Ceres: Earth's Mysterious Frozen Neighbor

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[@geographicstravel]

Go to thld.co/bosley_geographics_0322 and get your free Bosley Info Kit and $250 gift card. Thanks to Bosley for sponsoring today's video!

[@isaaclux2128]

So, when are we gonna get the Astrographics channel?

[@TheWonderingEnglishman]

Will you be getting your hair restored?

[@connorbosley4431]

This is definitely weird for me

[@everydayhero5076]

Well, I guess Keeps has had its day and is no longer what the cool kids use.

[@EdwinDekker71]

Go to DITRH and wise up.

[@liqqit]

"The first man to sniff out uranus" SERIOUSLY SIMON??? AHAHAHAHAHA

[@ThomasJHorrego]

lol

[@ryanwaege7251]

I had to pause the video there to recover my composure!

[@DesertFernweh]

I woke up my Wife laughing.

[@duncancurtis1758]

The Bottom Inspectors

[@tjwatts1207]

This made my morning, thank you!

[@fydrautha]

“All we’ve ever known is low-g and an atmosphere we can’t breathe. Earthers get to walk outside into the light, breathe pure air, look up at a blue sky, and see something that gives them hope. And what do they do? They look past that light, past that blue sky. They see the stars, and they think, ‘Mine’.”

[@ctubridy]

Leviathan Wakes?

[@fydrautha]

@@ctubridy indeed

[@buncer]

@@fydrautha /The Expanse “Capital” of the OPA.

[@academyofshem]

@@ctubridy It was one of the seagulls from "Finding Nemo."

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

@@fydrautha Anderson Dawes - Season 1 Episode 5, "Back to the Butcher," _The Expanse._

[@gregoryturner9530]

"Sniffed out Uranus" - Dammnit Simon & Co. I wasn't expecting that on this channel lmao

[@archgeneral509]

I heard it and instantly thought, "Which channel did I click again?"

[@RubbishFPS]

That perked my ears up LOL

[@BryanYoung322]

I laughed at that too! 🤣

[@JaredLS10]

Brain Blaze bleeding over to the other channels.

[@richardkennedy8481]

I was offended.

[@Brownyman]

"There are no laws on Ceres, just cops."

[@PHDiaz-vv7yo]

“Have you cried so hard, your tears turn to blood?”

[@spddiesel]

14:50 "... the man that first sniffed out Uranus..." 🤣🤣🤣 You're killing me, fact boy!

[@pamelamays4186]

Simon, you have the most amazing script writers.

[@Kyzrath]

Allegedly.

[@peterroberts4415]

If only he'd help write them too

[@StressBurger]

shit he doesnt even write his own stuff? wtf lame

[@factfanboi8014]

14:52 "the man who first sniffed out Uranus" classic blaze-esque moniker!

[@BrianTBooher]

"Sniffed out Uranus!" - Now that is brilliant writing and bravo to Simon for being able to keep a straight face about it.

[@Plethorality]

this will never not be funny.

[@paradisepipeco]

@@Plethorality This is no laughing matter. Simon doesn't fool around when dispensing facts. He has devoted an enlightening video to each of the planets, including one with the straight poop on Uranus.

[@gordondouglas2971]

I'm 35, and I find it really depressing people haven't even been back to the moon during my lifetime. I know there have been a lot of interesting discoveries and images of space stuff, but I would really like to see a person walk on another planet, hopefully soon.

[@nuru666]

Just a few more years man!

[@Genesis50000]

I'm 30 and I get it man, I'm hopeful to see something make it back to the moon at least, If not possibly Mars

[@TheItalianTrash]

It's more depressing to know that around half of today's teenagers think that the bad "found footage" horror movie Apollo 18 where astronauts were murdered by rock aliens actually happened.

[@austinchristmas6033]

Nasa artemis mission

[@stonecoldsteveaustin9353]

@@TheItalianTrash are u trying to tell me that "Apollo 18" wasn't a documentary of true events, and those astronauts weren't really murdered by rock aliens ? im sure next you'll be claiming that the moon landing footage was shot at a studio in Arizona or something, right ?

[@twocvbloke]

"The man who first sniffed out Uranus" - I may have just laughed a bit too hard at that bit of wordplay... :P

[@ILoveMyMalinois]

Oye Beltalowda!

[@michaelosborn8613]

Oye Beratna

[@Chef_PC]

Sasa ke, beratna?

[@llamasugar5478]

Finally, Ceres has been given the Astronomy Blaze treatment!

[@kodiakjak1]

Time for a new channel. Astroblaze

[@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567]

Astroblaze new channel when

[@kylarstern7627]

Yeah I'd watch that.

[@BirdOfHermes8381]

@@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567 7 months from now 😉

[@tylor2765]

​@@kodiakjak1 don't give the madman any ideas now

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:25 - Chapter 1 - The secret world 5:05 - Chapter 2 - Hidden oceans & ice volcanoes 9:15 - Mid roll ads 10:30 - Chapter 3 - The celestial police 14:00 - Chapter 4 - Tiny, insignificant specks 17:55 - Chapter 5 - A glimmer of hope 20:40 - Chapter 6 - Dawn of an era ?

[@Psychid5]

14:49 Where William Hershel allegedly sniffed out Uranus.

[@khaccanhle1930]

You're a freaking hero

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@Psychid5 Scientific Watch-Suggests cause the Learning never Ends: Want such?

[@kingnaga619]

Doing gods work, bud.

[@edwardsmith7131]

20:57 - "if you're a big enough nerd..." I humbly submit that we are ALL big enough nerds. At the very least for watching this video all the way through.

[@felox1715]

Ceres was once covered in ice, enough water to sustain a thousand generations. Until Earth and Mars stripped it away for themselves!

[@Mister_Kourkoutas]

Beltalowda!

[@josephlight349]

@@Mister_Kourkoutas i wanted to make a comment to the effect of yours but wasnt sure what to say, thankyou.

[@georgejones3526]

And now Coca-cola’s doing the same thing to us.

[@James-ho5te]

We are Beltas! The belt belongs to us!

[@Mister_Kourkoutas]

@@James-ho5te Nothing in the Void is foreign to us!

[@willgoodwin2560]

Imagine how different astronomy would be if instead of asteroids they were named spaceballs, and Vesta would be a princess. Thanks Bosley for the glorious moichendizin.

[@connorbosley4431]

You're welcome

[@BirdOfHermes8381]

Space balls is better!

[@gunzakimbo]

"Don't you have the Schwartz too?" "No, he has the upside, I have the downside. Each Schwartz has two sides." xD

[@BirdOfHermes8381]

@@gunzakimbo I love that movie! R.i.p. John Candy. You made so many people laugh!

[@Menaceblue3]

SPACEBALLS MERCHANDISE!

[@orangegalen]

4:17 "[...] which would mean there is more water on Ceres than there is on Earth." Nestlé: *heavy breathing*

[@paultheaudaciousbradford6772]

Good one!

[@lucasdeaver9192]

"The man who first sniffed out Uranus" LOL! It never gets old!

[@kingshaat1101]

The Expanse vibes!

[@DesertFernweh]

Beltalada!

[@mrpdub2472]

I was hoping for an Expanse comment somewhere ☺

[@treebush]

Sad the show got canceled

[@DesertFernweh]

@@treebush it got picked up By Amazon a few years ago. Boy are you in for a ride!!

[@treebush]

@@DesertFernweh didn't it get cancel again already

[@Raggepagge]

Ceres has watah?! Beltalawda!

[@DesertFernweh]

Seen brada, Inner find out and de kona ship out for duster swimming pools, ke.

[@PHDiaz-vv7yo]

Go to Saturn, get the ice, back to Ceres, go to Saturn, get the ice, back to Ceres….

[@dirtynumb]

These space episodes are really forming up to be my favourites.

[@dannymac6368]

Title of the video has some gravity to it. 👌🏼

[@scientchahming5]

About 1% of Earth's gravity to it.

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

Ceres has interested me since they discovered those hydrated salts in '15. I'm glad you covered it. The history of astronomy deep in our system was well done, too. I knew all of it already, but you still made it pleasing to watch.

[@sheriffarchon]

Geographics, Thank you for the excellent content which you produce. I look forward to what you may cover in the future.

[@mirthenary]

I would rather watch this a 1000 times than any reality show on TV, this IS reality

[@Shinzon23]

Go watch The Expanse. Ceres is a location in the show.

[@hen5555]

Reality with a massive amount of speculation

[@jameshoffa7085]

Who cares what you want?

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

@@jameshoffa7085 Such a pointlessly hostile reaction, wtf.

[@brianw612]

A good way to visualize Ceres tiny size is to view the Great Lakes region in it's entirety. Ceres diameter wouldn't quite cover it.

[@kenhiett5266]

That's why his comment about Ceres potentially having more water than Earth is so absurd. Even if Ceres, (434 million km³) was made 100% of water, it would still fall well short of the 1.386 billion km³ of water volume on Earth.

[@zarasbazaar]

Calling Pluto a dwarf planet instead of a planet is a reclassification, not a demotion. It doesn't change Pluto's importance to science. The name simply better reflects Pluto's origin and role in the solar system.

[@HkFinn83]

Exactly. It’s not like an actual dwarf is a demotion from a full sized real human.

[@cleanerben9636]

Pluto is a planet. Just ignore the decision.

[@cleanerben9636]

@@TheDredConspiracy A lot of those fancy degree-holding ninnies disagree with the decision as well since it is subjective and arbitrary itself

[@SyxxPunk]

He's been switched from the smallest of the planets in our system to the King of the Dwarf Planets. Quite the promotion.

[@ldubt4494]

@@cleanerben9636 well yeah, a dwarf planet is still a planet, just a small one. That is what the name means.

[@BaldingClamydia]

*Caught the Douglas Adams reference!* They're more fun when they're more obscure :D

[@D2theJ26]

Best quote "the man who sniffed out Uranus." Lol

[@stantheman9072]

Quickly followed by an even better one when you think about it. The man who sniffed out Uranus proposed these new tiny objects be named ass-ter-rhoids. The rectal puns don’t get a-hole lot better than that. (Nope, not sorry for that one either.)

[@Maffuman1]

1:34 900 Km was also the size of the second Death Star 😳😳

[@MrWillcapone]

"The man who first sniffed out Uranus" We smell what you did there...

[@allanlawrence7757]

I'm glad this Ceres got some coverage finally! Not enough videos about it! Great video 📹 🎊🎈

[@wwhite2958]

Love the fact that hair restoration products are being sponsored by a bald guy

[@BirdOfHermes8381]

He's the before picture

[@The_Hero74_]

He doesn’t want us to feel his pain when he goes outside in the summer

[@carultch]

I'd like to see what Simon would look like if he had a full head of hair.

[@Grishrak]

Pluto is still a planet to me. I grew up with it being a planet so it’s staying a planet.

[@sethmaki1333]

I may stop laughing at "the man who sniffed out Uranus," but today is not that day.

[@multiyapples]

Thank you so much for covering Ceres.

[@aceundead4750]

I still think the Galileo Project lead by Harvard professor Avi Loeb would make an amazing Megaprojects video

[@Feszy_]

"There's evidence for this abundance of H2O too" not ""There's evidence for this abundance of H2O2" which made my ears perk up because that would be crazy

[@Archangelm127]

17:13 - Nice "Hitchhiker's Guide" reference. ;)

[@tacotown4598]

in my opinion, ceres is a case study in how wondrous the worlds beyond our own really are. that what was once considered an asteroid is one of the greatest hopes for life

[@isaacclark9825]

Pluto is occasionally this side of Neptune. The end of the last period where Pluto was inside the orbit of Neptune occurred in 1979.

[@paultheaudaciousbradford6772]

Good point! 👍

[@fomalhauto]

Plutinos in general

[@carultch]

We had to say our planet mnemonic out of order, when learning the planets in 1st grade, because Pluto came before Neptune at the time.

[@mt_baldwin]

"In 2015 DAWN reached Ceres..." hey I remember that ..."If you're a big enough nerd you'll remember this." Oh.

[@zapfanzapfan]

Nothing wrong with being a nerd. The PI of that mission is a proper nerd!

[@Marc89000]

Love the narration, keep it up brothers

[@420frankp]

"Sniffed out Uranus". @14:50 How did you keep a straight face with that one, Simon? 🤣🤣🤣

[@charlesachurch7265]

Fascinating presentation thanks xxx.

[@MatthewOfLondon]

In all honesty, I was born in the early 1970's. From an early age I could name the whole solar system in order, and knew the difference between an astronaut and a cosmonaut. I could tell astounded adults all the different space programmes, and I'd never heard of Ceres until about five years ago. 😢

[@BirdOfHermes8381]

👏

[@DanyullEdween]

Do you want a gold star?

[@BirdOfHermes8381]

@@DanyullEdween Everyone does! 😉

[@bm5448]

@@DanyullEdween why does some low ego fuck always have to come in and shit all over someone else's passion? OP, I also grew up obsessed with space and hadnt heard of Ceres until the start of the Dawn mission. After being demoted from planet status it was largely viewed as a non factor, prior to the adoption of dwarf planets as a class

[@michaelsutliff6817]

I guess a swing and miss. It happens. Carry on.

[@jimmyzbike]

Stellar video Simon

[@Anglomachian]

“If space Wales can be a planet, then clearly the term has lost all meaning.” Thank the gods for Wales. The last entity it’s still PC to make fun of.

[@natureszodiac]

Very enjoyable and informative!

[@IronHulkTriathlon]

i like the slower narration! I can finally keep up with your brilliance!

[@shlomster6256]

Excellently written (and, of course, read, Simon!)

[@slevinchannel7589]

Scientific Watch-Suggests cause the Learning never Ends: Want such?

[@ethanteige6236]

Aaaaah man I love these space videos so much

[@Caelia7]

Brilliant video 😊

[@nycgatita]

I love your videos! Are you able to recollect all the details you inform us of? That would be amazing! A heck of a conversationalist!

[@noahmead4652]

Nah he forgets everything

[@nugboy420]

I was gonna say Simon doesn’t do any research. :p. Simon: Research? I’ve got awesome writers for that!

[@nycgatita]

@@nugboy420 ☺️

[@titan9259]

Maybe he plays space engine

[@justinabernathy6901]

He has so many channels if he could remember everything he covered he would be the most knowledgeable human in all of history.

[@jacquelinemanton553]

Awhhh fact/tangent boy!!!!! You’ve done me a solid here. Uploading a load of stuff now!! I’m stuck in bed the the rona!!! Thank you!!!!

[@AnnabelleBeaudoin]

Great video 👍

[@alexisjordan9055]

You’re telling me we have Space Force when we could’ve revived the name Celestial Police?! I feel robbed

[@goldenageflash5924]

Educational and Entertaining video Thanks for uploading

[@igotboredthinking]

Such a small title oh my god

[@rh2097]

Ceresely

[@loqkLoqkson]

I am so pleased I keep a set of anaglyph glasses next to my desk for cases like this.

[@InterAstefanMechanic]

2:24 that i even can not imagine!!😄😄😄

[@TheSleepSteward]

I will never not smirk when hearing about Uranus.

[@roosjen]

Not what I had in mind when I heard you say “Space-Wales”. Awesome pun!

[@alexhurst3986]

I love the astronomy episodes. I would not complain about more.

[@cyb3ar897]

I'm loving all The Expanse references in the comments

[@DesertFernweh]

14:50, how many times did you crack up saying that. We need the bloopers!

[@Plethorality]

your voice is soporific. i am so thankful.

[@bobfg3130]

Fantastic!

[@chrisvickers7928]

I once had an idea for a testable hypothesis for why Bode's Law might appear to work for the innermost planets. It was during a 3rd year celestial mechanics course when I learned the general solution to the 3 or more body problem in Newtonian mechanics could not be solved. (Einsteinian mechanics are even worse because the general 2 body problem could not be solved.) We studied a restricted three body problem where the main body was far more massive than the second and the third body was of negligible mass. The solution to that problem leads to the calculation of the 5 Lagrange positions of equal gravitation. The James Webb Telescope currently occupies L3. Bode's Law might be a metastable solution for the many objects which form our Solar System. Uranus does not fit well and Neptune is way off because these planets have not orbited enough times to achieve their positions of metastability. Saturn, the last planet which follows Bode's Law has completed 150 million orbits while Neptune only 26 million orbits. My hypothesis at the time had the benefit of being impossible to disprove at the time because the computing power necessary to run the simulation did not exist in 1973. It does now and anyone who wants to should feel free to prove me wrong.

[@ckl9390]

I don't have the computing power available (unless this temperamental desktop I'm currently using counts) nor the expertise to program it. I however would be curious about the results if someone were to run a simulation and ascertain if the outer gas giants would resonate if given enough time.

[@zimriel]

JWST occupies STL2. L3 is the other side of the Solar System from Earth and is harder to shield

[@ominollo]

Fascinating 😊

[@night7204]

This just in: Ceres' status as a planet DESTROYED by facts and logic.

[@vidarCRC]

“No laws in Ceres. Just cops.”

[@Roguescienceguy]

I personally like specifying it as a planetoid. Asteroid

[@matthewfoster3780]

“Sniffed out Uranus” Bravo Simon

[@dickiemcgeezacks9458]

The Expanse talks a lot about Ceres.

[@tonystewart9105]

"Sniffed out Uranus?" 🤣🤣🤣

[@wearegoingtogoseeyousoonid1891]

:) alway interesting Simon

[@NineEyeRon]

I like this presentation style

[@knutthompson7879]

"Sniffed out Uranus" Tut tut, Simon.

[@greggorious]

Fascinating

[@cmdrjesterdajuggla]

Woohoo some lunch time learning

[@MrTexasDan]

Pluto - 1930-2006 - Never Forget

[@joeyr7294]

Sniffed out Uranus...🤔 I always wondered how it was discovered

[@stephenhammond6962]

Yes!!! Nomis!!! ✊✌️👍👌 Keep it dude!

[@JakesYourUncle]

19:20, the greatest motivator of all

[@docyagamikiko]

"William Herschel the man who first sniffed out Uranus.." 14:48 Im dead! 🤣🤣🤣

[@Tick421]

It’s a planet, astrologists just have size issues for personal reasons so they demoted Pluto instead of promoting Ceres

[@areagh13]

Ceres is so cool you could make a whole series about it See what I did there 🤣

[@helmhamerhand733]

Yay, i got very enthusiastic when the great term ‘Nightmare Hell Swamp” was uttered. Did i say ‘yay’ already?

[@ygts]

"the man who'd first sniffed out uranus" Script writer probably had quite some fun with that

[@JeffreyDeCristofaro]

The microbiologists would have a field day with the potential specimens for study that they could extract by means of a drilling satellite probe sent to Ceres! A planet with life that is still just beginning!

[@acmelka]

14:49... Ha! Sniffed out Uranus

[@BirdOfHermes8381]

Sniffed out Uranus? That line had to be on purpose!

[@archie2038]

*Before this video* "Da hell is Ceres?" *After this video* "Ceres lez gooo!"

[@jimboAndersenReviews]

I highly applaud, that this channel calls Ceres a dwarf planet, and not an asteroid; asteroid means "star like".

[@ToriNightengale]

"While it may be tiny, Ceres is far from boring" Bro could've been describing me

[@thomasmatthews8873]

Send Samus to ensure Metroid ain't there.

[@Banks4004]

I'm interested in more about the small detail that Ceres has been forming since 4 billion years ago

[@YasinNabi]

This is the best vidoe I watched today! subbed and liked ! you are wonderful. a fellow creator

[@mortified776]

Considering I've long known both facts, I can't believe it's only just hit me: The discoverer of Uranus also gave as[s]teroids their name! The only thing that kinda ruins it of course is that Herschel actually wanted to call it George, after his patron George IV. (Hey, the guy knew which side his bread was buttered on!) The name that gained currency in the literature and eventually stuck came from a pair of Germans who had no idea what it sounded like in English.

[@King_Cova]

1. The name stuck as the rest of the planets are named after the Roman pantheon. 2. The German word for anus is also Anus. 3. I don't think you understand how close languages German and English are, considering English is s Germanic language.

[@ilarious5729]

@@King_Cova but your is Dein in German, so Uranus isn't quite the same in English and German no matter how closely the languages are related. It's not that it ends in anus, but that it sounds like your anus.

[@almostideal1306]

@@King_Cova It's always annoyed me because it's the only planet with a Greek name, it should be called Caelus.

[@King_Cova]

@@almostideal1306 Don't really know why it would annoy you, the Romans are of Greek decent, had Latin names for their gods, eventually came back across Greece and realised their pantheon of Gods were exactly the same only with different names.

[@mortified776]

@@King_Cova I am aware English and German share a common root, though English has more in common with Dutch and even more with Frisian, at least before the Norse got to it and messed up the grammar.