• 118: Sextuplet Symphony

  • Jan 30 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
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118: Sextuplet Symphony

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  • After some lengthy follow-up (the Bennu sample is open at last! And SLIM is alive!), Emily investigates possibly the most podcasty story we’ve had on the show: six planets around distant star HD110067, all locked into resonances that play beautiful music. Turns out if you leave a planetary system alone for long enough, gravity tends to pull everything into simple harmonies. Maybe our own solar system has a song to sing in the far future?

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    Things we talk about in this episode:

    • The Bennu asteroid sample is open!

    • JAXA SLIM updates

    • First SLIM images

    • Sextuplet symphony: The Nature paper

    • A good article about the discovery

    • Blog post by Dr Hugh Osborn with exoplanet music video

    • Trappist-1 system

    • Orbital resonances

    • Multiple star systems

    • JWST finds methane in exoplanet atmosphere

    • A breathless headline

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