The Solar System’s Oldest Treasures
Tania LePivert-Jolivet researches asteroid samples from sample-return missions. She explains that even five grams of asteroid dust can be a true treasure, that we know of several generations of asteroids, and that comets and asteroids are similar in some ways, yet different in others.
07. Apr 2025
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In the new episode, we follow the traces of primitive asteroids. We discovered that planets also migrate, that we know of multiple generations of asteroids, that asteroids and comets are similar yet different, and that even five grams of asteroid dust can be a true treasure. We are accompanied by researcher Tania Le Pivert-Jolivet, who reveals to us what fascinated her the most upon looking at the samples of asteroid Ryugu brought back to Earth by the Japanese Hayabusa2 mission.
Tania Le Pivert-Jolivet is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands.
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Cover image: Tania LePivert Jolivet. Photo: IAC.
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Notes |
- Tania Le Pivert-Jolivet (Linkedin)
- misija Hayabusa 2 (spletna stran japonske agencije JAXA)
- misija DART (spletna stran NASA)
- misija Hera, nadaljevanje misije DART (spletna stran ESA)
Observations |
- (book) G. Cannat, “Glej jih, zvezde! Najlepši prizori na nebu v letu 2025”
- ISS passes: on the website Vesolje.net, on the website Heavens-Above
- Space weather on Space Weather.com
- Aurora Borealis (Slovenian page): https://severnisij.si/
- Phone applications: Stellarium, SkySafari, SkyPortal, Aurora (for Aurora Borealis)
- Desktop planetarium: Stellarium
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Logo: (modified) Moon image, credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
Audio intermezzo: NASA/Hubble/SYSTEM Sounds (Matt Russo, Andrew Santaguida)
Music: Peli (Opravičujemo se za vse nevšečnosti)
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