starliner is still in question, and where does the Moon’s atmosphere come from?

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00:00 Intro
00:14 It's time for the Perseids
03:03 GAIA finds asteroids with moons
05:30 Graphene on the Moon
07:26 Starliner still at the ISS
09:52 Polaris Dawn Launch Date
10:32 Planets forming around binary stars
13:02 Vote results
13:42 China created a lot of space junk
15:54 Moon atmosphere
17:38 More space news
18:25 TRAPPIST-1

Host: Fraser Cain
Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov
Editing: Artem Pozdnyakov

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[frasercain]

Oops. I said meteors per minute, but I meant meteors per hour. I can't believe both Anton and I missed that during the edit. I wish it was 150 a minute - a full-on meteor storm.😞

[dmondot]

@17:47 "70000 of my closest friends"... Wow!, I wish I could say that.

[johnpettit]

Mosquitos, the bane of summer watching.

[vagmcpan]

Everyone: china, wtf? This is dangerous!
China: i don't give a sh$t

[LilBnnuy]

Extra long space vacation doesn't sound so bad, hopefully they'll return safely eventually.

[neekanor]

Camping with family to watch Perseids tonight!

[briandd]

Remember Gilligan's Island back in the day? Starliner is like the boat that took Gilliigan 'and company' to the island (a 3-hour tour). [of course the boat worked fine, it was the storm]

[symmetrie_bruch]

people also forget the ramp up and down and usually only go at the maximum and then it´s inevitably gonna be cloudy. been catching some very nice perseids already

[Chris.Davies]

FYI: C3PO really sucked at math: The chances of successfully navigating an asteroid field are 100%.
The average distance between objects in our Asteroid Belt is a nice round figure: 1, 000, 000km - or 2.5 times the distance from the earth to the moon.

[Astronetics]

0:46 had me checking the autorotate on my phone haha

[EarlHare]

that absolutely SUCKS for the 2 Astronauts left behind on Earth losing their chance to go up.

[MCsCreations]

Thanks for all the news, Fraser! 😊
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[nohara]

1:24 "150 meteors per minute" i think you meant per hour

[frankmalenfant]

I have a question for you that is a little bit more technical: Who is creating all this stock footage and 3D models of planets galaxies, asteroids and so on. Do the space agencies hire artists that work for their communication department, or is it independent creators or scientists ?

[lapuntv]

i did not expect to see a Heroes of might and magic 3 reference but its nice

[theCodyReeder]

Unfortunately the wildfire smoke makes seeing meteors in the summer a lot harder. The ones i do see are definitely shifted to red/orange just like a sunset.

[greggweber]

1:15 As I understand it, a trail sort of follows a comet because of other influences. The trail also gets wider like a contrail from a high up jet. Eventually, the comet can be in parallel with an earlier version of it.
Also, the comet can produce voids in the trail by affecting one part so much that it doesn't meet up with the Earth for many cycles around the Sun.

[robodidly]

You captured a collision right about the time you said 2am 2:29 or so awesome!

[pahtar]

11:45 For comparison, the distance from the Sun to Saturn averages 9.5 AU and from the Sun to Uranus averages 19.2 AU. Our outer planets have large moons that would be analogous to planets in that system.

[vassmarc]

Hi Fraser . Here in Australia it’s winter, yes, but right above us is the centre of our galaxy Scorpio and Sag, they have many clusters and nebulas to view,
Saturns rings are edge on, it always looks odd to me when it’s like this.
So yeah winters alright for me. 🙏🏼🥁🌟